Stefan Morariu
Dormition Fast begins each year on August 1st and lasts two weeks (1-15 August). It is also known as Holy Great Lent or Saintmary’s Fast. It prepares Christians for two major celebrations in August: Transfiguration (6 August) and Assumption (15 August). The origin of this fast was fixed in the fifth century, when developed cult …
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One question that was constantly put to Fr. Arsenius was whether, given the rich experience of his life, with its heavy years of imprisonment and periods of retreat in the wilderness, a miracle had been worked on him. Father deftly avoided a direct answer, judging the question to be more of curiosity than of use. …
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If the first four Sundays of Triodion can be linked through what we call theology path or road believers in a direction favorable or contrary to the new assessed against our position towards God and neighbor, next Sunday as part of the relationship issues of freedom and dynamism of its acquisition. This freedom must be …
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