Obedience is the burial place of the will, and the resurrection of lowliness. John Climacus, The Ladder of the Divine Ascent ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Jul 5, 2010 12:42 am
Please come and invite others to these two outstanding annual Conferences. I enjoy both of them tremendously every year. 1) Friday-Saturday, 9-10 July...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Jul 8, 2010 5:29 am
Before you fall ill, search out a doctor for yourself. Before difficulties come upon you, pray; then when the time of distress comes, you will discover prayer,...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Jul 14, 2010 2:41 am
In honor of the Feast of Saint Cyril of Alexandria, the church of Saint Cyril invites you to the Saint Cyril Festival on July 17th and 18th. On Saturday the...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Jul 19, 2010 12:54 pm
In contact with this vision [icons] of the Divine Beauty, our desire for the Divine Love is set ablaze in our hearts and we are as of now secretly illuminated...
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The Orthodox Bookstore
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Jul 21, 2010 6:46 am
“In God, one finds an ineffable unity and differentiation within that unity. He is the One beyond the unity of the number one; yet He is totally and...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Jul 23, 2010 1:50 pm
Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.; he cuts away...
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The Orthodox Bookstore
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Jul 27, 2010 2:31 am
He is “all in all,” as scripture affirms, and certainly He is to be praised as Being for all things the Creator and Originator, the One who brings them to ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Jul 29, 2010 7:12 am
The Christian is one who imitates Christ in thought, word and deed, as far as is possible for human beings, believing rightly and blamelessly in the Holy ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Aug 2, 2010 6:42 am
Spirituality is about prayer; and it is in prayer that the question, 'Who is God?' is answered. Fr. Andrew Louth, Theology and Spirituality ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Aug 4, 2010 11:44 pm
We who are disciples of Christ claim that our purpose on earth is to lay up treasures in heaven. Nevertheless, our actions often belie our words. Many...
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Usi Botros
marksedrak
Aug 5, 2010 2:51 pm
Click here for special video message from Fr. Anthony Messeh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hai2GfMVLHs <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hai2GfMVLHs> Dear...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Aug 7, 2010 9:04 pm
If we had not sinned [Christ] would not have become like us; and if He had not become like us, neither would He have endured the cross; and if He had not died,...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Aug 10, 2010 5:23 am
They used to say that when any man came to Abba Peomen, he used to send him to Abba Job, his brother, saying to him, “He is older than I am”; and Abba Job...
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The Orthodox Bookstore
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Aug 12, 2010 1:58 am
There is one Father of all, there is one Word of all, and the Holy Spirit is one and the same everywhere. There is also one Virgin Mother, whom I love to call ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Aug 16, 2010 6:52 pm
Through His [Holy Spirit] aid hearts are lifted up, the weak are held by the hand, and they who are advancing are brought to perfection. Basil, On the Holy...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Aug 20, 2010 5:21 pm
But the Spirit is believed to have been operating at the same time in Habakkuk and in Daniel at Babylon, and to have been at the prison with Jeremiah, and with...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Aug 25, 2010 11:48 pm
What is prayer? How can we learn to pray? What does the spirit of Christian experience as he prayers in humility of heart? All such questions should constantly...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Aug 27, 2010 2:56 am
There is no life without prayer. Without prayer, there is only madness and horror. The soul of Orthodoxy consists of the gift of prayer. Vasili Rozanov What...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Aug 31, 2010 4:53 am
He who wishes to pray truly must not only control his incisive power and his desire, but must also free himself from every impassioned thought. Evagrius, On...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Sep 2, 2010 4:53 am
Dear brothers and sisters: A primary goal of the Coptic Studies program at Claremont Graduate University (CGU) is todevelop career Coptologists. In the...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Sep 3, 2010 8:04 am
If you love the truth, love silence. This will make you illumined, sun-like, in God; it will deliver you from the illusions of ignorance. Isaac the Syrian The...
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The Orthodox Bookstore
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Sep 8, 2010 7:00 pm
The Jesus Prayer: “My Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.” Bring in the Ecclesiastical New Year with the practice of the invocation...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Sep 9, 2010 10:31 pm
Examine yourself daily in the sight of God, and discover which of the passions is in your heart; and cast it out to escape His judgment. Isaiah the Solitary,...
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The Orthodox Bookstore
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Sep 14, 2010 12:05 am
Prayer is action; to pray is to be highly effective. Of no prayer is this more true than of the Jesus Prayer. While it is singled out for a particular mention ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Sep 16, 2010 12:08 am
Once at Scetis Abba Arsenius was ill and he was without even a scrap of linen. As he had nothing with which to buy any, he received some through another's ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Sep 21, 2010 12:21 am
Death's awful mystery comes upon us suddenly, and soul and body are violently severed, divorced from their natural union by the will of God. What shall we do ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Sep 21, 2010 7:40 pm
For then is it possible for us truly to fashion ourselves in the likeness of God when like skilled painters we express His features in ourselves [as on a...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Sep 28, 2010 10:14 pm
When one objectively surveys the history of the human race one must acknowledge that there has never been a better human than Jesus; and this means that there ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Oct 1, 2010 1:47 am
We ought to pray, not according to any bodily habit nor with a habit of loud noise nor out of a custom of silence or on bended knees. But we ought soberly to ...
