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This Akathist, also called the “Akathist of Thanksgiving,” was composed by Protopresbyter Gregory Petrov shortly before his death in a prison camp in 1940. The title is from the words of Saint John Chrysostom as he was dying in exile.
Dr. Maria Khoury
In a video by Calvin College, Dr. Maria Khoury talks about living and raising a family in one of the few remaining Christian villages in the Palestinian West Bank. Her village, the Biblical Ephraim, is now called Taybeh.
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The relics of incorrupt saints are re-vested periodically. The re-vesting is an opportunity to examine the condition of the relics and the reliquary that houses them, and is an important part of our care for the saint. Some saints are re-vested frequently (for example, St. Spyridon’s slippers are famously replaced every year as they become worn); others are re-vested less frequently. In the case of St. John, this is the first re-vesting of the Saint to take place since his Glorification seventeen years ago.
Women who are in doubt about having their babies are most often those who have fallen into to a difficult life situation. If they are in happy families and everything is in order, thoughts of abortion normally do not come up. Therefore we want to show through the example of famous, popular people that all of these difficulties can be overcome, and that there is nothing more important than human life.
Pravoslavie.ru has been publishing photography displays from the recent exhibition in Moscow entitled, “The Russian Orthodox Church—a Summary of Twenty Years: 1991–2011”. Below are fifteen photographs by Vladimir Eshtokin. We have named this collection “The Territory of Joy”—the joy of living in Christ, which knows no geographical boundaries.
