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Hello TAW, it has been quite some time since I have visited here but I have a request for information. My very protestant boss recently approached me and started asking for info on Orthodoxy and expressed an interest in learning about ancient practice etc...I have been able to give him info on...

Переоблачение мощей св. Иоанна 2011 • The revesting of the Relics of St. John, 2011

How many of you when you went to church lit a candle for Troy Pomalalu or at least mentioned him silently when lighting candles?

Please join us a we celebrate the birth of our son born Feb 2. 6lbs 15oz 20 inches. All is well with mom and child. :clap: His name John Michael Macarius, were converts can't you tell?:)

I am running low on Holy Water. I was told once I could just add regular tap water to my supply, but I was an overwhelmed catechumen then and kind of never followed up on that tid bit. Any one know if this ok?

I have a friend who was asking me about how the Orthodox Church understands Romans 13. His understanding of it was that it was suggesting very strongly that we always submit to political authorities because God put them there. He really struggles with this concept because we are both anti-New...

I am looking at a copy of Orthodox Psychotherapy by Metropolitan Heirotheos of Vlachos and I cannot figure out what the icon on the cover is. Anyone? Here is a link for the photo Amazon.com: Orthodox Psychotherapy (9789607070272): Esther E. Cunningham Williams, Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos...

Michael the Iconographer has a tradition (that I am going to explain for him because I am so excited about it) on St. Nicholas's feast day, (Dec 6 New Calendar I beleive.) Which is to drink a delicious beer called Sammichlaus Bier. I will post some delightful links to this wonderful refreshment...

Today is his feast day, for those of us old calendar folk, I thought I would listen to a troparion while I got ready for Church but could not find anything. help?

I am developing a fear and aversion to confession. Every week, right before it is time to go to Church I prepare for confession or try to anyways, and I find myself, looking for excuses to not even go to the service. My weekly confession is usually identical to the previous week and each week I...

Has anyone here done this? In the middle of it? My priest wants me to look in to it, but other than the 1 page website with a brief description I cannot find much about it. I am also interested in looking for reviews of the course, can it count towards a degree anything. Thanks in advance

So I have been getting numerous annoying forwards from my grandmother regarding the public healthcare. Mainly claiming the bill will pose exorbitant fines and jail times for those who choose not to participate. I have been able to do some research and it appears to be true. YouTube - Nancy...

Hello all, it has been a while. I am sure that there has been a thread on this in the past but I have a two year old and I have been looking for books for her lives of the saints that sort of thing, but everything I have found is for children a few years older than her. Does anyone have any...

Hello, quite some time ago God answered a prayer for my family and gave my wife a great job, it has provided a home for us and a schedule that has allowed both of us to work without requiring too much babysitting for our daughter. It was looking like within a years time I would be able to quit...

So I have a terrible headache and then my friend told me he was questioning the doctrine of the Trinity and I was trying to remember some Church fathers to recommend. I got St. Gregory of Palamas and of course St. John Chrysostom but my head will not let me think of anything exact to recommend...

I just read this article entitled Stepping into the Stream: An Interview with Alice C. Linsley in the most recent Road to EmmausVol. XI, NO. 1 She was an Episcopalian priest for 16 years and converted to Orthodoxy. This woman's story and the things she has to say are absolutely fascinating. They...

"There are two types of names which designate objects of knowledge. First, invented names, conventional signs having no knowledge of the object itself. If a man is reduced to this class of names, he remains mute, incapable of expressing any reality. But there are other names. These are objective...

I would like to beg all of you for your forgiveness. If I have wronged any one in some way here please forgive me.:bow:

I found this pamphlet after I read about it in GT a while back. It is really quite fascinating...and infuriating. I recommend reading it in doses and saying the Jesus prayer.:crosseo: But I digress, it is interesting to learn many of the misconceptions that the Evangelical, and really the...

I want to thank you all for praying for my family's financial situation. My wife was just contacted by a friend who is the Regional director for an affordable housing company in our county, who wants to hire my wife, Hannah, to be an assistant manager for one of the properties, with the intent...