I came to this website to see the postion of orhtodox on christians outside of the church. I found what I was looking for thankyou, I hope to hear from Father...
Dear Father Aidan, You said: <the Roman church never did manage to print the chants for Matins for daily usage.> Well, what the official Roman church did not ...
I was wondering if anyone on list is in the Antiochian WRV and uses Gregorian usage? I'm trying to find out if last years reprint of the 1958 English Missal by...
From St. Maximos the Confessor (Second Century on Love no. 47, The Philokalia Vol. 2 edited by Palmer, Sherrard and Ware; Faber and Faber pg. 73): "Certain...
hi to everu one :)))) bless me father aidan.. i am now back from very long summer so from now i will read and participiate on this list more offten.:)))) i...
From St. John of Kronstadt (My Life in Christ: Part 1, Holy Trinity Monastery pgs. 125-126): " 'Mine eyes and Mine heart shall be there perpetually' (I Kgs....
Celtic and Old English Saints 22 August =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= * St. Sigfrid of Wearmouth * St. Andrew of Ireland * St. Arnulf of...
Ric Ballard asks, "What is Church?" Websters defines "Church" as The Lord's house and goes on to give several other definitions, the last of which is,"Of,...
From St. Peter of Damaskos (Twenty-Four Discourses no. 24, The Philokalia Vol. 3 edited by Palmer, Sherrard and Ware; Faber and Faber pgs. 277): "...to one who...
Dear Fr. Jim: I don't always agree with you, but I think you have really hit on something here. Reading the Fathers in order to acquire their mindset, their ...
To me, the presence of secret rites in Freemasonry where a person swears that if anyone divulges certain of Freemasonry's secrets, they will kill them by...
Actually there are manuscript illuminations from the 15th century that show communicants kneeling to receive Communion (the Gospel was by that time the *only*...
Just an inquiry for all; not a debate question. What do Orthodox mean when they speak of the patronage of the saints? Lutherans don't say much about it,...
... Actually, the digest is worse--it means that every time there's a long discussion between folks who top-post and don't trim their quotes, one ends up...
From St. Symeon the New Theologian (The Discourses: XIII no. 2, Paulist Press pg. 182): "...we have now come out of the world and entered into the tomb of ...
Today is September 1st according to the new calendar, and this date is only 13 days away according to the old calendar. In Orthodox Churches of the Byzantine...
Of course we believe the Bible is completely true, but God's viewpoint is not ours. St. Augustine says in explanation of why some manuscripts say that a...
Fr. Allyne has got it right - Brian is fundamentalist and literalist. "To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain" G.K.Chesterton ...
Dear Fr. Ted, I count yours as the 13th email from OrthodoxWest I've received today, but I don't notice any duplicates (although sometimes the pasted-in text...
Dear Brothers and Sisters, We are sending out duplicate and triplicate emails to each other. Today I had 16 e-mails from Orthodox West. Fr. Ted [Non-text...
Dear Mr. Westgate, You seem to approach Orthodoxy from a scriptural starting point. The problem is that Orthodoxy starts with people not with books, God's...
From St. Gregory Palamas (The Homilies: Vol. 1, Homily 1 para. 7; St. Tikhon's Seminary Press pg. 4): "Our soul is like a lamp with good works for oil. Instead...
Yes, we have a reading prescribed at Matins, from the 'Great Synaxarion of the lives of the Saints". This exists in Greek, and probably the other languages of...
Re: Anti-Masonic rubbish As an Orthodox who happens to be Scottish, I find it interesting that in Scotland, the "Auld Light" Presbyterian church of Calvin and...
Dear fathers and friends In the Coptic Orthodox tradition there is a reading of short lives of the saints of the day from our Synaxarium. In the Byzantine...
