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by GOCPriestMark
Wed 19 March 2014 4:08 pm
Forum: Praxis
Topic: Traditional and healthful Lenten Orthodox recipes
Replies: 20
Views: 55540

Re: Traditional and healthful Lenten Orthodox recipes

Maria wrote:

Does anyone have recipes for making home-made fermented vegetables?

Try this: http://www.culturesforhealth.com/how-to ... vegetables

by GOCPriestMark
Tue 22 October 2013 4:26 pm
Forum: Religious, Moral, and Ethical Topics
Topic: Divorce
Replies: 44
Views: 18863

Re: Divorce

Unfortunately, divorce is quite common in the Orthodox Church. A divorce is granted if the couple's spiritual father deems it is for the spiritual well-being of the individuals.
Can this be substantiated somehow? I have never heard of a divorce in the Orthodox Church. (Please tell me you were not ...
by GOCPriestMark
Fri 4 October 2013 2:30 pm
Forum: Heterodox Groupings / Debate
Topic: Icons in World Orthodoxy
Replies: 7
Views: 5909

Re: Icons in World Orthodoxy

If you want to know, here is his web-site: http://www.holyicon.org

by GOCPriestMark
Fri 4 October 2013 2:07 pm
Forum: Heterodox Groupings / Debate
Topic: Icons in World Orthodoxy
Replies: 7
Views: 5909

Re: Icons in World Orthodoxy

Maria wrote:

What saint is this supposed to represent. It is hard to read his Greek lettering.

The Greek lettering says: Saint Katherine.

by GOCPriestMark
Wed 21 August 2013 12:50 pm
Forum: Sacred Scripture
Topic: Holy Fathers' Commentaries on the Gospels
Replies: 6
Views: 22972

Re: Holy Fathers' Commentaries on the Gospels

The Eerdman's Series is on-line:
http://www.ccel.org/fathers.html
Sixty-three homilies of Saint Gregory Palamas on the Sunday and Festal Gospels have been published:
http://thaborian.com/bookstore_061003_1.html
Also the commentary of his contemporary Saint Philotheos Patriarch of Constantinople ...
by GOCPriestMark
Sat 13 July 2013 4:40 pm
Forum: True Orthodox Christian Churches
Topic: Empress Irene of Athens
Replies: 4
Views: 4072

Re: Empress Irene of Athens

"The first woman ever to rule by herself over the --- ROMAN ?? --- Empire".
Byzantine, yes, but Roman sounds to my ears as a misrepresentation, especially to uninformed Western readers who
were brought up associating the might of Rome as a great Empire with the smaller and weaker Byzantine one ...
by GOCPriestMark
Fri 15 March 2013 3:56 pm
Forum: Religious, Moral, and Ethical Topics
Topic: The Astonishing Time Signature of Pope Francis
Replies: 10
Views: 5869

Re: The Astonishing Time Signature of Pope Francis

Icxypion wrote:

there are 3 thirteens in this time signature. And 3x13=33

Really? Don't you mean 39?