The spiritual father of Saints John the Ladder and Simon the New Theologian
Saint Theodore of Studite (826-759) asks, “Can we long for more than a real father, a father in God?” This personal relationship […]
Chapter Seven: The Orthodox Church and the Christian Union
(The schism between Rome and the Ecumenical Church is undoubtedly the greatest calamity to which humanity has been exposed. And the greatest blessing humanity can hope for.)
Chapter Six: Holidays, fasting, and individual prayer
(The real purpose of prayer is to enter into a dialogue with God. This dialogue is not limited to a few hours in which a person prays.
Chapter Five: Secrets
(He who was our visible Savior now dwells in the sacraments.) Leo the Great, Pope of Rome. The sacraments occupy a central place in Christian worship. He says:
Chapter Four: Orthodox Worship or Heaven on Earth
(The Church is heaven on earth, and in it the God of heaven resides and works.) Germanus, Patriarch of Constantinople (died 733) Doctrine and Worship: It is narrated in (History
Chapter Three: The Church of God
(Christ loved the church and gave himself for it) (Ephesians 5:25). (The church is one with the Lord. She is his body, his flesh, and his bones. The church is the vine.
Chapter Two: God and Man
(In his boundless love, God made himself as we are, in order to make us as he is)… Saint Irenaeus (died in the year
Chapter One: The Noble Tradition: Sources of the Orthodox Faith
(Keep the deposit) (1 Timothy 6:20). (Holy Tradition is the life of the Holy Spirit in the Church).. Vladimir Lossky. The inner meaning of Holy Tradition: The history of Orthodoxy is distinguished externally
The holy icon, a historical and doctrinal overview
The beginning of the use of icons: The historian Eusebius narrates that he saw a statue of the Lord Jesus in Banias, Mount Hermon, and that he saw real icons of the apostles.
The church honors the Virgin Mary
The Virgin Mary has a special status among all saints, and the Orthodox venerate her as “more honorable than the Cherubim and incomparably more glorious than the Seraphim.”
Divergence between East and West
Political distance: When Paul and the other apostles traveled the Mediterranean basin, they did not go beyond the borders of the Roman Empire that was then dominant.