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Journal of Fathers Herman and Seraphim of Platina
The Orthodox Word #2
CONTENTS
43 Saint John of Kronstadt and the Spiritual Crisis of Russia by I. M. Kontsevich
58 Father Herman's Easter Visitation by Gleb Podmosbensky
62 The Icons of the Great Feasts: The Annunciation of the Most Holy Mother of God by Eugene Rose
66 Christians! You Must Know Christ! by Bishop Ignaty Brianchaninov
73 Orthodoxy in the Contemporary World
75 New Books
CHRIST IS RISEN!
This greeting, a light that shines in the darkness, and the darkness grasped it not, has reached almost all corners of the earth, changing men whose hearts have yealded to it into transfigured beings. Simple fishermen became philosophers and theologians, Princes of the Church; early believers became witnesses and martyrs, the seed of Christianity; intellectuals, the bloom of great civilizations, learning of this greeting withdrew into deserted wastelands only to be recipients of otherworldliness, of the Holy Spirit. These deified men became the lamps of God's Light and shine in the darkness of "this world".
But the world does not change, for it lies in evil. The spiritual darkness over the sky of today's world only thickens and swells, ominous of the approaching night. Yet even the modern world has produced in its darkness more martyrs than all the periods of pagan persecutions, and it has seen some of the greatest holy men in the history of Orthodox Christianity.
Thus the Easter Message is still heard and still finds its witnesses who alight with the flame of Christ's Resurrection, shed the Light of His Truth in the gathering darkness. They, and all who follow them on the path of the "science of sciences", the science of spiritual activity known and practiced in the Orthodox Church, receive a knowlege beyond the capacity of human nature, a taste of paradise already in this earthly life, and out of personal experience exult in joy–
IN TRUTH CHRIST IS RISEN!
The Orthodox Word #2
CONTENTS
43 Saint John of Kronstadt and the Spiritual Crisis of Russia by I. M. Kontsevich
58 Father Herman's Easter Visitation by Gleb Podmosbensky
62 The Icons of the Great Feasts: The Annunciation of the Most Holy Mother of God by Eugene Rose
66 Christians! You Must Know Christ! by Bishop Ignaty Brianchaninov
73 Orthodoxy in the Contemporary World
75 New Books
CHRIST IS RISEN!
This greeting, a light that shines in the darkness, and the darkness grasped it not, has reached almost all corners of the earth, changing men whose hearts have yealded to it into transfigured beings. Simple fishermen became philosophers and theologians, Princes of the Church; early believers became witnesses and martyrs, the seed of Christianity; intellectuals, the bloom of great civilizations, learning of this greeting withdrew into deserted wastelands only to be recipients of otherworldliness, of the Holy Spirit. These deified men became the lamps of God's Light and shine in the darkness of "this world".
But the world does not change, for it lies in evil. The spiritual darkness over the sky of today's world only thickens and swells, ominous of the approaching night. Yet even the modern world has produced in its darkness more martyrs than all the periods of pagan persecutions, and it has seen some of the greatest holy men in the history of Orthodox Christianity.
Thus the Easter Message is still heard and still finds its witnesses who alight with the flame of Christ's Resurrection, shed the Light of His Truth in the gathering darkness. They, and all who follow them on the path of the "science of sciences", the science of spiritual activity known and practiced in the Orthodox Church, receive a knowlege beyond the capacity of human nature, a taste of paradise already in this earthly life, and out of personal experience exult in joy–
IN TRUTH CHRIST IS RISEN!