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✧ A PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND ✧ Have you ever longed to walk where our Lord Jesus Christ walked, to see with your own eyes the holy places sanctified by His earthly life, His Passion, and His glorious Resurrection? Here is your opportunity! Join us on a spiritual pilgrimage to the Holy Land, beginning January 8, the day after the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord according ...


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There are wounds that are visible to everyone, and there are wounds that a person carries quietly, known only to God and perhaps to a few souls who understand what has happened. Among the latter are the wounds inflicted by false accusation, malicious words, and the deliberate misrepresentation of another person’s life and intentions. It is painful to discover that words have ...


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Ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις. Ἐκ τοῦ Τυπογραφείου τοῦ Παναγίου Τάφου. ) Κοντάκιον. Ἦχος πλ. δ΄. Τῇ Ὑπερμάχῳ. Τῷ ζωοδόχῳ καὶ σεπτῷ Κυρίου μνήματι, νῦν παρεστῶτες εὐλαβείᾳ οἱ ἀνάξιοι, σὺν Ἀγγέλοις προσαγάγωμεν θείους ὕμνους, ἵν’ ὡς ἔχον ἁγιότητα ἀσύγκριτον, ἁγίασῃ καὶ ἡμᾶς τούτῳ προσπίπτοντας, καὶ κραυγάζοντας· χαῖρε Μνῆμα τρισόλβιον. Ἄγγελοι ἀοράτως ᾀεὶ φόβῳ κυκλοῦσι Χριστοῦ τὸν παμμακάρισ...


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To a Spiritual Child Regarding Luke of Crimea and How We, Genuine Orthodox Christians, Ought to View Him Dear ……., You asked me to inform you regarding the topic of Luke of Crimea and whether we, the Genuine Orthodox Christians, consider him a saint. First, brother, we must say what “The Saint” is. Holiness is the purpose of our stay in this world. The Church points out…

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I. I. Voloshin The Canonization by the Moscow Patriarchate of Archbishop Luke of Crimea (Voino-Yasenetsky) as a Sign of the Times The Lord called His disciples friends (John 15:14-15). They were deemed worthy of this because they accepted and strived in every way to keep His divine words, as He Himself promised: “If you abide in My word, you are truly My disciples…


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