by Fr. Geoffrey Korz The main point is this: If our Orthodox faith is not actually lived out and strengthened by the holy services, it is nothing more than fakery and self-deception. Some people go to Church because they think it makes them good While others occupy their place because they feel they should In […]
Why People Become Orthodox
by Fr. Stephen Freeman Now this is indeed a presumptious title for a post – as if there were only one reason that people convert to the Orthodox faith. There are certainly many reasons, nuanced by the various personalities that come. And do they ever come! I was asked in Minneapolis, “What sort of Evangelism […]
Welsh Church Uncovers Medieval Iconography (Wall Paintings)
Although they seem to have forgotten the word, this is obviously iconography in a Welsh Church, in the Medieval European style – Orthodoxy in the life blood of Welsh churches. Built on the site of a 7th century monastery and founded around 1200, St Cadoc’s in Llancarfan, Vale of Glamorgan is, from the outside, just another beautiful […]
Church As Place Of Mystery And Revelation
Very soon, after my second or third communion, I realized that I was beginning to experience as realities what I had taken to be colorful imagery. the divine energies present in the mystery of the Eucharist open within us a capacity to see, or to sense, spiritual realities to which we were insensible. That sentence is a myth for those without the experience; a reality for those who have it.
Muslim Economist of Noble Lineage Baptized Orthodox Christian in Montenegro
Dr. Mahmud Busatlija, a prominent economist in the capital of Serbia and of noble lineage, who was a Muslim, was baptized Orthodox Christian, according to Serbian sources, 500 years after his ancestors converted to Islam. “I returned to the roots of my ancestors, 500 years ago, when they became Muslim in the Ottoman Empire. I […]
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