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		<title>Volume 3, Number 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 17:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theme: Modern Martyrdom Articles: The Many Lives and Faces of Maria Skobstova by Father Michael Plekon Alexander Schmorell: A Witness in Dark Times by Mr. Jim Forest You Are Always Home for Pascha by Donnie Carmichael Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Butovo by Maria Degtiareva &#8220;God is Always With You&#8221; An Interview with Father [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocawonder.com&#038;blog=11265305&#038;post=1610&#038;subd=ocawonder&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Many Lives and Faces of Maria Skobstova</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Father Michael Plekon A screen or TV writer could not create it, the sheer sweep and turbulence, the drama of Mother Maria Skobtsova’s life. Connected to the high society of St. Petersburg through her family, she was most at home in the almost Mediterranean wine country in Crimea, in Anapa, where her family’s country [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocawonder.com&#038;blog=11265305&#038;post=1546&#038;subd=ocawonder&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander Schmorell: a Witness in Dark Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 17:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mr. Jim Forest Editor&#8217;s Note: This article was originally published in the Winter 2011 issue of &#8220;In Communion&#8221;, the quarterly journal of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship and on the author&#8217;s website. We are grateful for their permission to republish it here. In May 1942, two young medical students in Munich secretly formed an anti-Nazi [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocawonder.com&#038;blog=11265305&#038;post=1559&#038;subd=ocawonder&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Are Always Home for Pascha</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 17:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Donnie Carmichael I have always loved and still do love Pascha. My year basically revolves around it. And even when it is Paschatide, I want to relive Pascha more and more, every Sunday and everyday. Every year through college I was at my home parish with my family, my ‘Church family&#8221;, all its familiarity [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocawonder.com&#038;blog=11265305&#038;post=1549&#038;subd=ocawonder&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Butovo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 17:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Maria Degtiareva The original English translation of this article was originally published by Pravmir.com. We thank them for permission to republish it here. The first time I found myself here was four years ago. I did not come on my own, although I had heard about this place more than once, even seeing some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocawonder.com&#038;blog=11265305&#038;post=1571&#038;subd=ocawonder&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;God Is Always With You&#8221; An Interview with Father Roman Braga</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 17:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early part of this month, Ms. Jessica Precop, on behalf of our department, traveled to the Dormition of the Mother of God Monastery in Rives Junction, Michigan to interview Father Roman Braga, who grew up and served in Romania under a communist regime. We are very thankful to Ms. Precop, Father Roman, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocawonder.com&#038;blog=11265305&#038;post=1598&#038;subd=ocawonder&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: Our Modern Martyrdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 17:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mr. Andrew Boyd It’s fun to celebrate the victorious image of Christ, to wave palms with the crowd and shout as the king enters in glory. Palm Sunday is a festive celebration of our King who will save us from the “others” the oppressors, whether they are Roman or modern. The rest of our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocawonder.com&#038;blog=11265305&#038;post=1568&#038;subd=ocawonder&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Volume 3, Number 5, Authors and Contributors</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Father Michael Plekon is a Professor in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at Baruch College (City University of New York). He is attached to Saint Gregory the Theologian Orthodox Church in Wappingers Falls, New York. He is author of the book &#8220;Hidden Holiness&#8221; and the forth-coming &#8220;Saints as They Really Are&#8211;American Voices, Lives and Paths to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocawonder.com&#038;blog=11265305&#038;post=1562&#038;subd=ocawonder&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Volume 3, Number 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theme: The Day of Resurrection Articles Pascha in Afghanistan by Fr. Sean Levine Pascha Above the Clouds by Mr. Andrew Boyd Sacrificial Atonement on the Blessed Sabbath? by Dn. Jason Ketz The Constant Gardener by Ms. Andreea Bălan More information on the authors and contributors can be found here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocawonder.com&#038;blog=11265305&#038;post=1538&#038;subd=ocawonder&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pascha in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Father Sean Levine Pascha takes place in the spring; the season of increasing light that comes as the world emerges from the darkness of winter. While the Feast of Nativity takes place at the darkest point of the year, the Feast of Feasts takes place within the context of increasing light after the long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocawonder.com&#038;blog=11265305&#038;post=1501&#038;subd=ocawonder&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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