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Anybody read this? If so, just curious if you have any thoughts on it. Lead Me In Thy Truth; The Question of Baptism and "Re-Baptism" in the Eastern Orthodox Church. The author is a member of the Prosopon iconography school and I found it mentioned on their website (under the Editor header)...

a common thing heard today is that we have to learn to forgive ourselves, accept our mistakes, etc. what is the orthodox response to this? How would the saints have handled that?

I remember reading of one desert father who gave away the Scriptures (or maybe it was some spiritual text). Maybe I'm making stuff up, misremembering, or combining stories, but I think it went something like this. Abba A went to Abba B and asked him what to do to be saved. Abba B told him...

Saw that today was the feast of st Bruno in the Catholic Church. He’s a bit post-schism so I’m not sure how the Orthodox Church feels about him, but in any case, I saw that this documentary is available on YouTube. It’s about the Grand Chartreuse, the monastery that St Bruno founded (if memory...

A friend asked me this earlier today - anybody know if any of the Church Fathers made this connection? Of course, many Fathers and St Paul himself connect Isaac with Christ (i.e., the sacrifice of a son, Genesis 22), but my friend suggested the following typology/type-and-shadow connection...

Anybody know what the "full" or traditional fast consists of? Of course, there are the restrictions on "quality" or type of food (meat, dairy, oil, etc.), but what about quantity/frequency? I'm not super well-informed on this, but if I am not mistaken, the full form of the fasting days restrict...

Hi everyone! A bit late asking here last minute, BUT tomorrow is the feast of St Jerome (Hieronymus) on the Old Calendar (June 15/28). I'm still doing the typika at home, and I was looking for a troparion and kontakion for him. Does anybody know if those exist, or if there is a "generic"...

A video from one of my favorite Orthodox priests on the internet. "My brother is my life." -St Silouan

Link: The Glorified Black Body of Jesus I thought this was a good read. Here's an excerpt towards the end of the essay: And yet, two thousand years later in America, we are faced with the same problem and have struggled with it since the founding of our country. As a result of a long and...

This is a really interesting lecture from Father John Peck. It's a few years old. He talks about the sexual morality of the Roman world when Christianity entered the scene, our glamorized views of the ancient world, views on children, and so on. All with a comparison to our current society...

***you are in the Orthodox subforum*** I was reading about tollhouses (this thread is not a debate about tollhouses!), from the other ongoing thread, and I read a description of the vision of Gregory of Thrace (10th c.) regarding them. The OrthoWiki articles states the following, and I was...

When I was chrismated, I received a beeswax candle that burned part of the way during the service. Since then, I've kept it but haven't burned it at all. Sort of as a keepsake/memento. Anyway, have the rest of you kept yours? Or have you lit them and burned them at services?

I saw on my calendar that today is radonitsa and was reading about the practices a bit. I read an article on pravmir and it sparked some questions, related to praying for the departed. Can we ask any departed Orthodox Christian to pray for us? What about those who departed while catechumens...

I participate in a weekly data visualization project called "Makeover Monday" - every week there is a new and different dataset, and this week's was about carbon emissions in the production of different foods. Having just wrapped up Lent, I decided to focus on that aspect: Lenten vs non-Lenten...

So I was reading an article on Pravmir about Lazarus Saturday, and it stated the following: Why did He weep if He knew that moments later He would call Lazarus back to life? Byzantine hymnographers fail to grasp the true meaning of these tears. “As man Thou weepest, and as God Thou raisest the...

Good morning and a blessed commemoration of St Mary of Egypt. I have an issue I am struggling with - and have been wrestling with for a while. I do not know what is the truly loving thing to do, or how to proceed forward, so I am looking for input and prayers. If anyone simply wants to offer...

I tie prayer ropes, somewhat (though I'm not very good). As a result, from (1) practicing the knots and (2) having a rope break at some point in the making process, I have some cords with the prayer rope knot (of interlocking crosses), that are pretty much just scrap material. And I also have...

What are your thoughts on praying and reading the Typika in our prayer corners, reading church fathers as a sermon, etc. vs. watching a livestream Divine Liturgy? On Sunday, I prayed the Typika, but I had the option (as noted in a recent thread with the many churches who are live streaming) to...

I have heard before some very strong criticism against the (particularly medieval) Latin practice of "private masses", where the only people present are the priest and an acolyte. Not open to the public. (Sometimes the priest is alone, but I believe the this usually occurred with an acolyte...

I have a question about robes. What do acolytes wear? Is that a Sticharion? And is what deacons wear a Dalmatikon? And, this one is really perplexing me and I can’t find an answer online. Some acolytes/altar-boys/etc wear a robe that has like a rectangle stitched into it around the chest and...