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Check with your local ROCOR parish, according to Matushka Olympia at the Theotokos of the Life-Giving Spring, the Kursk Root icon will visit every ROCOR parish in the US (at least that was my understanding).

The Kursk Root Icon will also be in College Station (whoop!) at the Theotokos of the Life-Giving Spring mission on Wed. 04/20 : [/size][/font] and in Houston for a few days before: www.theotokos-lifegiving-spring.org

Stefan- To echo the sentiments of others, you ask such wonderful questions! It is obvious that you are thinking deeply about these spiritual matters. May God bless you on your journey. You would do well to contact Jim Forest (of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship), I know that this is a topic he...

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Stefan- I think your article would be served well by reading Bp. ANTHONY Bloom's Beginning to Pray. I cannot reccommend this book highly enough. You can read excerpts online at Amazon.com. At just over a hundred pages, this book is a fairly short (and highly compelling) read. Also, I second...

Funny Stuff! This reminded me of a story about St. John Cassian that Fr. Matthew told us a few weeks ago: http://www.incommunion.org/articles/issue-33/getting-our-robes-dirty

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Because I’m not sure that everyone here knows (or would be inclined to go looking for) the tenets of the Just War Theory, I’ve included them below (along with my comments on each. http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/j/justwar.htm A Just War is one that: Has just cause Has been declared by a...

Good topic. I'll post some cursory responses to get the ball rolling; hopefully it will generate some more debate. But first, I should probably once again make clear my stance on pacifism as a Christian perspective (not that any other pacifism is somehow diminished, just that my arguments might...

Howdy menno & welcome to TAW! Forgive me for not referencing the entire thread, as I didn't intend to stay and post anything at all, but this is a subjec that hits close to home for me. I will instead post some things I have written about this topic in the past. I hope that they are useful; if...

This might be a good place to start: http://www.dynamispublications.org/

several folks that I know that come out of a Russian/Slavic background do the Friday Akathist Hymns during Lent. We're Antiochian and will be doing them...

Dear brothers and sisters, forgive me those trespasses you know and those you don't.:bow: May you have a blessed journey this Lenten season. Peace.

Yes, this is more in the vein of what i was thinking...that the spiritual father is responsible to God for the spiritual guidance that is given... Wonderful reminder!

John- Thank you, you did apprehend my post correctly. Our Non-Chalcedonian brethren might certainly think so ;), but no...for us, Christ's two natures exist in hypostasic union; they are who Christ is, and cannot be undone from one another. To quote St. John of Damascus, we use icons because...

:clap: No, I don't think you did. <smile> This has been postualted by several theologians (note, it's not dogmatic...in fact there's not a whole lot that we do dogmatically); the above postulation would be the logical extension of our understanding of the Trinity as perfect love...which love...

I don't imagine it happens much in the US since there aren't an abundance of monastic communities, but I seem to remember reading that a staretz or confessor needn't necessarily be a priest; that is, your confessor would hear your confession, and then send you to the priest for absolution. This...

Our permanent-temporary space has one that we constructed from door panels and 1&quot;x4&quot; lumber. I think the idea that the altar is a &quot;set-apart&quot; area is a fairly well-established tradition with solid theology to back it up. From what I understand the developmetn of the...

I think that having a bright light shining behind the cross would be inappropriate for two reasons: 1) Although I understand the significance of Christ as the Light, a cross with bright light shining behind it is not a traditional depiciton (at least not that I've seen) 2) By highlighting the...

I've got a saved search on Ebay that filters out some of the not-really-icons stuff, though unfortunately not all of it; you still have to do the regular Ebay type thing and look at feedback, check the item description closely, etc. Filtered icon search on Ebay