Mind the Gap

Fr. Lawrence Farley

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Mind the Gap

Fr. Lawrence Farley

For me the perplexing thing about the gap is not that it exists—secularists will be secular, after all, and most people are too busy living life to spend much time questioning the underlying presuppositions of their culture. For me the perplexing thing is how Christians could come to deny the existence of the demonic

Homily: Do Not Be Faithless, but Believing!

Rev. Gregory Jensen

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Homily: Do Not Be Faithless, but Believing!

Rev. Gregory Jensen

Sometimes faith is a struggle because we are so unaccustomed to joy. In this life, peace is often foreign to our experience and forgiveness rare. Sometimes, like Thomas, I doubt because of the brightness of the Divine Light.

The Story of a former High-Ranking Moonie (includes Video)

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Coming to Orthodoxy

Rating: 9|Votes: 1

The Story of a former High-Ranking Moonie (includes Video)

The guest of today’s program is Archpriest Lev Semyonov. After taking interest in their interpretation of the Bible, he joined the Unification Church … How did he, a Unificationist preacher and one of the leaders of the Russian division of this sect manage to separate the truth from lies? Is it difficult to quit a sect and why? What should you do if your close friend has joined a sect?

The New Israel, New Jerusalem

Fr. John Whiteford

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Theology

Rating: 6,1|Votes: 10

The New Israel, New Jerusalem

Fr. John Whiteford

Is the Church the new Israel? This idea has been disparaged as "Replacement Theology." And how are we to understand the the term "New Jerusalem"? Is it Heaven? The Church? A literal city? All three? Fr. John Whiteford looks at the Scripture and patristic writings on the New Jerusalem.

Elder Philotheos Zervakos

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Rating: 8,7|Votes: 6

Elder Philotheos Zervakos

The blessed Elder Philotheos was born in 1884 in a small village of the Pelopenese, and was given the name Constantine at holy baptism. From childhood he demonstrated an exceptional love for God, running to church at the first sound of the bells. His delight in reading the Lives of saints developed into a longing for monastic life. The demons evidently saw in the youth a potentially powerful antagonist, and from the outset tried to dissuade him from taking this path.