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THESE TRUTHS WE HOLD (Part XXIII)

The Monastic Tonsure. The Monastic Grades. When one desiring the monastic life enters a monastery, he normally passes through three steps or stages: 1) Probationer (Novice — including Riasaphor), 2) Monk of the Lesser Schema (Cross-bearer

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HEALINGS OF SOUL AND BODY: SAINT BASIL OF OSTROG THE WONDERWORKER (2)

ST.BASIL REVEALS HIS MOTHER’S GRAVE TO A VILLAGER   The Belgrade weekly “Vreme”, in its issue of September 18th, 1937, features the following article by V.M.   “Eighty year old Tripko Milutinovic, a villager from

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HEALINGS OF SOUL AND BODY: SAINT BASIL OF OSTROG THE WONDERWORKER

translated from the Serbian by Ana Smiljanić   Nestled high up in the forbidding mountains of Montenegro, far away from the noise and bustle of big cities and tourist resorts, lies the monastery of Saint Basil of Ostrog, a rare jewel of the li

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THE HOLY APOSTLES - St.Thomas

St. Thomas. Little is recorded of St. Thomas the Apostle, nevertheless thanks to the fourth Gospel his per-sonality is clearer to us than that of some others of the Twelve. His name occurs in all the lists of the Synoptists (Matthew 10:3; Mark 3:1

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THE HOLY APOSTLES (3) - St.Barnabas

St. Barnabas. Barnabas (originally Joseph), styled an Apostle in Holy Scripture, and, like St. Paul, ranked by the Church with the Twelve, though not one of them; b. of Jewish parents in the Island of Cyprus about the beginning of the Christian Era.

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IS HUMAN PERFECTION POSSIBLE?

By Archpriest Paul Jannakos In the gospel, Christ calls out to us with the words, “Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.” This is a troublesome text, no doubt, in that it evokes us an uneasy bewilderment. We read it and ask

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THE HOLY APOSTLES (2) - St.Andrew

St. Andrew. The name “Andrew” (Gr. andreia, manhood, or valour), like other Greek names, appears to have been common among the Jews from the second or third century B.C. St. Andrew, the Apostle, son of Jonah, or John (Mat.16:17; John 1

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THE HOLY APOSTLES (1)

Apostles of Christ. Under this title it may be sufficient to supply brief and essential information. The reader will find at the end of this article various titles of other articles which contain supplementary information on subjects connected wit

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THESE TRUTHS WE HOLD (Part XXII)

5. Orthodox Monasticism.   It is generally accepted that monasticism began in Egypt towards the end of the Third Century, though its origins may have been older. Indeed, some form of monasticism may have existed almost from the birth of the Ch

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WHAT CONSTITUTES GOSSIP?

Strangely enough, the word ‘gossip’ originally meant ‘godparent’ and it is connected with the word ‘sibling’. It is useful to recall, because it means that gossip comes about when people are too familiar, too close

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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)