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    Apostasy

    Apostasy is permitted by God – do not attempt to stop it with your powerless hand. Flee from it yourself, protect yourself from it; that is enough for you to do. Learn to know the spirit of the age, study it, so whenever possible you will be able to avoid its influence…Only God’s special mercy is able to stop this all-destroying moral epidemic, to stop it for a while, because it is necessary that everything foretold by the Scriptures happen. Judging by the spirit of the times and the intellectual ferment, one must suppose that the structure of the Church, which has been shaking for some time, will fall quickly…

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    It’s Time to Prepare

    Bishop Damascene, who in the world was Dimitry Dimitrievich Tsedrik, was born in Cherson, into the family of a poor postal official.  The whole family was penetrated by an elevated Christian spirit.  This is shown by the fact that the brother of Bishop Damascene, Nicholas, became a priest, and at the very beginning of the October Revolution in 1917 was executed by shooting for his fearless confession of the faith and his accusations against the Bolsheviks.  Bishop Damascene received his higher education in an agricultural institute, which he finished with the title of agronomist. Later, during his exile in the region of Turukhan, this education came in very handy for…

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    The Failure of Hedonism

    By Justin Marler Whether subliminal or completely overt, we are told that we should do what we want when we want. “Just do it!” or “You deserve it!” or “Enjoy yourself!” “Do what you want as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone” is the prevailing motto in our culture and age. We are so entrenched in this that it is a built-in philosophy and way of life for most of us. We get this messaging from all advertising, music and movies, and virtually all media. We are trained in this philosophy from childhood. Selfishness becomes the norm as we get older. As adults we consume, buy, take and feed our…

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    Commandments and Anti-Commandments

    “Amen; yes, come, Lord Jesus”  (Rev. 22:20) Here is the longing of the true Christian heart. From it is ever welling up a desire for Christ the Lord; a seeking of Him ever more and more. This is both personal and corporate. It is both an ongoing and reoccurring event and simultaneously one of most singular and unrepeatable uniqueness. The daily cry of the true Christian heart is “come Lord Jesus,” come today, this hour and minute and purify me of all impurity, wash me of my sin. Come Lord Jesus. This is the pulse of the Christian heart. This cry will find its final culmination at the end of…

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    Holy Zeal

    Links with the Holy FathersIntroduction by Fr Seraphim Rose In our confused days, when a hundred conflicting voices claim to speak for Orthodoxy, it is essential to know whom one can trust as spokesmen for true Orthodoxy. It is not enough to claim to speak for Patristic Orthodoxy; one must be in the genuine tradition of the Holy Fathers, not merely “rediscovering” them in a modern academy or seminary, but actually receiving their tradition from one’s own fathers. A merely clever explainer of the Patristic doctrine is not in this tradition, but only one who, not trusting his own judgment or that of his peers, is constantly asking of his…

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    2020 Vision: From Blindness to Sight in the Age of Collapse

    “Life in the hive puckered up my night, / A kiss of death, the embrace of life.” –Television, “Marquee Moon” When we were born, OUR LUNGS INHALED CHAOS, and when our umbilical cords were cut, we traded mothers for motherboards. No longer linked to human wombs, our navels found new nutrition: We plugged—as by a USB cable—into the mainframe of a society hypnotized by gadgets, machinery, and glowing screens. This mainframe, this biomechanical machine, devoured our being and with it, the human being. It became our babysitter, our pedagogue, our hero, our sibling, our uncle, our elder, our entertainment: our closest, most sadistic and inhuman friend. Our souls, discounted as…

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    The Thorns of Apostasy

    “And that which fell into the thorns, these are the ones who heard, and while they are going on their way, they being choked by the cares and wealth and pleasures of life, and do not bring forth fruit to perfection” (Lk. 8:14). In another place our Lord says a similar thing, “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matt. 6:21). If the heart is preoccupied with material, passing, things, then it will labor with all its might to preserve them. For the materialized heart, all that exists is physical existence. The preservation of material existence becomes the primary goal of the material-man; indeed it becomes the all-encompassing driving factor.…

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    The Age of Distraction: Part I

    In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, One God. Amen.  “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.”   St Luke 10:41-42 In the age of distraction we are fighting an invisible war against the demons who want to do everything they can to pull us away from Christ. We constantly work against our focus on Christ. Instead, we should be sitting at His feet. But, what does this mean for the 21st century Christian who has almost all the information in the world at his fingertips?…

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    The Cosmic Significance of Tsar Nicholas II

    “Give ear, you that rule over the multitudes and boast of many nations. For your dominion was given you from the Lord, and your sovereignty from the Most High, Who will search out your works and inquire into your plans” Wisdom 6:2-3. The Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II is, I would contend, one of the most significant saints of the past century and of our “modern” times. Clearly, every saint is of incalculable worth; yet there have been certain saints, throughout the course of human history, who occupy such a standing that their actions on the providential path which God ordained for them have vast implications for the world at large. Other…

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    Speak and We Obey!

    “In times past, a table used to stand in the corner wherein the holy icons were. Then, however, that space will be occupied by seductive instruments for the deception of men. Many who have departed away from the Truth will say: we need to watch and hear the news. And it is in the news that antichrist will appear; and they will accept him.”   St. Lavrenty (Lawrence) of Chernigov (he was born in 1868 and reposed in the Lord in 1950.) In times past, humanity was mindful of God. Sovereignty belongs to Him alone. Western civilization of olde was indisputably Christian. Inevitably it, civilization, was imperfect, there are no perfect institutions…

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    Degrees of Spiritual Perfection

    By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos “The most important work of the Church is to cure man.  Therefore the Orthodox Church is a Hospital, an infirmary of the soul.  This does not mean that the Church disregards other domains of pastoral activity, since she aims at the whole of man, consisting of both body and soul.  She cares indeed for the physical, economic and social problems as well; yet the main weight of her pastoral service is put on the soul’s therapy, for when man’s soul is cured then many other intractable problems are solved. Some people accuse the Orthodox Church of not being very much involved in social problems.  However,…