What Does Justification Mean in the Orthodox Church?
Fr. Ayman Kfouf
August 26, 2026
Justification as regeneration, not a legal verdict: baptism, sanctification, faith working through love, and why good works belong to salvation.
Read moreEntering the Orthodox Church
A 20-part reading guide drawn from Entering the Orthodox Church by Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos. These parish articles introduce catechesis, the Creed, Baptism, and life in the Church. Read them in the order below; each lesson links to the next.
View all 20 lessons in order
- How Did the Early Church Prepare People for Baptism?
- What Is a Catechumen?
- What Is Orthodox Catechism?
- Why Are We Called Christians?
- Who Is the God of the Christians?
- What Is Man, and What Was His Fall?
- What Is the Church, and What Is Her Work?
- What Is the Communion of Saints?
- What Is the Ascetic Life?
- Who Are the Healthy and Sick Members of the Church?
- Why Does the Church Have a Creed?
- “I Believe in One God, Maker of All Things Visible and Invisible”
- “One Lord Jesus Christ… Light of Light, True God of True God”
- “For Us and for Our Salvation He Came Down and Became Man”
- The Cross, the Resurrection, and the Coming Kingdom
- “And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of Life”
- “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 Age to Come”
- What Happens at an Orthodox Baptism — and After?
What Is Divine Grace?
Fr. Ayman Kfouf
August 26, 2026
Divine grace as God's uncreated energy: why we cannot save ourselves, how grace and human freedom cooperate, and the Orthodox answer to predestination.
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What Are Holy Scripture and Holy Tradition?
Fr. Ayman Kfouf
August 26, 2026
Holy Scripture and Holy Tradition as the two sources of divine revelation: inspiration, the biblical canon, the Church's authority, and reading the Bible.
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What Do Orthodox Christians Believe About the Holy Trinity?
Fr. Ayman Kfouf
August 26, 2026
An Orthodox introduction to the Holy Trinity: one God in three Persons — the divine energies, the relations of the Persons, and the witness of Scripture.
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Who Is Jesus Christ?
Fr. Ayman Kfouf
August 26, 2026
Truly God and truly man: the Orthodox teaching on Christ’s two natures and one Person — the Theotokos, His sinlessness, and the mystery at the heart of salvation.
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What Is the Orthodox Church?
Fr. Ayman Kfouf
August 26, 2026
The Church is more than a building or an organization. The Orthodox faith knows her as the people of God and the Body of Christ — founded by Christ, born at Pentecost, and continuing His saving work in the world.
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- What Happens at an Orthodox Baptism — and After?
- “I Look for the Resurrection of the Dead, and the Life of the Age to Come”
- “I Acknowledge One Baptism for the Remission of Sins”
- “In One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church”
- “And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of Life”
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Articles on the Orthodox Christian faith from Saint George Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral in Coral Gables, Florida.
