tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23579800986030058382024-02-07T07:34:23.870-08:00The Orthodox WayJesus said "I am the Way." He built His Church to embody "the Way". The earliest followers of Jesus were called "the Way" (Acts 9:2; 19:9,23; 22:4; 24:14,22). Jesus revealed the "True Faith" and the "True Worship" for his followers to know how to follow Him along "the Way". This Way of Jesus is experienced in fullness in the One True Church, the Holy Orthodox Church.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357980098603005838.post-78294473234967210022023-08-15T20:29:00.003-07:002023-08-15T20:29:31.083-07:00Concerning Coptic Orthodox Christology<div class="ytp-right-controls"></div><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-flexy" id="player">
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Thomas Hopko<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r2BtGu_72Vk" width="320" youtube-src-id="r2BtGu_72Vk"></iframe></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: dimgrey; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">In the first line of his noted book <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">The Abolition of Man</span>, C. S. Lewis wrote: “I doubt whether we are sufficiently attentive to the importance of elementary text-books.” Likewise, I doubt whether we are sufficiently attentive to the importance of the so-called “new science of the moral sense” that is flourishing in our midst today.<span id="more-2000" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: dimgrey; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Lewis was concerned about his culture’s inattentiveness to primary school text-books because he believed they contained the seeds which, when implanted in young, impressionable minds, would eventually produce a rejection of the natural law tradition of objective right and wrong. Such a rejection, Lewis justly believed, would put the whole of ethics, theology, politics, and, indeed, the future of humanity, at stake.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: dimgrey; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">For similar reasons, we should also be concerned about current attempts to explain human preoccupations with right and wrong on the basis of a scientific, evolutionary naturalism. This is what Steven Pinker has done in his recent essay titled, “The Moral Instinct,” published in the January 13, 2008, edition of <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">The New York Times Magazine</span>. Since it was the lead story, the magazine’ s cover features a young man about to step onto a subway, glancing furtively at a young mother struggling to carry her baby-laden stroller up a steep flight of stairs. Shouldn’t he stop to help her? At the bottom of the cover is this simple but profound question: “What makes us want to be good?” Pinker seeks to answer this question in his article, with this as its tag line: “Evolution has endowed us with ethical impulses. Do we know what to do with them?”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: dimgrey; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">In an interdisciplinary manner, Pinker, who is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, has written an apology for an “objective morality” rooted in nature alone, debunking any transcendent grounding for his thesis. “The human moral sense,” Pinker writes in a statement that betrays naturalistic assumptions, “turns out to be an organ of considerable complexity, with quirks that reflect its evolutionary history and its neurobiological foundations” (p. 1).</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: dimgrey; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Recalling an analogy employed by John Rawls between language and morality based on the work of Noam Chomsky, Pinker asserts that “we are born with a universal moral grammar that forces us to analyze human action in terms of its moral structure, with just as little awareness” (p. 3). In fact, Pinker notes that the notion of “universal moral grammar” has been confirmed by anthropologists such as Donald E. Brown. Like C. S. Lewis did in the appendix of <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">The Abolition of Man</span>, Brown assembled a list of human universals, many of them moral in character, including “a distinction between right and wrong; empathy; fairness; admiration of generosity; rights and obligations; proscription of murder, rape and other forms of violence; redress of wrongs; sanctions for wrongs against the community; shame; and taboos” (p. 3). Anthropologists Richard Shweder and Alan Fiske have also discovered similar universal values in their research, and psychologist Jonathan Haidt has boiled them down to five basic moral intuitions: harm, fairness, community (or group loyalty), authority and purity. Haidt calls them “the primary colors of our moral sense” (p. 4). For these and other reasons, Pinker suggests that “Though no one has identified genes for morality, there is circumstantial evidence they exist.” He also adds, “The moral sense … may be rooted in the design of the normal human brain (p. 4).</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: dimgrey; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Though Pinker himself seem quite confident in this viewpoint, he is concerned that critics of the new science of the moral sense will see it as “morally corrosive.” Isn’t it just an attempt by evolutionary psychologists to debunk our best moral instincts as ultimately self-interested and nothing more than the fruit of the “Darwinian struggle to perpetuate our genes”? Wouldn’t it all lead to a “spineless relativism” prohibiting genuine moral criticism? Isn’t it just an “amoral nihilism” in which ethics are reduced from transcendent principles to brain functions? (p. 6). In responding to these criticisms, Pinker tries to show on scientific grounds that human moral impulses shouldn’t be demoted to mere gene maximization or self-interest. With the unconvinced, it could still leave the impression that such a scientized “morality” is purely emotive and lacks objective footing.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: dimgrey; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">In response to these objections, Pinker notes, some would play the God card. In response, however, Pinker observes that Plato dealt with this argument some 2,400 years ago, invoking the Euthyphro dilemma, based on Plato’s dialog “Euthyphro” on the subject of piety. In a theistic interpretation, Euthyphro argued that God either had good reasons for his moral demands or he didn’t. If he didn’t, then morality is merely rooted in arbitrary divine decrees and could always be otherwise. If he did, then those reasons should be appealed to as the ground for morality, and not God. Pinker, however, dismisses both divine volunteerism and moral realism with a virtual wave of the hand, the former being ludicrous (what if God willed the torture of children?) and the latter “too rich for many philosophers’ blood” (p. 7).</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: dimgrey; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Instead, Pinker argues that two features of reality point in a moral direction to help us determine if our judgments are in sync with morality itself. One is that two parties are both better off if they act unselfishly toward one another, an altruism that he says is neither the expression of brain wiring nor a divine command, but simply rooted “in the nature of things” (p. 7). The second “external support,” Pinker states, is a feature of rationality itself, namely, “the interchangeability of perspectives” (p. 7). This universal feature of human behavior is better known as the golden rule in its various expressions which shows that mutual benevolent treatment is obviously the best course of action for all concerned. On these two platforms, Pinker draws the conclusion that “Morality … is still something larger than our inherited moral sense, and the new science of the moral sense does not make moral reasoning and conviction obsolete” (p. 8). Exactly how “morality” as such transcends our inherited moral sense is left unexplained. After drawing out what he believes are the profound implications of this perspective for our moral universe, Pinker concludes with this quote from Chekov: “Man will become better when you show him what he is like” (p. 9).</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: dimgrey; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Is this, indeed, what we are like? Is this what “morality” is? Perhaps the ideas we have just surveyed in Pinker’s essay are evidence that we are, in fact, slip-sliding away to the abolition of man, as Lewis himself foresaw in early 1943. It was then (specifically on the evenings of February 24-26) that he delivered the University of Durham’s Riddell Memorial Lectures which were combined and published later that same year by Oxford University Press as his book <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">The Abolition of Man</span>. These three crucial lectures are on (1) the educational impact of the loss of the natural law, (2) an apology for natural law under the name of the Tao and the self-defeating nature of its denial, and (3) the scientific conquest of nature and of human nature outside of natural law offer. Together, these three lectures comprise one of the best defenses of the natural moral law tradition in the 20th century.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: dimgrey; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">To be sure, there is a neurobiological aspect to our moral nature that is not to be denied, mysterious though it may be. Of all people, Lewis included, mere Christians proclaim with exuberance that God the Father Almighty is the maker of a very good heaven and earth! Not only the story of creation, but also Christ’s incarnation and the Easter celebration, just observed, of His triumphant <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">bodily</span> resurrection ground this conviction of the value of physicality wholeheartedly. John Updike’s memorable poem “Seven Stanzas at Easter” validates Christ’s resurrection as a nature-affirming event and its importance to the Church.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: dimgrey; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Make no mistake: if He rose at all<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />it was as His body;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />if the cells’ dissolution did not reverse, the molecules<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />reknit, the amino acids rekindle,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />the Church will fall.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: dimgrey; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Christian believers of every tradition affirm the goodness and glories of the creation and human nature,and see both as means of divine revelation. But what is to be denied is that nature alone can explain everything that needs to be explained, morality included. This, as Lewis argued in his book Miracles, is “The Cardinal Difficulty of Naturalism.” “If Naturalism is true,” he wrote, “every finite thing or event must be (in principle) explicable in terms of the Total System.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: dimgrey; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">This is what Pinker, it seems, tries to do in the article discussed above. Yet this is exactly what Lewis says the boa constrictor of Naturalism as a Total System will not permit us to do. It leaves no room for an authentic (transcendent) morality and squeezes it out of human existence. Given, then, the rise of the new science of the moral sense a la Pinker, now is the time, if there ever was one, to revisit Lewis’s arguments in The Abolition of Man on behalf of the natural moral law of God written on the hearts of human beings (cf. Romans 2: 14-16).</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: dimgrey; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">The artists in our midst unsurprisingly recognize the relevance of Lewis’s words for our morally bankrupt culture, advising us to take heed before it’s too late. The alternative musical group Thrice offers such a sober warning in a throbbing song titled “The Abolition of Man” from their CD <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">The Artist in the Ambulance.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: dimgrey; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Wake up, everyone,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />It’s not too late,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />To save the remnants of our hearts,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />So stop giving up,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Our last shot at love;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Our only chance to find the meaning of,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The beat beneath the blood.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: dimgrey; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">We laugh at honor and are shocked when,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />We find knives in our backs;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />We follow those who cheat and steal.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Look, in my eyes,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />You won’t find your way back;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Our only compass smashed under,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Our own heels.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: dimgrey; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Reason abandoned to appetites,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And addicts’ arms.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Shotguns and silence,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Have always been the best of charms.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />…<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Abolition Of Man is within,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The reach of science,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />But are we so far gone that we’ll try it?</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: dimgrey; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">May those among us who have ears to hear, let us hear. May those among us who have eyes to see, let us see. After all, theology, ethics, politics, and the future of humanity are all at stake.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: dimgrey; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">———————————</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357980098603005838.post-73664330972018639872022-08-22T11:19:00.002-07:002022-08-22T11:19:30.012-07:007 Minute Catechism<header class="post-header" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #464646; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; outline: 0px !important; text-align: center;"><h1 class="post-title" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #030303; font-family: "Playfair Display"; font-size: 40px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 44px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; outline: 0px !important; overflow-wrap: break-word;">7 Minute Catechism Lectures</h1><div class="post-meta clear-fix" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Playfair Display"; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; outline: 0px !important;"><span class="post-date" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #a1a1a1; outline: 0px !important;">February 19, 2021</span></div></header><div class="post-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #464646; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; outline: 0px !important; overflow: hidden;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; outline: 0px !important; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">These are very informative lectures by Fr Christopher Morris of St George in Kearney. A lot of information packed into 7 minutes! If you want to know what Orthodox Christianity teaches and believes, this is a great way to dive in.</p></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0vnbxQZ7qko" width="320" youtube-src-id="0vnbxQZ7qko"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VxGovFCovR4" width="320" youtube-src-id="VxGovFCovR4"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fzSJB4ki05E" width="320" youtube-src-id="fzSJB4ki05E"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iStEFgJGbcA" width="320" youtube-src-id="iStEFgJGbcA"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jzsKvEtK1M0" width="320" youtube-src-id="jzsKvEtK1M0"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/V--B0fdYdzw" width="320" youtube-src-id="V--B0fdYdzw"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lUf19QqJoo4" width="320" youtube-src-id="lUf19QqJoo4"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UAykXdcU8CA" width="320" youtube-src-id="UAykXdcU8CA"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/D9bYEvG1J90" width="320" youtube-src-id="D9bYEvG1J90"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ehXTx5fB9Pg" width="320" youtube-src-id="ehXTx5fB9Pg"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/p7yAbE8qeww" width="320" youtube-src-id="p7yAbE8qeww"></iframe></div><a href="http://www.sttimothy.net/"><span style="font-size: large;">St Timothy – Orthodox Christian Church</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357980098603005838.post-6551806584663556802018-01-20T18:20:00.003-08:002022-02-03T23:05:58.955-08:00ORTHODOX MONASTICISM, MONKS, AND MONASTERIES<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUsE60j0z5-oi0FRVE1Z1bp-vnokG7LU_XUUIofD_74vPEdF1_Xd3YLc_fqRAn_lqvpvdZxXQcuUUytPH2RPFALFMFhuZpsciwJNjW75RW0Dsgx0RcOP8lXeo0jNEFsxb_Uto24sJo0VNw/s1600/Athos+Hermit+Psalm+50.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUsE60j0z5-oi0FRVE1Z1bp-vnokG7LU_XUUIofD_74vPEdF1_Xd3YLc_fqRAn_lqvpvdZxXQcuUUytPH2RPFALFMFhuZpsciwJNjW75RW0Dsgx0RcOP8lXeo0jNEFsxb_Uto24sJo0VNw/s200/Athos+Hermit+Psalm+50.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDvqPEim4d1Eql9JnxJom0uMjStfDTYiJa_JVcdE7P-aXI_ecBP3mph6E5LVg5kXP5c-us8aWXzMWWrNElrZ9rPm_OODotvI9mwT75kZCxNM1XxuBnwlJhdcJxGyCmkdBhphOZWosxHwdE/s1600/Blessed+Seraphim+Rose.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDvqPEim4d1Eql9JnxJom0uMjStfDTYiJa_JVcdE7P-aXI_ecBP3mph6E5LVg5kXP5c-us8aWXzMWWrNElrZ9rPm_OODotvI9mwT75kZCxNM1XxuBnwlJhdcJxGyCmkdBhphOZWosxHwdE/s1600/Blessed+Seraphim+Rose.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u></u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">> Welcome To Mount Athos</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">> Images Of Mt Athos</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mt+athos&qvpt=mt+athos&FORM=IGRE">www.bing.com/images/search?q=mt+athos&qvpt=mt+athos&FORM=IGRE</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>VALAAM MONASTERY - RUSSIA</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">> Welcome To Valaam</span><br /><a href="https://orthodoxwiki.org/Valaam_Monastery"><span style="font-size: large;">Valaam Monastery - OrthodoxWiki</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>ST CATHERINE MONASTERY - SINAI</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">> Documentary About St Catherine's (9:28)</span><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89h5zS7FBMs"><span style="font-size: large;">Greek-Orthodox: Monastery Of St.Catherien, Sinai (Egypt) • Abbeys and Monasteries - YouTube</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>PSKOV-CAVES MONASTERY - RUSSIA</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">> Rare Video Footage Of The Only Monastery To Not Be Closed Or Destroyed During The Soviet Era > Footage includes Video of Numerous Holy Elders (24:21) > Filmed In 1986.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>MEET SOME MONKS</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>> Holy Mount Athos - Elders & Hermits - Psalm 50</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw_n8kOhQ88"><b>www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw_n8kOhQ88</b></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>> Hermitage Of The Holy Cross - Wayne, West Virginia</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1PKfLJVhdg"><b>www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1PKfLJVhdg</b></a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>> Holy Trinity - Jordanville, NY</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SntIzmS0W5E"><b>www.youtube.com/watch?v=SntIzmS0W5E</b></a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>MONASTERIES I HAVE VISITED</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">> St Gregory Palamas - Hayesville Ohio</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.sgpm.goarch.org/Monastery">www.sgpm.goarch.org/Monastery</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">> St Isacc Of Syria Skete - Boscobel Wisconsin</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.skete.com/">www.skete.com</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">> St Anthonys - Florence Arizona</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.stanthonysmonastery.org/">www.stanthonysmonastery.org</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">> New Skete - Cambridge New York</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.newskete.com/">www.newskete.com</a></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXiIrhLQAKazz3n9aMxuyZ0cq7DRHz0_bbDc5zbX5LbPyJnHbLwjjL0oaTLcyjmNlldExkv_TEaAkADW1AResW_iMij2Uep3J2rblMSDYxiK73FHOojbfS-V8ssKbZTmweI7bWMBUjTq4f/s1600/Christian+Monks+Chant.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXiIrhLQAKazz3n9aMxuyZ0cq7DRHz0_bbDc5zbX5LbPyJnHbLwjjL0oaTLcyjmNlldExkv_TEaAkADW1AResW_iMij2Uep3J2rblMSDYxiK73FHOojbfS-V8ssKbZTmweI7bWMBUjTq4f/s1600/Christian+Monks+Chant.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">> Dormition Of The Mother Of God - Rives Junction Michigan</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.dormitionmonastery.org/">www.dormitionmonastery.org</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">> All-Merciful Saviour - Vashon Island Washington</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.vashonmonks.com/">www.vashonmonks.com</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">> Holy Trinity - Jordanville New York</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.jordanville.org/">www.jordanville.org</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">> Holy Transfiguration - Brookline Massachusettes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.thehtm.org/">www.thehtm.org</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">> St Herman Of Alaska - Platina California</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.stherman.com/">www.stherman.com</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">> Transfiguration - Elwood City Pennsylvania</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.orthodoxmonasteryellwoodcity.org/">www.orthodoxmonasteryellwoodcity.org</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">> Monastery Of St Tikhon Of Zadonsk - So. Canaan Pennsylvania</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.sttikhonsmonastery.org/">www.sttikhonsmonastery.org</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">> Nativity Of The Theotokos - Saxonburg Pennsylvania</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.nativityofthetheotokosmonastery.org/">www.NativityOfTheTheotokosMonastery.org</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">> The Sacred Monastery of Saint Nina - Union Bridge Maryland </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.saintnina-monastery.org/">http://www.saintnina-monastery.org/</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Lists Of Monasteries:</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">> America</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/List_of_American_monasteries">www.orthodoxwiki.org/List_of_American_monasteries</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">> Worldwide</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.orthodox-monasteries.com/">www.orthodox-monasteries.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357980098603005838.post-83651475040358630552018-01-10T20:53:00.002-08:002022-01-31T22:50:42.981-08:00THE ISLAND - A BEAUTIFUL ORTHODOX MOVIE<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvRrWHl4jS8qcYLURB5uq4de4zxXUIs17UUMh9yOnOo-WENHVlNEajEdAJekkDFHfc2dTjYHVM_1VZOw2lGEp_9qXfv6Opl5Lvynys_OK-ryNP2yZ8fOcF4T8lp0FEnZFhRQ4YAYepRvH5/s1600/The+Island+DVD+Cover.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvRrWHl4jS8qcYLURB5uq4de4zxXUIs17UUMh9yOnOo-WENHVlNEajEdAJekkDFHfc2dTjYHVM_1VZOw2lGEp_9qXfv6Opl5Lvynys_OK-ryNP2yZ8fOcF4T8lp0FEnZFhRQ4YAYepRvH5/s1600/The+Island+DVD+Cover.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: x-large;">You must watch this full-length Russian-made movie (with English subtitles) about the Providence of God, salvation, one Holy Fool, and a monastery on an island in Siberia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>PART ONE: THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST </i></b></span><a href="https://vimeo.com/133268270"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>https://vimeo.com/133268270</i></b></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>PART TWO: FALLING AWAY FROM CHRIST</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>PART THREE: THE LIFE IN CHRIST</i></b></span><br />
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I discovered this resource @ <a href="http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/">www.OrthodoxInfo.com</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357980098603005838.post-44062342955700149692017-12-27T19:38:00.000-08:002017-12-29T17:44:54.271-08:00THE ORTHODOX FAITH<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Introduction To The Orthodox Faith by Fr Thomas Hopko</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>> Doctrine</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.oca.org/orthodoxy/the-orthodox-faith/doctrine">www.oca.org/orthodoxy/the-orthodox-faith/doctrine</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>> Worship</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.oca.org/orthodoxy/the-orthodox-faith/worship">www.oca.org/orthodoxy/the-orthodox-faith/worship</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>> Bible and Church History</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.oca.org/orthodoxy/the-orthodox-faith/bible-history">www.oca.org/orthodoxy/the-orthodox-faith/bible-history</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>> Spirituality</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.oca.org/orthodoxy/the-orthodox-faith/spirituality">www.oca.org/orthodoxy/the-orthodox-faith/spirituality</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357980098603005838.post-71181048969710582212017-12-25T22:24:00.000-08:002017-12-29T17:42:29.463-08:00STEP TO THE SKIES<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3k5ijpYlr6qEQGgClL-JoVJcCypsgiUjk69pcHPPDjZCkXHxcm_i78U82wFgWREcNZDJ8sTVRfZfHR9lqoXw7o_HF-KL95CV6z-kvlsQcjMhgwt11rCmtGFxtFAkw4PY5a1SayL31BlRE/s1600/IMG_1078.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3k5ijpYlr6qEQGgClL-JoVJcCypsgiUjk69pcHPPDjZCkXHxcm_i78U82wFgWREcNZDJ8sTVRfZfHR9lqoXw7o_HF-KL95CV6z-kvlsQcjMhgwt11rCmtGFxtFAkw4PY5a1SayL31BlRE/s320/IMG_1078.JPG" width="320" /></a><b><span style="font-size: large;">Fascinating Look Into Orthodox Monasticism</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">7-part Series on Youtube</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Valaam "Step To The Skies" part 1 of 7 (English Subtitles)</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GKWe0k6_04">www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GKWe0k6_04</a> </span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357980098603005838.post-5620489623128530632017-12-24T18:37:00.000-08:002017-12-29T17:39:45.397-08:00JESUS IN ORTHODOXY<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggmAGISR_As4sxqdKCMkqrigadaVolZIQgqZ-MDNmRzEa8J1DjB3dnNS0rD28VkouUYXiADNmDqhm1-xKx5Se4NZsmmZ8QxuZemU2dhdF3ykjMfsAQtIymOqE82C3A-3h7xK08jJXg3PJd/s1600/Nativity-of-Christ1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggmAGISR_As4sxqdKCMkqrigadaVolZIQgqZ-MDNmRzEa8J1DjB3dnNS0rD28VkouUYXiADNmDqhm1-xKx5Se4NZsmmZ8QxuZemU2dhdF3ykjMfsAQtIymOqE82C3A-3h7xK08jJXg3PJd/s200/Nativity-of-Christ1.jpg" width="151" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THE NAMES OF JESUS - 55 Podcasts covering each and every Name given to Jesus - by FR THOMAS HOPKO</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The Terrifying Judgment </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">“Then Herod,
when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent
forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts
thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had
diligently enquired of the wise men. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken
by Jeremy the prophet, saying, In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation,
and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not
be comforted, because they are not”. (Mt. 2:16-18) <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">There are
Bible critics who make the claim that Herod could not have massacred the baby
boys of Bethlehem because the Jewish Historian Josephus failed to make
reference to King Herod committing this particular evil. But Josephus is not
the only first century historian, or source of what happened in first century
Judah. Matthew, the author of the gospel by his name, gives us a historical
account of the slaughter of the innocents by King Herod. The Holy Spirit
inspired Evangelist Matthew is much more trustworthy than a Jewish historian
writing 100 years after the said event. There was, by the way, a Roman
historian, Macrobius (c.a. 400 A.D.), that writes about Herod’s slaughter of
the Innocents.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">THE SCOPE OF THE SLAUGHTER OF
INNOCENTS<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Some
historians, even Christian historians, say that only a few children were slain
by King Herod because Bethlehem probably only had a population of about 1000
people, and therefore would have only had 10 to 30 two year old and under
children that could have been slain. But the scope of the slaughter appears
from the text of Matthew that it was not just the children in the little town
of Bethlehem that were in danger of King Herod’s edict. The text states that
the slaughter was not limited to the “little town of Bethlehem”, because it
bluntly reads that Herod “slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, AND in
all the coasts thereof” (KJV, 1599 Geneva, Wycliffe). In other translations we
read, “and the borders” (Young’s, Douay-Rheims, ASV, Aramaic Bible in Plain
English, Jubilee 2000, Darby, Webster’s); “and in the environs” (NASB, NAS
1977, ); “and in the region” (RSV, ISV ); “and in the vicinity” (NIV); “and in
all the districts” (NKJV, Phillips). We can see from these translations that
the massacre was not limited to the town of Bethlehem, but included a far
greater territory, as far as the coasts and/or borders of Judah. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">“There appears
to be a hint in verse 18 as to what is being spoken of when we read, “AND in
all the coasts thereof”, or “AND in all the borders thereof”. Ramah, the city
of Jeremiah’s prophecy is located 5 miles north of Jerusalem (10 Miles north of
Bethlehem). Ramah is the city where Rachel lamented from. She was buried in
Bethlehem (Gen. 35:19). Ramah is a border town situated on the northern border
of the kingdom of Judah, and the southern border of the kingdom of Israel. Judah’s
borders ran from the east along the shores of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea
to the west at the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, some 30 miles; in the south
in the desert, and borders in the north, Samaria, some 55 miles. We also have a
hint from the prophecy of Micah as to the scope of Herod’s slaughter; “But
thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah…”
(Micah 5:2). Let us take note that the prophecy that Herod was made aware of by
the chief priests (Mt. 2:4-8) references Judah as the greater territory in
which the Messiah-King would be born. Micah, of course, names the very birthplace
of the Messiah, the little town of Bethlehem, and its 1000’s of villages
(hyperbolic or not). So it appears from the textual evidence that the slaughter
was not limited to “the little town of Bethlehem”, but spread all the way north
to Ramah on the border with the kingdom of Israel and quite possibly to the
remaining borders; west, south, and east. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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interesting note is that Ramah was the city where Jewish captives were gathered
for deportation to Babylon (Jeremiah 40:1). Rachel, the wife of Jacob-Israel,
was the mother of Benjamin, whose tribe became part of the southern kingdom,
Judah. The city of Ramah was given to Benjamin by lots. So Rachel’s
descendants, her beloved children, after much suffering as captives, are now
suffering the slaughtering of Herod’s soldiers. Rachel weeps for her children. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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how many children were slaughtered? According to the Tradition of the Ancient
Church, 14,000 children were slain. They are commemorated every year on
December 29. For me, this number is far more likely than the 6 or 10 children
as the modern scholars seem to prefer. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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