Dear brothers and sisters: A primary goal of the Coptic Studies program at Claremont Graduate University (CGU) is todevelop career Coptologists. In the...
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Mark Sedrak
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Sep 3, 2010 8:04 am
If you love the truth, love silence. This will make you illumined, sun-like, in God; it will deliver you from the illusions of ignorance. Isaac the Syrian The...
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The Orthodox Bookstore
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Sep 8, 2010 7:00 pm
The Jesus Prayer: “My Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.” Bring in the Ecclesiastical New Year with the practice of the invocation...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Sep 9, 2010 10:31 pm
Examine yourself daily in the sight of God, and discover which of the passions is in your heart; and cast it out to escape His judgment. Isaiah the Solitary,...
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The Orthodox Bookstore
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Sep 14, 2010 12:05 am
Prayer is action; to pray is to be highly effective. Of no prayer is this more true than of the Jesus Prayer. While it is singled out for a particular mention ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Sep 16, 2010 12:08 am
Once at Scetis Abba Arsenius was ill and he was without even a scrap of linen. As he had nothing with which to buy any, he received some through another's ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Sep 21, 2010 12:21 am
Death's awful mystery comes upon us suddenly, and soul and body are violently severed, divorced from their natural union by the will of God. What shall we do ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Sep 21, 2010 7:40 pm
For then is it possible for us truly to fashion ourselves in the likeness of God when like skilled painters we express His features in ourselves [as on a...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Sep 28, 2010 10:14 pm
When one objectively surveys the history of the human race one must acknowledge that there has never been a better human than Jesus; and this means that there ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Oct 1, 2010 1:47 am
We ought to pray, not according to any bodily habit nor with a habit of loud noise nor out of a custom of silence or on bended knees. But we ought soberly to ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Oct 7, 2010 1:53 am
An old man said, “This voice cries to humankind until the last breath: Repent today!” The World of the Desert Fathers ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Oct 9, 2010 2:02 am
Grace is not merely faith, but also active prayer. For the latter shows in practice true faith, made living by Jesus, for it comes from the Spirit through ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Oct 11, 2010 5:22 am
You are cordially invited to the annual Religions in Conversation Conference in Claremont, Friday 15 October 2010, from 9 am to 6 pm. The theme of the...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Oct 13, 2010 5:17 am
Through the centuries there have appeared many heretical teachings which distorted the revealed truth, and which the holy Fathers confronted "with the ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Oct 20, 2010 3:05 am
All good works are the fruit of charity...charity teaches us not only by words but also by deeds. John Chrysostom From: Daily Readings from the Writings of St....
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Oct 20, 2010 3:07 am
“Therefore be sure that every prayer that is not fulfilled is certainly harmful; but a prayer that is answered is beneficial. The Giver of gifts is just and...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Oct 21, 2010 1:07 pm
There is one thing more important than all possible books and ideas, and that is the example of an Orthodox staretz, before whom you can lay each of you...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Oct 25, 2010 2:06 pm
The heart governs the whole body and when God's grace possess the heart, then it reigns over all thoughts. This is because the heart is the place where the...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Oct 26, 2010 8:28 pm
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Oct 27, 2010 2:52 pm
The Eucharist not only points to the work of the divine Economy, in other words, to the purpose of the divine incarnation, but in an apocalyptic way it also ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Oct 29, 2010 5:53 am
When the remembrance of God lives in the heart and there maintains the fear of Him, then all goes well; but when His remembrance grows weak or is kept only in ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Nov 2, 2010 1:48 am
When you pray to God in time of temptation do not say, 'Take this or that away from me', but pray like this: 'O Jesus Christ, sovereign Master, help me and do ...
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The Orthodox Bookstore
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Nov 4, 2010 2:18 am
The word of God is food for the soul. The word of God is both strength and light for the soul.... All the saints emphasized the necessity of reading the Holy ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Nov 9, 2010 4:27 am
Some labor and struggle hard to earn forgiveness, but better than these is the man who forgets the wrongs done to him. Forgive quickly and you will be ...
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The Orthodox Bookstore
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Nov 10, 2010 8:38 pm
The Law, remember, had been burdensome to everyone, conveying shadows and types; far from imparting instruction for mind and heart in regard to what is ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Nov 15, 2010 9:30 pm
“The soul...can recover its health if it will use the virtues as the path to sobriety. The virtues however, are woven through with sorrow and afflictions.”...
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The Orthodox Bookstore
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Nov 16, 2010 2:34 am
Bodily fasting alone is not enough to bring about perfect self-restraint and true purity; it must be accompanied by contrition of heart, intense prayer to God,...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Nov 18, 2010 2:42 am
Because we become careless about our own faults and do not lament our own death (as the Fathers put it), we lose the power to correct ourselves and we are ...
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Mark Sedrak
marksedrak
Nov 23, 2010 5:52 am
We happen to be entrusted with a treasure the theology of Orthodox Tradition. Orthodox theology is the culmination and product of centuries of experiences that...
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The Orthodox Bookstore
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Nov 24, 2010 6:28 pm
My brother sinner, this is the preparation you must undergo before you repent and go to confession. Know firstly that repentance, according to St. John of ...
