... Russia schools ban "cult of death" Halloween MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow schools have been ordered to ban students from celebrating the cult of the dead,...
It's a Gaelic word, pronounced roughly, "su-inn" meaning "end of summer." The ancient peoples would start slaughtering their cattle before the onset of winter...
Tito Colliander, Camino de los ascetas , Ediciones Paulinas, Buenos Aires, 1983. Colombas, OSB, El monacato primitivo . Tomos I y II, BAC, Madrid, 1974, 1975 ...
WEG DER ASKETEN Tito Colliander Kapitel Eins: Über eine entschiedene und dauerhafte Zielsetzung Wenn du deine Seele zu retten und das ewige Leben zu gewinnen...
Dear In Christ, Please welcome to our OrthodoxWest dialogical community the Servant of God Sergios. Sergios is formerly of the ECUSA now in the Antiochian...
As a member of OrthodoXCircle [an Orthodox alternative to MySpace] I was recently asked by a young Greek man "What is the significance of the Western Rite in...
It is indeed, further absurdity, at least in it's preparation. In fact, what was discussed and presented as some kind of agreement by the Orthodox with the...
... Father, While reading the document in question I could only think: here is another document that both sides will read according to their preferences. The...
Christ is amongst us! I desire to receive here the understanding of what remains alive and virtuous in the West. A relative was clergy in the ECUSA, eminently...
Dear in Christ; Christ is amongst us! Glorify him! I am familiar with the ancient date of All Saints. Some time about 800 AD it was shifted to its present...
... eyes open the past few hundred years. This is a culmination of the prophetic. As the old Baptist preacher said many a year ago, 'When you see the Catholics...
To echo another current thread – absurdity is the epithet of our age. The only calendar is God's calendar and the only sacred time is His. If poor deluded...
Margaret and all, don't remember which saint to credit, but one said, "The time will come when men will go mad and seeing one who is not mad they will seize...
Abba Anthony said, "A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, "You are mad, you are not...
Christ is born! Glorify Him! View full size  A great and wondrous mystery unfolds today. A virgin gives birth and remains a virgin. The Word is made flesh...
Glory to Jesus Christ! In obedience to instruction: My name is Michael; I was born in 1949; I reside with my wife in New Jersey, close to New York City. I'm of...
Dear Michael-- I don't know if you've celebrated Christmas already, but there are parishes of the Synod of Milan (including a monastery with the Archbishop in...
Dear Joseph, Thank you for the invitation. Yes, I have celebrated Christmas already -- the OCA is New Calendar, except for Pascha. And yes, I would like to...
Where do you stand on the Second Council of Orange's teaching on grace and nature and Semipelagianism? ... Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with...
and maybe this will open avenues of discussion. Fr. Francis _________________________________________________________________________ ______________ THE...
I would approach the writings of Fr. Eusebius with some caution. While much of what he says may be good, it is well to remember that he was once in the...
... Amen! Fr Eusebius' effects are still being felt. I am very afraid whenever someone talks about "church renewal" and they mean anything other than icon...