The second article: Pains, trials and sorrows
God allows suffering for our benefit: If any ship traveling on the seas is overtaken by storms and strong waves, it will be wrecked and sink, unless […]
Selections from the articles of Saint Aphrahat, 5-12
The Fifth Article on Wars A War Between Evil and Good [The times have been preordained by God. Times of peace are realized in the days of the righteous.
Lazarus Saturday
Fasting, in its exclusive sense, ends on the Friday following the fifth Sunday of Lent, when the forty-day period ends. The period of pain extends
Chapter Ten: The Second Coming and Eternal Life
“..And he will also come in his glory to judge the living and the dead. Whose kingdom has no end. We await the resurrection of the dead and the life of the age to come. Amen."
Responding to their refusal to pray for the deceased
The Orthodox Church refers in its prayers to death as “sleep,” because it believes in “personal existence after death,” and it hopes for all those who have fallen asleep to rise.