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• Christmas Throughout the Ages

  
  Glory to God for All Things — Authority: 461
  I’ll have to ask for forgiveness at the outset on this post – mostly because of its speculative nature – something I generally prefer not to engage in – at least not for others to read. The Incarnation of Christ is significant in the course of our salvation – but we all too easily look at the story from a ...
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• 60 Minutes to broadcast segment on the Orthodox Church

  
  Ad Orientem — Authority: 132
  The CBS news program "60 Minutes" will air a segment on the Orthodox Church this Sunday Dec 20th (check local schedules for broadcast times). His All Holiness Bartholomew Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and New Rome is interviewed interviewed in the segment. Source Syndicated by Atom
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• To See the Heavenly Country

  
  Glory to God for All Things — Authority: 461
  These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. And truly if they had called to mind that country from ...
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• Brighter Than Any Royal Chamber

  
  Glory to God for All Things — Authority: 461
  At the end of the Great Entrance, when the priest places the Holy Gifts on the altar, there are several verses which he repeats quietly. They are all deeply meaningful to me, but one has been on my heart much of late: “Bearing life and more fruitful than paradise, brighter than any royal chamber: Thy tomb, O Christ, ...
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• Researching Orthodoxy

  
  Ramblings of a Single Dad — Authority: 116
  I still love reading stories of how people found and converted to Orthodox Christianity, and I know a few "Ramblings" readers also enjoy them. While this is not his full conversion story, David at Pious Fabrications offers up the results of a great research project he conducted on his journey in a post he titled "Why ...
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• The Doorway to Bethlehem

  
  Glory to God for All Things — Authority: 461
  As we draw near to the feast of the Nativity, Bethlehem looms ever larger in my mind. At the same time, the entrance to Bethlehem appears as well. This article, posted on Christmas of last year, draws attention to the unusual feature of the entrance of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. We all have a journey to ...
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• The Deeper Meaning of Life

  
  My Greek Odyssey — Authority: 111
  From Spiritual Awakening, V0lume II of the Counsels of Elder Paisios People havent grasped the deeper meaning of life. They dont believe in the other life. This is where the whole torment of life begins. "Ive been wronged," someone says "others are happy, but I am not happy." They have arent satisfied with what they ...
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• The Heart of Forgiveness

  
  Glory to God for All Things — Authority: 461
  Nothing is more difficult to our heart than forgiveness of our enemies. I cannot complete this small series on the heart without a few words on this topic. This post was written last March. I cannot think that any of my readers is a stranger to forgiveness, either the need to be forgiven or the need to forgive. ...
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• What the Heart Reveals

  
  Glory to God for All Things — Authority: 461
  It has been said that “icons do not depict but rather reveal .” It is an insight into the intrinsic character of icons. Events that are seen in a merely historical manner do not reveal their true nature. The meaning of an event and its significance are almost never  apparent. Indeed, the world itself does not ...
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• Guard Your Heart

  
  Glory to God for All Things — Authority: 461
  I often think about the admonition of the fathers to “guard your heart.” It seems so obvious to me that the disposition of my heart has everything to do with how I will perceive and react to everything around me. An anxious heart perceives everything as a threat – a disaster or vexation in the making. An angry ...
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• Christina for Christmas

  
  Ramblings of a Single Dad — Authority: 116
  Driving home from Richmond last week, I had the pleasure of a surprise call from Dr. Maria Khoury, the author of those amazing Christina books that help teach children about our Orthodox faith. I had the honor of meeting her during a visit she made to our parish during our pre-lenten family night in March of 2008 (I ...
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• St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra

  
  Ramblings of a Single Dad — Authority: 116
  Holy St. Nicholas, please pray for us. Learn about this magnificant saint at the St. Nicholas Center, as the Orthodox Church commemorates St. Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra, on December 6, 2009. I also included excerpts from the life of St. Nicholas on his feast day last year, which you can find here.The Hymn of Saint ...
  2 weeks ago

• Book Review: Infinite Realities, by R.L. Copple

  
  Frederation — Authority: 119
  Somewhere, somewhen, there’s a village with a peculiar steam house. Patrons come from miles around for a restorative, pore-opening steam bath, but the locals know there’s more to the place than meets the eye. The steam house can be a dangerous place, because it will bring whatever is lurking inside you to the ...
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• A Heart Without Exits

  
  Glory to God for All Things — Authority: 461
  The following is a short collection of sayings from the Elder Epiphanios of Athens (1930-1989). They are quoted from the text, Precious Vessels of the Holy Spirit . True love is like the flame of a candle. However many candles you light from the flame, the initial flame remains unaffected. It doesn’t lessen ...
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• In the Jesus Prayer

  
  Mind in the Heart — Authority: 103
  “In the Jesus Prayer, the invocation of the Lord’s name draws the believer into the living presence of the Personal God, Whose energy is imparted to the heart, transforming the whole man. When prayer is humble and accompanied by the practice of watchfulness, the mind is concentrated in the heart that is the ...
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• Salvation from an Orthodox Christian perspective

  
  Elemental Children's Ministry — Authority: 416
  A couple of days ago, Scot McKnight posted the following video on his blog: So, what do you think? While I didn’t agree completely with the theology in the video, it did get me thinking. It presented the Orthodox Church view of salvation pretty well. I liked the statement, “I was originally saved over 2000 ...
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• Ever Being Formed in our Heart

  
  Glory to God for All Things — Authority: 461
  In our modern world we sometimes forget that a single person is not able to do much on their own. If Wittgenstein was right, then we really can’t do anything on our own. We live, for good or ill, within a culture, within a social matrix that makes most aspects of our life possible. Language is a social construct; ...
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• The Treasures of the Heart

  
  Glory to God for All Things — Authority: 461
  A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. Matthew 12:34-35 The heart itself is but a small vessel, yet dragons are there, and there are also lions; there are ...
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• Time to Exit Eli’s Road

  
  OrthodoxNet.com Blog — Authority: 501
  Fr. Basil Biberdorf, a priest in the Orthodox Church in America, has launched “The Orthodox Leader”, a new site designed to address and challenge the evil and corruption that has been tolerated and enabled in Christ’s Church. God bless Fr. Basil for stepping into the public arena to openly challenge the ...
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• The Heart is Everything

  
  Glory to God for All Things — Authority: 461
  As a conversational note… there is no “rational” form of conversation between believer and non-believer (or for that matter between believer and believer).  The word “rational” alone does not sufficiently describe nor set proper parameters for conversations. “Rational” is a very broad term. I would ...
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