Death to the World

What do we mean by: "DEATH TO THE WORLD"? "The world is the general name for all passions. When we wish to call the passions by a common name, we call them the world. But when we wish to distinguish them by their special names, we call them passions. The passions are the following: love of riches, desire for possessions, bodily pleasures from which comes sexual passion, love of honor gives rise to envy, lust for power, arrogance and pride of position, the craving to adorn oneself with luxurious clothing and vain ornaments, the itch for human glory which is a source of rancor and resentment, and physical fear. Where these passions cease to be active, there the world is dead.... Someone has said of the Saints that while alive they were dead; for though living in the flesh, they did not live for the flesh. See for which of these passions you are alive. Then you will know how far you are alive to the world, and how far you are dead to it." +St. Isaac the Syrian, 7th Century

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Don’t Destroy the Image of God.

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The Body is For the Lord

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Prayer Against Internet Pornography Composed by Fr Damascene blessed for use by Bishop Maxim of Los Angeles and the West.

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Pornography is the Devil’s Iconography “Pornography is the Devil’s Iconography.” - Blessed Seraphim Rose of Platina

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Books

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‘Zines

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Baptize ‘Em All

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Sermon on the Triumph of Orthodoxy

Sermon on the Triumph of Orthodoxy

by Archbishop Averky (Taushev) “This is the Apostolic faith, this is the faith of the Fathers, this is the Orthodox faith – confirm this universal faith.” Beloved brothers and sisters in the Lord, you will hear these solemn and significant words in the Rite of Orthodoxy which the Holy Church has established to be served on this day. The first week of Holy and Great Lent has ended a week of…

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In Step With Saints Patrick and Gregory of Tours

In Step With Saints Patrick and Gregory of Tours

A homily given by Fr Seraphim Rose on St Patrick’s feast day in 1977. Fr Seraphim, being an avid venerator of the Western Saints pre-schism, reveals his down to earth approach to the spiritual life and offers a breath of fresh are for so many of us to today who are struggling toward the Heavenly Realm. 1. A PERSPECTIVE ON ST. PATRICK THE CONFESSION OF ST. PATRICK is a very simple document about…

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EACH ONE OF US IS POTENTIALLY A JUDAS

EACH ONE OF US IS POTENTIALLY A JUDAS

Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, there came unto Him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on His head, as he sat at meat. But when His disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, “To what purpose is this waste? For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.” When Jesus understood it, He said unto them,…

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Shirt

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The Healing Hurricane of Unbelief: Part I

The Healing Hurricane of Unbelief: Part I

“For if nothingness be the center of the world, then the world, both in its essence and in every detail, is incoherent, it fails to hold together, it is absurd.”-Fr. Seraphim Rose It was like having your heart literally ripped from your chest. Sort of like that scene in Indiana Jones when the Thuggee High Priest went to work on that guy strapped to that cage thingy. Except this was no movie, and…

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Spiritual Eyes: The Reality of the Unseen

Spiritual Eyes: The Reality of the Unseen

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Subhumanity - The Philosophy of the Absurd

Subhumanity – The Philosophy of the Absurd

The present age is, in a profound sense, an age of absurdity. Poets and dramatists, painters and sculptors proclaim and depict the world as a disjointed chaos, and man as a dehumanized fragment of that chaos. Politics, whether of the right, the left, or the center, can no longer be viewed as anything but an expedient whereby universal disorder is given, for the moment, a faint semblance of order;…

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The Devil's Love Song In Paris

The Devil’s Love Song In Paris

Christ says to us, “…knock and it shall be opened unto you”(Mat 7:7). However, the devil is calling us to knock also, and when we present the opportunity for the devil to crack the door, he bursts it open, coming in to snatch up and destroy everything possible. On November 13th, the innocent loves of many people were taken by terrorist gunmen who burst through the door of the Bataclan Theatre and…

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Joy to the World

Joy to the World

The following is a guest post graciously written by my spiritual father, Abbot Tryphon. The Very Rev. Fr. Tryphon is a priest-monk of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROCOR) and abbot of the All-Merciful Saviour Monastery on Vashon Island, Washington.  Joyful living according to the Will of God If we focus only on the things that haven’t been done and ignore the little things that bring joy to our…

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