Apostles Fast Activities for Children A Russian Orthodox Church Website About Pages About %20%20 Donate Contact Us Проекты «Правмира» Pravmir.ru Матроны.RU Не инвалид.RU Pravmir.com Форум Книги Лекторий Благотворительность Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation News В данной категории нет материалов. Family Before marriage Bringing up children Children's page Divorce In the Family What is Christian Love in Marriage? Family Life and Spiritual Warfare Should People Limit Marital Relations in Lent? Pastoral Advice Library Holy Fathers Lives of Saints New Russian Martyrs Other Media Sermons, Lectures The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Do We Have A Reaction To The Gospel? What Does the Cross Mean for us Today? Our Faith History of Christianity Icons In the Church Liturgical Life Missionary work Orthodoxy around the World Prayers Religions Sacraments Social Life Theology “Le monde entier reste silencieux au sujet de l’Artsakh” : 120 000… “The whole world is silent about Artsakh.” 120,000 people are in the blockade,… The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Calendar Fasting Feasts The Tree Heals the Tree The Lights of an Approaching Rescue Preparing the Way of the Lord in our Own Lives family В данной категории нет материалов. Multimedia Contact us Искать Искать Apostles Fast Activities for Children Source: Orthodox Christian Network Since it often helps children to have something concrete to connect to what they’ve read, below you will find a few enrichment activities to supplement the readings. Kelly Lardin 20 June 2014 Orthodox Christians Prepare for the Apostles’ Fast The Apostles’ Fast Begins on June 28 St. Peter’s Fast: Another Term in the School of Love Saints Peter and Paul’s Fast begins today When Fasting Is Easy While Praying Is Hard We are about to enter the Apostles fast, which is almost certainly the least appreciated fast of the church calendar. Sometimes it can feel like we just finished Great Lent and started celebrating Pascha when the Apostles’ fast arrives. Now when summer is just beginning, we have to fast again, and we don’t even get a full feast at the end of it… It can sometimes feel like an unwelcome chore. Rather than “suffering through it,” why not embrace it? Let’s use it for what it is – another opportunity to fight against the passions and grow spiritually. Let’s also use it to teach our children about these two great saints, Peter and Paul, who are pillars of our church.

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Archpriest Dmitriy Karpenko: Practical Advice for Those Who Have Been in the Church for a Long Time A Russian Orthodox Church Website About Pages About %20%20 Donate Contact Us Проекты «Правмира» Pravmir.ru Матроны.RU Не инвалид.RU Pravmir.com Форум Книги Лекторий Благотворительность Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation News В данной категории нет материалов. Family Before marriage Bringing up children Children's page Divorce In the Family What is Christian Love in Marriage? Family Life and Spiritual Warfare Should People Limit Marital Relations in Lent? Pastoral Advice Library Holy Fathers Lives of Saints New Russian Martyrs Other Media Sermons, Lectures The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Do We Have A Reaction To The Gospel? What Does the Cross Mean for us Today? Our Faith History of Christianity Icons In the Church Liturgical Life Missionary work Orthodoxy around the World Prayers Religions Sacraments Social Life Theology “Le monde entier reste silencieux au sujet de l’Artsakh” : 120 000… “The whole world is silent about Artsakh.” 120,000 people are in the blockade,… The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Calendar Fasting Feasts The Tree Heals the Tree The Lights of an Approaching Rescue Preparing the Way of the Lord in our Own Lives family В данной категории нет материалов. Multimedia Contact us Искать Искать Archpriest Dmitriy Karpenko: Practical Advice for Those Who Have Been in the Church for a Long Time Archpriest Dmitriy Karpenko 25 June 2015 A person " s life at church sometimes turns into a routine. The accustomed cycle of rules, fasts, services, holidays, and long familiar texts of services and the Gospels. Archpriest Dmitriy Karpenko tells how to break the cycle of " church routine. " Photo from orthphoto.net Medicine for the routine: attention to people We must try to throw off the shackles of routine. Of course, this is not easy. You should also try to live the Gospel every day, just as you read about it and heard it throughout the church year—

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A Staggering 11 Christians Are Killed Every Single Day for Simply Believing in Jesus A Russian Orthodox Church Website About Pages About %20%20 Donate Contact Us Проекты «Правмира» Pravmir.ru Матроны.RU Не инвалид.RU Pravmir.com Форум Книги Лекторий Благотворительность Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation News В данной категории нет материалов. Family Before marriage Bringing up children Children's page Divorce In the Family What is Christian Love in Marriage? Family Life and Spiritual Warfare Should People Limit Marital Relations in Lent? Pastoral Advice Library Holy Fathers Lives of Saints New Russian Martyrs Other Media Sermons, Lectures The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Do We Have A Reaction To The Gospel? What Does the Cross Mean for us Today? Our Faith History of Christianity Icons In the Church Liturgical Life Missionary work Orthodoxy around the World Prayers Religions Sacraments Social Life Theology “Le monde entier reste silencieux au sujet de l’Artsakh” : 120 000… “The whole world is silent about Artsakh.” 120,000 people are in the blockade,… The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Calendar Fasting Feasts The Tree Heals the Tree The Lights of an Approaching Rescue Preparing the Way of the Lord in our Own Lives family В данной категории нет материалов. Multimedia Contact us Искать Искать A Staggering 11 Christians Are Killed Every Single Day for Simply Believing in Jesus Source: Faithwire The Christian persecution we read about in Scripture and history books is not a thing of the past Will Maule 16 March 2019 Photo credit: Mohamed El-Shahed/AFP/Getty Images There is a Second ‘Asia Bibi’ On Death Row in Pakistan The Sri Lanka Attacks Have Mainstream Media Interested in Christian Persecution — Finally Christian Converts from Islam Regularly ‘Bullied’, ‘Threatened’ in Netherlands Pakistani Muslim Couple Stage Elaborate Hoax to Falsely Accuse Four Christian Women of Destroying Qu’ran The United Kingdom Gets Serious about the Persecution of Christians When we talk about Christian persecution, it is easy to get lost in the vast array of facts and figures. We say we know that, across the world, many people are dying for their faith in Jesus, but do we truly understand the scale of it? New data taken from the latest Open Doors World Watch List indicate that some 11 Christians are martyred for their faith every single day.

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St. Mary’s Standing About Pages About %20%20 Donate Contact Us Проекты «Правмира» Pravmir.ru Матроны.RU Не инвалид.RU Pravmir.com Форум Книги Лекторий Благотворительность Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation News В данной категории нет материалов. Family Before marriage Bringing up children Children's page Divorce In the Family What is Christian Love in Marriage? Family Life and Spiritual Warfare Should People Limit Marital Relations in Lent? Pastoral Advice Library Holy Fathers Lives of Saints New Russian Martyrs Other Media Sermons, Lectures The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Do We Have A Reaction To The Gospel? What Does the Cross Mean for us Today? Our Faith History of Christianity Icons In the Church Liturgical Life Missionary work Orthodoxy around the World Prayers Religions Sacraments Social Life Theology “Le monde entier reste silencieux au sujet de l’Artsakh” : 120 000… “The whole world is silent about Artsakh.” 120,000 people are in the blockade,… The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Calendar Fasting Feasts The Tree Heals the Tree The Lights of an Approaching Rescue Preparing the Way of the Lord in our Own Lives family В данной категории нет материалов. Multimedia Contact us Искать Искать St. Mary’s Standing Only a few think that it is easy to repent. Repentance is incredibly hard work. Repentance does not consist in saying “I repent,” even if we invoke God’s help. It is in vain that some have deluded themselves into thinking that, having spoken our sins in Confession, that we do not need to do anything more. Naming sin is a good start, but enormous labor lies ahead. Without this labor our words will remain nothing but words. Archpriest Dmitri Dudko (+2004) 28 March 2012 Archpriest Dmitri Dutko “St. Mary’s Standing” (Mariino stoianie) is the Russian folk name for the Matins served on Thursday of the fifth week of Great Lent (commonly celebrated on Wednesday evening), at which the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete is read in its entirety along with the life of St. Mary of Egypt .

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The Life of St. Ambrose of Optina / OrthoChristian.Com Categories Theology Orthodoxy Today Homilies and Spiritual Instruction Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days Churches and Monasteries Church History Coming to Orthodoxy Sretensky Monastery Education Orthodoxy Around the World Suffering Church Church and State Marriage and Family Photogalleries News Calendar Print Tweet The Life of St. Ambrose of Optina Commemorated October 10/23 Hieromonk Ambrose was born on November 23, 1812 to the family of a sexton Michael Feodorovitch and his wife Martha Nikolaevna, in a village called Big Lipovitsa, situated in the district of Tambovsk. On the eve of his birth, many guests gathered at the house of his grandfather, who was the village priest. On that day, the house was overflowing with bustling people—inside as well as in the courtyard. Martha Nikolaevna was moved to the bathhouse, and shortly thereafter, gave birth to Alexander—future Elder of Optina hermitage—holy Ambrose of Optina. Later in life, the Starets would jokingly reiterate: " Just as I was born in the middle of a crowd, I continue to live surrounded by them. " Michael Feodorovitch had 8 children: 4 sons and 4 daughters; Alexander was the sixth child. As a child, Alexander was a lively, happy and bright boy. According to the custom of that time, Alexander was taught to read in Slavonic alphabet, both the Prayerbook and Psalms. Every church festive day, he would read and sing with his father in the choir section. As he was brought up in a strictly church and religious environment, he never saw or heard anything corrupt. When he turned twelve, he was enrolled in first form at the ecclesiastical college of Tambovsk. He studied well, and upon finishing the course in 1830, was admitted to the Tambovsk Seminary. Once again, study came easy to him. As one of his former classmates used to reminisce: " Sometimes, you would spend your last cent to buy a candle so that you can continue studying your lessons; he (Alexander Grenkov) however studied little, but would appear in the classroom and answer all the mentor’s questions—just as it is written, better than anyone.

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Priest John McCuen A Russian Orthodox Church Website About Pages About %20%20 Donate Contact Us Проекты «Правмира» Pravmir.ru Матроны.RU Не инвалид.RU Pravmir.com Форум Книги Лекторий Благотворительность Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation News В данной категории нет материалов. Family Before marriage Bringing up children Children's page Divorce In the Family What is Christian Love in Marriage? Family Life and Spiritual Warfare Should People Limit Marital Relations in Lent? Pastoral Advice Library Holy Fathers Lives of Saints New Russian Martyrs Other Media Sermons, Lectures The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Do We Have A Reaction To The Gospel? What Does the Cross Mean for us Today? Our Faith History of Christianity Icons In the Church Liturgical Life Missionary work Orthodoxy around the World Prayers Religions Sacraments Social Life Theology “Le monde entier reste silencieux au sujet de l’Artsakh” : 120 000… “The whole world is silent about Artsakh.” 120,000 people are in the blockade,… The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Calendar Fasting Feasts The Tree Heals the Tree The Lights of an Approaching Rescue Preparing the Way of the Lord in our Own Lives family В данной категории нет материалов. Multimedia Contact us Искать Искать Priest John McCuen “Who is My Neighbor?” 26 November 2011 Priest John McCuen We’re all familiar with the Parable of the Good Samaritan, read today from the Gospel according to St. Luke. A “certain lawyer,” we are told, approached the Lord Jesus, and asks Him how he may ... Living as Apostles 12 July 2011 Priest John McCuen We may never preach a sermon to 3,000 people. We may never make journeys as missionaries to foreign lands, putting our lives at risk for the sake of bringing light to those in darkness. But we can ... Physical and Spiritual Illness 20 March 2011 Priest John McCuen When everything is going well, it is easy for us to live the Orthodox way of life. Praying is not a burden. It is easy to fast. We are generous with alms.We are not troubled by our sinful desires

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Sermons, Lectures Archives Page 98 of 107 A Russian Orthodox Church Website About Pages About %20%20 Donate Contact Us Проекты «Правмира» Pravmir.ru Матроны.RU Не инвалид.RU Pravmir.com Форум Книги Лекторий Благотворительность Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation News В данной категории нет материалов. Family Before marriage Bringing up children Children's page Divorce In the Family What is Christian Love in Marriage? Family Life and Spiritual Warfare Should People Limit Marital Relations in Lent? Pastoral Advice Library Holy Fathers Lives of Saints New Russian Martyrs Other Media Sermons, Lectures The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Do We Have A Reaction To The Gospel? What Does the Cross Mean for us Today? Our Faith History of Christianity Icons In the Church Liturgical Life Missionary work Orthodoxy around the World Prayers Religions Sacraments Social Life Theology “Le monde entier reste silencieux au sujet de l’Artsakh” : 120 000… “The whole world is silent about Artsakh.” 120,000 people are in the blockade,… The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Calendar Fasting Feasts The Tree Heals the Tree The Lights of an Approaching Rescue Preparing the Way of the Lord in our Own Lives family В данной категории нет материалов. Multimedia Contact us Искать Искать Sermons, Lectures The Triumph of Ascetic Experience 03 April 2011 Archpriest Vladislav Sveshnikov Reading and applying what we have read is already useful in itself, because it helps us to find out what God’s Will is. But that is not all that is contained in the concept of trying to learn what is ... Sunday of St. John of the Ladder – One Step Short of Paradise 02 April 2011 Fr. Vasile Tudora Becoming a Christian is easy, to stay however one requires exercise. A Christian athlete needs to fast not just during Great Lent, but year round so when the fast comes his body is adjusted, and he ...

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Decision Stalled on Iranian Pastor Sentenced to Death Convicted of leaving Islam, Christian may have to wait one year for ruling. Istanbul, December 21, 2011 A pastor in Iran sentenced to death for refusing to recant his faith may have to wait another year for a ruling on whether the sentence will be upheld, according to sources. Yousef (also spelled Youcef) Nadarkhani, sentenced to death after a court of appeals in Rasht, Iran, found him guilty of leaving Islam in September 2010, has been in prison since October 2009, yet his lawyers said they were told to not expect any movement on his case for another year. “The news we have about Yousef is not official, but that’s what the lawyers are saying,” a member of the Church of Iran who requested anonymity told Compass. “The lawyers speak to the judges’ secretaries and hear things. Rasht is not a big city, so it is easy to know what is happening.” The head of Iran’s Judiciary, Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, has reportedly ordered the presiding judge over the trial in Rasht to do nothing for one year. The court in Rasht, 243 kilometers (151 miles) northwest of Tehran, was expected to pronounce a verdict on Nadarkhani’s appeal in October, and sources said the court’s long silence bodes ill. Instead of pronouncing a verdict, the court sent the Christian’s case to the nation’s Islamic authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, to make a ruling. Authorities have also continued to pressure Nadarkhani to recant his faith while in prison. In September they gave him Islamic literature aimed at discrediting the Bible, according to sources, and instructed him to read it. The court reportedly has been told to use whatever means necessary to compel Nadarkhani to recant his faith. The anonymous Christian who spoke to Compass said he didn’t believe that Nadarkhani would be executed soon, but he said authorities were tense about his case, indicating that nothing was certain. Some Iranian Christians have said that, in the face of international outrage over the case, the government would announce a verdict near the Christmas holidays so that it would receive less notice.

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The Orthodox Christian Network reports on " Persecution of Christians: What You Should Know " Source: Archons News      The Orthodox Christian Network (OCN) reports on 'Persecution of Christians: What You Should Know' by Suzy Hanna. OCN is an official agency of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America, whose mission is to strengthen Orthodox Christian communities and to share the timeless faith of Orthodoxy with the contemporary world by using modern media: radio, the Internet, podcasts, DVDs, television and more. Persecution of Christians: What You Should Know by Suzy Hanna Read this article on the web site of myocn.net » The systematic persecution of Christians in Iraq is indicative of the persecution of Christians in the Middle East; cruel and barbaric. Like many minorities, these Indigenous inhabitants of Iraq have suffered under various regimes; however, the situation worsened in the last few weeks when the militant extremists ISIS (or DAESH as per their Arabic acronym) started a genocide, “cleansing” the Christians from Iraq, in order to establish an Islamic Caliphate State. ISIS had been fighting in Syria, but having been somewhat contained by Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, they moved on to Iraq, which, due to its vulnerability, was an easy target to attack. Iraq had its political system and army systematically broken since the removal of dictator Saddam Hussein and the resulting political vacuum that ensued. Due to the breakdown in Iraq, it did not take ISIS long to capture several cities and key landmarks such as dams and oil fields. Christians have suffered unspeakable atrocities specifically over the last few weeks under ISIS. Christian homes were graffitied with the Arabic letter for N (Noon), to identify the so-called ‘Nazarenes’ (a semi-derogatory term for Christian.) The houses and shops which were identified became targets for looting, and the people inside were to be killed. Christians were threatened with death; images of public beheadings and crucifixions of Christians became rampant. Graphic images have become the norm. Killers proudly pose holding decapitated heads, smiling into the camera, while several heads are lodged onto poles in the background. A recent photograph shows a man looking confused holding the body of a 4 or 5-year-old girl wearing a pretty dress- with no head. A man breaking down in the background seems to be in less shock than the probable father of the girl, who does not seem to comprehend the situation- he is holding his daughter’s mutilated body. Women are raped and/or killed. Mass graves of decapitated men with their heads lying on or near their stomachs are regularly shared on Facebook pages. One of the most notorious stories that has embodied the atrocities in Iraq is the story of an Iraqi father who committed suicide after he was forced to watch his wife and daughter being raped by ISIS.

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Turkey’s Kurds Seek Forgiveness for 1915 Armenian Tragedy SOURCE: Al-Monitor By Amberin Zaman Orobik Eminian, 98, who was the only member of her family to escape the World War I killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, joins others in commemorating the 95th anniversary of the killings and a call for it to be termed a genocide in New York City, April 25, 2010. (photo by REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi) Read more:      This bleak assessment was pronounced by Sahak Mashalyan, an Armenian Orthodox priest, during a recent Sunday mass at the Asdvadzadzin church in Istanbul. Reeling off the statistics: 482 funerals, 236 baptisms and 191 weddings, the black-robed cleric solemnly intoned, “These figures point to a community … that is dying.” Little over a century ago, the Armenian Patriarchate put Anatolia’s Armenian population at more than two million. In 1915, tragedy struck. Estimated figures vary, but between 800,000 and a million Armenians are thought to have been slaughtered by Ottoman forces and their Kurdish allies in what many respected historians call the first genocide of the 20th century. Turkey vehemently denies any genocidal intent. The official line is that most of the Armenians died from hunger and disease, as they were forcibly deported to the deserts of Syria amid the upheaval of the collapsing empire. The ruling Islamic Justice and Development Party has done more than any of its pro-secular predecessors to improve the lot of Christian minorities and to encourage freer debate of the horrors that befell them. Yet it has also showered millions of dollars on international lobbying firms in a vain effort to peddle the official version of events. A steady trickle of nations continue to recognize the events of 1915 as genocide. Turkey’s biggest worry is that on the centenary in 2015, the United States will risk wrecking relations and follow suit. In Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeastern province of Diyarbakir, global diplomacy does not figure in the calculations of Abdullah Demirbas, the mayor of the city’s ancient Sur district. A maze of narrow cobbled streets lined with decrepit stone houses, Sur used to be known as the “neighborhood of the infidels” because of the large number of Armenians, Syrian Orthodox Christians and Jews who once lived there. Since being twice elected to office on the ticket of Turkey's largest pro-Kurdish party, Peace and Democracy (BDP), Demirbas, a stocky former schoolteacher with an easy smile, has thrown himself wholeheartedly into making amends for the past.

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