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• 12 May 2013. A Word on Certain Loud Republican Circles Amongst Us

  
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  Birds of a feather flock together… and they’re GOOD birds, not shitbirds. ______________________________ I say the following… so, don’t instigate a witch-hunt of those who hate the immoral and pernicious pabulum dispensed by the Republican Party . It’s time for Christ’s Church to disassociate ...
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• Faith: Not Proof but Experience

  
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  The Gospel Lesson for Thomas Sunday , John 20:19-31, concludes with these words: Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe.”  Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, ...
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• Encountering Christ in the Gospel

  
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  The Gospel reading for the Sunday after Pascha, St. Thomas Sunday , is John 20:19-31 : On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he ...
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• Turkey Uncovers Plot To Kill Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew

  
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  ______________________________ On Friday, an EP spokesman said that Turkey is investigating an alleged plot to assassinate Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Archontonis , spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians (sic), and has stepped up security around the Patriarchate in Istanbul . Spokesman ...
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• Images of Salvation (VIII)

  
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  “… there is no sin so great that it can conquer the munificence of the Master.” (St. John Chrysostom, BAPTISMAL INSTRUCTIONS , p 32) This is the eighth blog in this series exploring ideas about and images of salvation .  The first blog is Images of Salvation and the previous blog is Images of ...
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• Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew – Attempted assassination?

  
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  Turkey is investigating an alleged plot to assassinate Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, and has stepped up security around the patriarchate in Istanbul, his spokesman said on Friday. via Plot To Kill Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew Uncovered By Turkey . That ...
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• Meeting between Pope Francis and Pope Tawadros II of Egypt

  
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  HISTORIC MEETING BETWEEN POPE FRANCIS AND POPE TAWADROS II, HEAD OF COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH OF EGYPT VATICAN, Holy See, May 10, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The visit of Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, “strengthens the bonds of friendship and brotherhood that ...
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• Finding Yourself in Christ’s Resurrection Narrative

  
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  One means many Patristic writers use to read and interpret Scripture narratives is to see each of the characters in the biblical stories as either someone to emulate or as someone whose behavior one should avoid.   St. Andrew of Crete  (d. ca 712AD) in his famous Lenten Canon of Repentance is a very good ...
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• Bright Tuesday

  
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  Liturgy in honor of the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God in Moscows Novodevichy Convent. Syndicated by Atom
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• Images of Salvation (VII)

  
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  “Meditation on hell enables us to understand from what Christ came to save us, provided we cling with all our strength to his salvation.”  (Oliver Clement, The Roots of Christian Mysticism , p 138) This is the seventh blog in this series exploring ideas about and images of salvation .  The first ...
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• The Resurrection of the Body

  
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    Christ is risen! Indeed He is risen! As we continue on our Paschal journey, joyously keeping the festival of Christ’s resurrection, we are reminded of the very fundamentals of the Christian faith.  Fr. Alexander Schmemann was wonderfully gifted in finding the right words to express the deeply ...
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• Will Georgia Ban Abortions?

  
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  ______________________________ The Georgian state has begun thinking of banning abortions after influential Georgian Orthodox Patriarch Ilia Ghudushauri-Shiolashvili   pitched the idea  in his  Easter sermon  on 5 May. Many churches may be pro-life, but in this  devout Christian country , which ...
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• Sermon Notes 5 May 5, 2013 Vespers of Pascha

  
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  Throughout Great Lent we read the narrative of God’s people in Genesis and Exodus, and through the Prophet Isaiah.  Holy Saturday ’s 15 Old Testament readings give us more of the sense of the spiritual life as a sojourn.  Israel’s journey is a type of the spiritual journey of each believer and also of the ...
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• Full Patriarchal Easter Liturgy

  
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  Part I Part II Syndicated by Atom
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• Christ Destroys Death by Death

  
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  Christ is risen!    Indeed He is risen! As we continue throughout Bright Week to continue our praise of the Holy Trinity for our salvation through Jesus Christ’s triumph over death, we continue to think about the human condition and God’s effort to save us.   St. Theodoret of Cyrus (d. 457AD) wrote that ...
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• Prayers for the release of kidnapped Syrian bishops: The Church of England Newspaper, May 5, 2013 p 6.

  
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  The Archbishops of Canterbury and Westminster have issued a call to prayer for peace in Syria. On 25 April 2013 Archbishop Justin Welby and Vincent Nichols issued a joint statement in response to the kidnapping of Archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim, the Syriac Orthodox bishop of Aleppo and Boulos Yaziji, the Greek Orthodox ...
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• Pascha 2013

  
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  My Dear Fellow Orthodox, Every year we Orthodox undertake the sojourn we call Great Lent. For some of us that Lenten journey is long and puts us to the test, spiritually and physically. We forgive, ask forgiveness, we repent, we fast, we pray, we give charitably to those in need, we aim to gain control of our ...
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• Keeping the Agape Feast

  
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  Pascha ! The Pascha of the Lord!  For all who will celebrate  the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead, a blessed Feast!   And a reminder from St. Athanasius the Great  (d. 373AD) to keep the Feast spiritually! “But let us not be like the heathen, for the heathen thinks the accomplishment of the feast is in ...
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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 ...
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• Photo du Jour #81: St. John Orthodox Church at Sunset – Ohrid, Macedonia

  
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  Above, a boat glides smoothly across the golden, shimmering surface of  Lake Ohrid  on the eve of Orthodox Easter. A silhouetted version of  Saint John at Kaneo  stands guard in the background. Archaeologists think that the church was built before the rise of the Ottoman Empire, perhaps in the 13th century. ...
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