Oh, it's Forgiveness Sunday, or whatever?
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For the non-Orthodox, yesterday was the day where they have a service where
you ask people for forgiveness whether you wronged them or not. This is one
of ...
Great Lent is “nice”
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It seems as though, over the years, more and more Protestant churches are
acknowledging the benefits of Lent. Granted, I doubt any of them are
actually fas...
LENT: Here's the deal ...
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*Though today, February 27, 2012, begins the Great Fast for Orthodox
Christians, here follows a post regarding Lent which incorporates Meatfare
and Cheesef...
Η πορεία της Μ. Σαρακοστής
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Η Καθαρά Δευτέρα μας εισάγει δυναμικά στη μακρά περίοδο της Μεγάλης
Σαρακοστής. Είναι μια διαφορετική περίοδος από τον άλλο χρόνο, για όσους,
βέβαια, ...
Στο κατώφλι της Μεγάλης Σαρακοστής
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Αντίθετα προς το κοινό αίσθημα, η Μεγάλη Τεσσαρακοστή είμαι περίοδος χαράς
∙ μια περίοδος επιστροφής στη ζωή. Χρόνος κατά τον οποίον αποβάλλουμε ό,τι
εί...
The Fasting Rules for Lent
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Many, perhaps most of the readers of Ad Orientem are Orthodox so for you
this post is likely redundant. But others also stop by and the fasting
rules of th...
Jurisdictional Lenten resources
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I'll add more as I find resources or you make me aware of them.
*Antiochian Archdiocese*
*Greek Archdiocese*
*Orthodox Church in America*
Do Something
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My recent post, The God Who Is No God, spoke of Christianity as a set of
practices. This is a crucial understanding – a requirement for a living
faith. It ...
Coleridge's 'Imagination' Revisited
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Two and a half years ago I posted an excerpt from my master's thesis in
which I tried to show that the 'imagination' that the Fathers have tried to
warn u...
First Kiss
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I'm sure they did. As many years as I lived with them, I'm sure he said it.
But as hard as I try, I cannot remember it.
It seems like after you are 40 and ...
So many dogs
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I want to adopt all the dogs and the cats at the animal shelter. The
thought of them being stuck there and not adopted in a jail-like cell with
the possibi...
Blessed Great Lent!
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I'll be refraining from posting and commenting during the Lenten season,
beginning today.
So they gathered together at Mizpah, drew water, and poured it ou...
Update
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[image: Music][image: Playlist]
Music Playlist at MixPod.com
I'm a few days overdue for my promised update and yes, the soundtrack to my
leave of absence ...
On the Egocentricity of Orthodox Christians
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By: Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople What have we done? What have
we done? Christ has left us. We have driven him away. Our hatreds, our
pride, ou...
A Chosen Instrument: The Mystery of Weakness
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When we think of the Apostle Paul we think of the missionary journeys, the
evangelization of the Empire, writing the bulk of the New Testament, his
martyri...
Head coverings
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I have been asked to write a post on the wearing of headscarves. The better
terminology would be the wearing for head coverings of which a head scarf
is on...
Orthodox Prague
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St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, Prague, Czech Republic
*A while back, I ran across the following article about the Orthodox Church
in Prague. I lived in P...
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Alternative Right is a favorite online destination of mine. [Update: a
couple of visitors here have raised valid objections to some material on
the AR sit...
Le rôle de l’Evêque au sein de l’Eglise
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*Le rôle de l’Evêque au sein de l’Eglise*
**Archimandrite Grigorios D. Papathomas
Au sein de l’Eglise orthodoxe, l’évêque est l’un de quatre charismes
co...
St. John Chrysostom on Serving Christ
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Let us not overlook Him here, hungry, in order that He Himself may feed us
there. Here let us clothe Him, that He may not send us forth naked from the
safe...
2010 Winners
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Here are the winners of the *2010 Eastern Christian New Media Awards*! The
voting numbers were again quite a jump from the preceding year - a trend we
are ...
I am Nothing – Are You?
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Image via Wikipedia When a monk says “I am nothing”, I think he’s saying
that what I am and what I think I am, in my passions, are not of the same
order. L...
YOU, ANDREW MARVELL
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You, Andrew Marvell
by Archibald MacLeish
And here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth's noonward h...
What’s the difference between a day and a year?
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If this week 40 people would give $25 each to New Futures Orphanage,
instead of that same amount spread out over a year’s time, the children
could buy chic...
Moses The Black-The Motion Picture-Update
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From Nathan Lee Lewis
I hope you are still praying for our efforts to write and produce the life
of Saint Moses The Black into a feature film for theatric...
I want to be Mark Shea's war buddy
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I've been accused of being too "liberal" by some traditionalist Catholics
and some politically conservative Catholics. Well, I offer Mark Shea's
reply to t...
Lenten Bible Study
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My wife asked me to put together a small group Bible study for Lent, and
here is the outline I put together. Feel free to email me with questions or
commen...
Our New Dark Ages
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Recently I had the opportunity to listen to part of a debate between
candidates for public office, and the topic of cap and trade was on their
agenda. I wa...
The Rebellion of Korah
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Numbers 16: 1-3:
Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan
and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons...
Another Episcopal cathedral shoe drops
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It is the year 2012, do you know where your local Episcopal cathedral is?
Are you sure that there still is one?
Veteran religion-beat pro...
Gorbachev on the “New World Order” circuit again
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In the last 20 years, has there been any speech by Gorbachev that didn’t
mention a “new world order”? Always vague on the meaning of the phrase,
Gorbachev ...
Occupy Liberation
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The spirit of justice is nothing other than the supreme and perfect flower
of the madness of love. - Simone Weil
I heard Chris Hedges say, "true spiritua...
The truth drew hatred…
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“Seest Thou what suffer those who censure, O Word of God, the faults of
the unclean. Not being able to bear censure, lo, Herod cut off my head, O
Savior....
The Dynamism of Holy Tradition
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I. How & Why Traditions Are Created “Be imitators of me, just as I also am
of Christ. Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold
firml...
Apostleship - A Family Affair?
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Sometimes I amuse myself by imagining Jesus and the Apostles in situations
they might see if they grew up in the America that I know and love. When I
was a...
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