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Does God Who is full and perfect need to be blessed, glorified, or magnified? Does His Holy Name need additional holiness? We say “Hallowed be Thy Name”, “we bless Thee” or “we glorify Thee?” How could St. Mary say, “My soul magnifies the Lord?”

What does it mean when we pray in the Lord’s Prayer, “Hallowed be Thy Name” or in the Liturgy “we …

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What should I do when my mind wanders during prayer?

The following advice comes from Theophan the Recluse (1815-1894), a Russian Orthodox saint best known for his work, Unseen Warfare, and …

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How can I deal with hindrances in prayer?

During prayer there sometimes occur moments of deadly darkness and spiritual anguish arising from unbelief of the heart (for unbelief …

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Why did the evangelist neglect the names of some saintly women like Sara, Rebecca, and others, in the sequence of genealogies, while he mentioned adulterous women like Tamar, Rahab, the wife of Uriah the Hittite, and Ruth who is a woman of a foreign race?

ANSWER He wanted to annihilate the haughtiness of the Jews who boast about their grandfathers. He showed them how their …

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Who are the wise men? Why did the star appear to them? How did they overcome the Jews? Was the star a natural star? What are the symbols which the story of the wise men bear, and what are their relationships with the Gentiles and the Jews?

ANSWER The wise men came from the East, probably from the countries of Persia . They were from the rank …

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