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Manhattan Declaration Executive Summary

Posted in Christianity, Morality on 24 November 09 | 1 Comment »

Religious Leaders Call for Civil Disobedience if Laws Don’t Respect Faith
Saturday, November 21, 2009 2:52 PM
A formidable coalition of 150 Catholic, Orthodox and evangelical leaders are calling on Christians in a new manifesto to reject secular authority – and even engage in civil disobedience – if laws force them to accept abortion, same-sex marriage and [...]

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A Serbian Poem – -

Posted in Kosovo, Morality, Poetry, Politics on 15 March 08 | Leave a Comment »

A Song of Defiance
by Dobrica Eric
English Translation
I
the servant of God,
the Serb,
announce willingly
through chains and wires
before the witnesses
Power, Agony and Injustice,
that I am guilty and admit my crime!
I am guilty that I am a somebody
and not a nothing and a nobody.
I am guilty that in a time of general
Serb-hating
I go to an Orthodox Christian church
and [...]

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Admonitory Address to a Virgin – Gregory Nazianzen

Posted in Christ, Death, Easter - Pascha, Holy Spirit, Morality, Orthodox Christian, Prayer, Reflections, Religion, Saint, Spiritual on 26 February 08 | 1 Comment »

Gregory Nazianzen.
ADMONITORY ADDRESS TO A VIRGIN.
Parqene, numfe Cristou,
(The Greek is of varied metre, arranged in lines of generally seven
syllables each.)
O bride of Christ on high,
Thy Bridegroom glorify!
Always thyself keep pure,
In word and wisdom sure,
That bright with Him all-bright
Thou e’er mayst dwell in light.
Far better spouse is He
Than earthly spouse could be:
Thy union happier far
Than mortal [...]

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From a Friend –

Posted in Christ, God, Holy Spirit, Morality, Reflections, Religion, Spiritual on 20 October 07 | Leave a Comment »

“Christ told them a parable, to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor regarded man; and there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, “Give me [...]

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Marriage: The Great Sacrament (warning: long)

Posted in Christ, Holy Spirit, Marriage, Morality, Orthodox Christian, Prayer, Spiritual on 16 October 07 | 3 Comments »

The Orthodox Christian Information Center says, “Many Orthodox Christians with whom I have spoken, including several clergy and nuns, consider this to be the best statement on marriage they’ve ever read.”
http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/praxis/marriage.aspx
A Sermon delivered in the Church of St. Nicholas, Trikala, Greece, 17 January, 1971
By Archimandrite Aimilianos of Simonopetra, Mount Athos

Nobody would dispute that the most [...]

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History of the Orthodox Church – Part IX

Posted in History, Morality, Orthodox Christian, Religion, Spiritual on 28 September 07 | Leave a Comment »

History of the Orthodox Church – Part IX

Here endeth these lessons! (But there will be more later!)

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Animal Cruelty -

Posted in Conservation, Cruelty, Ecology, Morality on 21 August 07 | 2 Comments »

I’ve been watching the Michael Vick situation from my rock at the Pond. Being Orthodox gives me a slightly different perspective on it.
God gave man dominion over the world.  See The Ol’ Curmudgeon’s Rumbling on this topic. It is my opinion that too many people do not “husband” their pets or other animals they own. [...]

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