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		<title>Pearls to the pigs and communion to dogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine” (Mat 7:6) When I was a kid I had a pet, a cat, and loved it dearly.  It slept with me every night and in my teenage years felt at times as my only true friend. But there was no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beneath the surface &#8211; Sailing the shallow waters of the Internet</title>
		<link>http://dialogues.stjohndfw.info/2010/06/sailing-the-shallow-waters-of-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Vasile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“When carried into the realm of the intellect, the industrial ideal of efficiency poses, a potentially mortal threat to the pastoral ideal of contemplative thought” Nicholas Carr, The shallows There is a lot of commotion in the teaching industry around generational learning.  The premise lays in the different approaches that consecutive generations take when it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curing the new depression era</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Vasile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For what has man from all his labor, and from the troubling of his heart, in which he has labored under the sun? For all his days are sorrows, and his labor sadness; yea, his heart does not take rest in the night. (Ecc 2:22-23) North European airports are still fighting with the giant cloud [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Akathyst of the Holy Martyr Menas the Wonderworker</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The shrine of St. Menas used to be for the Ancient Eastern Orthodox world what Lourdes is for Roman Catholics, a place where thousands of pilgrims would bring their prayers in distress and receive the grace of God in return, through the intercessions of the Holy Martyr. Though the Shrine of Saint Menas was one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Into the lion&#8217;s den &#8211; The passions of Fr. Gheorghe Calciu Dumitreasa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Vasile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently found this article on the wonderful website http://www.orthodoxphotos.com. Fr. Gheorghe Calciu spent 21 years in the communist prisons and was a symbol of freedom fighting for all Romanians. I knew Fr. Gheorghe personally in the last few years of his life.  He went to meet his beloved Lord in November 2006. The story he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The worshipping community</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Vasile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently stumbled upon an older interview with Bishop Kalistos Ware, one of the most known Orthodox converts, and, with great pleasure I’ve rediscovered a passage that always struck a delicate chord in my heart. Here it is.: “I first came to know the Orthodox Church when I was seventeen years old, just before I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two stories of violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Vasile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last month two stories of violence against Orthodox priests caught the Orthodox news channels attention. One happened in Russia and one here, on American soil. The first one you can read it here: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/hundreds-mourn-orthodox-priest-shot-dead-in-church/390092.html#no This is a most tragic event. A Russian Orthodox Priest who was outspoken against the Islamic religion was gunned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the spiritual Struggle &#8211; by Archbishop Averky (Taushev)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Vasile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the first Sunday of the Great Fast our Church celebrates the triumph of Orthodoxy, the victory of true Christian teachings over all perversions and distortions thereof- heresies and false teachings. On the second Sunday of the Great Fast it is as though this triumph of Orthodoxy is repeated and deepened in connection with the [...]]]></description>
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