Incense, and Icons, and Relics! Oh My!
Today we remember the fathers of the 7th Ecumenical Council and their work in preserving the Doctrine of the Apostles, and overthrowing heresy. The heresy had to do with destroying icons as idolatry. 350 holy Fathers attended this council representing the Christian Church all over the world under the holy Patriarch Tarasius. The Synod of 787, the second to meet at Nicea, refuted the Iconoclast he...
Come To The Orthodox Church
““Orthodoxy,” “the true faith”; if for one moment we try to understand what it means: the true, the full Christianity, as it has been proclaimed by Christ and His disciples; if our Church has preserve...
3 Basics Of Christian Living
When the Lord, the Giver of Life, deigned to come and save mankind from death and the sickness of sin, He revealed Himself more fully, i.e., more fully than He was revealed in creation itself, by bec...
We Live In a Miracle--Fr. Stephen Freeman
Years ago, when I first started seminary, its unusual Anglican practice was the daily celebration of the Eucharist. Indeed, it had been the first seminary in the whole of the Anglican communion to do ...
Generosity
The Reading from 2 Corinthians 9:6-11 The Reading from St. Luke 6:31-36 Every year in the Orthodox church we are carried through the life of Christ. Every year we are presented with the teaching of...