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Wrengan youtube Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Hymn of the Cherubim
amazon.com Sacred Treasures; Chorale Mastworks from Russia
christianbook.com The Path of Christianity: The First Thousand Years Hardcover by John Anthony McGuckin
christianbook.com The Path of Christianity: The First Thousand Years Hardcover by John Anthony McGuckin
orthodoxwiki.org John Anthony McGuckin
Father John Anthony McGuckin, Ph.D. (born 1952), is a scholar and priest. He is the Nielsen Professor of Early Church History at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Byzantine Christian Studies at Columbia University in New York City. He is also pastor of St. Gregory’s Chaplaincy, a community within the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in America and Canada meeting at Union Theological Seminary.
McGuckin attended Heythrop College from 1970 to 1972, graduated from the University of London with a Divinity degree in 1975, and received a Certificate in Education from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1979, his Doctor of Philosophy from Durham University in 1980, and a Master’s degree in Educational Studies from the University of Southampton in 1986. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Historical Society. He is the Director of the Sophia Institute:International Center for Orthodox Thought and Culture, which has its offices on the Union Seminary campus in Manhattan. He was awarded the Gold Cross of Moldavia and Bukovina by the Romanian Patriarch Daniel in 2007 for his services to the Church and the Academy.
A former Reader in Patristics and Byzantine Theology at the University of Leeds, he was raised Roman Catholic and at 19 became a member of the Passionist religious order. In 1989 McGuckin embraced Orthodoxy and was ordained a priest for the Romanian Orthodox Church, serving in Manhattan. In addition to his current pastoral ministry, he has served at the St. Mary Magdalene Mission, a parish of the Orthodox Church in America.
books.google.com St. Gregory of Nazianzus: An Intellectual Biography by John Anthony McGuckin
amazon.com The Life in Christ by Nicholas Cabasilas
The Life in Christ by Nicholas Cabasilas is a remarkable product of Byzantium’s last great flowering of theology. At a time when secular humanism was increasingly asserting man’s complete autonomy, Cabasilas proclaimed that man’s true life lies not in himself, but in Christ. For him, man’s redemption in Jesus Christ is not just a matter of history, which can be elucidated simply by scholarly endeavor. It is a saving event in which man is called to participate here and now, in body and spirit as well as intellect, through the sacramental life of the Church.
The present translation makes this devotional classic available for the first time in English, while the extensive introduction by Boris Bobrinskoy assesses its place within the history of eastern spirituality.
amazon.com The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church Kindle Edition by Vladimir Lossky
britannica.com SaintIrenaeus
ntcanon.org Polycarp of Smyrna (born ~70 -- died (martyred) ~155 in Rome)
Polycarp, Greek bishop of Smyrna (modern Izmir, Turkey) was the leading 2nd-century figure in Roman Asia by virtue of his intermediary position between the apostolic and patristic ages and his work during the initial appearance of the fundamental theological literature of Christianity. A Catholic Encyclopedia article is online at St. Polycarp.
His major writing, The Letter to the Philippians, is intimately connected with the epistles and martyrdom of Ignatius. About 110 CE, while en route to Rome where he suffered martyrdom, Ignatius passed through Smyrna and was warmly greeted by the church and its bishop. Subsequently he was taken by his guards to Philippi, where local Christian leaders visited him. After his departure they wrote to Polycarp requesting him to send them copies of the epistles that Ignatius had written to him and to several churches in Asia Minor. This he did, adding a covering letter of his own. In it Polycarp urges the reader to stand fast in the faith, to avoid heretical teachings, to look to the examples of martyrdom suffered by Ignatius and others, and to persevere in philanthropy and good works. He concludes by saying that he is sending them copies of the epistles of Ignatius as they requested, and asks them to send him the latest news about Ignatius and his companions.
By his letter, and by his widespread moral authority, Polycarp combated the Marcionites (from Rome) and frustrated their attempts to establish Churches in Roman Asia. That sect advocated a rejection of the Hebraic Old Testament deity for the New Testament God. He also struggled against the Valentinian communities, esoteric Gnostic groups that claimed religious salvation exclusively through their arcane spiritual knowledge. Polycarp’s anti-Gnostic thesis, an exemplary statement of post-apostolic theology, refuted the sectarian argument that God’s incarnation in Christ, his death, and Resurrection were all imaginary phenomena of purely moral or mythological significance.
Despite the proximity in time between Ignatius and Polycarp, as well as the obvious affinity of their spirits in Christian fortitude, one recognizes in Polycarp a temperament much less oriented to ecclesiastical polity and possessing a much wider acquaintance with the New Testament. Proportionate to the length of what they wrote, Polycarp has two or three times more quotations and reminiscences from the New Testament that does Ignatius. Of 112 Biblical reminiscences, about 100 are from the New Testament with only a dozen from the Old Testament. Polycarp does not refer to older Christian writings by name, but The Letter to the Philippians has quotations (of approval) from these writings:
oca.org/ Hieromartyr Polycarp the Bishop of Smyrna
patristics.co Clement
Starting in the 3rd and 4th century, tradition has identified him as the Clement that Paul mentioned in Philippians 4:3, a fellow laborer in Christ. The 2nd-century Shepherd of Hermas mentions a Clement whose office it was to communicate with other churches; most likely, this is a reference to Clement I.
oca.org Hieromartyr Clement the Pope of Rome
preceden.com/timelines Church Fathers 50 - 750 A.D. Apostolic Fathers and Church Fathers http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/
orthodoxwiki.org Church Fathers
orthodoxwiki.org/ Ambrose of Milan
blogs.ancientfaith.com/glory2godforallthings The Morning Prayer of the Last Elders of Optina
O Lord, grant that I may meet all that this coming day brings to me with spiritual tranquility. Grant that I may fully surrender myself to Thy holy Will.
At every hour of this day, direct and support me in all things. Whatsoever news may reach me in the course of the day, teach me to accept it with a calm soul and the firm conviction that all is subject to Thy holy Will.
Direct my thoughts and feelings in all my words and actions. In all unexpected occurrences, do not let me forget that all is sent down from Thee.
Grant that I may deal straightforwardly and wisely with every member of my family, neither embarrassing nor saddening anyone.
O Lord, grant me the strength to endure the fatigue of the coming day and all the events that take place during it. Direct my will and teach me to pray, to believe, to hope, to be patient, to forgive, and to love. Amen.