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		<title>Is There Salvation Outside of Orthodoxy?</title>
		<link>http://stjohnskellion.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/is-there-salvation-outside-of-orthodoxy/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Rev. Fr. Dr. (Matthew) Raphael Johnson, Ph.D.
Protection of the Teotokos Mission (Milan Synod)
Fayetteville, Pa.
Orthodoxy, throughout its 2,000 year history, has claimed, without interruption, that it is the repository of the Apostolic faith, that is, it is the place where the ancient doctrines of Christianity can be found. Therefore, the claim is made that truth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stjohnskellion.wordpress.com&blog=1989830&post=256&subd=stjohnskellion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Martyrdom is the Only True Virtue&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Social Thought of Patriarch +Volodymyr of Kiev and All Ukraine (+1995)
 by The Rev. Fr. (Matthew) Raphael Johnson, Ph.D.
&#8220;Martyrdom is the Only True Virtue&#8221;
 
While a priest in the Soviet forced labor and death camps, Fr. Vasili Romanyuk, later to become Patriarch +Volodymyr of all Ukraine, wrote several epistles from prison. Within these, one can discern [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stjohnskellion.wordpress.com&blog=1989830&post=242&subd=stjohnskellion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Church on Relations with Heretics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Raphael Johnson
The Orthodox do not expect the other Christians to be converted to Orthodoxy in its historic and cultural reality of the past and the present and to become members of the Orthodox Church—Statement of the Orthodox delegates at the WCC General Assembly in Nairobi in 1975
We order any Bishop, or Presbyter, that has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stjohnskellion.wordpress.com&blog=1989830&post=234&subd=stjohnskellion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Lord&#8217;s Ascension</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by St. Leo the Great
I. The Ascension Completes Our Faith in Him, Who Was God As Well as Man.
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		<title>on the Ecumenical Patriarch</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The so-called &#8220;Mainline&#8221; Orthodoxy is all a buzz of late regarding the positioning by the Patriarchate of Constantinople as the Ecumenical Patriarch assumes authority beyond honor over various local Orthodox Churches in the diaspora especially those in America.  At the sametime, the Antiochian Church has experienced its own shake up as the Holy Synod in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stjohnskellion.wordpress.com&blog=1989830&post=217&subd=stjohnskellion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Lord’s Resurrection</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By St. Leo the Great, Pope of Old Rome
delivered on Holy Saturday in the Paschal Vigil

I.  We must all be partakers in Christ&#8217;s resurrection life.
In my last sermon, dearly-beloved, not inappropriately, as I think, we explained to you our participation in the cross of Christ, whereby the life of believers contains in itself the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stjohnskellion.wordpress.com&blog=1989830&post=211&subd=stjohnskellion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holy &amp; Great Sabbath</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On our Oblation Journal:
Witness of Christ’s Descent into Hades
This is the account of two brothers who were resurrected shortly after Christ&#8217;s burial. The two , sent by the Archangel Michael, gave witness before Caiaphas and Anaias and before Joseph of Arimathea, and Rabbis Nicodemus,  and Gamaliel amongst others.  This is how our Lord spent this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stjohnskellion.wordpress.com&blog=1989830&post=208&subd=stjohnskellion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Adoration Hymn on Good Friday</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sarum Cathedral Graduale now assigns the following Hymn to be sung. While the Clergy and Monastics each come up individually, and kneel three times, each time drawing closer to the Cross until they kiss Its Feet. 
Faithful Cross, above all other
One and Only Noble Tree;
None in foliage, none in blossom,
None in fruit Thy peer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stjohnskellion.wordpress.com&blog=1989830&post=203&subd=stjohnskellion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hymn during Maundy Thursday</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
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If the Holy Chrism is to be consecrated at this Mass by the Bishop, this Rite is begun during the end of the Canon, as given in the Sarum Pontifical. The following Hymn is to be sung during the Consecration of the Chrism as indicated therein; but if the Chrism be not consecrated at this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stjohnskellion.wordpress.com&blog=1989830&post=199&subd=stjohnskellion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hymn of Kassiani</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[



Sensing Thy divinity, O Lord, a woman of many sins

takes it upon herself to become a myrrh-bearer,


And in deep mourning brings before Thee fragrant oil

in anticipation of Thy burial; crying:


&#8220;Woe to me!&#8221; For night is to me, oestrus of lechery,

a dark and moonless eros of sin.


Receive the wellsprings of my tears,

O Thou who gatherest the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stjohnskellion.wordpress.com&blog=1989830&post=194&subd=stjohnskellion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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