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The Orthodox Church is the Church just as it came out of the hands of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and just as the holy Apostles handed it down to us: undefiled, unadulterated, virginal. The Orthodox Church is the pure, Apostolic Christianity. It is the Church of the Holy Fathers, who paid homage to her, lifted her up, glorified her and interpreted the holy Gospel correctly, clearly, with the illumination of the Holy Spirit.
The Orthodox Church is the Church of the Ecumenical Councils, which guard her and protect her from the falsity of the heretics and their errors throughout the centuries, till today.The Orthodox Church is the Church of the Martyrs, holy Ascetics, Hermits, Hesychasts and Neptic Fathers; the Church of the Confessors, Ecumenical Teachers and New-Martyrs; the Church of the grace-flowing holy relics.
The Orthodox Church is the Church of Byzantium, The British Isles, and the West, The Church for all people, at all times, in all places The Orthodox Church is the Church of the Holy Mysteries (Sacraments); the Church of the mystical life in Christ and of Theology, of the prayer of the heart and of our union with God. Our Orthodoxy is the Church of the Ancient worship "in spirit and in truth". The Orthodox Church is the Church of the Resurrection. .
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"Never, never, never let anyone tell you that, in order to be Orthodox, you must be Eastern. The West was fully Orthodox for a thousand years, and her venerable liturgy is far older than any of her heresies."
St. John Maximovitch
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I will go in unto the altar of God, even unto the God who giveth joy to my youth.
Psalm 43
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| Queen of all Skete (Rochelle, VA) - The Skete of the Most Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, “Queen of All”, the healer of Cancer, is a Stavropegial women’s monastic settlement of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, under the omophorion of His Eminence, the Most Reverend Metropolitan Nicholas, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. |
| Western Rite Communities of ROCOR - The Western-Rite of the Orthodox Church is a concerted effort by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia among others to pastorally respond to the numerous requests of Western Christians to re-establish the Western Church as it existed prior to the Great Schism. |
What is the Orthodox Church?
“The Orthodox Christian Church is evangelical, but not Protestant.
It is orthodox, but not Jewish. It is catholic, but not Roman.
It is not denominational, it is pre-denominational.
It has believed, taught, preserved, defended, and died for the
Faith of the Apostles since the Day of Pentecost nearly 2,000 years ago.”
– Our Life in Christ
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