A Pastoral Conscience – Archpriest Alexey Mechev of Moscow

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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A Pastoral Conscience – Archpriest Alexey Mechev of Moscow

"Come to the grave of this great pastor, a pastor of the Russian Church, and learn from him how to be a pastor ill the world..."

Ongoing 40 Days for Life Campaign Seeks to End Genocide of Abortion

Jesse Dominick

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Orthodoxy Today

Ongoing 40 Days for Life Campaign Seeks to End Genocide of Abortion

Jesse Dominick

The mission of the 40 Days for Life campaigns is to bring Christians together “with the purpose of repentance, to seek God’s favor to turn hearts and minds from a culture of death to a culture of life, thus bringing an end to abortion,” utilizing the three-pronged peaceful “attack” of prayer and fasting, constant vigil, and community outreach.

Lost in the forest. A real story that took place in Georgia

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Orthodoxy Today

Rating: 4,5|Votes: 33

Lost in the forest. A real story that took place in Georgia

Nikoloz screamed and ran out, crying: “The icon began weeping and speaking to me! She has said such things to me… Woe to me, a wretched man, and unto all those who are desecrating the house of God!”

The Good of Metaphysics

Jay Dyer

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Education

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The Good of Metaphysics

Jay Dyer

"So we can salute Aristotle in his primacy of metaphysics and be simultaneously saddened in his acceptance of the nascent empiricism that would be the death of the West, a process ending in all-corroding relativism. It may have taken a few thousand years to realize the full implications of the supposedly neutral “scientific method” unto civilization’s collapse, and if there is to be science any longer, it must recognize that theoria and philosophy are vitally necessary. Naturally, it’s a problem not so much of intellect as of the proud human psyche in convincing our fellows to even understand what transcendental arguments are and why they are relevant."

The Largest Piece of the True Cross Of Christ—Holy Monastery of Xeropotamou, Mount Athos

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Churches and Monasteries

Rating: 5,6|Votes: 81

The Largest Piece of the True Cross Of Christ—Holy Monastery of Xeropotamou, Mount Athos

In the Catholicon (Main Church) of the Holy Monastery of Xeropotamou, thirteen pieces of the True Cross of Jesus Christ are treasured, four large pieces in ancient reliquaries and nine smaller pieces which are also housed in reliquaries with other relics of saints.