Cremation: Incinerating Every Human Trace of Our Dearly Departed

Met. Seraphim of Piraeus

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Rating: 9,3|Votes: 4

Cremation: Incinerating Every Human Trace of Our Dearly Departed

Met. Seraphim of Piraeus

"What kind of relationship can a society have with Life when a society does not accept man in his sickness, his weakness and his death; when a society incinerates its dead; when a society destroys the remembrance of their lives and the reminder to Her members; when a society regards man’s beginning an artificial and selective one and his death a final and irrevocable one; when a society denies the breath of the eternal and entraps itself in the asphyxiation of the ephemeral?"

The Forerunner of the European Union

Archpriest Andrei Tkachev

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Orthodoxy Today

The Forerunner of the European Union

Archpriest Andrei Tkachev

After several centuries people can get used to any mistake, or come to love any distortion. But objectively speaking, the nature of this distortion does not change. It only grows into the consciousness of those who are used to it. However, the threat it carries has not gone anywhere.

Royal Lady, Pious Nun—Princess Ileana–Mother Alexandra

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Rating: 10|Votes: 7

Royal Lady, Pious Nun—Princess Ileana–Mother Alexandra

Today is the repose day of Romania’s beloved Princess, and America’s beloved abbess, Mother Alexandra (Hapsburg).

The Morality of Gehenna

Fr. Lawrence Farley

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

The Morality of Gehenna

Fr. Lawrence Farley

Hell and heaven therefore are in no sense parallel to each other, as the objection presupposes. They are not two different compartments of reality, with heaven on the top-floor penthouse and hell in the basement.

Let’s Be Partakers!

When will holy water truly sanctify us?

Archpriest Alexander Lebedev

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Let’s Be Partakers!

When will holy water truly sanctify us?

Archpriest Alexander Lebedev

Archpriest Alexander Lebedev talks about the meaning and significance of the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, how and when the grace-filled power of holy water manifests, and whether it can turn out to be “fruitless”.