In 2005, I interviewed Vladyka Alypy, Archbishop of Chicago and Detroit, renowned for authoring the book Grammatika tserkovnoslavyanskogo yazyka [Church Slavonic Grammar]. I asked about Vladyka’s life and how the church I attend was built. Archbishop Alypy kindly responded to my request in 2005 and composed a short autobiography. I am presenting the material as it was prepared for publication, including my brief introduction and an anecdote Vladyka told me. Vladyka Alypy deserves more attention than he now receives. This unique material has never before been published.
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Much has been made of the recent discovery in Turkey of a Bible purported to be written in the Aramaic language, 1,500 years ago. The Muslim media, as well as Western media outlets, quickly pounced on this, claiming this Bible contains verses attributed to Jesus Christ, in which Christ predicts the coming of Muhammad. No media outlet has published a facsimile of these verses.
Today is the first death anniversary of Shahbaz Bhatti, the ill-fated federal minister for minorities, who was gunned down by terrorists because he was a Christian and against the much-abused blasphemy law. Aside from the blasphemy law issue, I hope to understand the death of Shahbaz Bhatti in the wider Pakistani context.
As Metropolitan Hilarion noted, the tragedy of the Russian pre-revolution intelligentsia lay in the fact that they were far from the people and the Church. ‘The people and the Church are an inseparable whole. The Church was the core of our people’s life.
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As she notes in the cookbook, "Fasting is a wonderful part of our spiritual life. And because of this, we need to practice it regularly, and we must make sure that we do it in a healthful manner."
