Holy Relics – Orthodox Saints

Holy relics are a clear anticipation of the transfigured body after universal ressurection.The very fact that the bodies of the saints are kept in a state of incorruptibility is a foretaste, an anticipation of their future incorruptibility after resurrection and after their full theosis, deification. “But we all,” writes St. Paul to the Corinthians, “with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord” (II Cor.3:18).

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You Are Cordially Invited

Originally posted on The Poustinia:

Priestly Incardination

Rev. Fr. Vladimir Vandalov

Holy Chrismation

Jeffery (Zoticus) Carroll-Vandalov

AnDrew Charles Marko, Godfather/Sponsor

Pentecost Sunday Mass at 10:00 a.m.

8th June 2014

Community of Christ the Good Shepherd

Ferndale First United Methodist Church—2nd Floor

22331 Woodward Avenue, Ferndale MI 48220

Metropolitan Archbishop Peter (Zahrt), Presider

Orthodox Catholic Church of America

Rev. Fr. John Newbauer, Vicar

Orthodox Catholic Church of America

Clergy of Community of Christ the Good Shepherd, Host Parish

Rev. Fr. Kevin Kinsel

Rev. Fr. Charles Blanchard

Rev. Fr. Harry Posner

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The Mystery of the Church

Originally posted on Fr. Ted's Blog:

“Although we live in a world where the very concept and term ‘church’ has become bureaucratized and formalized, so that most people would immediately think of either a building or administrative society when they hear the word; the Orthodox have retained the older and infinitely more dynamic understanding of church which is found in the Scriptures. These describe the church as a mystery of the ‘life of Christ’; a society of believers, certainly, but more fundamentally, the extended power of Christ’s saving work as manifested and concretized in the world, and in the next age.”

(John Anthony McGuckin, The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to its History, Doctrine, and Spiritual Culture , p 238)

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The Story of Jonah

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