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About Orthodoxy ~~~~
The word Orthodox comes from two
Greek words: Orthos (Orqos), which originally meant Straight
and thus came to mean Right, True, and Correct, and Dogma (Dogma),
which means Belief (from the verb Dokhw, to think). Orthodox
Christianity, therefore, is true belief, belief in the one source of
all Truth: Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, who created us; became
man; and suffered, died, and rose from the dead to save us from the
corruption of sin and to restore our fallen humanity.
Orthodox Christianity is the living faith taught by Christ to his
disciples and passed down by them and their successors through
Scripture, worship, images, and writings. It is nothing more
or less than working out our salvation in fear and trembling, with
Christ’s help, both through the inner life of the soul and
the external life and worship of the Christian community.
The riches of Orthodoxy are many, and hard to summarize.
There is no substitute for experiencing firsthand the Divine Liturgy,
where the People of God come together to unite in prayer and communion,
and we invite you to come and see. For those who have never
attended an Orthodox Service before, we offer handout, which gives a
description of our church space and a synopsis of the Liturgy
itself. All are welcome!
Internet resources
Here are some links arranged to
help you to learn more about our Church, about our Faith and about
people.
Blessed Mother Maria Skobtsova
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/4541/
Xenia Pokrovsky iconography page
http://www.izograph.com
Taize Community
http://www.taize.fr
St.Philaret's: Moscow (Fr.George Kochetkov with some important
articles in English)
http://www.stphilaret.ru/web_sites.html
Alexander Schmemann home page
http://www.concentric.net/~Kyinsman/Schmemann.html
Another Schmemann page
http://www.schmemann.org
St. Michael's Russian Catholic website includes a Fr.Men page and other good
things.
http://stmichaelruscath.org
A good C.S.Lewis website with many links (specializing itself in Narnia)
http://cslewis.drzeus.net
A good Thomas Merton website
http://edge.net/~dphillip/Merton.html
A Berdyaev home page
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Philosophy/Sui-Generis/Berdyaev/
New Skete monks.
http://www.newskete.com
Myrrhbearers Convent in Otego. The pictures of sheep are outstanding.
http://www.holymyrrhbearers.com
Syndesmos:
http://www.syndesmos.org
Orthodox Christian Laity
http://www.ocl.org
Russian Religious News
http://www.stetson.edu/~psteeves/relnews/
More articles on Orthodox Christianity
http://home.earthlink.net/~amenpage/index.htm#What's
Orthodox Church in America homepage
http://www.oca.org
Daily lives of the saints
http://www.hvmcathedral.home.dhs.org
Church History
http://www.decani.yunet.com/history.html
St. Pachomius Library
http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/St.Pachomius/edulynx.html
Patriarch Athenogoras Orthodox Institute
http://www.gtu.edu/Centers/PAOI/paoi.html
St. Tikhon's Seminary site; has tremendous scholarly links
http://www.stots.edu/links.html
Met. Anthony's Cathedral parish in London
http://www.sourozh.org
St. Vladimir's Seminary
http://www.svots.edu
St. Herman of Alaska Seminary
http://www.ptialaska.net/~stherman/
Orthodox Christianity in the British Isles
http://www.nireland.com/orthodox/celtic.htm
Firth's Celtic Scotland and the Age of the Saints
http://www.cushnieent.force9.co.uk
The Companions of New Skete Monastery
http://www.newsketecompanions.org
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