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  1. Arsenios

    Frequency of Communion?

    It is one Altar, one Priest, per day... Probably because Christ alone died only once that day... Rome does not follow this Canon, if I have them aright... The Lamb is taken from the center... The bread around the Lamb is the Antidoron... Given to those unprepared for Communion... ("in place...
  2. Arsenios

    What do you make of it?

    Chrysostom's commentary may prove useful to you... Even though I did not do all that well with it... There does seem to be an apposition between "These people" and as for "us"... Arsenios
  3. Arsenios

    Salvation

    My brother - This kind of smirkish arrogance is very unbecoming... Attend to the Holy Words of our Lord: Matthew 11:29 Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Please take this yoke upon yourself... Arsenios
  4. Arsenios

    Frequency of Communion?

    Frequency of Communion varies a great deal even within the EOC... Some Churches, mostly Eastern Block one ut sometimes more for those coming on pilgrimages... The Service of the Divine Liturgy takes 1-2 hours, depending on the Priest, and the Prosphora Loaves are 6-10" in diameter, according...
  5. Arsenios

    Leaven or unleavened bread

    Christ is the New Leaven... We have been consecrating leavened bread for 2000 years now, and counting... The Israelites were fleeing from Egypt taking unleavened bread for their flight... In the wilderness, they were fed manna from heaven... In Christ they have the super-essential Bread which...
  6. Arsenios

    Theosis and humanity.

    There are a lot of speculative misunderstandings regarding Theosis... I can be perceived as a condition of soul, which it is not... Because it is an event, and is the state of the soul within that event... The event lasts from less than a second to 40 days [Moses]... During that event, God is...
  7. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    Most importantly, preserve peace with your close ones, insofar as this depends on you. Consider that all sorts of sick people have gathered there in a group; this is so. For this reason you must relate to everyone as they do in a hospital. They don’t berate people there (i.e., in a...
  8. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    Moses teaches us by his own example to take our stand with virtue as with a kinsman and kill virtue's adversary. The victory of true faith is the death and destruction of idolatry. So also injustice is killed by righteousness and arrogance is slain by humility. St. Gregory of Nyssa
  9. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    The Book of Psalms contains everything useful that the other books have. It predicts the future, it recalls the past, it gives directions for living, it suggests the right behavior to adopt. It is, in short, a jewel case in which have been collected all the valid teachings in such a way...
  10. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    Where would there be opportunities for struggling for great deeds if we were not occasioned injury by our neighbours, if they did not offend us? St. John of Kronstadt
  11. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    Do not say: "I have been dishonest, an adulterer, I have committed grave offences innumerable times. Will He forgive them? Will he deign to forget them?" Listen rather to the Psalmist: "How great is your love, O Lord." (Ps. 31:19). Your sins piled one above the other do not overtop the...
  12. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    Let us force ourselves. Let us make a beginning and let us desire the good with all our heart. Because, even if we are not perfect, wanting to be is the beginning of our salvation. From wanting we come, with God's help, to struggling, and from struggling one is helped in acquiring the...
  13. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    Love and self-control free the soul from passions; spiritual reading and contemplation deliver the intellect from ignorance; and the state of prayer brings it into the presence of God Himself. St. Maximos the Confesso
  14. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    The word “world” has two meanings. First, the external world, fallen mankind, and secondlyour own fallen nature, with its passions and sinful tendencies, This world is subject to the power of the devil. Here he finds weapons with which he pursues and persecutes the disciple of Christ...
  15. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    Preserve a meek and peaceable disposition towards your brother, even when he cunningly or artfully, or somehow unintentionally deprives you of all you possess. Show then that you love God's image in him more than anything earthly and perishable, that your 'charity never faileth' (I...
  16. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    “We believe then, in One God, One beginning, having no beginning, Uncreated, Unbegotten, Imperishable and Immortal, Everlasting, Infinite, Uncircumscribed, Boundless, of Infinite Power, Simple, Uncompound, Incorporeal, without flux, Passionless, Unchangeable, Unalterable, Unseen, The...
  17. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    If man suppresses his stomach and his tongue, then he will be able to rule over himself. St. Poemen
  18. Arsenios

    Theosis and humanity.

    This issue goes back to the difference between Salvation in the Old Testament and Salvation in Christ... eg The difference between pre-Incarnate and post-Incarnate Salvation... And Christ saying that John the Baptist is the Greatest of the Old Testament Prophets, yet the least of those in the...
  19. Arsenios

    Theosis and humanity.

    One might think so, but this condition of soul, and the human person in its aftermath, predates the incarnation... The most famous of these is the Prophet Moses, who spent 40 days and nights on the Mountain with the Lord-God... His face was so lit up that the Israelites could not look upon it...
  20. Arsenios

    Theosis and humanity.

    Here is Elder Ephraim, one of the holiest men alive today, in his 90's, talking about hesychastic prayer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dETOVRuI3LM The whole focus of the Orthodox Faith is the solid establishment in one's soul of ongoing and personal relationship with God... It is the point...
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