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Ancient Faith Radio began in 2004 in the home of John Maddex, a former division manager of Moody Institute's 35 radio stations, who was attending All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Church in Chicago. Its initial form was Internet streaming of Orthodox liturgical music, with podcasts being added in 2005 with recordings of homilies from Fr. Patrick ...
The first daily podcast was The Path with Fr. Thomas Soroka, added in 2007. In 2009, Ancient Faith Radio received 135,000 iPod downloads a month. [2] [3] Station manager Bobby Maddex conducted a survey of the station's listeners in 2011 and found that converts to Orthodox Christianity outnumbered those raised in the Orthodox Church nearly three ...
The Catholic Church views Tradition in much the same terms, as a passing down of that same apostolic faith, but, in a critical difference from the Eastern Orthodox position, Catholicism holds that the faith once delivered, the understanding of it continues to deepen and mature over time through the action of the Holy Spirit in the history of ...
In addition to numerous psalms read every day, the entire psalter is read each week, and twice each week during Great Lent, and there are daily readings of other scriptures; also many hymns have quotes from, and references to, the scriptures woven into them. On the numerous fast days there is prescribed abstention from meat and dairy products ...
The Antiochian Orthodox followers were originally cared for by the Russian Orthodox Church in America and the first bishop consecrated in North America, Raphael of Brooklyn, was consecrated by the Russian Orthodox Church in America in 1904 to care for the Syro-Levantine Greek Orthodox Christian Ottoman immigrants to the United States and Canada, who had come chiefly from the vilayets of Adana ...
[27] [28] Orthodox Christians hold that the Bible is a verbal icon of Christ, as proclaimed by the 7th ecumenical council. [29] They refer to the Bible as holy scripture, meaning writings containing the foundational truths of the Christian faith as revealed by Christ and the Holy Spirit to its divinely inspired
According to an Ancient Greek and Roman custom, the day was, like the night, divided into four parts, each consisting of three hours. Among the ancients the hour of Nones was regarded as the close of the day's business and the time for the baths and supper.
It is sometimes referred to as the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church, Armenian Church or Armenian Gregorian Church. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The Armenian Apostolic Church should not be confused with the fully distinct Armenian Catholic Church , which is an Eastern Catholic Church in communion with the See of Rome .