The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

"Ashes to ashes; dust to dust"

IMO, purely historical. The "veneration of relics" is another area where the Church used faith to raise money. Martin Luther was right.

"And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the ...

These examples on profanation remind us about the tragedy that occurred in 1993 at Optina Pustina, one of the most famous monasteries in Russia. At Easter time that year two monks, Ferafont and Trofim, and the archmonk Vasilij were killed by a knife i with the mark "666". After the arrest the ...

Can I ask a question? Does ROCOR, recognize a "Church" of Greek Schismatics called ΓΟΧ or GOC (Genuine Orthodox Christians), also known as "Matthewites"??? Does it recognize the Archidiocese of Greece (Archibishop Christodoulos), that has the New Calendar, and is recognized by MT. ATHOS? Does it ...

Οι δοκιμασίες είναι Ε Υ Λ Ο Γ Ι Α. Γι' αυτό και τολμά να πει ο Προφήτης Δαυίδ, «Δοκίμασόν με, Κύριε, και πείρασόν με» (Ψαλμοί 25/κε' 2)! Ο Θεός ασφαλώς δεν τις προκαλεί, αλλά η αμαρτία και η ατέλεια που κυριαρχεί στον κόσμο. Επιτρέπει να τις γευόμαστε όμως ο Κύριος, μέχρι ενός σημείου, για να ...

Sounds to me like you are trying to convince yourself.

The contradictions between the God in the Old Testament and the God in the new are many. Who knows why? I certainly can't seemt to get an answer to this question.

My dear brother Tom, there are no contradictions. Killing is a crime, unless ...

In the times of the Old Testament, God had commanded the extermination of some Canaanite tribes that had inhabited a few particular places. For centuries, these people practiced incest, sodomy, bestiality and human sacrifice. Parents used to burn their firstborn children alive in order to honor ...