Category: Blog Archive
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Church left out of 9/11 renewal
Source: USA Today NEW YORK — Towers are rising again at the site of the World Trade Center, a place of devastation turned into a construction hub. But the cross-topped belfry of St. Nicholas Church isn’t among them. Nine years after it was destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the little Greek Orthodox church that…
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St. Matthew Passion NY City Premiere Set for February 2011
Deborah Belonick, Advancement Information Officer, St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, www.svots.edu 914-961-8313 ext 363, 914-961-4507 FAX, deborah@svots.edu [SVOTS Communications Yonkers, NY] The English-language U.S. premiere of the St. Matthew Passion, by renowned Russian Orthodox composer and churchman Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, will debut in New York City on February 7, 2011. St. Vladimirs Orthodox Theological…
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Can There Be Morality Without God?
Introductory remarks given at the debate held at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. By: Fr. Hans Jacobse I want to thank the Orthodox Christian Fellowship and the Secular Student Alliance of UMBC for their invitation to debate this evening. I am looking forward to a healthy and vigorous debate that is not only academically…
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12 Sayings of Elder Porphyrios
It’s Christmas Lent and we are to prepare for Nativity. This might help:
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If by Rudyard Kipling
I ran across this poem I read years ago. It is still good, actually even more meaningful the older I get. If If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their…