The Great Lent

Posted by Michel Barakat on Wednesday, March 4, 2009,

The season of Great Lent is the time of preparation for the feast of the Resurrection of Christ, It is the living symbol of man's entire life which is to be fulfilled in his own resurrection from the dead with Christ. It is a time of renewed devotion: of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. It is a time of repentance, a real renewal of our minds, hearts and deeds in conformity with Christ and his teachings. It is the time, most of all, of our return to the great commandments of loving God and our...
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Fasting in the Holy Orthodox Church

Posted by Michel Barakat on Tuesday, February 24, 2009,

Consider well, my soul: do you fast? Despise not your neighbor. Do you abstain from food? Condemn not your brother... May Christ lead you without stumbling into His Kingdom.

We believe that the period before Pascha (Easter) and the Nativity (Christmas) are not times for celebration, as the western churches believe. The Orthodox Church, from the beginning of Christianity (read Eusebius, from the time of St. Constantine the Great, who quotes writers who knew personally the Apostles) has always s...
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First and second finding of the Honorable Head of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist

Posted by Roy el Abyad on Monday, February 23, 2009,

After the Beheading of the Holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John (August 29), his body was buried by disciples in the Samarian city of Sebaste, and his venerable head was hidden by Herodias in an unclean place. St Joanna (June 27), the wife of King Herod's steward Chuza (Luke 8:3), secretly took the holy head and placed it into a vessel and buried it on the Mount of Olives in one of Herod's properties.

After many years, this property passed into the possession of a government official who ...
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Catechism of the Holy Orthodox Church (continued) 4

Posted by Padre Pedro Anacleto on Tuesday, January 13, 2009, In : About Orthodoxy 

17. Concerning our Unworthiness

I believe and I confess that, even if God should raise the dead through my mediation, I must nevertheless, consider myself unworthy of the Kingdom of Heaven. If God works signs and miracles through me, it is God Who accomplishes them not because of my merits, but because of His Love and Grace. I am not saved because of talents, abilities, or good deeds, with which God might honor me, but only because of His Grace and mer...


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