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		<title>The Akathyst of the Holy Martyr Menas the Wonderworker</title>
		<link>http://dialogues.stjohndfw.info/2010/03/the-akathist-of-the-holy-martyr-menas-the-wonderworker/</link>
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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 the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fasting abundantly</title>
		<link>http://dialogues.stjohndfw.info/2010/01/fasting-abundantly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Vasile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apologetics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea that any Westerner has about fasting is strongly linked with renunciation, with giving-up, with sacrificing something for God. In the Eastern Orthodox Church however, fasting achieves a much richer meaning. Fasting is not only about giving-up, but it is actually more about gaining, about being able to reach things that are possible only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Present in the Presence &#8211; Archmandrite Meletios (Webber)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Vasile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday  night, January 27 at 7 PM we had the extraordinary opportunity to host a special session of Gladsome Light Dialogues having as guest Archmandrite Meletios, the Abbot of St. John of St. Francisco Monastery in California. 
Archimandrite Meletios (Webber), of Scottish background, was born in London, and received his Masters degree in Theology from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Concerning Angels by Metropolitan ISAIAH of Denver</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Vasile</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Evening Film Dialogues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to a series of unfortunate events I recently watched the super Holywood production &#8220;Legion&#8221;. Five minutes into the movie I wished I was not there and by the end I concluded that nothing is sacred to the film industry. The movie is an apocaliptical  thriller about the destruction of humankind by God that got fed-up [...]]]></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>Theophany &#8211; reflections on the baptism of our Lord Jesus Christ</title>
		<link>http://dialogues.stjohndfw.info/2010/01/theophany-reflections-on-the-baptism-of-our-lord-jesus-christ/</link>
		<comments>http://dialogues.stjohndfw.info/2010/01/theophany-reflections-on-the-baptism-of-our-lord-jesus-christ/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Vasile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dialogues.stjohndfw.info/?p=974</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The word Baptism comes, to no surprise,  from Greek: baptisma, meaning immersion into water. So baptism is linked with water by definition. It is the general understanding that through the baptism the person that is baptized is receiving a blessing. In Christ case however the things  are different.  John&#8217;s baptism was a baptism of repentance for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The worshipping community</title>
		<link>http://dialogues.stjohndfw.info/2009/12/the-worshipping-community/</link>
		<comments>http://dialogues.stjohndfw.info/2009/12/the-worshipping-community/#comments</comments>
		<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 was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two stories of violence</title>
		<link>http://dialogues.stjohndfw.info/2009/11/two-stories-of-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://dialogues.stjohndfw.info/2009/11/two-stories-of-violence/#comments</comments>
		<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 down in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To a modest man who is repenting for some of his words &#8211; by St. Nikolai (Velimirovic)</title>
		<link>http://dialogues.stjohndfw.info/2009/11/to-a-modest-man-who-is-repenting-for-some-of-his-words-by-st-nikolai-velimirovic/</link>
		<comments>http://dialogues.stjohndfw.info/2009/11/to-a-modest-man-who-is-repenting-for-some-of-his-words-by-st-nikolai-velimirovic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Vasile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
You have done well for repenting right away. God has left repentance for salvation. If that was not the case, not even the Apostles would have been saved, far less other people. You have sinned with the tongue, re­pented with the heart. You said an evil word against your neighbor. As if you threw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heavenly Crosses &#8211; The Master Yuri Feodorov</title>
		<link>http://dialogues.stjohndfw.info/2009/11/heavenly-crosses-the-master-yuri-feodorov/</link>
		<comments>http://dialogues.stjohndfw.info/2009/11/heavenly-crosses-the-master-yuri-feodorov/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Vasile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one of my pilgrimages I happend to arrive at the great Lavra Pecerska in Kiev, Ukraine and there I found in a small flee market, organized at the entrance of the Monastery, a gentlemen who was selling the most beautifull crosses I&#8217;ve ever seen. I liked them so much that I&#8217;ve spent all my money [...]]]></description>
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