Victorian schools will scrap special religious instruction from class time, with changes to the state’s curriculum throwing the future of the controversial program in doubt. The Andrews government has ordered that the weekly 30 minute program move to lunchtime and before and after school in 2016 to make way for new content on world histories, cultures, faiths and ethics. Classes that …
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By Andreas C. Chrysafis – August 23, 2015 What is wrong with this flawed democracy that we all brag about and praise as an ideal system of government but fails to provide? What is wrong with such a system that ultimately encourages corruption at the expense of the people who put their faith and hope for a better future? What …
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(ELDER PAISIOS OF MOUNT ATHOS : Spiritual Counsels with pain and love for Contemporary Man”, Part 1, Chapter 4, p. 87-104, Holy Monastery “Evangelist John the Theologian” SOUROTI, THESSALONIKI, GREECE) Injustice Draws the Wrath of God It is important for a man to have God’s blessing. It is great wealth! What God blesses will stand firm; it will not crumble. …
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Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. We are still in the light of the Feast of the Falling asleep of the Mother of God. On Wednesday [2014—Friday] we are keeping the last day of this Feast which in the calendar is called the “Leave-taking” and which, if we translate the …
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To say that the institution of marriage is undergoing an unusual crisis in our times would be a commonplace observation. Sociologists, psychologists, educators and all institutions that are involved with marriage and family are speaking to us sufficiently. However, in expressing their pessimistic views about marriage, they all begin from a starting point completely different from that of the theologian. …
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By Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos of Nafpaktos As one studies the texts of the Holy Bible and the Fathers, one realizes that the basis of Orthodox theology is God’s revelation – as given to the Prophets, the Apostles and the Fathers – throughout the ages. Characteristic of this is the beginning of the Epistle to Hebrews: “Having spoken in many aspects …
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By Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica I thank the Lord and the Most Holy Mother of God that He has willed to embellish this feast day of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos through the angelic voices of the children who sang so beautifully. This reminds me of the days of my youth, before the war, when I was a …
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Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Today we celebrate the day of the Dormition, the repose of the Most Holy Virgin Mother of God. This is our patronal feast, but it is also the patronal feast of the whole Russian Church from ancient times. How can we celebrate the Dormition? …
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ModeOfLife Become love as God exhorts us, for this is the true starting point for changing your life and the world. For it is love that will bring respect, justice and equity into the world, not our personal opinion of what justice or equity is.