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	<title>Good Guys Wear Black &#124; Discerning Your Vocation In The Orthodox Church</title>
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		<title>The Future of the Church</title>
		<link>http://goodguyswearblack.org/2012/05/09/the-future-of-the-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 19:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. John A. Peck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Fr. Peter Preble Yesterday a few parishioners and I went on a sort of pilgrimage to St. Tikhon’s Monastery in Pennsylvania.  I have written about my experience at this monastery in the past so I will not go into a lot of history about the monastery.  Follow this link to the monastery for a more<a class="more-link" href="http://goodguyswearblack.org/2012/05/09/the-future-of-the-church/" rel="nofollow">Read more&#x2026;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Significance of Apostolic Succession: Part 4</title>
		<link>http://goodguyswearblack.org/2012/05/09/the-significance-of-apostolic-succession-part-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 17:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. John A. Peck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Metropolitan Sergii (Stragorodsky) Part Four of Four. An understanding of the Ecumenical Church as a conglomerate of heterogenous parts. But this very attractive, broad and most pleasing to all theory cannot be attributed to the Church. The Church of Christ always understood its unity in the one Eucharist: &#8220;all commune from the one bread<a class="more-link" href="http://goodguyswearblack.org/2012/05/09/the-significance-of-apostolic-succession-part-4/" rel="nofollow">Read more&#x2026;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Significance of Apostolic Succession: Part 3</title>
		<link>http://goodguyswearblack.org/2012/05/07/the-significance-of-apostolic-succession-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 17:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. John A. Peck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Metropolitan Sergii (Stragorodsky) Part Three of Four. In contrast to the total rejection of any significance of Apostolic succession among the heterodox there are those, primarily among the heterodox who exaggerate this significance to an extreme. An ordination within the Apostolic succession is treated as an entity in itself, which can exist within and<a class="more-link" href="http://goodguyswearblack.org/2012/05/07/the-significance-of-apostolic-succession-part-3/" rel="nofollow">Read more&#x2026;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Significance of Apostolic Succession: Part 2</title>
		<link>http://goodguyswearblack.org/2012/05/02/the-significance-of-apostolic-succession-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 02:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. John A. Peck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Metropolitan Sergii (Stragorodsky) Part Two of Four. If the Orthodox Church receives heterodox clerics in their order because it recognizes their priesthood, how can we reconcile the accepted historical fact of changes in treating these groups by the Church, for example Roman Catholics? It should not be overlooked that the Church does not treat<a class="more-link" href="http://goodguyswearblack.org/2012/05/02/the-significance-of-apostolic-succession-part-2/" rel="nofollow">Read more&#x2026;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Significance of Apostolic Succession: Part 1</title>
		<link>http://goodguyswearblack.org/2012/05/01/the-significance-of-apostolic-succession-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 17:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. John A. Peck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Metropolitan Sergii (Stragorodsky) Yeah, it really is that important. The prestige of our contemporary Church hierarchy, its Divinely established rights and authority, rests on the historical fact of its Apostolic succession. This is the present teaching of the Orthodox Church, and such was its ancient teaching during the period of the &#8220;undivided&#8221; Church as<a class="more-link" href="http://goodguyswearblack.org/2012/05/01/the-significance-of-apostolic-succession-part-1/" rel="nofollow">Read more&#x2026;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Challenges of the Priesthood in Today’s Russia</title>
		<link>http://goodguyswearblack.org/2012/04/30/the-challenges-of-the-priesthood-in-todays-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. John A. Peck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though this article refers to the challenges of the priesthood in Russia, it applies equally in America. The following interview with His Eminence, Archbishop Mark of Yegoryevsk, offers a frank and revealing look at the challenges and temptations faced by clergy in contemporary Russia. While of specific interest to those wishing to understand the state<a class="more-link" href="http://goodguyswearblack.org/2012/04/30/the-challenges-of-the-priesthood-in-todays-russia/" rel="nofollow">Read more&#x2026;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Silent Clergy Killers: &#8216;Toxic&#8217; Congregations</title>
		<link>http://goodguyswearblack.org/2012/04/27/silent-clergy-killers-toxic-congregations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. John A. Peck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Huffington Post, with a hat tip to the American Orthodox Institute. They are called “clergy killers” — congregations where a small group of members are so disruptive that no pastor is able to maintain spiritual leadership for long. And yet ministers often endure the stresses of these dysfunctional relationships for months, or even years,<a class="more-link" href="http://goodguyswearblack.org/2012/04/27/silent-clergy-killers-toxic-congregations/" rel="nofollow">Read more&#x2026;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Awesomeness of the Priesthood</title>
		<link>http://goodguyswearblack.org/2012/04/11/the-awesomeness-of-the-priesthood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. John A. Peck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Fr. Peter Preble On Lazarus Saturday, April 7th, I had the great honor of participating in the ordination of one of my spiritual children. Subdeacon Michael became Fr. Deacon Michael in an amazing liturgical celebration. Every Liturgical celebration in the Orthodox Church is an amazing thing but this one was very special.   During<a class="more-link" href="http://goodguyswearblack.org/2012/04/11/the-awesomeness-of-the-priesthood/" rel="nofollow">Read more&#x2026;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Noetic Hierarchy</title>
		<link>http://goodguyswearblack.org/2012/03/13/the-noetic-hierarchy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. John A. Peck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by St. Maximus the Confessor The one who anoints his mind for the sacred contests and drives away passionate thoughts from it possesses the character of a deacon. The one who illumines it with knowledge of beings and obliberates counterfeit knowledge possesses that of a priest. Finally, the one who perfects it with the holy<a class="more-link" href="http://goodguyswearblack.org/2012/03/13/the-noetic-hierarchy/" rel="nofollow">Read more&#x2026;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Diaconal Vesture</title>
		<link>http://goodguyswearblack.org/2012/02/23/diaconal-vesture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. John A. Peck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Protodeacon David Kennedy This nice article comes from the Eastern Catholic site: The Diaconate In Christ. Apart from clerical attire, which for deacons is generally the same as priests, there is one vestment, namely the sticharion.  It is worn with the orarion and the epimanikia which properly speaking are insignia. The sticharion is a<a class="more-link" href="http://goodguyswearblack.org/2012/02/23/diaconal-vesture/" rel="nofollow">Read more&#x2026;</a>]]></description>
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