Christian Ethics

Encouraging to make right choices in all aspects of life; bullying, interacting with members of the opposite sex, and other applicable moments.

How the Orthodox faith informs the choices we make when faced with current ethical issues such as: bullying, academic integrity, treating people with different views, pre-marital sex, use of mind-altering substances, mental health issues, (mental, physical, spiritual, sexual) abuse, LGBTQ identities etc.

Teacher Training and Resources

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Reference Materials

A reference is a referral to another's text or information and can refer to written sources (books, reports, articles), videos, Internet sites, images, etc. It can also refer to personal communication in the form of letters, e-mails or interviews. A reference is synonymous with a literary citation or citing a source.

The following materials are offered as sources for information and ideas but please remember to properly give credit if material is used in your writing! If you forget to use references, or your references are incomplete, your work can seem like an empty postulation or create suspicions of plagiarism.

Articles

1. On 'Moralistic Therapeutic Deism' as U.S. Teenagers' Actual, Tacit, De Facto Religious Faith, Christian Smith (Catholic Education Resource Center)

Videos

1. The Ladder Episode 1: The Way, Fr. Shawn Thomas, Northeast American Diocese

Podcasts

1. Moralistic Therapeutic Deism and an Orthodox Response, David Paddison (Ancient Faith Radio)

Scripture

In order to help our children grow in the Orthodox Faith in North America, a decision was made to standardize all materials to the Orthodox Study Bible (DSWA Kalpana DSWA/C/016/2010, October 28, 2010). Please continue to pray and support the development of a fully approved translation based on the Peshitta, and our textbooks will educate on the various translations and historic development of Scripture.

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Liturgical Resources

The Ministry of Liturgical Resource Development (LRD) was created in July of 2015 (DSWA Kalpana DSWA/C/10/2015, July 24,2015) to promote the translation, versification, and publication of vital English liturgical resources. Today most of our Sacramental offices are available and the "Service Book of the Holy Qurbono" and "Shehimo: Book of Common Prayer" are available in print. Wherever possible references will be made using LRD resources given the easy access to these materials to the faithful in North America.

Holy Qurbono

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Other Hymns

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Other Prayers

• Other Prayers

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Promion and Sedro

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Quotes

Patristic Quotes

• [St. Makarios the Great] "Christians are of another world, children of the heavenly Adam, a new race, children of the Holy Spirit, shining brothers of Christ, similar to their Father, the spiritual Adam. They belong to his city, his race and power. They are not of this world, but of another one. For he himself says: 'You are not of this world, even as I am not of this world' (John 17:16)."
• [St. Isaac The Syrian] "Someone who bears a grudge while he prays is like a person who sows in the sea and expects to reap a harvest."
• [St. Maximos the Confessor] "He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins..."
• [St. Gregorios of Parumala] "Remember God in everything. Let no one grieve because of you. Never let go an opportunity to do something good. Only those things will remain with you till the end."
• [St. John Chrysostom] “No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great.”
• [St. John Chrysostom] "Let us learn at last to be Christians! If we know not how to pray, which is a very simple and easy thing, what else shall we know? Let us learn to pray like Christians. Those are the prayers of Gentiles, the supplications of Jews (i.e., who pray only for their own). The Christian's are the reverse, for the forgiveness and forgetting of offenses against us. "Being reviled," it is said, "we bless; being persecuted, we suffer; being defamed, we entreat.”) Hear Stephen saying, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge." Instead of praying against them, he prayed for them.”

Other Quotes

• "... whether we know it or not, when we are part of this Church we represent Christ wherever we go. People's perception of Christ can be based on their perception of us."
• [C.S. Lewis] “A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.”

Syriac and Greek Words

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Icons

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