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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 08 September 2009 00:13 |
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Nativity of our Lord Orthodox Church
Presents the Old World Festival
at the
Loy E. Harris Pavilion
(9201 Center Street, Manassas)
Saturday September 19
11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Foods, Crafts, Music & Dancing
Free Admission
Greek, Lebanese, Russian, East European
Come Eat, Dance and Play at the Harris Pavilion in Manassas. |
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Introducing the "St. Sophia Foundation" |
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Written by Page Updater
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Sunday, 30 August 2009 10:30 |
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http://stsophiafoundation.org/Home_Page.html |
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Something good to read... |
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Written by Page Updater
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Monday, 24 August 2009 08:46 |
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REFLECTION If you were to ask many people why they do not go to Church to pray, they will generally answer you: I have no time, I have to work! Just look at those people who only work and do not go to Church, placing their trust only in their work and compare them with those who divide their time between work and prayer and you will quickly be convinced that the latter are more well off and, what is more important, they are more satisfied. It is said about two neighboring tailors how unequal they were according to their work and prayer and according to their wealth and satisfaction. One of them had a large family and the other was a bachelor. The first had the habit of going to church every morning for prayer and the bachelor never went to church. Not only did the first work less but was even less a skillful master than the other. He had enough of everything and the other lacked everything. The first one asked the other how is it that he has everything although he works less? The one who prays to God [Bogomoljac a devout person] responded that he attends church every day and, along the way, finds lost gold and he invited his neighbor, the bachelor, to go with him to prayer and they will share the discovered gold. Both neighbors began to attend church regularly and soon both became equal in abundance as well as in satisfaction. Naturally, they found no gold along the way but the blessing of God multiplies the abundance of true devout men. Those who: "Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness" (St. Matthew 6:31), God adds and multiplies all that is necessary for their physical life. |
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Written by Page Updater
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Sunday, 30 August 2009 10:28 |
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The Sunday Bulletin is available here. HOMILY About the mysterious ancestry [generation] of Christ "…And who shall declare His generation?" (Isaiah 53:8). As a hidden source of a great river, thus for the Jews the ancestry of the Lord Jesus was hidden. They read and knew that the Messiah will be born in Bethlehem, and He was born in Bethlehem but they did not recognize Him. They knew that the Messiah will come from the lineage of David and He was born of the lineage of David through His Most-holy Mother, but they did not recognize or acknowledge Him. They read that He will be born of a Virgin, that He will flee to Egypt and that He will be called out of Egypt and that His forerunner will appear before Him, "Crying in the wilderness" (St. Mark 1:3), and that He will shine as a great light in the darkness and in the shadow of the deadly land of Zebulon and Naphthali and all the rest that the prophets foretold and wrote as a sign of His coming. Still, they did not recognize or acknowledge Him, but rather they crucified the King of Glory as a criminal. If He were an ordinary man, would the prophet inquire about His ancestry and origin? Whose ancestry and origin in the history of the people of Israel is not known? His ancestry is hidden as the ancestry of Melchisedek. It was hidden for the Jews and is always hidden for unbelievers but for us believers it is not hidden anymore. We know that He is "Light of Light, True God of True God, Begotten not made" (The Nicaean Creed]. That is He in eternity. We know that "He was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary" [The Nicaean Creed] and that He appeared in the world as man, as God-man. That is He, in time; wondrous, mysterious, glorious and majestic is His ancestry. When we say everything what was revealed to us about Him, nevertheless, we can still ask ourselves: "Who shall declare His generation [ancestry]?" Not because His ancestry is unknown but rather because His ancestry is unreachable, incomprehensible, beyond sensual and above nature. O Lord Jesus Christ our God, enlighten us by Your divine mind and raise us up to You by Your man-loving power. To You be glory and thanks always. Amen. |
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Written by Page Updater
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Monday, 24 August 2009 08:44 |
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The Sunday Bulletin may downloaded here. |
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