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But Who is our Family?Is it parents living with 2.5 children in suburbia or is it the single person living alone in the heart of a bustling city? The answer would be both and every other combination you can imagine. Family can be defined many ways, but, in essence, it is as a group of individuals who are connected either by affection, kinship, dependency or trust. Each of us has an immediate family whether we are close to them or not. This family can include parents, guardians, spouses, grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. In addition, we all have people that play a very important role in our lives—our family of friends. But there is one more family that we often overlook—our church family. As members of the Orthodox Christian Church, we are members of the Body of Christ. God is our Heavenly Father and we are His children. Oftentimes, we forget our life-sustaining parent and only remember Him when we attend church on Sundays.
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Early Childhood Education
By Metropolitan Isaiah of Denver
From Holy Scripture we know that God created all things in existence, both visible and invisible. His highest creation was man, whom lie created in His image. All of humanity is created in His image in that we have intellect; we have free will; and we are given the opportunity to express our free will, either in harmony with the divine will or in opposition to it.
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Family Life - Volume I, 1987
10 Basic Tips For Family Communication
By Fr. Gregory Wingenbach
"You never ever understand me" and "there's no use trying to talk with you" are the most familiar expressions heard by parents. Usually, there is some truth to it because parents are adults of one generation, and the children of another. . . and because our fast-paced society simply doesn't foster parent/child communication.
When there's no communication or attention at home, some children will take up with the "wrong crowd," act up at school, wind up experimenting with drugs, or run away from home. Parents, in turn, ask: "why didn't they come to us about it?"
We have to ask ourselves, as parents, "Do we create the climate for communication in our home?" From the "College of Hard Knocks" experience - here are 10 basic tips:
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Family PrayerFor this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthered with might through His spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. – Ephesians 3:14-19
It's Summer Time! How do you plan to spend your summer? Here are some ways to stay connected to the Church. June: Conviction of the Faithful Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Center for Family Care (www.familyaschurch.org) Whatever we know, this we reveal to you; for if we were to keep silent now, the stones would cry out and refute our hardness and our blindness. -St. Romanos the Melodist
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Prayer joins us with God and is the first and most essential step in  connecting our families to the Church. This guide provides a collection of Orthodox prayers and meditations for daily use. It can be used for both personal and family prayer time. Stand it on your kitchen table or another place where your family regularly gathers. To order your copy of the Table Top Prayer Guide, please click here to download the order form (in PDF format). The Table Top Prayer Guide has been divided into sections, in order to make easier for you to either read it online or to download it. Each section has been converted to a PDF file. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the file.
Orthodox Perspectives on CreationReport of the WCC Inter-Orthodox Consultation, Sofia, Bulgaria, October 1987 (Extracts) Creation and Holy Trinity1. We believe that the created world itself is a 'mystery' originating in the sovereign will of God accomplished by the action (energia) of the Holy Trinity. We confess in the NiceneConstantinopolitan creed (325/381) that the Father is the "Creator of heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible", the Son "He through whom all things were made", and the Holy Spirit, the "Creator of life" (zoopion). Thus, the three persons created together the world, which is the fruit of the common action of the Holy Trinity issuing out of the one essence.
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