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THESE TRUTHS WE HOLD (Part X)

3. Orthodox Worship. The Five Cycles. The Great Cycle of Life. The life of an Orthodox Christian can be seen as being composed of five cycles. There is, first of all, the great cycle of life, which embraces the whole life of a man from birth

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I'M THE WORST. IS IT GOOD?

  By Inna Karpova Translated by Alexey Malafeev Edited by Paul Michna   “I'm worthless. Nothing will ever work out for me. No wonder nobody loves me.”   We often come across people who think like this. Psy

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THESE TRUTHS WE HOLD (Part IX)

Candles and Their Symbolism. Lit candles and Icon lamps (lampadas) have a special symbolic meaning in the Christian Church, and no Christian service can be held without them. In the Old Testament, when the first temple of God was built on earth &m

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THESE TRUTHS WE HOLD (Part VIII)

The Iconostasis. The most prominent feature of an Orthodox church is the Iconostasis, consisting of one or more rows of Icons and broken by a set of doors in the center (the Holy Doors) and a door at each side (the Deacon’s Doors). In ancien

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THE SPIRIT OF TRUE CHRISTIANITY

By Archpriest Paul O'Callaghan Source: Orthodox Research Institute   In any form of religious belief, one of the most common questions is, “What does God (or the gods) require of us?” And of course, the different religi

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Papoulakis, Saint Joachim of Vatopaidi (12)

THE TRANSLATION OF HIS RELICS As was proper and natural, the place of Saint Joachim’s spiritual birth assumed the duty of bringing to light and honoring its saintly offspring. In 1991, the Abbot of Vatopaidi Monastery, Archimandrite Ephraim,

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THESE TRUTHS WE HOLD (Part VII)

2. The Church Building and its Servers. External Arrangement. Orthodox churches generally take one of several shapes that have a particular mystical significance. The most common shape is an oblong or rectangular shape, imitating the form of a

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THE SIGN OF THE CROSS

The symbol of Christian faith has ever been and always will be the Cross, for it is the sign of our redemption by our Lord Jesus Christ who came to earth to suffer for us and was crucified upon the Cross. When we wish to show that something is dedica

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THE ISSUE OF EVIL AND THE MEANING OF SUFFERING AND SORROW IN OUR LIFE

By Fr. Serapheim Starkoff Source:  Fr. Serapheim's LiveJournal   All of us encounter suffering in our lives. Sometimes we deserve to suffer, sometimes we do not. Curiously enough, our sufferings force us to reflect upon both their

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THESE TRUTHS WE HOLD (Part VI)

Other Orthodox Communities in America. Albanian. Albanian Orthodox immigrants had been arriving in America for some time and, after some troubles with the local Greek Priest in Boston, Massachusetts, the Albanians there selected Theophan (Fan)

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ARCHIMANDRITE GAVRILO

Dear visitors of our web-site of the monastery Lepavina! Due to a high number of visits of our website, I am honoured to take the responsibility to describe you in English different events from Serbian Orthodox Church and monastery Lepavina. We would like to inform you that we will be also putting on our web-site some texts in English on different subjects from other Orthodox websites. I deeply hope and believe that our Lord will help me in that!

With God’s blessing, from monastery Lepavina Archimandrite Gavrilo.

Biography Archimandrite Gabriel (Vuckovic)