Greek Orthodox Church

St. John 's Catholic Church and a service at St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church, and the similarities and differences that I observed were extremely intriguing. Both services recite similar prayers, like the Nicene Creed and Our Father, and they celebrate the Eucharist during mass. While the Orthodox Church is demographically Greek, the Catholic Church represents a large white population, and they both show incredible hospitality toward newcomers. The Orthodox Church is dome-shaped and…

The Russian Orthodox Church is full of mystery and has been around for many generations. Another name that the church goes by is Eastern Orthodox Church, it's also known for being autocephalous. The Russian Orthodox Church goes by the belief of the bible to be the world of God, in other words it is Trinitarian. In the novel, Animal Farm the church is represented as " Moses" the raven. Moses comes and goes and tells the animals about "Sugar Candy Mountain." The Russian Church has been around…

Being judged is never fun, especially when you are in public. It is something that I hate looking back to because I was really hurt. I wish it never happened, but it did. I felt dejected at first, but after a while I snapped out of it. Let me tell you the one memory that involved literacy. The one time a man insulted me in a store because I did not speak my second language very well last year. First, let me tell you about my background. I was born here in Dallas, but my parents are from…

In The Committee by Sun’Allah Ibrahim, the open-door policy has resulted in an economic and social dependency on the Western world as Egyptians pride themselves in using American and European commodities and global ideals they believe will enrich and improve their lives and country; however, in reality these are detrimental to their society. Through the diversification of Western commodities into Egypt, Egyptians lose their self-sufficiency and nationalist values, allowing the Western world to…

immature, childishly obsessed with soldiers, an alcoholic, and not mentally stable (Lichtman, Corey). Sophie was successful in garnering the Empress’s approval for her marriage. After also gaining consent from her father, she converted into the Russian Orthodox religion on August, 21, 1745 (Rounding, 33). During this ceremony, she was given the name Catherine (Ekaterina Alexeyevna). The day after her conversion was the betrothal ceremony during which she was engaged to Peter, gaining the tittle…

Catholic and Orthodox churches dominate the religious beliefs of today, their beginnings were set in an important period and they were both powerful and accomplished. Society between these two, was supported by their community. Respectably, society in these churches are comprised of their beliefs, services, government, literature, icons, and clergy. As religion is at the center of every community, the Catholic and Orthodox churches held fast to their beliefs. Roman Catholics and Orthodox…

Our Lady of Victories Church (OLOV) was the first Catholic Church/School to open in Glenelg on June 6th, 1869. The Sisters of St Joseph ran Glenelg’s first Catholic school in the building. St Paul’s Lutheran Church (SP) was introduced into Glenelg in 1931, but has been on its current site since 1954. The church was built in 1961, and then the community hall built in 1978, which is known to be used for Sunday school. Due to the Lutheran church stemming from the Catholic church, there are many…

in many as well. The four main traditions are: Catholic, Protestant, Pentecostal, and Orthodox. Of these four major traditions Catholic makes up the most at 50 percent while Protestant and Pentecostal are both 20 percent each and the last 10 percent being orthodox. These four big traditions of Christianity are all part of one family tree. Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism share common roots in the church of the old Christian Roman Empire and have histories that intertwine back to their…

Twitter. I feel the same that social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook can be beneficial as well as disturbing. Eltahawy writes, “I first learned of the bomb attack, which took place a few minutes into the New Year against a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria, Egypt, via Twitter” (164). She says as soon as a bomb attack took place, it was already updated on twitter and thus how she came to know about the attack. In the blink of an eye, you can get the recent updates regarding any…

Hellenistic and Roman periods due to its size, contents, historical contexts, and continual influence. The language of the original composition of 1 Enoch was Aramaic, but the collection as a whole was only preserved in an Ethiopic translation of a Greek translation.…