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...
... that ... still ... Okay Fr Cuthbert & Mr. Suaiden, the caution is noted regarding Fr Eusebius. The issue by which Fr Francis posted the Eusebian quote ...
It seems to me that "renewal" comes from neither the clergy nor the laity but rather from the Holy Ghost working to accomplish His Work as needed. One thing...
... To All OW Members: Isnt it a dreadful concern for the Orthodox Pastor when a lay member is "fired up" and appears to hold an energy for ministry. Geez,...
For those who may not be familiar with Southern terminology, to be "fired up" carries the connotation of "zeal not according to knowledge". We certainly want...
... Fathers, bless: As an Orthodox layman, I think there is plenty for the laity to do to help build up the Church (She cannot be "renewed", but only built up)...
-I could not agree more with Joseph Suaiden's well thought out letter. "Renew" is one of those words that 40+ years of post-Vatican II Rome and almost that...
Joseph Suiaden writes: "There is a clever deception in this article as well: the implication that the Fathers of the Church were "anti-clerical" , as well as...
Only today, following Liturgy, did I have time to sit down read this carefully, and think it through, and yes, I agree, this goes too far. One can point to...
... From: Charles E. Carlson <ccarlson@...> Date: Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:39 AM Subject: Pharisee Watch: Prison Break from Gaza, a Glimpse of a People ...
... From: <emrys@...> Date: Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 9:17 PM Subject: [Occidentalis] Celtic Orthodox bishop received into the Ecumenical Patriarchate To:...
To All on the Orthodox West List I started composing a reply to this post and when I tried to save it to drafts it said something about sending and vanished....
It seems I was unsubscribed against my will. The Webmaster was nice enough to let me know. The poster who did so had no reason to. I only thought the plight...
I hope Fr Ambrose had nothing to do with this? ... -- Joseph Suaiden Website: http://suaiden.freehostia.com New Book: http://stores.lulu.com/deipara...
On behalf of Yahoo! Groups I offer an apology to OW Members Margaret Smythe and Joseph Suaiden whose most recent posts were delayed. Yahoo! Groups "engine" had...
Yes, what a tragedy! It is perfectly understandable that the Egyptians do not help their muslim brothers with humanitarian relief; they don't want to offend...
How can you be unsubscribed against your will? Does that mean we can be unsubscribed by people who don't like what we post (apart from the administrators)? I...
Thank you, Papa Symeon. Yahoo is very odd that way - it regularly sends messages from my Yahoo Groups into my spam folder. Meanwhile, of course, ads for drugs...
Dear Father-- bless! I realize now my post was incredibly unclear. I was never claiming to be unsubbed from OrthodoxWest! In fact, someone unsubscribed me...
The two volumes of the Medieval Monastic Psalter of Orthodox England Noted in the English Language arrived yesterday from St Gregory's Press. Alleluia! A...
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