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We experience Orthodox Joy most prayerfully and powerfully during
the Divine Liturgy. Focusing on seven virtues, this book offers
practical advice for our daily journey by calling us to strive
towards living a different virtue every day. After receiving the
Eucharist with a deep and abiding joy during Mass, our most joyful
union and communion with God, we dedicate each day of the week to
these virtues: Monday, Humility; Tuesday, Purity; Wednesday,
Holiness; Thursday, Love; Friday, Longsuffering; Saturday, Prayer;
and Sunday, our return to Joy: The Joy of Orthodoxy. Deacon David
Lochbihler, J.D., celebrated The Joy of Orthodoxy on the day of his
Diaconate Ordination during the Feast of Saint Patrick in 2019 at
Saint Patrick Orthodox Church in Virginia. He also teaches fourth
grade at The Fairfax Christian School in Northern Virginia. After
graduating summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame and
cum laude from the University of Texas School of Law, Deacon David
worked as a Chicago attorney for three years before becoming a
teacher and coach for three decades. He earned Master's degrees in
Elementary Education, Biblical Studies, and Orthodox Theology. His
varsity high school basketball and soccer teams captured four
N.V.I.A.C. conference championships. Deacon David authored Prayers
to Our Lady East and West in 2021.
"Prayer is a refuge of God's great mercy to the human race." The
refuge is a place of inner stillness and peace where the heart is
fully opened to the embrace of God's love. It is a return to the
ancient paradise from which the human race, in Adam, had to depart
because of disobedience to the command of God. The Refuge is an
exposition of the concrete actions we should take if we truly
desire to live with and in God. It weaves together meditations on
scripture (from the Psalms in particular) and amplifies these with
the wisdom of early Christian saints, in particular the ascetical
writings of St John of the Ladder, St Macarius the Great and St
Isaac the Syrian. It is an active exhortation for us to reacquire
the original nobility with which God fashioned us in the beginning.
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be
available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open
Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.
The Stranger at the Feast is a pathbreaking ethnographic study of
one of the world's oldest and least-understood religious
traditions. Based on long-term ethnographic research on the Zege
peninsula in northern Ethiopia, the author tells the story of how
people have understood large-scale religious change by following
local transformations in hospitality, ritual prohibition, and
feeding practices. Ethiopia has undergone radical upheaval in the
transition from the imperial era of Haile Selassie to the modern
secular state, but the secularization of the state has been met
with the widespread revival of popular religious practice. For
Orthodox Christians in Zege, everything that matters about religion
comes back to how one eats and fasts with others. Boylston shows
how practices of feeding and avoidance have remained central even
as their meaning and purpose has dramatically changed: from a means
of marking class distinctions within Orthodox society, to a marker
of the difference between Orthodox Christians and other religions
within the contemporary Ethiopian state.
This book is a critical study of the interaction between Russian
Church and society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
century. At a time of rising nationalist movement throughout
Europe, Orthodox patriots advocated for the place of the Church as
a unifying force, central to the identity and purpose of the
burgeoning, yet increasingly religiously diverse Russian Empire.
Their views were articulated in a variety of ways. Bishops such as
Metropolitan Antony Khrapovitsky - a founding hierarch of the
Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia - and other members of the
clergy expressed their vision of Russia through official
publications (including ecclesiastical journals), sermons, the
organization of pilgrimages and the canonization of saints. On the
other hand, religious intellectuals (such as the famous philosopher
Vladimir Soloviev and the controversial former-Marxist Sergey
Bulgakov) promoted what was often a variant vision of the nation
through the publication of books and articles. Even the once
persecuted Old Believers, emboldened by a religious toleration
edict of 1905, sought to claim a role in national leadership. And
many - in particularly famous painter Mikhail Vasnetsov - looked to
art and architecture as a way of defining the religious ideals of
modern Russia. Whilst other studies exist that draw attention to
the voices in the Church typified as "liberal" in the years leading
up to the Revolution, this work introduces the reader to a wide
range of "conservative" opinion that equally strove for spiritual
renewal and the spread of the Gospel. Ultimately neither the
"conservative" voices presented here nor those of their
better-known "liberal" protagonists were able to prevent the
calamity that befell Russia with the Bolshevik revolution in 1917.
Grounded in original research conducted in the newly accessible
libraries and archives of post-Soviet Russia, this study is
intended to reveal the wider relevance of its topic to an ongoing
discussion of the relationship between national or ethnic
identities on the one hand and the self-understanding of Orthodox
Christianity as a universal and transformative Faith on the other.
Marcus Pasha Simaika (1864-1944) was born to a prominent Coptic
family on the eve of the inauguration of the Suez Canal and the
British occupation of Egypt. From a young age, he developed a
passion for Coptic heritage and devoted his life to shedding light
on centuries of Christian Egyptian history that had been neglected
by ignorance or otherwise belittled and despised. He was not a
professional archaeologist, an excavator, or a specialist scholar
of Coptic language and literature. Rather, his achievement lies in
his role as a visionary administrator who used his status to pursue
relentlessly his dream of founding a Coptic Museum and preserving
endangered monuments. During his lengthy career, first as a civil
servant, then as a legislator and member of the Coptic community
council, he maneuvered endlessly between the patriarch and the
church hierarchy, the Coptic community council, the British
authorities, and the government to bring them together in his fight
to save Coptic heritage. This fascinating biography draws upon
Simaika's unpublished memoirs as well as on other documents and
photographs from the Simaika family archive to deepen our
understanding of several important themes of modern Egyptian
history: the development of Coptic archaeology and heritage
studies, Egyptian-British interactions during the colonial and
semi-colonial eras, shifting balances in the interaction of
clergymen and the lay Coptic community, and the ever-sensitive
evolution of relations between Copts and their Muslim countrymen.
The only comprehensive critical anthology of theological and
historical aspects related to Florovsky's thought by an
international group of leading academics and church personalities.
It is the only book in English translation of Florovsky's key study
in French - "The Body of the Living Christ: An Orthodox
Interpretation of the Church". The contributors tackle a broad
range of subjects that comprise the theological legacy of one of
the most influential theologians of the twentieth century. The
essays examine the life and work of Florovsky, his theology and
theological methodology, as well as ecclesiology and ecumenism. A
must-have volume for those who study Florovsky and his legacy.
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Two leading academic scholars offer the first comprehensive source
reader on the Eastern Orthodox church for the English-speaking
world. Designed specifically for students and accessible to readers
with little or no previous knowledge of theology or religious
history, this essential, one-of-a-kind work frames, explores, and
interprets Eastern Orthodoxy through the use of primary sources and
documents. Lively introductions and short narratives that touch on
anthropology, art, law, literature, music, politics, women's
studies, and a host of other areas are woven together to provide a
coherent and fascinating history of the Eastern Orthodox Christian
tradition.
The memoirs presented in Women of the Catacombs offer a rare
close-up account of the underground Orthodox community and its
priests during some of the most difficult years in Russian history.
The catacomb church in the Soviet Union came into existence in the
1920s and played a significant part in Russian national life for
nearly fifty years. Adherents to the Orthodox faith often referred
to the catacomb church as the "light shining in the dark." Women of
the Catacombs provides a first-hand portrait of lived religion in
its social, familial, and cultural setting during this tragic
period. Until now, scholars have had only brief, scattered
fragments of information about Russia's illegal church organization
that claimed to protect the purity of the Orthodox tradition. Vera
Iakovlevna Vasilevskaia and Elena Semenovna Men, who joined the
church as young women, offer evidence on how Russian Orthodoxy
remained a viable, alternative presence in Soviet society, when all
political, educational, and cultural institutions attempted to
indoctrinate Soviet citizens with an atheistic perspective. Wallace
L. Daniel's translation not only sheds light on Russia's religious
and political history, but also shows how two educated women
maintained their personal integrity in times when prevailing
political and social headwinds moved in an opposite direction.
We experience Orthodox Joy most prayerfully and powerfully during
the Divine Liturgy. Focusing on seven virtues, this book offers
practical advice for our daily journey by calling us to strive
towards living a different virtue every day. After receiving the
Eucharist with a deep and abiding joy during Mass, our most joyful
union and communion with God, we dedicate each day of the week to
these virtues: Monday, Humility; Tuesday, Purity; Wednesday,
Holiness; Thursday, Love; Friday, Longsuffering; Saturday, Prayer;
and Sunday, our return to Joy: The Joy of Orthodoxy. Deacon David
Lochbihler, J.D., celebrated The Joy of Orthodoxy on the day of his
Diaconate Ordination during the Feast of Saint Patrick in 2019 at
Saint Patrick Orthodox Church in Virginia. He also teaches fourth
grade at The Fairfax Christian School in Northern Virginia. After
graduating summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame and
cum laude from the University of Texas School of Law, Deacon David
worked as a Chicago attorney for three years before becoming a
teacher and coach for three decades. He earned Master's degrees in
Elementary Education, Biblical Studies, and Orthodox Theology. His
varsity high school basketball and soccer teams captured four
N.V.I.A.C. conference championships. Deacon David authored Prayers
to Our Lady East and West in 2021.
A Psalter for Prayer is the first major English edition to include
all the prayers needed to read the Psalter at home. In addition,
the contents include many texts not easily found in English, such
as the Rite for Singing the Twelve Psalms, directions for reading
the Psalter for the Departed and much more. The Psalms and Nine
Biblical Canticles have been adapted from the classic Miles
Coverdale translation of the Book of Psalms and the King James
Version of the Bible. The text has been carefully edited to agree
with the original Greek of the Septuagint, as well as to the Latin
and Church Slavonic translations.
The Deceitful Onion Bulb. A Blessing to Smuggle. The Conjuror of
Rain. In this collection of stories as whimsical as their titles,
award-winning author Olesia Nikolaeva poignantly recounts life for
Christian believers in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. In a manner
reminiscent of the bestselling Everyday SaintsEthese tales reveal a
common theme - the subtle, sometimes imperceptible movement of
Divine Providence at work in the lives of saints and sinners alike.
Her writings bring us to what the ancient Celts called "thin
places" where the boundaries of heaven and earth meet and the
sacred and the secular can no longer be distinguished.
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