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- Striving For An Orthodox Way of Life
This life is a spiritual struggle. To conquer or to be defeated! If we conquer, we will enjoy the fruits of victory throughout all eternity; if we are defeated, we will endure the horrors of destruction throughout all eternity. This life is a duel between man and all that is contrary to the Divine. "This life is not a joke or a play thing," says Father John of Kronstadt, . . .the capricious play around with time given to us for preparing for eternity, play around with empty words. They gather together . . . they entertain themselves. All life for them is an amusement. But, woe unto them who are only entertaining themselves."
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- The Meaning of Pascha
By Patriarch Pavle of Serbia of blessed memory
The Resurrection must be our own Experience
Brothers and sisters, our faith in Christ's resurrection and in the coming universal resurrection is not a delusion It is, on the contrary, our directly experienced spiritual knowledge. We share this knowledge, however, to the extent that we are true Orthodox Christians, which is to say, to the extent that we live in the Church. And To live in the Churchmeans to experience her as the Union of God and man, the Assembly of the Saints, the People of God, and not as an ideology or, still less, a religion.
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- Great & Holy Pascha
If any man be devout and love God, let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast. If any man be a wise servant, let him rejoicing enter into the joy of his Lord. If any have labored long in fasting, let him now receive his recompense.
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- About the Orthodox Church
Historically, the contemporary Orthodox church stands in direct continuity with the earliest Christian communities founded in regions of the Eastern Mediterranean by the apostles of Jesus. The Orthodox Christian Church, also sometimes called the Eastern Church, or the Greek Orthodox Church, claims to have preserved the original and apostolic Christian faith. Figures for its worldwide membership are estimated at around 200 million.
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