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• Holy Saturday: The Goodnews

  
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   St. Ephrem the Syrian writes in one of his poems about Christ’s descent into Hades, an event we commemorate on Holy Saturday in the Orthodox tradition: “Let Eve today rejoice in Sheol, for her daughter’s Son has come down as the Medicine of Life to revive His mother’s mother.” ( The Luminous ...
  2 weeks ago

• Book Review: A Life Together

  
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  Book Review : A Life Together Author : Bishop Seraphim Sigrist Publisher : Paraclete Press ISBN : 9781557258007 A Life Together: Wisdom of Community from the Christian East “To discover the church is to discover community.” Community is a word that seems abuzz in our contemporary church ...
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• Blood Work

  
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  Christianity is a bloody faith. It is a bloody faith because it is the faith of sinful people and the Bible tells us that sin requires blood. For sin to be forgiven, for sinful people to be made right with God, there must be a payment of blood. That payment was made by Jesus Christ on a blood-soaked cross and through ...
  2 weeks ago

• “Old Believer Orthodox” family found in Siberian wilderness after 40 years in hiding from atheist persecution

  
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  This article from the Smithsonian is a few months old, and the story even older, but it is truly fascinating. A family of “Old Believers,” seeking to remain faithful to Russian Orthodoxy, went so far out in Siberia as to be unaware of World War II. They were found in 1978, living a medieval kind of life, cut off ...
  4 weeks ago

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