| 1 Becker. Augustin. Studien zu seiner geistigen Entwickelung. 2 Thimme. Augustins geistige Entwickelung in den ersten Jahren nach seiner Bekehrung. 3 Migne. Patrologia latina, t.33. 4 S. Aur. Augustini epistulae (Corpus scriptorum eccles. latin. Vol. XXXIII, sectio II). 5 Thimme.L. с., стр. 10. 6 Которого он называет Тригецием: L. с., стр. 10, 240—243. 7 SoliloquiaII, 31. 8 Sol. 1,8. 9 Contra Academicos III, 43: «quoquo modo se habeat humana sapientia, eam me videonondumpercepisse». Ср. также: С. Ас. II, 22, De beata vita, 5. 10 Epistula I, 3: «Ut scribis, quod Academicos vicerim». 11 Ер. I, 1: «excogitatam occultandi veri artem». 12 Ibidem: «quid sincerum de fonte Platonico flueret». 13 Contra Acad. HI, 38, 39. B 14 Ep. I, 3. «Suspiciosius fortasse, quam certius». 15 C. Ac. m, 41 H 43. 16 Ep. I, 2: «In natura rerum atque animorum altissima et implicitissima latere veritas sentiebatur. Tanta porro nunc fuga laboris et inairia bonarum artium...» 17 Ib.: «tanto torpore indormiscent, ut nec caelesti tuba evigilent». 18 «labi, effluere et praesens nihil obtinere, id est, ut latine loquar, non esse». Ep. II. 19 Ib.: «horum... amorem... vera et divina philosophia monet frenare atque sopire, ut se toto animus, etiam dum hoc corpus agit, in ea, quae semper eiusdem modi sunt neque peregrini pulchro placent, feratur atque aestuet». 20 Ib.: “Invigilo tamen, quantum queo, et nitor, ut hihil amem, quod abesse a me invito potest». 21 Ep.III, 1. 22 De ord. I, 6. 23 Ер. III, 2: «rationes figurarum, per quas est». 24 Retr. С. Ш, De ord. П, 53. 25 О значении чисел в гносеологии Августина и Плотина см.: H. Leder. Untersuchungen uber Augustins Erkenntnistheorie. 26 «Et ideo fortasse merito philosophi in rebus inteligibilibus divitias ponunt, in sensibilibus egestatem» 19. Ep. IΙΙ, 3. 27 «Quid si moritur animus? ergo moritur veritas aut non est intelligentia veritas aut intelligentia non est in animo...» (Ep. IΙΙ, 4). 28 (An) illa ratiocinatio, cui tamquam unicae meae blandiri soleo et ea me nimis oblectare21 (IΙΙ, 3). |
| A worker cleans the scene inside St. Mark Cathedral in central Cairo, following a bombing, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016. Credit: Omar El-Hady via AP “If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first…. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.” –John 15:18-20 Christians, according to a new study, are the most persecuted religious group in the world. Pope Francis acknowledged the worldwide assault on persons of faith in his Angelus address on December 26, the Feast of St. Stephen, the first martyr. The Holy Father called for prayerful and concrete solidarity with Christians throughout the world suffering because of the faith. How serious is the problem? Researchers at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary’s Centre for the Study of Global Christianity report that around 90,000 Christians were killed in 2016. Of those, 30%—or around 27,000—were killed in terror attacks, destruction of their villages, or government persecution. The remaining deaths were attributed to tribal conflicts in Africa in which Christians, for reasons of conscience, were unwilling to take up arms against their enemies. The statistical analysis will be released in its entirety next month. Breitbart News reported that the director of the Centre for Studies on New Religions (Cesnur),Massimo Introvigne, told Vatican Radio that around half a billion Christians in the world are unable to express their faith completely freely. Fox News strategic analyst Ralph Peters, a retired U.S. Army officer, wrote : “This is a new age of martyrs. It’s a time when those who believe in the transcendent generosity of Christ are driven from their homes to suffer exile. It’s an age of blood spilled at a ravaged cross. Even Bethlehem, within living memory a majority-Christian city, has driven out the followers of Jesus until perhaps a dwindling eighth of the population is Christian.” Writing on the Feast of St. Stephen, Peters called on Americans enjoying leftovers from their Christmas feast to “…remember those who are martyred as you eat, the tens of thousands of Stephens whom we ignore.” |
| Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images A number of Christians who had fled to neighboring Bangladesh in order to escape the ethnic violence in Myanmar have come under attack at a refugee camp. Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that some 22 families had on the receiving end of violence and intimidation on the evening of January 26 at a camp in Cox’s Bazaar. In addition, a pastor and his 14-year-old daughter were kidnapped, houses were looted and the faith community’s schools were subjected to vandalism. More from HRW on the disturbing events: “Taher, a Rohingya Christian pastor, and his 14-year-old daughter were abducted from their shelter in a refugee camp in Bangladesh on the morning of January 27. The previous night scores of men attacked 22 Christian families living in Kutupalong Camp 2 in Cox’s Bazaar. The attackers beat up residents, vandalized homes, and looted personal property in the sprawling Rohingya refugee camp.” The human rights monitor noted that 12 Rohingya Christian refugees were injured and hospitalized following the incident. According to several reports, residents of the camp believe that the attackers are linked to the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) — an armed Islamic insurgent group made up of ethnic Rohingyas. “The ARSA … attacked us, the Christians. They looted our houses, and beat up many Christian members. At least 12 Christians have been undergoing treatment at different hospitals and clinics,” one Christian was quoted as saying, according to Benar News . Pastor Taher’s wife, Roshida, told HRW that she was struggling to attain information on the whereabouts of her husband. She had, however, received some extremely concerning news about her young daughter. “No one can give me any clear information, but my relatives told me that my daughter has been forced to convert to Islam and marry,” she explained to the group. There are several thousand Rohingya Christian refugees living among the 700,000 predominantly Muslim Rohingya who have been fleeing Myanmar since the country’s military started a brutal campaign against them back in 2017. |
| Photo: www.orthodoxfellowship.org/ The Fellowship of Orthodox Christians in America [FOCA] recently released information on their upcoming events this year. 2019 National Summer Sports Tournament (Golf) July 26-27, 2019 in Canonsburg, PA. More information on the golf tournament can be found on the FOCA’s website. 2019 Celebrations of Faith: “What does Jesus see when he looks at me?” The FOCA is calling all Orthodox youth to celebrate their Orthodox faith and participate in the 2019 “Celebration of Faith” contest. The contest is open to all youth who are communicants in a parish or mission of a canonical Orthodox Church in North America. Youth are asked to create and submit art projects in the following areas: literature, musical Composition, photography, or the visual arts. The deadline for submissions is July 22, 2019. Click here for more information . 2019 National Junior Summer Sports Tournament (Junior Olympics) [NJSST] The 2019 Camp season is rapidly approaching! This year’s NJSST dates are July 7-13, 2019. Registration is already full and further registrations are no longer being accepted. His Grace, Bishop Paul of Chicago and the Diocese of the Midwest will be joining the campers for three days during the week. 2019 National Convention The 2019 National Convention will be held August 30 to September 3, 2019 in Columbus, OH. The National Convention is held annually to discuss business matters of the FOCA. Vespers, Hierarchical Divine Liturgy, and prayer services will be an integral part of the weekend event. Various social activities will be held in conjunction with the business meetings to encourage fellowship among members. Youth activities are also planned for junior participants. Click here for more information . 2019 FOCA Leadership Conference The FOCA Leadership Conference will take place October 10-12, 2019, in Cleveland, OH. The two day workshop will be aimed at current and aspiring clergy and lay leaders within the Orthodox church and in secular business leadership roles. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be Christian Leaders and how Christian leadership means working together to discover and do the will of God. The keynote workshop will be supplemented by additional parish focused breakout sessions under the topics of Parish Council Effectiveness, Parish Future, and Engaging and Fostering Young Adults Leaders. Click here for more information on the conference . |
| The Sacramental Meaning of Bread Priest Alexander Resnikoff “And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.” John 6:35 Photo: G. Balayants/Expo.Pravoslavie.ru In our daily life, bread satisfies hunger, strengthens us for our daily tasks, and reminds us of its spiritual potential, for during the Divine Liturgy, bread becomes the Body of Christ, the Bread of Life, both in symbol and in actuality, supporting us in the activities of our spiritual life. The Holy Scriptures abound in references to bread, ranging from its nourishing the physical bodies of the faithful five thousand who had come to hear Christ’s preaching (Mark 6:41-42), illuminating the essential role of Grace in miraculous healings (Mark 7:27), to its culminating and preeminent role in granting salvation to the world (John 6:33; I Corinthians 11:24). Bread was Christ’s means to rebuke Satan when He reminded the devil while being tempted in the wilderness that “one does not live by bread alone” (Matthew 4:4), but Christ also taught His disciples to ask of their Heavenly Father their daily bread (Matthew 6:11). Christ, being full present in the Bread of Holy Communion, through His Holy Body (Bread) unites all Orthodox Christians in one unity, when they approach the Holy Chalice “with fear of God, faith, and love.” (Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom). However, as bread can be a means to salvation, it can also become the mechanism of separation, as seen when, on the night of his betrayal of the Savior, Judas Iscariot took bread, dipped it into the common dish and announced his departure from Christ and from the company of the Apostles (Mark 14:20). Likewise, it is through our participation in, or rejection of, Communion of the Heavenly Bread, that the earthly boundaries of the Orthodox Church Militant, the Body of Christ, are drawn. Those who receive Communion unworthily commune unto their condemnation (I Corinthians 11:26-32). Those who receive Communion in good conscience, thereby fully affirming the teachings of the Orthodox Church, are members of the Holy Church, whereas those that separate themselves from the Truth through heresy or schism or, of their own volition are long separated from Holy Communion, separate themselves from the Church of God. Those who long abstain from the Divine Mysteries become “the prey of the spiritual wolf” (see St. John Chrysostom’s prayer before Holy Communion “That I may not by much abstaining from Thy communion become the prey of the spiritual wolf…”). |
| Patriarch Kirill expresses concerns for the drastic decrease of Christian presence in Iraq admin 27 November 2013 On 26 November 2013, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with H.E. Ismail Shafeeq Mohsen, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Iraq to the Russian Federation. They were joined in the meeting, which took place at the Patriarchal resident in St. Daniel’s Monastery, by Mr. Monadel Akef Hammoudi, counsellor of the Iraqi Embassy, and by archpriest Sergiy Zvonarev, DECR secretary for far abroad countries. The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church said that Russia and Iraq had a good and long history of relations, which ‘have been intensively developing since 1958 after certain changes, also in historical science, which is close to me and to people having the similar philosophy of life. I recall expeditions from the Russian Academy of Sciences to Mesopotamia, the place of the dawn of civilization linked with the Biblical history. An agreement between our states signed in 1972 has provided legal background for successful development of our relations.’ His Holiness noted that the events in Iraq occurred after foreign intervention caused pain to the Russian Orthodox Church. ‘I visited Iraq not long before it and had an opportunity to get acquainted with religious life in the country in Baghdad and Mosul. I remember that one million and a half Christians lived in Iraq at that time, while now, as far as I know, there are only 150,000.’ Patriarch Kirill expressed his grave concern for the drastic decrease of Christian presence in Iraq. ‘We know that Christians are persecuted and many people had died only because they professed Christian faith. Many had to flee from Iraq on pain of death. This certainly has changed the cultural landscape of the country. We consider this a kind of a disaster to civilization as Christians and Moslems used to live in peace in your country. I have witness peaceful cooperation between the two communities. |
| Tweet Нравится Holy Hieromartyr Seraphim (Zvezdinsky) Saint Seraphim (Nikolai Zvezdinsky) was born on April 7, 1883. Many years later he would often remember the words out of the Lenten Triodion read in church on the day he was born, My Son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways (Proverbs 23:26-27). In these words he saw foresaw his future monastic life. The following words Saint Seraphim related to his service to God as a Clergyman: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed: Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit (Isaiah 65:13-14). “A Clergyman cannot die of starvation,” Saint Seraphim would say during the years of his persecution. “If we do not weaken and will continue fulfilling our service to God, we will have everything we require to live.” Bishop Seraphim’s grandfather, Gabriel Bonefatiev, was a dedicated and fierce activist for the Old Believer Church. However, his father, Ivan Gavrilovich, left his family home at a young age in search of spiritual enlightenment and the true Faith. Leaving behind his family, he embarked on a journey to Petrograd barefoot. It was here in an “Edinoverets” Church (an Old Believer Church which is part of the canonical Russian Church) that he found the true Church and acquired peace in his soul. After joining the Orthodox Church he was given the last name Zvezdinsky by order of the Emperor, and was soon ordained a priest. For the quarter century he was a clergyman, Archpriest John Zvezdinsky brought many people out of the Old Believer schism into Orthodoxy. Fr John’s service to God brought God’s mercy upon his family. They received spiritual attention and guidance from the not yet canonized elder Seraphim of Sarov. Amongst the Sarov Saint Seraphim’s relatives there had also been old believers who joined the Orthodox Church. Fr John Zvezdinsky’s labours were apparently very dear, close, and solicitous to Saint Seraphim of Sarov, and thus he became the family’s heavenly protector. In 1903, whilst Father John was writing a service in honour of St. Seraphim, the elder appeared to him and foretold the fate of his children. At one point his youngest son, Nicholas Zvezdinsky (Future Bishop Seraphim), was suffering from a life-threatening disease. Father John Zvezdinsky healed his son Nicholas from this disease by opening up his heart to Christ. Within the walls of the Moscow Theological Academy, Nikolai Zvezdinsky was tonsured Seraphim in memory of Saint Seraphim of Sarov, who guided him, helping him to overcome the suffering and anguish he experienced during his lifetime. |
| Закрыть В Москве завершился II Международный фестиваль документального кино «RT.Дok: Время героев» 18:38 26.02.2024 37 Время на чтение 8 минут Фото: t.me В Москве завершился II Международный фестиваль документального кино «RT.Дok: Время героев» . За три дня фестиваль посетили более 4 тыс. гостей. Зрители увидели 27 картин о героях специальной военной операции, посетили круглые столы, обсуждения с режиссёрами и авторами документального кино, мероприятия музыкально-поэтической программы, сообщается в пресс-релизе, поступившем в редакцию «Русской народной линии». « Чего мы только не делали в эти дни! С мотрели фильмы, писали письма на фронт, пели песни, общались. И поняли, что мы не только вместе, но и что нас много. Мы все объединились ради одной нашей цели — ради победы. Спасибо вам! » — поблагодарила зрителей и участников фестиваля генеральный продюсер «RT.Дok: Время героев» Екатерина Яковлева. «Сегодня время героев» Зрители стоя приветствовали бойцов и ветеранов специальной военной операции. На сцену вышли легендарный командир «Пятнашки» Ахра Авидзба, кавалер ордена Мужества морпех Антон Филимонов (Рокот), дважды кавалер ордена Мужества Михаил Турканов (Питбуль) и другие. «Огромное спасибо организаторам фестиваля, вы делаете великое дело, следующая цель — стадион», — от лица военных сказал слова благодарности экс-игрок сборной России по футболу доброволец Андрей Соломатин. Авторы и режиссёры документальных лент фестивальной программы получили памятные дипломы. Клим Поплавский — за фильм-открытие «Военкоры-3: он молится на языке Бога», Дмитрий Задорожный, автор картины «Война и мир», Михаил Буров, режиссёр и оператор ленты «Боги войны», автор идеи и продюсер «Горловского спецназа ЖКХ» Семён Пегов и режиссёр Глеб Драгайцев, Мария Бутина, автор фильма «Своё женское дело» и режиссёр Лана Дружина, Александр Егорцев, автор «24/02», Максим Фадеев и Сергей Белоус за фильм «У края бездны», Андрей Гимбатов, автор фильма «Отряд «Бессмертный Сталинград» и режиссёр и оператор Михаил Харитонин, Мария Миронова, автор фильма «Театр на линии фронта», резиденты продюсерского центра «Инсайт Люди» за ленту «Своими глазами» и другие. |
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| The Power of Repentance: On Clean Friday In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit! The first week of Great Lent is passing by. Today many people will come to Confession so that they can receive the Holy Mysteries tomorrow. But, my God, let us take account of what we are preparing to approach! The Lord Almighty says: Take, eat; this is My Body… This is My Blood (Matthew 26:26, 27). He gives not only an invitation, but also a warning: Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His Blood, ye have no life in you (John 6:53). No one desiring salvation can refuse Communion. But how can I approach Thee, O Lord? I hear the voice from the altar: “Holy things are for the holy,” but I am entirely in sin. How can I not be fearful, when Thy saints did not consider themselves worthy to approach the Holy Mysteries? St. Basil the Great implores: “I know, O Lord, that I partake unworthily of Thine immaculate Body and Thy precious Blood… having submitted my whole self to sin, and made myself a slave of pleasure… Accept, then, even me, O Lord, Lover of mankind, as Thou didst accept the sinful woman, the thief, the publican, and the prodigal” (fifth and first pre-Communion prayers). And here is how St. John Chrysostom asks the Lord to condescend to his weakness: “O Lord my God, I know that I am not worthy… that Thou shouldest enter beneath the roof of the temple of my soul, for all is empty and fallen… and as Thou didst consent to lie in a cave and in a manger of dumb beasts, so consent also to lie in the manger of mine irrational soul and to enter my defiled body” (second prayer). St. Symeon the New Theologian likewise implores: “From sullied lips, from an abominable heart, from a tongue impure, from a soul defiled, accept my supplication, O my Christ… Wash me with my tears, and purify me with them, O Word; remit also my transgressions, and grant me pardon. Thou knowest the multitude of mine evils, Thou knowest also my sores, and Thou seest my wounds… Wherefore, I fall down before Thee, and fervently cry unto Thee: As Thou didst receive the prodigal, and the sinful woman who drew near, so receive me, the prodigal and profligate, O Compassionate One” (sixth prayer). |
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