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by GOCPriestMark
Mon 5 October 2015 2:09 pm
Forum: Inquiring into Orthodoxy
Topic: Question about the Calendar of Orthodox vs God's Calendar
Replies: 5
Views: 3046

Re: Question about the Calendar of Orthodox vs God's Calendar

Why does the Orthodox Church use their own calendars instead of God's revealed calendar in divinely inspired Scripture. And doesn't it say in Daniel that the Antichrist thinks to change times and laws? So what is going on here? What do you understand to be "God's revealed calendar"? Also ...
by GOCPriestMark
Wed 19 March 2014 4:08 pm
Forum: Praxis
Topic: Traditional and healthful Lenten Orthodox recipes
Replies: 18
Views: 27399

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: 11108

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 i...
by GOCPriestMark
Fri 4 October 2013 2:30 pm
Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
Topic: Icons in World Orthodoxy
Replies: 7
Views: 3638

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: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
Topic: Icons in World Orthodoxy
Replies: 7
Views: 3638

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: 17169

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, cov...
by GOCPriestMark
Sat 13 July 2013 4:40 pm
Forum: True Orthodox Christian Churches
Topic: Empress Irene of Athens
Replies: 4
Views: 2633

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 Byzantin...