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I write to say farewell and take care. I have enjoyed the conversations we have had, and I have learned much during my visiting and posting on this virtual Orthodox community. I hope you all continue to make this a place of testimony to the truth, and remain in loving, and encouraging, converse...

The Biblical Necessity of Tradition One of the important effects of Tradition is a unified standard of Bible interpretation, which was regarded by the Early Christians to have come from the Apostles (and for the Jews it came from the Prophets), due to a succession of actual disciples and...

Sin is the Enemy of the world, and the devil who sows hate and malice in the hearts of man. Muslims have always been a persecutor of Orthodox, in Egypt, Turkey, Serbia, and Bulgaria. Through their hatred, violence, and murder, many Orthodox have been martyred in the name of our Most Merciful...

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Brushstroke a sent you a PM please answer it because I will be leaving in the near future...

I would say Both and the body is not evil but all of its desires are a hinderance with our communion with God.

St. Antony the Great ate and drank bread and water every 4 days in the Egyptian wilderness and lived to be 105 years old. "Man will not live by bread alone" the Holy Spirit nourishes our souls and bodies much more than any food. Like some one said we are in different states of spiritual fitness...

I think you are missing the point.

I dont see why people must beat around the bush with such trivial matters.

Ive never seen a Chow/Lab mix she looks like a pitbull with long ears.

Do you mean when the fathers and monastics say to mortify the flesh?

Dancing, wine and theaters, dont not bring us closer to God, and in most cases seperate us from him. I am not saying that these things should be completely banned from our "Spiritual diet", but they should be indulged in very sparingly.

The heart is the essence of the soul. In patristic usage, the heart is both spiritual and physical. The spiritual heart is: "deep" (ps.64:6), an "immeasurable abyss", the inner man(st. Gregory palamas) the "hidden person", the battle ground of the spiritual struggle (archmandrite sophrony, Saint...

More accurate is to say our heart is the temple of God. This is why we must strive to purify it and keep it undefiled.

65. And many monks have related with the greatest agreement and unanimity that many other such like things were done by him. But still these do not seem as marvellous as certain other things appear to be. For once, when about to eat, having risen up to pray about the ninth hour, he perceived...

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The Roman empire is a good example for the general life of people, but we live in a much different world now. With communication, transportation, world court, world war, world banking, telecommunications, radios, computers, every thing gets faster and faster, "better and better", to the point...

I dont think they are going into Turkey with the mindset to help a poor Christian minority. I think they will come in the guise of help, and in doing so they will establish another western, capitial, minded state. True Christians are born through adversity, struggle, strife, and the Grace of...

This is a thread from Monachos. I have just read an article in the Christian Science Monitor about Decani monastery and the “resurgence of the Orthodox faith”. This was the opening paragraph : -“ The stars are shining above Decani Monastery as monks in black robes hurry across the yard and...

I think this is the worst thing that could happen. The EU and the UN is the doorway to globalisim and universal persecution of christians.