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Met. Anthony Khrapovitsky on Zacchaeus, The Mystery of Co-Suffering Love in Everyday Life, and Dostoevsky

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{It is perhaps not necessary to elucidate everything about the Metropolitan’s much debated piece, „The Dogma of Redemption” [archived pdf], before appreciating some of his most practical points. On the same note, from two of his saintly followers, see here, here, and here. A rich assortment from the Metropolitan’s seminal writings on Dostoevsky is available…

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​Dostoevsky for Parents and Children: (XIe) ​The Protection of the Mother of God – Recollections and Exhortations of Elder Zossima, part II

De Dostoievski et al.

Previously in the ​​Dostoevsky for Parents and Children series:   Varenka’s Memoirs (from the novel Poor Folk, 1846 [1883, 1887, 1897, DPC I]) An Honest Thief (from Stories of a Man of Experience, 1848 [suggested by the Introduction to the 1897 anthology, DPC V]) Nellie’s Story (from the novel The Insulted and Injured, 1861 [1883, 1887, DPC VI]) Marie’s Story (from…

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Dostoevsky for Parents and Children: (XId) The Duel – Recollections and Exhortations of Elder Zossima, part I

De Dostoievski et al.

Previously in the Dostoevsky for Parents and Children series:   Varenka’s Memoirs (from the novel Poor Folk, 1846 [1883, 1887, 1897, DPC I]) An Honest Thief (from Stories of a Man of Experience, 1848 [suggested by the Introduction to the 1897 anthology, DPC V]) Nellie’s Story (from the novel The Insulted and Injured, 1861 [1883, 1887, DPC VI]) Marie’s Story (from…

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Dostoevsky for Parents and Children: (XIa) Alyosha Karamazov

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Previously in the Dostoevsky for Parents and Children series:   Varenka’s Memoirs (from the novel Poor Folk, 1846 [1883, 1887, 1897, DPC I]) An Honest Thief (from Stories of a Man of Experience, 1848 [suggested by the Introduction to the 1897 anthology, DPC V]) Nellie’s Story (from The Insulted and Injured, 1861 [1883, 1887, DPC VI]) Marie’s Story (from The Idiot,…

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Before and After Elder Zossima (The Brothers Karamazov)

De Karamazov

{From the fact that in real life certain people, at a certain stage of spiritual development, and presumably after a certain number of ascending steps taken on the Ladder of askesis and/or suffering, can embody the ‘all are guilty for all ethics’  profitably for themselves and others, it does not seem to follow that anyone,…

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Dostoevsky for Parents and Children: (X) Marie’s Story

De Dostoievski et al.

Previously in the _Dostoevsky for Parents and Children_ series:   Varenka’s Memoirs (from the novel _Poor Folk_, 1846 [1883, 1887, 1897, DPC I])   An Honest Thief (from _Stories of a Man of Experience_, 1848 [suggested by the Introduction to the 1897 anthology, DPC V])   Nellie’s Story (from _The Insulted and Injured_, 1861 [1883, 1887, DPC VI])   At The Select Boarding School (from the…

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„Living water” as freedom in a fallen world

De Karamazov

St. Theophan the Recluse The Lord said: If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed (John 8:36). Here is where freedom is! The mind is bound with bonds of ignorance, delusions, superstitions, and uncertainties; it struggles, but cannot get away from them. Cleave to the Lord and He will enlighten your darkness…

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Dostoevsky for Parents and Children: (IX) Foma Danilov – The Russian Hero Tortured To Death

De Dostoievski et al.

Previously in the Dostoevsky for Parents and Children series:   Varenka’s Memoirs (from the novel Poor Folk, 1846 [1883, 1887, 1897, DPC I])   An Honest Thief (from Stories of a Man of Experience, 1848 [suggested by the Introduction to the 1897 anthology, DPC V]   Nellie’s Story (from The Insulted and Injured, 1861 [1883, 1887, DPC VI]   At The Select Boarding School (from the…