Great Holy Week: Holy Thursday - Cenacle
Holy Thursday brings us into the Paschal Mystery (38), as it revives and brings before us the first part of this Mystery, which took place in […]
Chapter Five: Liturgy, prayer, and our personal life
The life of prayer is our personal, conscious life in God, because everything, our being and our movement, enters into it. All of our lives and relationships are with God
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Chapter Three: Belonging to the Church through rituals
1- The importance of rituals, their principle, and their nature in the church. We belong to the church by rituals in general, that is, by a set of symbols and movements (from candles, incense, and cycles).
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Chapter Two: Liturgical services or divine services (its meaning - its value - its conduct)
Introduction The divine service, by which we mean the group of rituals, prayers, and liturgical services, constitutes the framework of liturgical life. Its goal is to carry it to and from us
Chapter One: The mystery or essence of the liturgy
Introduction We do not mean liturgy as a ritual, but rather the liturgy that is beyond the rituals. Rituals, as a group of different and diverse human movements, are a valuable heritage
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Publisher's introduction
The Christian is a traveler, he is a stranger, and he wants to be a stranger to the world so that he can better convey the good news of the resurrection of Christ.
Individual worship and group worship
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
In order to better understand the Divine Liturgy
Introduction These pages are not a new translation of the Divine Liturgy service written by Saint John Chrysostom. Nor is it a study for this service
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Types and forms of preaching
A. Types of preaching: Many basic factors change in a sermon depending on the occasion. In addition to changing the topic, the ideal duration of the sermon, the tone, and the movement change.
Introduction to preaching
A. Definition: The subject of homiletics is the scientific study of the methodology and approaches of Christian preaching. It studies the history of preaching and its references as well as its development.
The problems of marriage and family have many aspects - historical, legal and theological
Introduction The topic of marriage and family will be discussed: In the early sixties, university students in the West were discussing in their meetings the current topic of marriage and family.
Inauguration of the church
In the ritual of our Orthodox Church, the church is inaugurated with special prayers and rituals, in addition to readings from the Holy Bible, Psalms, letters, and the Gospel, as well as