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Website update roundup - 7/6/08 |
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Written by Brantley Hobbs
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Sunday, 06 July 2008 |
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The bulletin and sermon for Sunday, 7/6/08, have been added to the archives section of the website. |
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Lectures from departments in the OCA |
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Written by Brantley Hobbs
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Saturday, 05 July 2008 |
Lectures from the departments in the OCAAudio files of four presentations from the 2007 OCA Parish Ministries Conference held in Arlington, VA, are available on Ancient Faith Radio. |
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Website update roundup - 6/29/08 |
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Written by Brantley Hobbs
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Sunday, 29 June 2008 |
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The website has been updated with the following new items: - The sermon archives has Fr. Cyprian's sermon from 6-29-08 (Ss. Peter & Paul)
- The bulletin archives has the bulletin from 6-29-08
- The photos page has pictures from Father Basil Henry's first liturgy
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 29 June 2008 )
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New photos on the website! |
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Written by Brantley Hobbs
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Saturday, 14 June 2008 |
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Thanks to Susan McKinley, we have photos of Fr. Philip Kontos serving the Divine Liturgy last week. You can view the photos by clicking on the "Photos" link in the menu along the left side of the page. |
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Article: Seek First the Kingdom |
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Contributed by scott
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Tuesday, 07 March 2006 |
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ABSTRACT This essay [by the Right Reverend Bishop Kallistos Ware] examines the varied contributions to the wider church of Orthodox Christianity's three kinds of monastics: solitaries, those living in community, and those of the middle path (partly in community and partly solitary). Unlike western monastics, eastern monks never specialized in intellectual pursuits, instead supporting themselves by manual labor and dedicating themselves to prayer and spiritual struggle, a struggle whose benefits extend not only to each individual monk but to the whole body of the church. While monastics seek to live out their baptismal covenants in an ultimate commitment to God, monastic spirituality nonetheless represents the same Christian life to which all the baptized are called. "Monks are the sinews and foundations of the church." -St Theodore the Studite
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 18 March 2008 )
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Article: Forgiveness Vespers |
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Contributed by scott
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Wednesday, 01 March 2006 |
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From our own Fr. Cyprian: Dear brethren,
We have now come to the culmination of the preparation period for Great lent. While this Forgiveness Sunday marks the conclusion of one period of our liturgical life, it also begins what promises to be a fruitful spiritual journey if we give the idea of forgiveness the serious attention it deserves. This weekend stresses two themes in our liturgical hymnody. The first theme is that of the “Expulsion of Adam from the Paradise of Bliss”. Quite obviously, one could dedicate whole treatises to this topic as many of the Holy Fathers have already done. The second theme is that of forgiveness. We see this most abundantly in the Rite of Forgiveness that takes place at the end of Forgiveness Vespers. In this humbling endeavor, we are called to come face to face with each of our brethren and ask them to forgive us for the offenses that we may have caused. In turn, our neighbor is to ask forgiveness of us for whatever he has done wrongly unto us. It is this magnificent theme of forgiveness that will be the focus of this brief article. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 07 March 2006 )
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