{"id":9247,"date":"2026-03-06T12:59:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hesychia.eu\/?p=9247"},"modified":"2026-03-06T12:59:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:59:05","slug":"orthodox_pilgrim_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hesychia.eu\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/orthodox_pilgrim_3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orthodox Pilgrim – Issue no. 3 \/ Great Lent 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We Christians can never remain indifferent to evil wherever and in whatever form it appears.<\/em> <\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n

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The Struggle for Virtue<\/a> \u2e39 Resisting Evil<\/h4>\n

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The Orthodox Pilgrim No. 03 \/ A4<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The Orthodox Pilgrim No. 03 \/ Letter<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Archimandrite Justin Popovi\u0107 - The Mystery of the Personality of Metropolitan Anthony<\/div>
\u00a0… and his meaning for Orthodox slavdom   The following lecture was given in Belgrade at a solemn gathering in memory of His Beatitude Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky), the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, by the renowned Serbian theologian Archimandrite Dr.\u00a0Justin Popovich, at that time professor of dogmatic theology at the Theological Faculty of Belgrade University. <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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Paschal Epistle - 1930 by Metropolitan Anthony Khrapovitsky (+1936)<\/div>
\u201cIt is the Day of Resurrection, let us be radiant O ye people; Pa...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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Abp. John Maximovitch - On the veneration of saints who shone in the West<\/div>
Report to the Synod of Bishops, 1952      <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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A Prologue of the Orthodox Saints of the West by Saint Seraphim of Platina<\/div>
Only if the sky can forego its stars, earth its grass, honeycombs their honey, streams their water, and breasts their milk will our tongues be able to renounce their praise of the saints, in whom God is the strength of life and the fame of death. St. Paulinus of Nola, Poem\u00a019 (405 A.D.) <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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On the Holy Sacraments of the Orthodox Church - III<\/div>
The Baptismal Rite <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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Commonitorium (Vincent of Lerins)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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Archbishop Averky of Syracuse and Holy Trinity [\u20201976] - Should the Church Be \u201cIn Step with the Times\u201d?<\/div>
In a time when under the name of Christianity, even Orthodox Christianity, every kind of compromise and surrogate is offered men whose spiritual hunger can be satisfied only by uncompromising Truth, the spiritual shepherds have become few who speak straightforwardly the saving word. <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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Saint Basil the Great and \u201cSola scriptura\u201d | Concerning the unwritten laws of the Church<\/div>
Concerning the teachings of the Church, whether publicly proclaimed (kerygma) or reserved to members of the household of faith (dogmata), we have received some from written sources, while others have been given to us secretly, through apostolic tradition. <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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The contemporary Ukrainian Ecclesial Crisis and its resolution in accordance with the Sacred Canons - Prologue<\/div>
  I humbly dedicate this present to the unity of Orthodoxy, out of gratitude.   No one can deny the fact that the universal Orthodox Church is currently in a state of divisive crisis, due to the Ukrainian Ecclesiastical Question, which was created by the arbitrary and uncanonical granting of \u201cAutocephaly\u201d by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to schismatic structures of the Ukrainian Church, and in ignorance of the Orthodox Russian Patriarchate, which is the mother Church of the Orthodox Ecclesiastical eparchy of Ukraine. <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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Christ is Calling You! Seven Lenten Meditations II\/II<\/div>
Sermons to young people by Father George Calciu-Dumitreasa. Given at the Chapel of the Romanian Orthodox Church Seminary, Bucharest FIFTH MEDITATION April 5, 1980   Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchisadec. Hebrews 5 6\u00a0[1]   Perhaps you have been asking yourself, my young friend, why I have even been addressing you, and by what authority?<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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A Biography of Patriarch Tikhon - II - Revival of the Patriarchate<\/div>
The decision to call an All-Russian Sobor had been taken by Emperor Nicholas\u00a0II after the Revolution of 1905\u20136. Serious preparatory work was accomplished. The question of the restoration of the Patriarchate seemed to become the central subject of the Sobor. <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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A Portrait of Patriarch Tikhon<\/div>
After the decision to restore the Patriarchate, the most important act of the Sobor was the election of the man to fill that office. In the midst of the three days battle which resulted in the taking of Moscow by the Bolsheviks, the Sobor in orderly sittings carried out the routine it had defined for the election of a Patriarch.    <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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The Dialogue of Palladius<\/div>
Concerning the Life of St. John Chrysostom (1921). English translation.\u00a0 <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future - A Fakir\u2019s \u201cMiracle\u201d and the prayer of Jesus<\/div>
The author of this testimony, a new martyr of the Communist Yoke, enjoyed a brilliant worldly career as a naval commander, being also deeply involved in occultism as editor of the occult journal Rebus. <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future - The goal of the \u201cDialogue with non-Christian religions\u201d<\/div>
As an answer to the question of the possibility of a \u201cdialogue\u201d of Orthodox Christianity with the various non-Christian religions, the reader has been presented the testimony of three Orthodox Christians who confirm, on the basis of Orthodox doctrine and their own experience, what the Orthodox Church has always taught: that Orthodox Christians do not at all have the \u201csame God\u201d as the so-called \u201cmonotheists\u201d who deny the Holy Trinity; that the gods of the pagans are in fact demons; and that the experiences and powers which the pagan \u201cgods\u201d can and do provide…<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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Christianity vs. Sorcery<\/div>
The twentieth century, which began with the presumption of imagining itself the most enlightened of all ages, has in reality proceeded through some of the blackest years of all human history. Symptomatic of this truly dark age is the revival in recent decades of interest and active participation in witchcraft and sorcery.    <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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The Life and Sufferings of the Holy Martyrs Cyprian and Justina<\/div>
In the reign of Decius (249\u2013251) there lived in Antioch (of Pisidia) a certain philosopher and renowned sorcerer whose name was Cyprian, a native of Carthage. <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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Christianity and Judaism: did Jesus fulfill the Old Testament?<\/div>
Recently at a symposium[1] held at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, I had the opportunity to become better aware of a significant new approach, primarily on the part of Roman Catholics, to the relationship between Christianity and Judaism. <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov - On Prayer | Chapter II<\/div>
Holy, great, salutary for the soul is the labor of prayer. It is the chief and the first among monastic labors. All other labors are labors that serve this labor; they are undertaken only so that the labor of prayer might be carried out more successfully, so that the fruits of prayer would be more abundant. <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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Saint John of Kronstadt : On Prayer - V | Prayers in Church<\/div>
I love to pray in God\u2019s temple, especially within the holy altar, before the Holy Table or the Prothesis, for by God\u2019s grace I became wonderfully changed in the temple. During the prayer of repentance and devotion the thorns, the bonds of the passions, fall from my soul, and I feel so light; all the spell, all the enticement of the passions vanish, and I seem to die to the world, and the world, with all its blessings, dies for me, I live in God and for God, for God alone.    <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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Saint John of Kronstadt : On Prayer - VI-VII<\/div>
VI. Prayer in common   * Live with your heart the words of the Saviour\u2019s prayer to His Father: \u201cAs Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us\u201d [1], and strive by every means to become united to God yourself, and to unite others to Him. Maintain by every means mutual, pious union, not sparing either yourself or anything belonging to you, for the sake of maintaining the union of love. For God is our almighty Lifegiver, and the all-merciful Giver of all things. He will support our life in…<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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The Jesus Prayer and the Eastern Meditation<\/div>
\u2014If I have understood correctly, salvation is attained mostly through asceticism, watchfulness[1] and the Jesus prayer. Allow me however a question. I make it not because I agree with it but because I hear many objections about the Jesus prayer. <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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The Korsun Mother of God<\/div>
According to tradition the Korsun icon is from the hand of the first iconographer, St. Luke the Evangelist, who also painted other great wonderworking icons of the Mother of God: for example, those of Vladimir, Don, Tikhvin, the Passion. <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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Saint John Chrysostom : Homily 1 on the Statues<\/div>
The christians are the saviours of the city; they are its guardians, its patrons, and its teachers<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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Saint John Chrysostom: On the Priesthood, Book III<\/div>
The soul of the priest ought to gleam with beauty on every side<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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The Orthodox Pilgrim - The Magazine<\/div>
I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled? St. Luke 12\u00a0:49   Dear sisters and brothers in Christ, With God\u2019s help, we present you the first issue of The Orthodox Pilgrim, a periodical dedicated to the Orthodox Faith. Inspired by Father Seraphim Rose\u2019s pioneering work in the second half of the last century, we wish to bring back to light the gems of the Orthodox Tradition, forgotten by the contemporary Christians. <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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