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Russian Orthodoxy in America - a Time of Opportunity

Fr. Dimitry Karpenko

The town of Jordanville, NY, is small, but it has great significance for a Russian person living abroad. It is the site of one of the main monastic communities of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia: Holy Trinity Monastery and also Holy Trinity Seminary, established in 1948 to serve the needs of ROCOR.

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The Seventeenth Instruction. To those who are instructors in monasteries and to disciples: How one should instruct the brethren and how one should receive instruction.

Abba Dorotheos

Believe that reproaches and dishonors are medicines which heal the pride of your soul, and pray for those who make you meek as the true physicians of your soul, be convinced that he who hates dishonor hates humility, and he that flees those who offend him is fleeing meekness.

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Sixteenth Instruction. To Certain Kelliotes

Abba Dorotheos

The Fathers say that half of spiritual life is to remain in the cell, and visiting the elders is the other half. This expression means that both inside the cell and outside the cell we must be equally heedful, and we must know why we should keep silence in the cell and why we should go to the fathers and brethren; for one who keeps sight of these aims strives to act as the Fathers teach.

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The Fifteenth Instruction. On the holy forty days of Lent

Abba Dorotheos

The Holy Apostles established and committed to us as a help and benefaction for our souls something yet greater and more exalted--that we should set apart a tenth portion of the very days of our lives and devote them to God. Thereby might we also receive a blessing for all our deeds, and yearly cleanse the sins we have committed over the course of the whole year.

This is our chance to bear good fruit

Priest Alexander Kovalev

In the broader sense given to that sin in the Holy Scriptures, it is the idolatrous attachment to the visible world… Fornication means giving your heart not to one who is worthy of love; it means instead of directing your will to the one thing needful, to pure, holy love for a person, for people, and for God, you vaporize it, disperse it anarchically, in all different directions, so that it serves all idols, all desires, and every impulse.