3:1 - Our royal priesthood
The third section: Our ecclesiastical life: “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation” (1 Peter 2:9). Perhaps one of the most important topics […]
The third section: Our ecclesiastical life: “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation” (1 Peter 2:9). Perhaps one of the most important topics […]
The idea that the Orthodox Church adheres to the principles and piety of the ancient, universal, indivisible Church is the central principle of this Church.
Essential characteristics of the Orthodox Church Continue reading »
المسيحي كاهن بجسده وكامل وجوده. هو مدعو إلى أن يقدِّم ذاته وجميع أعماله ذبيحة لله، ومعها الخليقة بأسرها. الحياة الشخصية للمسيحي تغدو شهادة لحضور الله وعمله داخل الإنسان حتى أن كل من يرى طريقة حياته يستنتج أن المسيح يحيا فيه، وأنه ليس إنساناً عادياً، بل مواطن في ملكوت الله. وبهذه الطريقة تصبح أعماله وحياته كلها خدمة إلهية دائمة، وتستعيد معناها الأول الذي كان لها في فردوس الله.
Chapter Fifteen - The position of the laity in the Church Continue reading »
One of the greatest tragedies during the horrific persecutions that were launched against the Church after the control of the atheist authorities was the general trial, in 1922, of the Metropolitan.
Lev Nagolkine was born in 1767 into a bourgeois family in the Russian province of Orel. He worked in
Introduction In two different places in the Gospel of Matthew, two phrases about prayer appear that seem to contradict each other. In the Sermon on the Mount
Saint Irene (Salam), whose biography we will now recount, is not the great Saint Irene among the martyrs, who was born in the century