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Mar 2024
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What is an Anathema? - St. Theophan the ...

Readings from Saints of Holy Orthodoxy
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<p>Every year during the first Sunday of Great Lent, the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy, the questions arise: &quot;Why are we anathematizing people? Is the Church really sending them to hell? What is an anathema?&quot; In his homily on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, St. Theophan the Recluse provides as answer to such questions, raising our theologoical consci ... Show More
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