The Immoral Policy of the United States Government in Syria

Fr. John Whiteford

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Suffering Church

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The Immoral Policy of the United States Government in Syria

Fr. John Whiteford

I cannot turn a blind eye to the fact that our government continues, with our tax-payer dollars, to fund and arm those who are raping, murdering, and displacing Christians (who represent about ten percent of the overall population) and other religious minorities in Syria.

Concerning Burning

Fr. Lawrence Farley

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Orthodoxy Today

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Concerning Burning

Fr. Lawrence Farley

Pagans could cremate and burn their dead and be consistent with their religious beliefs. Christians cannot, for Christians believe that the body has too much value to be consigned to the flames.

A word on the commemoration of St. John the Theologian and Patriarch Tikhon

Archimandrite John (Krestiankin)

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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A word on the commemoration of St. John the Theologian and Patriarch Tikhon

Archimandrite John (Krestiankin)

And does not there arise in us the question of why the Lord united these two elect of His here on earth, if not because it was by one heart and by one mind that they lived, although in different times and circumstances—the same work they fulfilled, living on earth so as to unite themselves in eternity and on earth in the memory of the people? Let us look closer at their lives and draw from the fountain of ever-present living water which grants immortality to the soul.

Holy Hierarch Finbarr of Cork

Commemorated September 25/October 8

Dmitry Lapa

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Holy Hierarch Finbarr of Cork

Commemorated September 25/October 8

Dmitry Lapa

St. Finbarr preached energetically in the south of Ireland and, according to some traditions, also in Scotland, though there is no written evidence to confirm that. The saint of God spent a part of his life as an anchorite in full seclusion on an island in lake Gougane Barra in county Cork. With time the holy ascetic was joined by numerous disciples, mainly from southern Ireland, and St. Finbarr founded a monastery and a school near his hermitage at Gougane Barra, both of which became very famous and attracted a large number of monks and students from the southern part of the emerald island.

The way and the truth of Christ and the Council of Crete

Interview for the journal of the Holy Monastery of Samtavro, Mtskheta, Georgia

Fr. Peter Alban Heers

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Orthodoxy Today

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The way and the truth of Christ and the Council of Crete

Interview for the journal of the Holy Monastery of Samtavro, Mtskheta, Georgia

Fr. Peter Alban Heers

In conclusion, the overwhelming majority of the faithful in Greece were greatly disappointed with the “Cretan Council” and are looking forward to its clear rejection by the hierarchies of the Local Churches which did not attend, first of all which is the venerable Church of Georgia, but also from the Church of Greece's own hierarchy, the pre-council decisions of which were uncanonically set aside by the Archbishop of Greece when he and his retinue accepted the “historical name” of “heterodox churches.”