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		<title>St John Chrysostom: A Homily for the New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[St John Chrysostom: A Homily for the New Year (On the Kalends of January) [Translated by Seumas Macdonald], an excerpt… […]  The whole year will be fortunate for you, not if you are drunk on the new-moon [New Year’ Day], but if both on the new-moon [January 1st], and each day, you do those things approved [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=orthodoxword.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6613689&amp;post=2760&amp;subd=orthodoxword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Father George Calciu – On Pious Prayer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This is part of a retreat given by Fr. George Calciu in Romania - November 2006 &#8211; few weeks before departing in the Lord). May his memory be eternal!  I would like to speak to you few words on pious prayer.  I do not like definitions because prayer is undoubtedly a work of God that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=orthodoxword.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6613689&amp;post=2744&amp;subd=orthodoxword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Hagiorite monk is being sent to prison for “accusations” they cannot prove.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  It is extremely provocative to say the least to put into prison the Abbot of the Vatopaidi monastery, Efrem, when politicians who have confessed to accepting bribes are still at large! The judicial council decided on December 23 to remand into custody Fr. Ephrem in order to ensure that he will not leave the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=orthodoxword.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6613689&amp;post=2750&amp;subd=orthodoxword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Church of Nativity, Bethlehem</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nativity&#8217; Troparia! &#8220;Thy nativity, O Christ our God, has shown to the world the light of wisdom; for by it, those who worshipped the stars were taught by a star to adore Thee the Sun of Righteousness, and to know Thee, the Orient from on high. O Lord, glory to Thee.&#8221;       The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=orthodoxword.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6613689&amp;post=2230&amp;subd=orthodoxword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Byzantine Image (Icon)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A documentary on the history of Orthodox &#8211; Byzantine iconography Please also see “Testimonies of the Icon of Nativity” Filed under: Christian Orthodox Churches and Monasteries, Orthodox Sermons &#38; News<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=orthodoxword.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6613689&amp;post=2738&amp;subd=orthodoxword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>St. Katherine the Great Martyr of Alexandria</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[      THE GREAT MARTYR OF ALEXANDRIA St. Catherine is one of the early Church most beloved Saints, honored and esteemed for over 1,600 years. She lived in Alexandria during the time of the Emperor Maxentius at the beginning of the fourth century. She was not only a lady of stunning beauty and considerable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=orthodoxword.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6613689&amp;post=742&amp;subd=orthodoxword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“The Rightful Life of Monastics”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  This fresco depicting “the life of the genuine monk&#8221; is especially found in older Orthodox monasteries. Although this fresco depicts &#8220;the steadfast monk &#8211; the Christ’ follower,&#8221; we should also affirm that it represents “the one true Christian&#8221; who regardless of his social status, is a follower of Christ through his actions.   The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=orthodoxword.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6613689&amp;post=2724&amp;subd=orthodoxword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Thoughts On Fasting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some Thoughts On Fasting Source: Conciliar Press (From an Orthodox Pastor, From the Fall 2008 issue of The Handmaiden Journal &#8211; Vol. 12)        Fasting is not optional for Christians. Neither are prayer and almsgiving. Our Lord did not say “if you fast,” but rather “when you fast.” He Himself fasted. Those to whom He personally [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=orthodoxword.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6613689&amp;post=2713&amp;subd=orthodoxword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A documentary on the Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer &#160; &#160; &#160; One correction to the narrator remark comparing the Patriarch with the Pope of Rome; - In the Orthodox Church the Patriarchs are the &#8216;First Among Equals&#8217;, not above the others. In the early history of Christianity, before the Schism in 1054, there was no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=orthodoxword.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6613689&amp;post=2709&amp;subd=orthodoxword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Enemy Within</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simonopetra Monastery, Mount Athos   The Enemy Within (an interview with Archimandrite Dionysios taken from the Enlighten Magazine) Elder Dionysois spent many years in Simonopetra Monastery of Mt. Athos and is now a much loved Elder and the Archimandrite of an Orthodox Monastery in Greece &#8211; northern Athens   […] As the fourth-century desert father St. John [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=orthodoxword.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6613689&amp;post=2683&amp;subd=orthodoxword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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