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by Arsenios
Sun 13 July 2003 5:39 pm
Forum: Prayer Life
Topic: A meditation
Replies: 6
Views: 2823

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by Arsenios
Sun 13 July 2003 5:38 pm
Forum: Prayer Life
Topic: A meditation
Replies: 6
Views: 2823

A meditation

Dear bread of life (Jn. 6:35, 48), Thou living water (Jn. 4:10-14) who constantly bestows upon us good gifts, (Matt. 7:11) You give us tears as our bread, you give us weeping to fill our cup for drink (Ps. 80:5) Tears that flow in the measure that we can handle them (1 Cor. 10:13) And we happily ac...
by Arsenios
Sat 12 July 2003 5:45 pm
Forum: Sacred Scripture
Topic: Pregnant Orthodoxy
Replies: 4
Views: 3762

Nicholas: right you are in my estimation! The literal does also have meaning besides the spiritual.

by Arsenios
Fri 11 July 2003 8:25 pm
Forum: Prayer Life
Topic: Hard to find akathists and canons
Replies: 8
Views: 2085

Hard to find akathists and canons

Please, does anyone know of a site that has hard to find akathists and canons? Father John Whitefords site has many but I was hoping to find others if anyone knew of them. Maybe some serbian saints like Nikolai or Justin, or some American ones like Alexis or Peter?

by Arsenios
Fri 11 July 2003 1:29 pm
Forum: Sacred Scripture
Topic: Pregnant Orthodoxy
Replies: 4
Views: 3762

Pregnant Orthodoxy

I see a child being born before my eyes, and it is a wondrous thing to witness such a birth! The pains of labor, yes they are present--yet the yoke is good, and the burden light. (Matt. 11:30) The husband had wedded this lovely bride and encouraged her to become pregnant; to give birth: "my lo...
by Arsenios
Thu 10 July 2003 2:56 pm
Forum: True Orthodox Christian Churches
Topic: What...
Replies: 44
Views: 11326

I am happy that this is a place where traditionalists can discuss things, but I am let down that there are so few inquirers and non-Orthodox here. Many of the traditionalist lists can get very nasty and hostile but this seems like a nice edifying place for discussion. It's too bad more people do not...
by Arsenios
Thu 10 July 2003 1:56 pm
Forum: Praxis
Topic: The divorce of orthopraxy from daily life
Replies: 14
Views: 6252

...I think the real reason there are problems in the mainline Orthodox Churches isn't the calendar or the other externals. The externals are only designed to help and guide the internal and it is wrong to get too caught up in the externals ...I feel that all the problems of ecumenism and modernism ...