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About Orthodox Christianity

 

These Truths We Hold

A cultural tradition is not an abstract reconstruction, but those truths, values and behavior commonly practiced, observed, held and understood by one generation and passed on to the next. There is a pattern of customary beliefs, a way of doing and explaining things, that is observably the faith of our fathers, passed on to us as those truths we hold.

The compilation of this book is an effort to gather from an on-going tradition of piety that which is traditional, for many, reinforceing the familiar – but equally beneficial, familiarizing many with an Orthodox continuity of things commonly observed.

Church History

  • A History of the Orthodox Church
  • Orthodoxy in America
  • Orthodoxy in the World

Feasts of the Church

  • The Feast of Feasts – Pascha
  • The Twelve Great Feasts (Part 1)
  • The Twelve Great Feasts (Part 2)
  • Various Other Feasts

Dogma and Doctrines

  • Holy Tradition
  • The Beatitudes
  • The Christian Ethic
  • The Mother of God
  • The Symbol of Faith
  • The Ten Commandments

Icons

  • Holy Icons
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Monasticism

  • The Monastic Grades
  • The Monastic Tonsure

Prayer

  • Communing with God in Prayer
  • The Church’s Prayer for the Dead

Scripture

  • The Holy Bible
  • The New Testament
  • The Old Testament
  • The Old Testament Apocrypha
  • Used in Church
  • Where to Find

Symbols

  • The Cross
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Fasting

  • Fasting
  • Fasting Rules
  • Fasting Seasons and Days

Worship

  • Glossary of Liturgical Terms
  • Great Lent and Pascha
  • Liturgical Books
  • Liturgical Gestures
  • Liturgical Music
  • Services of the Daily Cycle
  • The Divine Liturgy
  • The Five Cycles

Sacraments

  • Church Mysteries
  • Holy Baptism
  • Holy Chrismation
  • Holy Communion
  • Holy Matrimony
  • Holy Orders
  • Holy Repentance
  • Holy Unction

Church Building and Interior

  • The Altar and Its Furnishings
  • The Bells
  • The Candles and Their Symbolism
  • The Church Building
  • The Clergy
  • The Iconostasis
  • The Sacristy and Vestry

The above articles on the Orthodox faith are from the book, These Truths We Hold – The Holy Orthodox Church: Her Life and Teachings, published by and available from Saint Tikhon’s Seminary Press.

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