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Eastern Orthodox Christians believe that Christ Jesus was both God and Man absolutely and completely, having two natures indivisibly: eternally begotten of the Father in his divinity, he was born in his humanity of a woman, Mary, by her consent, through descent of the Holy Spirit. He lived on earth, in time and history, as a man.
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Easter, [nb 1] also called Pascha [nb 2] ( Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, [nb 3] is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD.
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Clean Monday is part of the paschal cycle, and as such it depends on the paschal computus which may differ between denominations and churches.[a] Additionally, the date may also depend on the calendar used by the particular church, such as the (revised) Julian calendar used by Eastern Orthodox churches, the Gregorian calendar used by Eastern Cathol...
Liturgically, Clean Monday—and thus Lent itself—begins on the preceding (Sunday) night, at a special service called Forgiveness Vespers, which culminates with the Ceremony of Mutual Forgiveness, at which all present will bow down before one another and ask forgiveness. In this way, the faithful begin Lent with a clean conscience, with forgiveness, ...
Eating meat, eggs and dairy products is traditionally forbidden to Orthodox Christians throughout Lent, which begins with Clean Monday. Fish is eaten only on major feast days, but shellfish is permitted in European denominations. This has created the tradition of eating elaborate dishes based on seafood (shellfish, molluscs, fish roe etc.). Clean M...
Nov 8, 2017 · Report. |. November 8, 2017. Orthodox Christianity in the 21st Century. Concentrated in Europe, Orthodox Christians have declined as a percentage of the global population, but Ethiopian community is highly observant and growing. Mgvimevi Monastery church, near the city of Chiatura in the Imereti region of Georgia.
Nov 14, 2017 · Home Research Topics. Short Reads. |. November 14, 2017. Q&A: A closer look at Orthodox Christians. By David Masci. Along with Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, Orthodox Christianity is one of the world’s three major Christian traditions.
Nov 8, 2017 · November 8, 2017. Orthodox Christianity in the 21st Century. 1. Orthodox Christianity’s geographic center remains in Central and Eastern Europe. While the worldwide population of all non-Orthodox Christians has virtually quadrupled since 1910, the Orthodox population has merely doubled, from approximately 124 million to 260 million.
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The regular decennial governmental Census of Religious Bodies in America reported some 250,000 Orthodox Christians in the United States in 1916. Only five years later, at the founding of the Greek Archdiocese, the Greek Archbishop inadvertently spoke of “the two millions” of Orthodox in America. This figure, perhaps based more on cultural ...
