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TrueOrthodoxy.Info - Saint Philaret the Confessor - On the Law of God - The Nature of Sin
Orthodox Christians must not confuse this realization of the effect of the ancestral sin with the sectarian teaching about "Original Sin". There is no doctrine of "Original Sin"In the Holy Church, for it is not possible to inherit Adam's guilt. Nowhere do the Fathers mention "Original Sin,"but they refer to the ancestral sin, which caused, as Metropolitan Philaret shows here, not a guilt, but a hereditary disease, namely, the inclination to sin: man's state of separation from God, etc.
Leo XIII - Iucunda Semper Expectatione
5. If in all this series of Mysteries, Venerable Brethren, are developed the counsels of God in regard to us -- "counsels of wisdom and of tenderness" (St. Bernard) -- not less apparent is the greatness of the benefits for which we are debtors to the Virgin Mother. No man can meditate upon these without feeling a new awakening in his heart of confidence that he will certainly obtain through Mary the fullness of the mercies of God. And to this end vocal prayer chimes well with the Mysteries. First, as is meet and right, comes the Lord's Prayer, addressed to Our Father in Heaven: and having, with the elect petitions dictated by Our Divine Master, called upon the Father, from the throne of His Majesty we turn our prayerful voices to Mary. Thus is confirmed that law of merciful meditation of which We have spoken, and which St. Bernardine of Siena thus expresses: "Every grace granted to man has three degrees in order; for by God it is communicated to Christ, from Christ it passes to the Virgin, and from the Virgin it descends to us."
Redemptoris Mater - Ioannes Paulus PP. II - Encyclical Letter (1987.03.25)
21. ... At Cana in Galilee there is shown only one concrete aspect of human need, apparently a small one of little importance ("They have no wine"). But it has a symbolic value: this coming to the aid of human needs means, at the same time, bringing those needs within the radius of Christ's messianic mission and salvific power. Thus there is a mediation: Mary places herself between her Son and mankind in the reality of their wants, needs and sufferings. She puts herself "in the middle," that is to say she acts as a mediatrix not as an outsider, but in her position as mother. She knows that as such she can point out to her Son the needs of mankind, and in fact, she "has the right" to do so. Her mediation is thus in the nature of intercession: Mary "intercedes" for mankind.
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GUILT-A Letter from an Orthodox Nun to a Former Calvinist
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SAFELY HOME TO HEAVEN
A Letter from an Orthodox Nun to a Former Calvinist
(from the Orthodox Journal, "Road to Emmaeus")
The following letter from an Orthodox nun to a troubled layman is a warm, sane and usable remedy for anyone troubled with doubts about the mercy and compassion of God.
Christ the Savior Orthodox Church-homily on Doing Theology
Academic Theology: Swimming with your Clothes on
Academic Theology: Swimming With Your Clothes On
by Fr. Michael Shanbour
In the Orthodox understanding, the true theologian is the one who has attained to purity of heart and dispassion, has become illumined and deified in Christ, and therefore has attained to the experience of God and to God-likeness, that is to love.� This is of course why in the Holy Orthodox Church the Saints are our theologians, because they know God.� They have attained to that state of purity and love in which speaking about God is synonymous with and is the fruit of their own experience of God
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