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Angels: Nine Ranks
According to Orthodox doctrine, God created not only the visible world, but also the invisible, spiritual world. What do we know about the world of "Powers of heaven"? From ancient…
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Notes on the Council of Florence, 1438-39
From Anonimous Byzantine Chronicle #104: The translation is based on the edition of P. Schreiner - "Short Byzantine Chronicles" (Peter Schreiner. Die byzantinischen Kleinchroniken. Teil I-III. Wien. 1977-79) - item…
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The icon – an image of the prototype
Written by Yuriy Pushtaev for Foma.ru The word "icon" has a primarily sacred meaning for us today. This is what we call a pictorial representation of the Holy Trinity, the…
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The agreement with the Serbian Church overthrew the Montenegrin government
The Serbian Orthodox Church has proven to be an unavoidable factor in the political and social processes of the last nearly three years in the small Adriatic republic of Montenegro.…
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Divine order and beauty of the world – revelation about the Creator [2]
Truly vain by nature are all people who had no knowledge of God, who, out of visible perfections, could not know Jehovah, and, looking at the deeds, did not know…
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The Meaning of the Arian Controversy
Author: protopresbiter Alexander Schmemann In the Arian controversy, as in a knot, many threads are gathered, many questions are joined. This is the beginning of the great theological controversies in…
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Soul-beneficial teachings of St. Archbishop Seraphim Sobolev [2]
51. Beware of signing contracts that bind them, especially if there are any benefits and lures on the fishing line. This can involve you in an organization that will limit…
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Divine order and beauty of the world – revelation about the Creator
The Highest Artist-God-in everything that had to be done, using His almighty power, that is, the Son, for "through Him everything came into being, and without Him nothing came into…
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Creation of life
Creation of life - God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, herbs...and fruitful trees, bearing fruit after their kind" (Genesis 1:11). Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth…
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Christianity in the Balkans from the 1st to the 4th century
The Balkan Peninsula, as a crossroads between the Middle East and Europe, as well as a center of cultural interaction between the peoples of the East and the West, is…