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Speaking the Truth
Radical Monogamy

Episode date: May 02, 2012
Transcript published: May 07, 2012

We reflected recently in this series of podcasts, Speaking the Truth in Love, about the fidelity of God. And we’d like to proceed now with a further reflection about fidelity, particularly the fidelity that exists in marriage – marriage as understood and hopefully, allegedly practiced by Christians; what the teaching is about monogamy and about marriage and about fidelity.

Generally speaking, we can say that fidelity is a quality of God. We said that in the other podcast, where God deciding to create a creation; a world; many worlds; galaxies; stars; planet Earth; and human beings, it is certainly the Biblical Christian…

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Postcards from Greece
The Love of Truth as the Key to Salvation

Episode date: April 02, 2012
Transcript published: May 04, 2012

What is the essence, the center of our Christian life? Throughout our day; throughout our life, it’s very easy for us to become distracted, to focus on things that are secondary, even worldly, and to confuse them for the essence and the purpose of our Christian life. In today’s podcast, I’d like to try to help us all focus on the center of our Christian life, the central message of the Gospel, and the purpose, and the key criterion of salvation for us, especially in these difficult days.

The essential oneness of all Christians, whether they be in the monastery or in the world, is found in our common love for Christ…

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Speaking of Books
Orthodox Coloring Books

Episode date: April 27, 2012
Transcript published: April 30, 2012

Hello, this is Jane G. Meyer, and I’m so pleased to be with you today. Today I am reviewing Orthodox Coloring Books. My oldest child, Andrew, is on the verge of turning eighteen this summer. He is readying himself for college and already showing signs of an independent life. He certainly has an independent spirit. He is a marker for so many things in our family’s life, since he was our first child and because we came to Orthodoxy only a little after he was born.

For all the years of my mothering, I’ve been looking for ways to help our children better understand their Christian faith. When Andrew was just a…

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A Voice From The Isles
Free At Last

Episode date: April 27, 2011
Transcript published: April 27, 2012

Today Christ lies in the tomb. This day we celebrate a creation restored and the afterlife overturned. The bitter events of the crucifixion are behind us and we await the victory of Pascha day. Yet Christ’s sabbath rest in the tomb is not mere idleness. He visits the place of the dead. Death results from the Fall in Eden. The whole created order is distorted by the Fall of Man. This works backwards in time as well as forwards. However it works, we inherit a mortal frame. Death of the body is now part of our genetic make-up. The reality of bodily death is a fact. But we await, look and hope for the reuniting of the body and soul. In the…

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Frederica Here and Now
Fr. George Calciu

Episode date: December 16, 2009
Transcript published: April 27, 2012

This weekend we are remembering the repose of Fr. George Calciu, who died on November 21, 2006, just two days before 81st birthday. He died of pancreatic cancer, a fast-moving and painful cancer, and had barely survived long enough to complete one last trip to his homeland, Romania.

The news reached us on a Sunday evening that he had taken a turn for the worse. Father Gregory and I were hosting a gathering for Orthodox young people at our home that night, but I left our guests and went with Chris Vladimir to the hospital. Other members of Holy Cross were already there—Katherine Mowers, Amal Morcos, and James Masziaz. Anyone else…

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