Many orthodox Christians have asked or ask themselves such questions. How can infants believe and be baptised? Where in the Scriptures does it show, an infant being baptised? Should I be baptised again? Lets us try to answer these and many other questions related to infant baptism? I. Does the Read more…
Theophilos born, in a pagan family near Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in Mesopotamia, modern Antakya, modern Turkey, is a saint of the Syrian Church, sixth bishop of Antioch. A convert to Christianity, he was a prolific writer who was often quoted by later Christian writers. He was an early clever Christian skeptic apologist, who Read more…
Orthodox Church is a Church that has preserved untainted, the genuine teachings of Jesus Christ, the very teachings delivered to every subsequent generation of believers, down the centuries, from the Holy Apostles, explicated, carefully interpreted by their legitimate successors (their disciples and the holy Fathers), traditioned and conserved unaltered. Holy Read more…
“Guard the deposit” (1 Tim. 6:20). tradition The dictionary meaning of the word ‘tradition’ is an opinion, belief, story or custom that is memorized and handed down from generation to generation, from ancestors to posterity, originally without the need for a writing system. Its etymology is Latin, from Read more…
Come, all you faithful, let us hasten to the Virgin: for long before her conception in the womb, the one who was to be born of the stem of Jesse was destined to be the Mother of God. The one who is the treasury of virginity, the flowering Rod of Read more…
Eutychus, whose name means ‘fortunate’, was a disciple and friend of St John the Theologian and St Paul. After hearing about Christ, the Savior, he became a disciple and servant of the Lord, worked with the Apostle Paul and together they preached in the early journeys. He belonged to the Read more…
We pray for the departed, for the same reasons as when praying for a living person! Prayer for the faithful departed, as well as the invocation of saints have been long cherished beliefs and practices of the early Christian Church and were expressions of the Christian faith, well founded on Read more…
Pharisees (Jn. 12: 19) the disciple whom Jesus loved (Jn. 13: 23-25) to Thomas (Jn. 14: 6) Peter (Jn. 13: 37) Judas Iscariot (Jn. 12: 6) Himself (Jn. 17: 1 -6), for His disciples (Jn. 17: 6-19), and for all believers / faithful (Jn. 17: 20 -26). Counsellor / Helper Read more…
Who said “see the whole world has gone after Jesus”? During the Last Supper, which disciple was sitting next to Jesus and reclining on Him? To whom did Jesus’ answer “I am the Way, and the Truth and the Life”? Which disciple was prepared to lay down Read more…
St Paul write to the Corinthians in 1 Cor. 11: 4-6, that women should cover their head during prayer and worship and men should not cover their head. A question asked was why do our bishops cover their head. 4 Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonours his Read more…