Is there a need for church?
Why does this question arise: Is there a need for the church? What do people say? In my mind there is an echo of everything that resonates in people’s minds, […]
Chapter Twenty-Eight - The Ritual Year
The life of the saints is the life of Christ himself, continuing throughout the ages. We are united to them on the basis of the human nature that Christ reformed through his incarnation, death and resurrection. In the divine liturgy, and especially the Eucharist, we participate in the life of Christ and its events and in the life of the saints, because we are all one body, Christ, the saints and ourselves, and we are all “one in Christ Jesus.”
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).
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
Preaching in the liturgical role
Introduction: Preaching Elements in the Prayers of the Early Church Perhaps many of the first prayers, and in thanksgiving itself, were sermons, and carried
Basil the Great
His life Saint Basil was born in Caesarea, Cappadocia[1] in the year 330 AD. From a prominent aristocratic family. His paternal grandfather was called Basilius. He left everything
The Ten Commandments in the Christian Law
1. The Lord our God is one Lord. The Lord, your God, is one Lord (Deuteronomy 6:4), and He is known as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Father is different
13:10-17 – Healing of a woman with a bent back on the Sabbath – Sabbath law
10 And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath, 11 And behold, there was a woman who had had a spirit of weakness for eighteen years, and she was bent down.
An orthodox view of The Da Vinci Code
Novel events: A monk named Silas from the Opus Dei association kills the director of the Louvre Museum, Jacques Saunière, who is the head of a secret association whose mission is...
Who are the Seventh-day Adventists?
The Adventists are an American Shiite (with several centers in our country) founded by William Miller (1782-1849), after his separation from the “Baptists.”
Response to their rejection of Sunday and their sanctification of the Sabbath
Adventists falsely and Judaizingly accuse Christians of violating the law by neglecting the “Sabbath” obligation as it was defined in ancient times (Exodus 20:8-11), because it is “the Sabbath,” as
Sola Scriptura – Exclusively Biblical Doctrine – A Theological Discussion
مناقشة لاهوتية أرثوذكسية لعقيدة “الكتاب المقدس حصراً”، أو ما يعرف بـ “Sola Scriptura”. من وجهة نظر الكتاب المقدس، والتقليد الرسولي المبكر وكيف عاشت الكنيسة وفهمت الكتاب المقدس!