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)…