John Sanidopoulos
Rating: 6.4|Votes: 36
Many Christians are inclined to interpret the story of Jonah in the Old Testament as an allegory that was never meant to be understood as actual history. However, allegories or parables in the Bible are always either said to be so, or made evident in the context. The Book of Jonah, however, is written as a historical tale with a historical prophet mentioned in II Kings 14:25 and confirmed to have existed by Jesus Christ in Matthew 12:40-41. Christ here compares the experience of Jonah to His own approaching death and resurrection.
Fr. Stephen Freeman
Rating: 10|Votes: 3
Put yourself in the fourth century. There is only one Church, and that Church is One.
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
The Church is steadily diminished in the life of the nation, privatized and relativized. Its loyalty becomes subsidiary to the loyalty of the State.
Rating: 4.5|Votes: 43
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!”
Rating: 4.5|Votes: 2
The church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem could be said to be the main church of holy Orthodox. The building includes both Golgotha where our Lord was crucified, and His holy grave, or sepulchre, where He rose again from the dead for the salvation of the world. As such, countless millions of pilgrims have traveled to the Holy Land to venerate the sites in this holy church, since its founding in 326 by the order of Emperor St. Constantine the Great, which is celebrated by the Orthodox Church every year on September 13/26.