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The Bible, the Prayer Book and the Greek Lexicon

Fr. Vasile — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:12:45 +0000

This week I was stuck in an airport due to inclement weather and had to spend a few hours waiting for my flight to arrive. After the initial commotion you find yourself restrained in a waiting room with not much to do. Looking around for a past time I realized that the only things I had with me were... Continue reading

On the spiritual Struggle – by Archbishop Averky (Taushev)

Fr. Vasile — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:07:07 +0000

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 celebration of the memory of one of the greatest pillars of Orthodoxy, the hierarch Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica, who by his grace-bearing eloquence and the example of his highly ascetic private life put to shame the teachers of falsehood who dared reject the every essence of Orthodoxy, the podvig (in an approximate translation the word podvig means

How to live an ecological life in Christ

Fr. Vasile — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:50:23 +0000

Raising awareness of our spiritual footprint

There is a lot of talking these days about the environment and the impact our civilization will have on the planet for generations to come. A lot of damage has already been done and we are here now Continue reading