We Must Not Must 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 We Must Not Must Source: Holy Nativity Orthodox Church Archpriest Michael Gillis 12 January 2017 Photo: patriarchia.ru Can We Know for Sure Who is Saved? We Are Saved By Our Response to God’s Love Who Then Can Be Saved? “What must I do to be saved?”  This is a natural question when we reach the stage of our spiritual journey at which we begin to realize that something is wrong, something is wrong between me and God.  It is a natural question, but it is the wrong question, at least according to Archimandrite Aimilianos of Simonopetra (monastery on Mt. Athos).  Archimandrite Aimilianos says the following in a lecture called “The Progression of the Soul” that has been transcribed and translated into English and can be found in the book, The Way of the Spirit: Reflections on the Life in God .

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Salvation is Nobody's Business but God's 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 Salvation is Nobody’s Business but God’s Source: Notes on Arab Orthodoxy Fr. Georges Massouh 04 October 2018 The Soul Is A Mirror The Literal Truth of the Phrase ‘Confession Saves Lives’ Archimandrite Andrew (Konanos) Says Who Cannot Be Saved What It Was that Saved Thomas Can We Know for Sure Who is Saved? When Jesus’ disciples asked their Teacher, “Who then can be saved?” He answered them clearly, “ With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:25-26). Jesus’ reply came in the context of His discussion with a very wealthy young man who kept to the entire law, practicing it strictly. However, when Jesus asked Him, in addition to carrying out the commandments, to distribute his wealth to the poor and to follow Him, “ when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.”

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What Every Christian Needs To Know About All Of The Christians Who Saved Jews In The Holocaust 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 What Every Christian Needs To Know About All Of The Christians Who Saved Jews In The Holocaust Source: The Shoebat Foundation A growing list of Orthodox Christians that rescued Jews during the Holocaust era Thomas King 22 July 2015 First Virtual Museum of Roma Holocaust in Romania, Created by MNIR Memorial Sign in Honor of Mother Maria Skobtsova Appears in Paris His Holiness Patriarch Kirill Greets Participants of the V World Holocaust Forum A “Russian” Japanese and Thousands of Lives Saved A Bishop Who Stood in the Way Much has been said regarding the famed Yad Vashem awards given to a number of Roman Catholics and Protestants. What needs to be noted however, is that there were just as many Orthodox Christians who were participants of rescuing Jews from the Nazi death squads and who selflessly did so at the expense of their own lives in a number of cases. May God honour their blessed memory as I list, although still growing, of a number of these blessed souls.

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В.В. Симонов Summary The proposed Manual for the first time in Russian scientific and educational literature sets out a common history of Christianity, which is considered from the point of view of the historical dynamics of Church organizational and doctrinal unity. The general logic of the material exposure is determined by issues that seem to authors fundamental for specific historical periods: «What (vol. l, pt. 1), how (vol. 1, pt. 2), and where (vol. 2, pt. 1) to believe in order to be saved – or does it even need to believe? (vol. 2, pt. 2)». Volume 1 of the Manual covers the period from the foundation of the Church to the formation of the prerequisites of the Protestant Reformation – the time of sharp doctrinal discussions that had significant implications on the organizational structure of the institutional Christian Church. Part 2 of this volume in a broad historical context highlights the issues related to the development of Church orthodoxy and the formation of various deviations from it. Throughout the millennium considered dogmatic differences introduce an element of instability in the universalist claim of Christianity, which in the orga­nizational field brought to many Church divisions on confessional lines. The main question of the period: «How to believe in order to be saved?» IV-VI centuries was the time when Christianity had moved from position of persecuted by all «forbidden» religion to position of an equal initially, and then – the state religion of the Roman Empire. Paganism was finally disappearing. It was the time of significant changes in the organizational structure of the Christian Church, based on the principle of hierarchy: strengthening of the system of terri­torial administration with sole episcopal governing of dioceses with the recogni­tion of the leading role of Church Councils (Ecumenical and Local) as the top col­legiate Church government institutions. At the same time the unity of the Church doctrine and organizational structure was threatened by early heresies – i.e. deviations from the general Church doctrine, touched the very Christian faith (Donatism, Arianism). Direct threat to the organi­zational unity of the Church represented the teachings of the Alexandrian presbyter Arius on μοια – subordination of God the Son to God the Father, on which basis appeared some influential Church groups opposed to the bishops, who professed and developed the «orthodox» doctrine, consecrated by Church tradition. Later, in V-VI cent., the main issues of concern to the Church were questions about the connection of the divine and the human in the hypostasis of God the Son, and, re­spectively, on the content of the incarnation of the Logos (Word of God).

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Is the Most Holy Trinity Involved in Our Lives? 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 Is the Most Holy Trinity Involved in Our Lives? Source: St. John Orthodox Church The best way to support others is to actually go to them in person. That’s the way the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit did it: The Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, God the Son, came to this earth as the man Christ Jesus. He never claimed that He would protect us from horrible things, but He did subject Himself to those same horrible things. Priest Aidan Wilcoxson 05 July 2014 Meeting God in Unanswered Prayer Metropolitan Onuphry Speaks on the Mystery of the Holy Trinity Today Is the Birthday of the Church: On Pentecost and Missions The Grace-filled Speech of Pentecost The Birthday of Love So, the topic for this round table is “How much involvement does God have in the minutiae of our lives?” To illustrate the subject, our editor, Scott Coleman, shared with us a short, imaginary dialogue between God and a person who has had a bad day. Scott said that the dialogue has been around for years, but he’s recently seen it quite a bit on Facebook. Anyway, in this conversation, the person who has had a bad day complains about some pretty normal (and pretty trivial) things: her alarm failed to go off, and she got the wrong sandwich at lunch, and then her new foot massager wouldn’t work. However, God lets this person know that, through those inconveniences, she was saved from far worse things: a power outage, an illness, and even death.

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" Salvation Requires More Than Mass Once a Week " 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 “Salvation Requires More Than Mass Once a Week” Source: Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church Brigid Gavin 15 July 2017 Photo: tatarstan-mitropolia.ru Cheap Grace  is the message of my “cradle” church, the one I grew up in, the Evangelical Christian Church. Back then it only took one prayer. One little “sinner’s” prayer and I was assured I was going to heaven. I was told, and I believed, that I was, “once saved always saved.” I rested on my laurels. Spiritual growth did not come easy. I longed to be closer to God. For over thirty years I struggled with vague answers regarding Biblical questions on sin and my own personal propensities and prejudices. I had so many questions.

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Letter to a Protestant Inquirer 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 Letter to a Protestant Inquirer Source: Holy Nativity Orthodox Church Archpriest Michael Gillis 17 May 2016 The End of the Line You are right.  It is difficult to be an Orthodox Christian, because Orthodoxy requires that one be a Christian.  However, the difficult part is not what you think.  The fasting, long services, and prayers are tools.  The real struggle is to repent.  Repentance is not something one did in the past, repentance is an attitude toward life.  One must be constantly turning away from self-centered and sinful tendencies and turning toward God.  Fasting, prayer and a self-disciplined life (what the Church calls askesis) are the necessary means to this end.  Nothing is possible without the Grace of God; however, the Grace of God only saves those who want to be saved, those who cooperate with the Grace of God.  Repentance is how we cooperate.

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Rule of Four 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 Rule of Four Source: An UpWord Glance Fr. Stephen Powley 31 March 2021 What is Genuine Love for God and Neighbor? We Are Saved By Our Response to God’s Love What Does it Mean to Love God? God is Love. We are created in God’s Image. We were created to Love. “For all this His anger is not turned away and His hand is stretched out still.” (Isaiah 9:12, 17, 21, and 10:4) It is a good rule of thumb that if the Lord says something twice in Holy Scriptures, we should be extra attentive. In pondering today’s daily reading from Isaiah, we find the phrase above repeated not just twice but four times. That should indeed give us pause to wonder what is so important that it would be repeated so many times in just a few verses?

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The Original Christian Gospel 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 The Original Christian Gospel Fr. James Bernstein 01 November 2011 How to Hear the Gospel It may surprise you to hear that the original Gospel—the Good News preached by Jesus Christ and His disciples—is quite different from what is prominently presented today by the vast majority of Christians in America. For many Christians, hearing this original Gospel will involve a major paradigm shift—a radical change in assumptions about God and about salvation, which is at the core of the Gospel. The original Christian Gospel begins with—love. John 3:16, 17 says: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” Furthermore, the Apostle John says, “God is love” (1 John 4:8).

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What The Angels Can Teach Us 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 What The Angels Can Teach Us Source: St. Mary Magdalene Orthodox Church Fr. Gabriel Bilas 21 November 2020 Photo: hersones.org Angels: Their Role in our Lives and Worship Seeing God and Teaching the Angels Archangel Michael and All the Bodiless Powers Celebrated Today “O Michael, you are the leader among the Divine Ranks, and the commander of the Power’s on High.  As you ever walk with us  all preserving us from every assault of the devil , today you summon us to a feast!  Therefore, come all who love Christ and the Feasts of the Church, take up the flowers of virtues!  With pure thoughts and upright conscience, let us honor the Archangel’s assembly;  for as they stand forever before God and chant the thrice-holy hymn, they pray that our souls may be saved! ”   – Litiya Verse from Great Vespers

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