How Our Departed Ones Live - The Experience of the Orthodox Church

How Our Departed Ones Live - The Experience of the Orthodox ChurchBy Monk Mitrophan Translated by John Shaw Paperback Our Lord Jesus Christ is the Conqueror of death, and, consequently, of the death of our departed ones. Let us say to them in Him, not 'Farewell,' but 'Until we meet again, beloved spouse, good parents, dear brother or sister. Until we meet again!' While many are now abandoning traditional religious practice, none the less, the reality of death and questions regarding the afterlife remain at the

The present book was first published in Russia in 1858

schema-archimandrite of the Seven Lakes Monastery near Kazan (†1915)

by Elissa Bjeletich

Originally serialized in our diocese’s periodical The True Vine between 1990 and 1996

Orthodox theology is intimately linked to spiritual experience

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but will be found useful by anyone interested in the early controversies concerning the determination of the date of the Paschal celebration

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