VOLUME XIX SUMMER 2016 Issue 3 The Orthodox Church, as the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, in her profound ecclesiastical self-consciousness, believes unflinchingly that she occupies a central place in the matter of the promotion of Christian unity in the world today. The Orthodox Church founds the unity of the Church on the fact…
VOLUME XIX SUMMER 2016 Issue 3 Fasting is a divine commandment (Gen 2:16-17). According to Basil the Great, fasting is as old as humanity itself; it was prescribed in paradise (On Fasting, 1, 3. PG 31, 168A). It is a great spiritual endeavor and the foremost…
By Patrick B. O’Grady, Archpriest The Antiochian Orthodox Institute, La Verne, California (Here we present a different view on the Great and Holy Council of the Orthodox Church coming from the Antiochian Greek Orthodox Church which is one of the few patriarchates not participating in the Great Council – Chief Editor, The Voice of Orthodoxy)…
By Chor-Episcopos Kuriakos Thottupuram. Ph.D., D.D. As a high school student this writer wanted to do his higher studies at Oxford University, because he had read about the learned men who were educated at Oxford and became scholars. When he was an undergraduate student he realized that he needed more financial resources to realize this…