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by Isaakos
Thu 5 March 2015 11:50 am
Forum: Monasteries and the Monastic Life
Topic: Abbess MARIAM (+1954)
Replies: 13
Views: 35800

Re: Abbess MARIAM (+1954)

From what I have read the nuns went to wash her and I am guessing they were found partially protruding broken off in the muscle tissue.

I can look for the link...

The story of How Marina was chosen to be the Abbess Miriam is here:

http://churchsynaxarion.blogspot.gr/2010_09_01_archive.html?m=1 ...
by Isaakos
Thu 5 March 2015 1:38 am
Forum: Monasteries and the Monastic Life
Topic: Abbess MARIAM (+1954)
Replies: 13
Views: 35800

Re: Abbess MARIAM (+1954)

I seldom heard about Mother Mariam and recently read about her from a website that seems run by a World Orthodox person who reported things from the newspapers of this period. It appears she was accused of and condemned for : stealing the property of some person with fraud but also mistreatment ...
by Isaakos
Mon 2 March 2015 9:01 pm
Forum: Theology and Tradition
Topic: Can icons representing the Father be venerated?
Replies: 28
Views: 77221

Re: Which one of these is a valid icon and why?

I honestly can't say where I heard it. I thought the Trinity Icons were prohibited by the Pan-Orthodox synod of 1666?

I agree that the father can be depicted representationally. Cyprian I heard you were a member of the GOC?

by Isaakos
Mon 2 March 2015 12:05 pm
Forum: True Orthodox Christian Churches
Topic: Holy Protection Cathedral (GOC-Stephanos)
Replies: 5
Views: 4634

Holy Protection Cathedral (GOC-Stephanos)

I would like to dispel the rumors of the GOC being maniacal and fundamentalist and extremist.

Here is a brief account both of our Metropolitan Anthony Gavalas, and our Synod. Please read to see the lives of men who truly love God and bravely sacrifice themselves for the truth.

https://docs.google ...
by Isaakos
Fri 27 February 2015 3:58 pm
Forum: Religious, Moral, and Ethical Topics
Topic: NOVA: Quantum Leap = It takes a leap to believe
Replies: 45
Views: 38006

Re: NOVA: Quantum Leap = It takes a leap to believe

On the contrary, Lewis requested entry into the Orthodox Church, but his Ecumenist friends talked him out of it. His vision of salvation is clearly Orthodox, being an expression of deification:

From Mere Christianity

“He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind ...
by Isaakos
Fri 27 February 2015 12:38 am
Forum: Prayer Life
Topic: Forgiveness
Replies: 4
Views: 4673

Re: Forgiveness

God forgives, and I forgive.
Please forgive me a sinner.

by Isaakos
Wed 25 February 2015 5:53 pm
Forum: Theology and Tradition
Topic: Islam as a Christian Heresy
Replies: 1
Views: 12859

Islam as a Christian Heresy

interesting article!

The Heresy of the Ishmaelites:

http://orthodoxinfo.com/general/stjohn_islam.aspx

My favorite part:

When we ask again: ‘How is it that when he enjoined us in this book of yours not to do anything or receive anything without witnesses, you did not ask him: “First do you show ...