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Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

The Most Childlike Feast
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The Most Childlike Feast

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

The feast of the Entrance of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple is known as the most childlike feast. Archpriest Oleg Stenyaev speaks on why this is so, and of what it reminds us adults.

Pontius Pilate’s Wife
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Pontius Pilate’s Wife

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

November 9 is the feast-day of Claudia Procula, Pontius Pilate’s wife. She was recognized as a holy martyr by the Greek Orthodox, the Coptic and the Ethiopian Churches. The episode connected with her is perhaps among the most mysterious.

The Aerial Tollhouses. The First: Idle Talk
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The Aerial Tollhouses. The First: Idle Talk

The Way of All Flesh. Conversation 3

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Archpriest Oleg Stenyaev talks about the first of the tollhouses that the soul goes through after death; about how the words and speech of the Orthodox Christian should be, and; what sins bound up with words should we avoid.

Why did some holy fathers believe in apocatastasis and other false ideas about life after death?
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Why did some holy fathers believe in apocatastasis and other false ideas about life after death?

The Way of All Flesh: Conversation 2, Part 6

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Let’s try to understand why certain fathers of the Church, such as St. Gregory of Nyssa, preached this heresy and why they were not pronounced heretics themselves.

How angels help us pass through the tollhouses. Examples from the Lives of the Saints
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How angels help us pass through the tollhouses. Examples from the Lives of the Saints

The Way of All Flesh: Conversation 2, Part 5

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Without a doubt, the angels watch after the paths of each of us, are not removed from our problems, and experience great joy if we step upon the path of repentance and correction.

Patristic Testimony on the Tollhouses: the Western Fathers
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Patristic Testimony on the Tollhouses: the Western Fathers

The Way of All Flesh: Conversation 2, Part 3

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

So that we would not form the impression that the teaching on the aerial tollhouses was only known to the Eastern Fathers of the Church, we will turn to testimony from the book by Fr. Seraphim (Rose), where he show that he was familiar with themany different Orthodox Western sources, which were never translated into Greek or Russian and which abound with descriptions of the tollhouses.

Patristic Testimony on the Tollhouses: the Eastern Fathers
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Patristic Testimony on the Tollhouses: the Eastern Fathers

Conversation 2, Part 2

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Those who have parted their bodies do not rise so easily to the heavens as the neo-Protestants and our own renovationists would have it. There is a good deal of testimony in the holy fathers about the aerial tollhouses.

The Way of All Flesh: The Bible on the Aerial Tollhouses
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The Way of All Flesh: The Bible on the Aerial Tollhouses

Conversation 2, Part 1

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Where in the Bible do they talk about aerial tollhouses—those obstacles that the forces of darkness put in the way of souls rising after death to heaven through the space under heaven? Why do the demons wait for a soul in the under-heavens? How should we view the fact that there are differences between patristic works and the lives of the saints in explanations of the tollhouses? How can we answer critics of the teaching on the tollhouses?

The Way of All Flesh—What happens to the soul after death
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The Way of All Flesh—What happens to the soul after death

Part 1

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Why is earthly life is so valuable to us? What does a soul experience as it separates from the body? What are the aerial tollhouses? What is life, and what is death in the Orthodox understanding? These are the topics of a series of talks with Archpriest Oleg Stenyaev, which we will be translating for our English language readers.

On the Cult of Health, and Bodily Illness
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On the Cult of Health, and Bodily Illness

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

How are the soul and body connected? Do we need to be concerned about physical health? Why is care for physical health senseless without care for the soul? What danger is there in the cult of health? Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev answers these questions.

Of What Spirit Are We?
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Of What Spirit Are We?

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Of what spirit are we? What does the Savior call us to do? And how should a government act in this world? Is force justified? Archpriest Oleg Stenyaev talks about this subject.

On Fasting Again
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On Fasting Again

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

To those on the new style calendar who are celebrating the Nativity of Christ, we wish all a joyous feast. Please keep this delightful article on fasting in mind for Wednesdays and Fridays, and the other three extended fast periods. But for those who are still observing the Nativity fast, may these instructions encourage you during this final stretch.

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