A friend sent me a photo of an icon he recently bought. It was an icon of St. Stephen, an early deacon in the Church. I recognized some of the attributes that marked him out as a deacon, but not
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Deacons and Iconography
Inheriting Eternal Life!
Being a Good Person When I’m out-and-about, and people find out that I’m a priest, they often tell me that they are “spiritual” but don’t, necessarily, believe in organized “religion.” Sometimes, people will tell me that they find God in
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Christ is risen! Now that Great Lent is over, I have the pleasure of greeting all my readers with “Christ is risen!” I also have more time to return to normal activity on this site. Traditionally, in the Orthodox Church,
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