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Forgive my intrusion into this section, but I hope that you are all very aware of this great and very pious Roman Catholic actor, Jim Caviezel, called of God to be an actor and now doing important films... This is one of them: A little preview and a wonderful interview... Arsenios

Obviously, as anyone can easily tell... I am not using it at all... So take as much of it as you like! One thing I have done in the enterprise of giving advice... Is to recommend actions so obviously wrong... That in his or her indignant outrage... The person asking my advice... Sees very...

Acts 22:20 And when the blood of Thy Martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him. Acts 9:4 "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?" Col. 1:24 Who am now rejoicing in my sufferings for you, and fill up that...

A good friend of mine, who stands on the 5 pillars, asked me to open a thread on justification... So I am doing so, with the prayer that in it we may sort through some of its features in Traditional Theology... In this prayer, I am opening it with the two Greek words Paul uses, ( Romans...

What is Salvation in the Old Testament? What is it in the New? What is the difference? What is the difference in one's experience of either? Arsenios

Unless he is a superb actor, Vladimir Putin is the genuine article: Arsenios

1Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of Him Who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: A Priest is one who intercedes for others before God... The prayers to God for...

Paul's holy words, yet who can do them? Who, indeed, even CAN do them? How can sinners like us ever pray ceaselessly as our Way of Life? The words of a Christian in the late 1800s may prove of value. Perhaps anticipating the fall of Russia to the Atheists in the early 1900s, he wrote a book...

For the Eastern Orthodox Faith, the Psalter is prayed through once a week, sometimes a little more, at least in the Monasteries... For the rest of us who do daily Services, some Psalms are prayed every day for the specific Services for which they are prescribed... Most notable for me is Psalm...

In this fallen life upon earth in this fallen creation: Where and how does discipleship begin? And where does it end? And how does it proceed? The matter arises in Romans 8:29-30 For whom He did foreknow, He also did foreordain to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the...

It began today, Pentecost, 2016, with the largest Patriarchate pulling out at the largest Patriarchate, Moscow, pulling out at the last minute, and several others not attending... Bulgaria, Georgia, and Antioch... The Latin spin is reflected in this article: With or without Russia, spokesman...

This is a thread generated on another forum, and the question is this: What is the difference between the Salvation of David and that of Paul? Or between the OT Prophets and the New Testament Apostles? Arsenios

Is anyone reading or listening to lectures by Fr. John Behr? I did not understand why Elder Joseph the Hesychast willfully asceticized himself to death... I am getting clues from Fr. John... Arsenios

I have returned from a 4000 road mile monastery trip, and on it I picked up some books [no surprise there!] and one of them was St. Symeon's: ON THE MYSTICAL LIFE THE ETHICAL DISCOURSES Vol. 1: THE CHURCH AND THE LAST THINGS Has anyone read this little book? I started reading it, not...

I was told to change it (my Faith entry) from 'Christian' to Eastern Orthodox Christian, and I have been unable to figure out how to do so... I was told each group has slightly different rules that apply to their posts... Much harsher treatment is definitely in order for us more behemothic...

I joined today, Christmas Day... Blissfully banned from Theology On Line - This site looks like a drink of cool, clear water after what TOL does... So God willing, this will be a good Christian home to hang out in online... fwiw, I was banned for repeatedly posting "Let God arise, Let His...