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Beginning with the October 2004 issue, orthodoxkansas.org is pleased to offer for download A Cloud of Witnesses, the parish newsletter of All Saints Orthodox Church:
Besides containing parish announcements, the newsletter includes edifying spiritual readings, written or compiled from patristic sources ancient and modern by Archimandrite Daniel Griffith, pastor of All Saints, and senior priest of the Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
orthodoxkansas.org also provides a variety of resources for Orthodox Christians and those interested in learning more about the Holy Orthodox Faith:
All Saints Orthodox Church, St. Mary Magdalene Mission,Holy Transfiguration Mission and Three Hierarchs Mission are all under the omophorion of Bishop BASIL of the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America of the Self-Ruled Antiochican Archdiocese of North America.
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- St. Mary Magdalene Orthodox
Christian Mission
St. Mary Magdalene House, 913 Riley Lane, Manhattan, KS 66502
(785) 539-3440
Fledgling mission serving the Manhattan/ Ft. Riley/ Junction City area under
the care of All Saints Orthodox Church, Salina. Host church to the K-State
OCF.
- All Saints Orthodox Church
2818 Scanlan Ave., Salina, KS 67401
(785) 823-3735
- SS. Peter and
Paul Orthodox Church
2525 Huntoon, Topeka, KS 66604
(785) 354-7718
- Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Christian Mission
116 N. Washington, Hillsboro, KS 67063
(620) 947-3000
- St. Basil the Great
Orthodox Christian Mission
mailing address (rectory): 11777 W.108th Street, Overland Park, KS 66210
(913) 663-2200
Sunday services at East Antioch Elementary School, 7342 Lowell Ave
Overland Park, KS 66204
- Holy Trinity
Orthodox Church
11901 Pflumm Rd., Overland Park, KS 66213
(913 )681-6943
- St. George Orthodox Christian
Cathedral
7515 East 13th, Wichita, KS 67206
(316) 636-4676
- St. Mary Orthodox
Church
344 S. Martinson, Wichita, KS 67213
(316) 264-1576
- Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church
805 N. Dellrose, Wichita, KS 67208
(316) 681-1165
- St. Dionysius Greek Orthodox Church
8100 West 95th St., Overland Park,
KS 66212
(913) 341-7373
- St. George Serbian Orthodox Church
Bethany & Lowell, Kansas City,
KS 66102
(913) 281-2942
Nearest Old Calendar parish to K-State.
- St. Archangel Michael Serbian Orthodox Church
310 N. 72nd St.,
Kansas City, KS 66112
(913) 788-5485
- St. Sophia Bulgarian Orthodox Church
846 Illinois, Ste A,
Lawrence, KS 66044
(785) 749-9280
- St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church
10024 W. 49th Street, Merriam, KS
66203
Nearest Oriental Orthodox (non-Chalcedonian) parish to K-State.
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- Outreach AlaskaHomepage of the
Wichta-based outreach ministry in support of the OCA's Russian Orthodox Diocese of Alaska.
Provides a variety of programs by which more materially well-endowed communities and
individuals in the Lower-48 can provide assistance to the Church in our North American
spiritual homeland.
All Saints, Salina and St. Mary Magdalene, Manhattan have joined with SS. Peter and Paul,
Topeka and St. Mary, Wichita to participate in Outreach Alaska's Adopt-a-Seminarian Program.
- St. Herman Theological
SeminarHomepage of the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Alaska's seminary, where
Archpriest Chad Hatfield, the
founding priest of both All Saints, Salina and St. Mary Magdalene, Manhattan, lately served as Academic
Dean.
- St. Gregory Palamas Monastery
Homepage of the English-speaking monastery of the Greek Archdiocese
near Mansfield, Ohio, includes many edifying passages from the Holy Fathers
not available elsewhere in English.
- St. Michael's Skete Website of the OCA men's monastery in Caņones, NM. Includes an archive of Doxa, the Skete's quarterly journal, which publishes topical articles on current issues; book, and occasionally, movie reviews; and spiritually edifying mediations.
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The Prologue from Ochrid The classic compendium of lives of the Saints
by St. Nikolai Velimirovic. The site, maintained by the Protection of the Mother of God Church (ROCOR), directs first to a page containing the lives from the Prologue for the saints commemorated that
day on the Old Calendar. The Prologue search link gives access to the entire Prologue, but with links
to the saint commorated on the given date on the civil calendar by those Orthodox following the Old Calendar, so the site is a little awkward for those of us on the New Calendar to use.
- Orthodox Christian News Site maintained by the Orthodox Christian Laity, an organization actively working for the unity of the various canonical Orthodox jurisdictions into one organically united Orthodox Church: Orthodox-related news releases from a broad variety of news agencies, plus editorials & reader-reactions.
- St. Pachomius Library A first draft of for an encyclopedia of Orthodox Christianity.
- The Orthodox Christian Foundation useful links to other Orthodox sites and edifying reading.
- Eighth Day Books
On Line The website of Wichita's jewel of a bookstore, with probably the
best selection in the US of Orthodox Christian books under one roof.
- The Goodwins' Transylvanian Times Newsletter webpage for the missionary projects in Romania,
led or assisted by the Goodwin family, Orthodox Christians from Kansas.
- Ancient Faith Radio Orthodox internet radio, programming includes the Daily Orthros, the Hours, Vespers and the Midnight Office, broadcast of
the Sunday Divine Liturgy, and a "Great Tapes" series. Between programs named on the schedule at the website, the station plays recorded hymns of the Church and offers brief edifying readings from the Holy Fathers and the lives of the Saints. A ministry of All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Church, Chicago, IL.
- The Antiochian Archdiocese homepage for the North American exarchate of the Patriarchate of Antioch, the
Archdiocese under whose jurisdiction the clergy of all parishes and missions with pages hosted on orthodoxkansas.org serve
- The Orthodox Church in America homepage
of the (autocephalous) Orthodox Church of America.
- The Greek Archdiocese homepage
for the Greek Orthodox
Archdiocese, the North American exarchate of the Patriarch of Constantinople.
Includes links to the Orthodox World News.
- ROCOR homepage of the
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. Two on-line publications of this
fervently traditional Orthodox jurisdiction can be found at
Orthodox America and
The Orthodox Family (back-
issues only).
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The Orthodox Christian belongs to the Body of Christ, the Church of Christ.
This Eastern
Orthodox Church is organically the same congregation (or ecclesia) which
was born
at the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Jerusalem on Pentecost, a direct
continuation from the Apostles by laying on of hands from each generation
of priests
to the next. The Orthodox Christian recognizes the rich Christian heritage
and proclaims
that he belongs to this Church, which corresponds to the Church of the Apostles
as does a grown-up person correspond to a picture taken of him as a child.
The Orthodox Christian has been baptized in the name of the Holy Trinity
and follows
the ideals and beliefs of both the Scriptures and Sacred Tradition. He believes
in
a living and loving God, Whose Grace protects and guides him in the path
of redemption.
He believes that God has revealed Himself in the Bible through the Prophets and
especially
in the Person of Jesus Christ, His only-begotten Son who is man's Savior.
He especially
believes in the Incarnation of Christ as God-Man, in His
Crucifixion and Resurrection, in His Gospel and Commandments, and in the world to
come.
(Excerpts from THE FAITH WE HOLD by Archbishop Paul of Finland)
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The Basic Statement of Orthodox Christian Beliefs:
The Nicene Creed
I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and
of all things
visible and invisible;
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only-begotten, Begotten of
the Father
before all worlds, Light of Light, Very God of Very God, Begotten, not made;
of one
essence with the Father, by whom all things were made:
Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, and was
incarnate of
the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and was made man;
And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was
buried;
And the third day He rose again, according to the scriptures;
And ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of the Father;
And He shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead,
Whose kingdom
shall have no end.
And I believe in the Holy Spirity, the Lord and Giver of Life, Who proceeds
from the
Father, Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and
glorified, Who
spoke by the Prophets;
And I believe in One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.
I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins.
I look for the Resurrection of the dead, and the Life of the world to come.
Amen.
This statement of belief was drawn up at the first two universal or Ecumenical
Councils
of the Church, at Nicaea in 325 and Constantinople in 381.
Those interested in learning more about Orthodox Christian teachings and
about Orthodox
Christian positions on contemporary issues may find the following links
useful.
-
An Orthodox
Catechism link to a catechism in the Orthodox Page in America website:
good reading, but, alas organized as one big document without internal
hyperlinks.
- The
Orthodox Christian Faith A nice
hyperlinked collection of texts giving introductions and histories for
both basic Orthodox Christian doctrines and their applications to
contemporary circumstances and issues, produced by the
Greek Orthodox Archdioces of Australia.
-
An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith by St. John of Damascus,
the first
systematic account of the Faith, written by one of the great Church Fathers,
and still a classic after 1200 years. (Some modern readers may be put off by
the fact that some of the latter sections illustrate
the greatness of God's creation in terms of then-current scientific theories.
St. John himself, however, makes it clear that these theories are not
part of the
Faith, as he expounds various competing and contradictory
theories on almost every point.)
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The usual Wednesday and Friday fasts are observed between the Feast SS. Peter and Paul (29 June) and the beginning of the Dormition Fast. The Dormition Fast (1 to 14 August) is kept according to the strict lenten rule with a katalysis for oil and wine on Saturdays and Sundays and for fish, oil and wine on the Feast of the Transfiguration (6 August).
The detailed listing of major and minor feasts formerly offered in this space can be found in the calendars of The Cloud of Witnesses.
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