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Food, Faith, and Fasting
Sacred Eating

Episode date: June 08, 2011
Transcript published: May 17, 2013

Welcome to another session of Food, Faith, and Fasting. Today we are going to continue to build on this aspect of portion control, the reason being that we know that this is something we need to handle to bring our eating into a spiritually minded act. St. Maximus the Confessor has wonderful writings, and I want to just share [with] you a little part that’s very relevant to what we’re talking about today.

Nothing that God has created in itself is bad. Food is not bad; gluttony is. Glory is not bad; vainglory is.

And he goes on and on to list some others. What we’re recognizing…

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Ancient Faith Today
Who Is A Christian?

Episode date: May 12, 2013
Transcript published: May 17, 2013

Kevin Allen: Christ is risen! Truly he is risen! I hope all of you had a joyous and illumining Pascha, and let’s not forget to wish all of the mothers out there listening a happy Mother’s Day. We wouldn’t be here without you. Welcome to Ancient Faith Today. We’re Orthodox Media’s live listener call-in program on contemporary issues through the lens of the tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church, and we’re streaming live right now. We’ll be opening the phone lines and taking your calls in just a few minutes. The call-in number is 1-855-AF-RADIO. That’s 1-855-237-2346. Our chat…

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Lord, Send Me
Interview with Fr. Chad Hatfield

Episode date: April 25, 2013
Transcript published: May 01, 2013

Fr. John Parker: This is Fr. John Parker, the chair of the Department of Evangelization of the Orthodox Church in America. It’s a chilly and grey day in the holy city of Charleston, South Carolina, but it is made brighter because I’m sitting with my friend, Fr. Chad Hatfield, who is the chancellor of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in Crestwood, New York. With him I’ve worked for a number of years now on a variety of evangelism-related projects in our church. It’s good to have you here today, Fr. Chad.

Fr. Chad Hatfield: Fr. John, it’s good to be back…

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Singing the Triumphal Hymn
Sanctification of Life: Part 6

Episode date: October 20, 2010
Transcript published: April 28, 2013

Continuing in our series on the sanctification of life, and in particular that second group of sacraments, the sacraments of healing, and having discussed the sacrament of repentance, we now move to the sacrament of holy oil or holy unction. I’d like to read what Fr. Alexander says about this sacrament of the Church and then to read a few excerpts from the service itself. Fr. Alexander begins his commentary in the book Liturgy and Life:

How are we to understand that mysterious sacrament of holy oil? Man is a suffering being. Each one of us has visited…

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Singing the Triumphal Hymn
Sanctification of Life: Part 5

Episode date: October 14, 2010
Transcript published: April 27, 2013

We continue in our series on the sanctification of life, having discussed the sacraments of initiation, we move now into the second group of sacraments, that of repentance and holy oil, which deal with healing. In his book, Liturgy and Life, Fr. Alexander says:

We know and experience every day, in spite of our entrance into the joy and peace of the kingdom, that our life, more often than not, remains dark and sinful, and that we constantly fall from that wholeness which was given to us in the sacraments of initiation. Therefore we must be healed and reconciled…

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