Behold now, what is so good or so pleasant as for brethren to dwell together in unity! Psalm 132:1 LXX / Psalm 133:1 The Feast of Pentecost is the celebration of the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles on the fiftieth day after the Resurrection, ten days after the Ascension–and the Church has…
Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. Psalm 24:7 The Feast of the Ascension is the celebration of Christ’s bodily ascent into heaven on the fortieth day after his Resurrection, completing the cycle of his post-Resurrection appearances to his followers….
“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?” –Matthew 7:15–16 “In the light of our Agreed Statement on Christology as well as of the above common affirmations, we have…
A reflection on the Holy Fire of 1579, the making of an anti-Armenian legend, and the hard work of ecumenical memory “One is the true God, Jesus Christ; one is the true faith, that of the Orthodox Christians!” —The Cry of the Orthodox Arabs at the Split Column, 1579 (as retold by the monk Parthenius,…
How can two Christian families, divided for over fifteen centuries, both still call themselves Orthodox–and what does that weighty claim ask of us? “The Church, though dispersed throughout the whole world, even to the ends of the earth, has received from the apostles and their disciples this faith…carefully preserves it. She also believes these points…