Works Cited

Words of Welcome

1 - Anthony Coniaris, Eastern Orthodoxy: A Way of Life (Minneapolis: Light and Life Publishing, 1966) 61-62.

The Desire for God

1 - Fr. Thomas Hopko, The Lenten Spring (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1983) 21.

Creation

1 - Genesis 1:31

2 - Genesis 1:26-27

3 - Genesis 2:7

Humanity

1 - Genesis 2:7

2 - Wisdom 2:23

The Fall (Paradise Lost)

1 - Genesis 2:17

2 - Genesis 3:19

3 - Genesis 3:7

4 - Genesis 2:25

5 - Chrystos Yannaras, Elements of Faith, trans. Keith Schram (T &T Clark, 1991) 80.

6 - Ibid, 82

7 - Ibid, 82-83

8 - Wisdom 2:23-24

9 - Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 417 (Toronto: Doubleday, 1995).

10 - Ibid, paragraph 418.

11 - Genesis 3:17-19

12 - Genesis 3:16

Old Testament (The Law and The Prophets)

1 - Deuteronomy 30:16-17

Jesus Christ

1 - John 1:14

2 - Philippians 2:5-11

3 - Vladimir Lossky, Orthodox Theology: An Introduction (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1978) 116.

4 - Matthew the Poor, The Communion of Love (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1984) 147.

5 - 1 Corinthians 15:17

6 - Matthew the Poor, The Communion of Love, 147.

7 - Romans 6:11

8 - Romans 6:7

9 - John 13:15

The Holy Spirit (Pentecost: The Coming of the Holy Spirit)

1 - Acts1:9

2 - Acts 2:1-4

3 - Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1979) 124.

4 - This section is based on Kallistos Ware’s The Orthodox Way (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1979) 118-121.

5 - John 3:8

6 - Ware, Orthodox Way, 120.

7 - Ibid., 121.

8 - Ibid., 119.

9 - From the Service of Chrismation

10 - 2Peter 1:4

11 - John Meyendorff, “The Holy Spirit in the Church” in John XXIII Lectures, vol. I (ed. Moloney) (NY: Fordham, 1966) 68.

12 - Light for Life: Part Three – The Mystery Lived ( Pittsburgh, PA: God With Us Publications, 2001), 12.

The Church

1 - The Orthodox Study Bible (Nashville:Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1993) 445.

2 - Matthew 13:31

3 - Matthew 13:44

4 - Matthew 13:47-48

5 - Matthew 20:1-16

6 - Matthew 22:1-14, Luke 14:15-24

7 - Gregory of Nyssa, quoted in Glory to Glory (trans. and ed. Herbert Musurillo) (London: J. Murray, 1961) 273.

8 - Ephesians 5:22-33

9 - Ephesians 5:29-32

10 - Genesis 2:23

11 - Genesis 2:21-22

12 - Ephesians 1:10

13 - Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 772.

14 - Ibid, paragraph 775.

15 - Colosians 1:18

16 - 1Corinthians 12:12

17 - Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

18 - Romans 6:5

19 - Ephesians 4:24

20 - Ephesians 4:18

21 - Ephesians 4:23

22 - Ephesians 4:25

23 - Colosians 3:1

24 - 1Corinthians 3:16, see also 2 Corinthians 6:16 Ephesians 2:21

25 - Catechism of Catholic Church, paragraph 797.

26 - 1 Corinthians 12:4-7, see also verses 8-31.

The Holy Mysteries

1 - Romans 16:25-26, 1 Corinthians 2:1, Ephesians 1:9-10, Colosians 1:27, 1 Timothy 3:9-16

2 - John 1:14

3 - Light for Life: Part Two: The Mystery Celebrated ( Pittsburgh, PA: God With Us Publications, 2001), 91.

The Trinity

1 - Ware, Orthodox Way, 39.

2 - Fr. Thomas Hopko, The Spirit of God (Wilton, Conn.: Morehouse-Barlow, 1976) 3.

3 - http://www.oca.org (1998)

4 - Hopko, The Spirit of God, 5-6.