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IOCC Mobilizes Response for Greece Fires! |
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Written by Constantine M. Triantafilou, IOCC Executive Director & CEO
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IOCC will provide emergency relief supplies and technical assistance to the thousands of villagers who have been displaced by the fires in Greece that have claimed more than 60 lives since last Friday.
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You can download a free copy of our Study Guide, How Can You Talk to Your Kids About Sex, to enhance your experience listening to our current episode of Come Receive the Light.
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Talking About Sex with Your Kids |
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This week on Come Receive the Light, Dr. John Chirban joins Fr. Chris to discuss talking about sex with your children.
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Free CRTL Study Guide Now Available |
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A free one-page study guide for the new episode of Come Receive the Light (for the week of 8/18/07) is available for download .
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Keeper of the Light: St. Macrina the Elder, Grandmother of Saints |
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The OCN is happy to offer, thanks to our friends at Conciliar Press, an article about St. Macrina the Elder written by Bev Cooke for AGAIN Magazine . Be sure to listen to our interview with Bev this week on Come Receive the Light as she discusses her book, Keeper of the Light: St. Macrina the Elder, Grandmother of Saints, and informs us about St. Macrina's influence on Ss. Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, and Macrina the Younger.
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1204: The Conquest of Constantinople |
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Written by Aristeides Papadakis
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800
years ago the armies of the Fourth Crusade attacked and ransacked the city of Constantinople. Within
days of the attack, which began on April 12, 1204, the warlords and soldiers of
the armies of Western Europe stripped the
ancient center of Orthodox Christendom bare of its store of art, monument, and
treasure, and killed a great many people. What was not defaced or damaged by
their systematic destruction was carried off as cultural plunder to enrich the
monasteries, abbeys, public squares, and churches of Western Christendom. Consecrated
ceremonial vestments, liturgical vessels, icons, and the city's holiest relics
were highly prized by the cardinal legate of the expedition and his clergy.
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Written by Fr. Christopher Metropulos
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Written by Fr. Christopher Metropulos
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OCN is pleased to announce a strategic
partnership
with Alexander Publishers and Distributors, one of the largest sources
of
Orthodox books, CD’s and more in the hemisphere. We’ve also partnered
with national
SOYO officers to produce innovative programming for Orthodox youth.
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Save the date! Annual Share the Light Sunday is coming January 20, 2008. Call us at 877-273-2348 to find out how you can join our Global Advancement Team and help us reach people for Christ all over the world 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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The Departed: Alive in Christ |
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Written by Fr. Christopher Metropulos
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On Monday, we celebrate one of the twelve Great Feasts of our Church-the Feast of the Transfiguration.
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Written by Fr. Thomas Hopko
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In our
Orthodox Church on the sixth of August, we celebrate one of the Great Feasts of
the Lord. It's called Metamorphosis, or Transfiguration.
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Bear One Another's Burdens |
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Written by Fr. Christopher Metropulos
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Our Orthodox Christian faith teaches us that there is a deep truth
that forms the foundation of our most important relationships. This truth is
that we do not serve Christ as isolated individuals, but as part of a group
committed to sharing in each other's joys and bearing each other's burdens. There
is a Greek word that contains the essence of this truth. That word is koinonia.
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Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Media? |
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Written by Fr. Christopher Metropulos
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One-third
of all households claim to have a home theater system (32%). Satellite
television programming - with hundreds of channels for consumers to choose from
- is used by nearly 50% more households now than three years ago (from 19% in
2000 to 28% in 2003). (In comparison, about seven out of 10 Americans receive
television programming via cable.) Now part of mainstream technology, the vast
majority of Americans (69%) owns DVD, satellite, or home theater technology.
(Barna Research Group, April 2003)
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John Granger on Looking for God in Harry Potter |
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Written by Donna Farley
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The author of Looking for God in Harry Potter speaks to AGAIN Magazine about the Orthodox Christian perspective on the most widely read fiction ever published.
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Orthodox Worship: The Sacraments |
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Written by Bishop Kallistos Ware
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The following excerpt is taken from The Orthodox Church, Bishop Kallistos Ware's
famous introduction to the faith, originally published in 1963.
"He who was visible as our Redeemer has now passed into the sacraments."-St.
Leo the Great
The chief place in Christian worship belongs to the sacraments or, as they are
called in Greek, the mysteries. "It is called a mystery," writes St.
John Chrysostom of the Eucharist, "because what we believe is not the same as
what we see, but we see one thing and believe another. . . . When I hear the
Body of Christ mentioned, I understand what is said in one sense, the
unbeliever in another."
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Are you attending to your marriage? |
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Written by Fr. Charles Joanides
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This article is adapted from the first of Fr.
Charles' ongoing series of talks on The Ark's
ongoing segment, "Theologically Thinking." Tune in to The Ark to hear Fr. Charles and others share the
insights of the Orthodox Christian faith!
Because of my focus and expertise in the area of marriage and family, the staff
has invited me to share some insights related to marriage and family with you,
with a particular focus on marriage. Today I'd like to begin by asking you to
think about the following observations.
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The Sacrament of Chrismation |
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Written by Dr. Andrew Cuneo
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Stepping
into the Orthodox world is akin to leaving a world of black and white and
entering into a world of full color. One splash of color is simply a deepened
awareness of anointing-the custom, unusual in our day, of placing oil on the
body. By stepping back from the title "Christian," one may then see how
genuinely odd a title it is. The chief adjective in a Christian's name
emphasizes that he or she is an anointed one, a little Christ, who is given the
Holy Spirit precisely as Jesus was given the Holy Spirit in a public way during
Theophany. If one may invent a verb about the sacrament, the catechumen in this
sacrament is Christified. To my knowledge, only within Orthodoxy does
chrismation receive such attention; it is not a lesser sacrament than baptism
or communion, and it has its own paramount credentials.
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Lex Orandi Lex Credendi, Est |
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Written by Fr. Christopher Metropulos
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This old Latin
phrase, meaning "the rule of prayer is
the rule of faith", has been used for centuries by the Church to tie how we
pray and worship to what we declare we believe. But why are these two areas of
faith tied together? Does it really matter?
The way we pray is profoundly affected and shaped by what we believe. And what
we believe is informed and shaped by how we pray. This is the way of the
Christian faith precisely because we hold that faith and works are always
intimately joined together.
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Homily 9 on Second Timothy |
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Written by St. John Chrysostom, 4th Century
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"All
Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for
reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God
may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works."
Having offered much exhortation and consolation from other sources, he adds
that which is more perfect, derived from the Scriptures; and he is reasonably
full in offering consolation, because he has a great and sad thing to say.
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The Bible—Greatest Monument of Mankind |
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Written by Rev. George Mastrantonis
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There
are distinguished persons and distinguished monuments which stand out in the
annals of history. Their lives were full of adventure as they faced the
tremendous opposition of their contemporaries as well as accepting enormous
sacrifice in their own lives. One of the monuments, the greatest in the history
of the world, is the Bible.
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How to Read the Scriptures as an Orthodox Christian |
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Written by Fr. Lawrence Farley
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First,
we read the Scriptures on our knees.
That is, we read with humility, knowing that the Bible is more alive than
we are. The Scriptures are God-breathed (Greek theopneustos; 2 Timothy
3:16), saturated with the Spirit of God. For this reason it is easier for the
heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of the Law to fail (Luke
16:17); for being God-breathed and spiritual (Romans 7:14), it partakes of the
eternity of God.
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Written by Fr. Christopher Metropulos
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One
of my favorite Broadway plays is "Fiddler on the Roof." I can relate to Tevye
as he sings the show's trademark song, "Tradition." But, are all traditions of
equal importance? Is there Big T Tradition, binding on all, and little t
tradition, simply a remembrance of "how we do things"?
Yes, I do believe there is. There are some Traditions in the faith of 20
centuries that cross language, cultural and even time barriers. These
Traditions of the faith are what St. Paul
talks about when he wrote to the Thessalonians to "hold the traditions which ye
have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle." (2 Thessalonians 2:15)
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1204: The Conquest of Constantinople |
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Written by Aristeides Papadakis
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800
years ago . . . the armies of the Fourth Crusade attacked and ransacked the
city of Constantinople.
Within days of the attack, which began on April 12, 1204, the warlords and
soldiers of the armies of Western Europe
stripped the ancient center of Orthodox Christendom bare of its store of art,
monument, and treasure, and killed a great many people. What was not defaced or
damaged by their systematic destruction was carried off as cultural plunder to
enrich the monasteries, abbeys, public squares, and churches of Western
Christendom. Consecrated ceremonial vestments, liturgical vessels, icons, and
the city's holiest relics were highly prized by the cardinal legate of the
expedition and his clergy.
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If You Wish to Destroy a People |
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Written by Fr. Christopher Metropulos
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Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn wrote that, "if you wish to destroy a people, you must first
cut them off from their past." It is a distinct characteristic of our
modern age to champion historical amnesia as a virtue rather than as spiritual
and cultural poverty.
But what is the value of being historically aware? Is just know dusty facts and
dates and names of by gone times going to really help me live my life today?
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Common Declaration by Pope Benedict XVI and Patriarch Bartholomew I |
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Written by Pope Benedict XVI and Patriarch Bartholomew I
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This fraternal encounter which brings us together, Pope Benedict XVI of Rome and Ecumenical
Patriarch Bartholomew I, is God's work, and in a certain sense his
gift. We give thanks to the Author of all that is good, who allows us once
again, in prayer and in dialogue, to express the joy we feel as brothers and to
renew our commitment to move towards full communion.
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Court Rejects Orthodox Patriarchate Status |
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Written by Institute on Religion and Public Policy
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Institute
Condemns Continuing Discrimination of Orthodox Church by Turkey
The following press release was issued by
the Institute on Religion and Public Policy (www.religionaandpolicy.org) on
Wednesday, June 27, 2007.
Washington, D.C.-A Turkish court Tuesday declared that
the Istanbul-based Orthodox Patriarch is only the head of the city's tiny Greek
Orthodox community and not the spiritual leader of the world's 300 million
Orthodox Christians.
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About Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry |
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Written by Paul Hatjistilianos
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On this week's Come Receive the Light, Paul
Hatjistilianos discusses the work of the Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry of Minnesota and the
importance of prison ministry in general. The following eye-opening material if
available on OCPMM's website.
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Intercessor and Defender of the Oppressed |
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Written by Fr. Michael Oleksa
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Since
his glorification in August 1970, the Venerable Elder Herman of Alaska has
become known and revered around the globe. He is celebrated in Russia, in Greece,
on the Holy Mountain,
and across the U.S.
In hymns he is praised as a traditional ascetic whose pious and prayerful life
transformed him from a solitary wilderness hermit into a prophetic wonderworker.
Father Herman testified to his own conversation with angels. The Aleuts of the
region recall the miraculous deliverances he prophesied in an encounter with a
tidal wave on one occasion and a forest fire on another.
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