OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST IS SEEN WRAPPED IN SWADDLING CLOTHES (LUKE 2:7,12). THIS NOT ONLY REPRESENTS HIS TOTAL SUBMISSION TO THE HUMAN FLESH, BUT ALSO FORESHADOWS HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION. The manger represents His crib, His Church, and His tomb – all in one. The symbolism is very Read more…
Church calendar begins with Koodosh Eetho (Church New Year), Koodosh means to consecrate or sanctify. This is followed by Hoodosh Eetho, Hoodosh means to clean, purify and dedicate. Eetho means Church. The concept is to, first SANCTIFY and then DEDICATE the Church. Church does not mean the building but encompasses Read more…
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…