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Metropolitan Anthony: "The Way of the Cross"

Year after year we have these quiet days, these retreats, and they are always centred on the Incarnation of the Lord, on Easter. It is not easy for me to discover new ways of presenting things which are at the very heart of our faith. So I will inevitably repeat things which I have said all too often. Perhaps my only excuse will be that things true remain true even when they are presented time and again. And another thing is important. To know things to be true is one thing; to live with all one’s mind and heart the things which we know to be true is another one.

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Why Are Vigil Lamps Lit Before Icons

by St. Nikolai of Ohrid and Zica
Living Water
First - because our faith is light. Christ said: I am the light of the world (John 8,12). The light of the vigil lamp reminds us of that light by which Christ illumines our souls.

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HOW TO READ THE BIBLE AND WHY

by Archimandrite Justin Popovich
The Bible is in a sense a biography of God in this world. In it the Indescribable One has in a sense described Himself.

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THE SALVATION OF THE SOUL

by Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich

After a large number of people had gathered around our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord spoke these words: “What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?” In addition, He spoke these words: “What can a man give in exchange for his soul?"

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The Ten Drachmas: The Lord in the Guise of a Woman

Can you believe that Christ the Saviour portrayed Himself in the guise of a woman in two of His parables?

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Sermon delivered by Bishop Nikolai (Velimirovic)

Pascha, 1934; Ochrid

Here is a mystery: Why did Christ rise from the dead?

The key: Because Life could not remain in the grave. A thousand years before, the Prophet foretold concerning Christ:
...nor wilt Thou suffer Thy Holy One to see corruption (Ps. 15:10)

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Father Arseny: Priest, Prisoner, Spiritual Father

Excerpted from the Book: Father Arseny: Priest, Prisoner, Spiritual Father

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Dostoyevsky: The Giant of Russian Literature

The year 2006 marked several dates related to Fyodor Dostoyevsky, such as the 125th anniversary of his death, the 160th birthday of his wife Anna, the 145th anniversary of his novel ‘The Insulted and Humiliated,’ the 140th anniversary of ‘Crime and Punishment,’ the 135th anniversary of ‘The Devils,’ and the 125th anniversary of ‘The Brothers Karamazov.’ Bishop Hilarion of Vienna and Austria, representative of the Moscow Patriarchate to the European institutions shares his views on Christian contents in the great author’s creative work with Interfax-Religion.

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Orthodox Worship as a School of Theology

All of our liturgical hymns are instructive, profound and sublime. They contain the whole of our theology and moral teaching, give us Christian consolation and instill in us a fear of the Judgment. He who listens to them attentively has no need of other books on the Faith. St Theophan the Recluse

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Grief and Joy. The elder, Archpriest Nikolai Gurianov has fallen asleep in the Lord

Among those who dropped everything and hastened to the isle of Zalit on August 26 to bid farewell to the departed elder, Archpriest Nikolai Gurianov, was a group of priests, monastics and laypeople from the Ekaterinburg diocese. The editors of the Moscow Church Herald (MCH) asked one of them, Hegumen Abraham, the spiritual father of two well-known monasteries in Ekaterinburg: the men’s monastery of the All-Merciful Savior and the Novo-Tikhvin women’s monastery, to describe the events of those days.