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New Order Inductions at Ss. Peter and Paul Church in Potomac, MD
In December 2014, His Beatitude Patriarch John X and His Eminenece Metropolitan Joseph presided as new members were inducted into the Order of St. Ignatius at Ss. Peter and Paul Church in Potomac,...
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St. Panteleimon Fellowship: A Society for the Practice of Orthodox Christian...
Christ healing the Paralytic (6th C. Mosaic)Greetings, Orthodox healthcare professionals!With the approval of His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph and His Grace Bishop Basil (Antiochian Archdiocese of...
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What Our Children are Learning about the Divine Liturgy + Part 1
1 On the Divine LiturgyBy Kristina Wenger, Staff Assistant for Internet MinistryThis is the first in a series of blogs on the Divine Liturgy from the Orthodox Christian Parenting Facebook page and...
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St. Basil the Great & The Circumcision of the Lord + January 1
In all the earth that received thy sayings, thy melody did resound, O righteous father, through which thou didst go about and proclaim, as worthy of God, the nature of creatures, cultivating the...
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Message for the New Year
By Archpriest George ShalhoubBeloved,I greet you and your loved ones in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, born of the Virgin Mary, Who became one of us in order for us to become one with Him.I am...
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Dear friend of St. Athanasius Academy:LIFE ANEW IN THE WATERS OF HIS BAPTISMHIS NATIVITY - HIS BAPTISM – HIS CROSSFounded upon the wealth of the Old Testament, the ancient Church provides a year-round...
View ArticleWe Are Sealed and Stamped by God the Father through Jesus Christ!
by Fr. Joseph Antypas...for just as there are two coinages, the one of God, and the other of the world, and each has its own stamp impressed on it, unbelievers that of this world, believers (with love)...
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Many Years to His Grace Bishop Basil!
January 1st is the celebration of St. Basil the Great and the name's day of His Grace Bishop Basil. May God grant him many years!Apolytikion of St. Basil, Tone 1In all the earth that received thy...
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January 7, 2015 + Homily on the New Year
by St. Barsanuphius of OptinaI greet all of you gathered here with the New Year. I congratulate you with the joys that I hope the Lord might send you in the coming year. I congratulate you also with...
View ArticleVicar General Interviewed Regarding Plight of Middle Eastern Christians
Archpriest Thomas Zain, Vicar General of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese and Dean of St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral of Brooklyn, NY, was interviewed by Jeanine Pirro of Fox News...
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January 14, 2015 + Moral Law and an Unmistakeable Standard
by St. Barsanuphius of OptinaHe Who transcends all understanding, and so remains unintelligible, is nonetheless believed to exist among things intelligible. Now, because He, the pre-eternal and...
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What Our Children are Learning about the Divine Liturgy + Part 2
2 On Preparing for the Divine LiturgyBy Kristina Wenger, Staff Assistant for Internet MinistryPart 1: On the Divine LiturgyThis is the second in a series of blogs on the Divine Liturgy from the...
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Online Liturgical Guide Adds January Texts
St. Andrew Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church of Pensacola, Florida offers the Outdoor Great Sanctification of Water and “Cross Dive” at Theophany celebrations in 2014.The liturgical texts for the...
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Noted Antiochian Scholar Fr. Paul Tarazi Honored at Retirement Dinner
The Very Rev. Dr. Paul Nadim Tarazi, in whose honor former students founded the Orthodox Center for the Advancement of Biblical Studies, recently retired from teaching this year after forty-four years...
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The Feast Day of Theophany
On the day of Theophany we learned that God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We also learned that when Jesus stepped into the Jordan River, the water was made clean. On the feast day, January 6, we...
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Theophany of Our Lord + January 6
Tone 4O Jordan River, why wast thou astonished at beholding the Invisible naked? And he answereth, saying, I beheld Him and trembled; for how shall I not tremble and fear, when the angels trembled at...
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The Legacy of Saint Raphael
Procession with the relics of St. Raphaelby Rosemary ShumskiThis article was first published in the September 2000 issue of The Word magazine.On Sunday, May 29, 2000, my family and I had the privilege...
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Diocese of Los Angeles Enthronement Gala Celebration + January 31, 2015
from the Diocese of Los Angeles and the West website:By the grace of the Holy Spirit, we are prayerfully anticipating the upcoming Enthronement of His Eminence, Metropolitan Joseph. Since many will not...
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Homily of Patriarch John X for the New Year
On January 1, 2015, His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, offered a homily at Maryamiyya Cathedral for the start of the new year. (Arabic original here.)Brother hierarchs and...
View ArticleA White Orthodox Christmas
by Maria C. Khoury, Ed.D.Dear Friends of Saint George Taybeh,It is the Holy Christmas Day on the Old Julian Calendar and snow has been falling all day long in the Holy Land bringing an unusual closure...
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