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The Divine Liturgy Sustains The World

July 16, 2011 Filed under: Leave a Comment

From the blog, Opuscula Theologica. "The Divine Liturgy sustains the world! And we are so unworthy of it! There are priests who live this awesome Mystery at every Divine Liturgy. A priest once told me something that a very simple and good priest had once confessed to him, “I have such a hard … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General, Priest Tagged With: divine liturgy, Elder Paisios, Mt. Athos, mystery, Priesthood

The Prayer Of A Priest

July 12, 2011 Filed under: Leave a Comment

Papa Dimitri Gagastathis

by Fr. Dimitri Gagastathis “Jesus the Good Shepherd, I thank Thee because Thou hast given to me, the small and weak one, the same command that Thou gavest to Thine Apostle, when Thou didst tell him, ‘Feed my lambs, feed my sheep.’ (John 21:17). Never would I dare, O Lord, to accept such a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General, Priest Tagged With: Fr. Dimitri Gagastathis, prayer, priest

Invisibility While Making God Seen

June 30, 2011 Filed under: Leave a Comment

The Interchangable Functionary

From A Protestant View On Orthodoxy “We could take a cue from Orthodoxy, whose priests stand with their backs to their congregation, leading a liturgy that is neither clever nor impassioned, but simply beautiful, like stone smoothed by centuries of rhythmic tides. It’s an austere ritual, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: divine, God, invisibility, mystery, orthodoxy, priest

Was Adam an Actual or Symbolic Figure, According to the Fathers of the Church?

June 25, 2011 Filed under: 5 Comments

From the Orthodox Outlet for Dogmatic Enquiries. I've included this article due to a multitude of requests from seminarians about the Church teaching regarding the historical reality of Adam and what the Church, not the seminary Bible Studies professor, actually teaches. This is a great article to … [Read more...]

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Basic Pre-requisites For Ordination

June 7, 2011 Filed under: 2 Comments

by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos It is certain that the apostles transmitted this priesthood of Christ through a definite sacrament called the Sacrament of Holy Orders. The Church also fixed the canonical prerequisites for anyone to receive this great grace and to exercise this highest … [Read more...]

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Between Heaven and Earth: Pastoral Reflections on the Psychodynamics of the Clergy Family

June 6, 2011 Filed under: 1 Comment

by the Rev. Vasileios Thermos, M.D., Ph.D. Our family is a special gift of God in our lives. It is through our family  that we struggle for salvation, for personal integration, for well-being.  The apostolic tradition of a married priesthood should be considered an invaluable blessing of God in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clergy Wives, Featured, General, Priest Tagged With: clergy, family, Orthodox

The Priesthood As Vocation

May 26, 2011 Filed under: Leave a Comment

". . . the priesthood unites all of the callings to which man may respond and cannot be thought of as just one of them. " INTRODUCTION Since it is the divine grace that elevates a man, through the laying-on-of hands, to be a priest, it is clear that the priesthood is unlike any other vocation … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bishop, Deacon, Featured, General, Priest, Vocation Tagged With: Orthodox, Priesthood, Vocation

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