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Thank you Father!!! Also feel free to let me know if you ever need any help with something. God has given me a lot of free time lately and so I might as well do something useful rather than waste time watching tv :).
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Thank you user00 and Mabsoota, for those two wonderful posts. God willing I will try to carry out the advice in them.
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The Eastern Orthodox also hold that St. James the brother of the Lord (the Just) wrote it: http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?SID=4&ID=1&FSID=100018 The only real backing of this is what is held traditionally. It may be that we're w…
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Zoxsasi, the thing is you don't know whats best for you, God does. God does what he knows is best, because you don't know what's best for you. If I get cancer and I ask for the doctor to help me, he will probably make me undergo chemotherapy. In t…
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The reason OrthodoxSermons is slowing down is that everyone that used to work on it has gotten too busy. Now just the bare essentials are done. I worked on it (for 2 days :)) and I would say that it takes a long time because there are sermons on the…
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Zoxsasi, No one disagrees with you about what you just wrote. The thing is, that wasn't thes situation with Fr. Peter or with lightening. Maybe I'm the one misunderstanding this whole thing?
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Zoxsasi and lightening, I hope this message meets you well in Christ, We need to calm down, and there is no reason to make infuriating comments. If we sit down and are "So swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath", we would have few problems in …
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I was in the process of posting this quote when Father Peter posted. I spent too much finding this quote to just leave it :D... so here's the quote that Father Peter referred to in his post. St. Cyril of Jerusalem writes "When thou goest to recei…
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Epchois_nai_nan, Try this: http://www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/father/fathers.htm Most of the ones at this link are Orthodox Fathers. Just watch out for Theodore of Mopsuestia and Aphraates the Persian Sage (I have no idea who he is) Lighten…
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Dearest to Christ Lightening, I think you misunderstood. In the ancient church non-believers (and Catechumens) attended the liturgy to a certain point and were then supposed to leave at the start of the liturgy of the believers (because they were n…
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Just found another one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plVUSx7WOB0&feature=related
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Ophadace, It is my understanding that when the Eastern Orthodox (not all though, some still go by the Julian calender) switched to the new calender, they made it so that the date of Easter would be celebrated on the same day as it would be on the o…
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Pharaoh714, There is no need to be angry, just explain things calmly and clearly. It is clear that they misunderstand our belief. Please pray for me as I'm facing temptations right now
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Hey Unworthy1, Unfortunately we aren't the ones who translate the books. We just collect the PDFs and upload them, so we can't really do anything about it. It should be let though. I'll see if I can find a way to fix it.
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I think I understand why Hezekiel is confused. In the English normally spoken we usually say its me, but in proper written English it we write it is I.
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Thanks Joseph.vandenbrink, I'll try to upload it to the site. Please pray for me that God may give me time. I'm very behind on the site and the site director has left us for 3 months. We have many more books including works by St. Athanasius and ma…
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[quote author=joseph.vandenbrink link=topic=10927.msg132664#msg132664 date=1299768296] I am actually surprised finding videos for the liturgies would be this difficult! I have a video on DVD, but not way of getting it onto the computer (only a netb…
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Sorry! Here's the q and a section: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8568116/q19052010.mp3 I love dropbox too, but I only have 4 GB of space :( . Well... 4 Gb space is plenty for me, so I guess its not so bad.
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I thought this thread would be a good place to post this. Please let me know though if I should have started another thread. joseph.vandenbrink, do you know where I could find a good video of the liturgy of St. John Chrysostom on the internet? I…
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Here it is as an mp3: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8568116/Pope%20Shenouda%20March%2019%20Sermon Please let me know when you have download it so I can take down the file (It takes up a part of the space alloted to me on dropbox) Edit: It turns out I st…
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This is not the point of St. John Chrysostom's quote. He wasn't making a mathematical equation, but showing a truth. St. John Chrysostom wasn't creating mathematical equations, but rather wanted to show that if only we were righteous, whole cities w…
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Salvation of a City and Leading a Holy Life St. John Chrysostom "If only ten among us be righteous, the ten will become twenty, the twenty fifty, the fifty a hundred, the hundred a thousand, and the thousand will become the entire city"
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You can find it here: http://www.hazzat.com/Seasons/tabid/57/ctl/ViewHymnContents/mid/404/Navigation/Season/ServiceHymn/162/Format/2/Default.aspx You'll have to download the hazzat fonts at this link: http://hazzat.com/Fonts/tabid/61/Default.aspx
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Having read the book, I'll have to say that it is very good. I borrowed it from someone at Church and so I had to rush through it, and so I did not benefit as much as I could have. Only now do I completely appreciate the benefit of the book. I def…
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I also remember hearing a very short answer by HH Pope Shenouda, saying that God did not change, but humans did and so God's actions are the best for humanity at whatever time. So working on this, I have heard the interpretation that the law was set…
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Perhaps it would be a nice idea if a new book on the liturgy was written that had the liturgy of Saint Basil the Great in there (as we use), but moreover if it had explanations on what is happening in the Liturgy and why? Surely this would bring ali…
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The thing is we must speak in kindness with our brothers and that is often the best way to explain things. I think we can all agree that lightening is not Arius nor Marcion. Even they had things explained to them kindly many times, and when they did…
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It is clear that we are just fighting now, and it is not beneficial to our fasting. We are usually not dealing with heretics on this forum! We are dealing often times with people who are confused over the subject or who are still youth and there is …
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Fr. Thomas Hopko, an Orthodox Priest and former Dean of St. Vladimir's Seminary had a series on the subject. 1st podcast 2nd podcast 3rd podcast 4th podcast It will take a while to listen to, but it sheds a lot of light on the subject. I wish I co…
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If You want to know that God exists, go and see personally: And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.” So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged …