ἀνθρώποισι πᾶσι μέτεστι γινώσκειν ἑωυτοὺς καὶ σωφρονεῖν.
Here we present information from various sources for Saint Brigid of Kildare. Continue reading ““The ancient Christian Church – About Orthodox Church in the West World” – The Holy Abbess and Wonder-worker Saint Brigid of Kildare, Ireland († 523)”
St. Melangell the Abbess of Wales (†641) – Commemorated May 27 / January 31
“The Church in The British Isles will only begin to grow when she begins to venerate her own Saints” -Saint Arsenios of Paros (†1877) Continue reading ““The ancient Christian Church – About Orthodox Church in the West World” – Saint Melangell the Abbess of Wales”
by James Read
Despite the universality of the Holy Orthodox Church, it is not infrequently that converts confess to feeling “out of place” in the Russian, Greek, Serbian, or other ethnic tradition which, with few exceptions, dominates parish life in the Orthodox West. Continue reading ““The ancient Christian Church – About Orthodox Church in the West World” – The rich unknown heritage of Western Saints”
Saint Patrick (Latin: Patricius, Irish: Naomh Pádraig) was a Celtic Briton and Christian missionary, who is the most generally recognised patron saint of Ireland (although Brigid of Kildare and Columba are also formally patron saints).was a Romano-Briton by birth. He was probably born in 390 on what is now the north-west coast of England at an unidentified place called Bannavem Taburniae. The son of a town councillor, his grandfather had been a priest. Bearing the Roman name ‘Patricius’, meaning ‘noble’, he was brought up to speak Latin but paid no attention to the teachings of Christianity. Continue reading ““The ancient Christian Church – About Orthodox Church in the West World” – St. Patrick”
According to Christian tradition, the Seven Apostolic Men (siete varones apostólicos) were seven Christian clerics ordained in Rome by Saints Peter and Paul and sent to evangelize Spain. This group includes Torquatus, Caecilius, Ctesiphon, Euphrasius, Indaletius, Hesychius, and Secundius (Torcuato, Cecilio, Tesifonte, Eufrasio, Indalecio Hesiquio y Segundo). Continue reading ““The ancient Christian Church – About Orthodox Church in the West World” – The Seven Apostolic Men, missionaries in Spain”
by Metropolitan of Nafpaktos Hierotheos
The Prophets and the righteous of the old Testament, like the Apostles and saints of the New Testament, understood and confirmed by their own experience that, when someone is healed, that is to say, when he is freed from selfishness, acquires love for God and his fellow human beings, and receives the energies of God, a place is discovered in his heart in which he feels a burning sensation, a movement, a divine joy, an intense spiritual longing. They called this place “the heart” and the energy expressed within it “the noetic faculty” or “nous”, according to Father John Romanides. This discovery is a matter of living experience, not of philosophical musing or speculation. Within the heart, initially in the bodily organ and later in the deep or “spiritual” heart, the saints hear unceasing noetic prayer. There they perceive their encounter with God; there they sense radiance and illumination. This is the nous, also called the noetic faculty. Continue reading “The Meaning and Method of Healing in the Orthodox Church”
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