Fourth story
“And it has pleased me to be close to God, and I have made the Lord my refuge and my hope” (Psalm 72:28). When I returned to my spiritual father’s house, I said: […]
Chapter Three - Detailed Explanation of the Constitution: “By the one, catholic, holy, and apostolic Church”
21- And in the one church, the waw is a conjunction. “Church” is connected to what came before it, meaning: “I believe in the one God the Father... and in the one Lord Jesus.”
Chapter Seven: Saint Gregory Palamas and the Tradition of the Fathers
The Church is of course “apostolic,” but it is also patristic. It is essentially the “Church of the Fathers.” These two “characteristics” cannot be separated, and because it is “patristic,” it is truly “apostolic.” The witness of the Fathers is more than a historical feature, more than a voice from the past.
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Chapter Four: The Eucharist and the unity of believers in the church community
Who has not felt one day that the best thing in life, in the end, is the joy of friendship, pure and constant joy?
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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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Ambrosius of Optino Monastery
Alexander Mikhailovich Grinkov (Saint Ambrose) saw the light in the Tambov region of Russia, on November 23, 1812.
Antiochian Saints
Holiness in the Orthodox Church is the concern and the goal. God’s will is your holiness, as it was said. And holiness is salvation. What is the meaning of holiness? Who
In the duality of the will of our Lord Jesus Christ and the freedom of His action
Every essence has its own will and action: Therefore, since Christ has two natures, he also has two natural wills and two natural actions, and since the hypostasis of his natures
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The Church in times of Islamic invasions
Patriarch Macedonius: (628-640) The Jews tortured Anastasius II, successor of the two apostles, captured him, tortured him, and dragged him through the streets of Antioch on the run, and he died as a martyr.
Maximus the Confessor
His life: The seventh century was also a century of turmoil, wars, and religious problems. After Eutyches, the heresy of nature and one will came in a period