Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
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The Orthodox Church of Christ never lost the “unity of faith and the communion of the Holy Spirit” and does not accept the theory of the restoration of the unity of those “who believe in Christ,” because it believes that the unity of those who believe in Christ already exists in the unity of all of Her baptized children, between themselves and with Christ, in Her correct faith, where no heretics or schismatics are present, for which reason She prays for their return to Orthodoxy in repentance.
Andrei Rogozyansky
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If anybody thinks that persecution is a thing of the past, and imagines it to be something only inside the torture chambers of the theomachist sadists of the Cheka or pagan Rome, then they are reassuring themselves in vain. For at the beginning of the twentieth-first century, in a country in central Europe, with mass media and offices of human rights defenders, huge shopping malls and gleaming limousines on the streets, the unimaginable is unfolding before us.
Holy Prince Andrew Bogoliubsky (1110-1174), a grandson of Vladimir Monomakh, was the son of Yurii Dolgoruky and a Polovetsian princess (in holy Baptism Maria). While still in his youth he was called “Bogoliubsky” (“God-loving”) for his profound attention to prayer, his diligence for church services and “his adoption of secret prayers to God.”
Saint Martha, mother of Saint Simeon of Wonderful Mountain (May 24), lived during the sixth century and was a native of Antioch.
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Saint Andrew Rublev, Russia’s greatest iconographer, was born near Moscow sometime between 1360 and 1370. While still very young, he went to the Holy Trinity Monastery, and was profoundly impressed by St Sergius of Radonezh.
