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- Fri 17 May 2024 12:06 am
- Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
- Topic: NatlGeo:"Jesus" special issue
- Replies: 13
- Views: 205
Re: NatlGeo:"Jesus" special issue
Why is it that you date that pedestal-placing of women to the Renaissance particularly, eish ? About the "nous", i remember the 1st time i read that term. It was paradoxically in a copy of that OCA journal "Ascend", was that the name of it ? Which was edited by the future OCA Me...
- Thu 16 May 2024 12:09 am
- Forum: Synaxarion Orthodoxia
- Topic: Elder Nektary of Optina
- Replies: 3
- Views: 66
Re: Elder Nektary of Optina
Matushka Eugenia Rymarenko wrote a long pamphlet "Reminiscences : Recollections About Elder Nektary of Optina", published in 1993 by Jordanville Monastery. The 1st part is in a diary format with entries for each day that she was able to meet with Elder Nektary, against the backdrop of the...
- Wed 15 May 2024 11:55 pm
- Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
- Topic: NatlGeo:"Jesus" special issue
- Replies: 13
- Views: 205
Re: NatlGeo:"Jesus" special issue
Some others may not agree, but to me the worst choice of artwork displayed in this National Geographic issue was one which, thankfully, i can not reproduce here. The image is only available for sale by the "artist", whose name is Janet McKenzie. That "artist" rose to "fame&...
- Wed 15 May 2024 7:25 pm
- Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
- Topic: NatlGeo:"Jesus" special issue
- Replies: 13
- Views: 205
Re: NatlGeo:"Jesus" special issue
Oh, I never knew that ! What an arrogant thought - to inject oneself into a painting of that scene - or as any holy figure. I had no idea this might have happened, but it makes sense, though the Renaissance was of course the opposite of a pious time. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/t...
- Wed 15 May 2024 7:18 pm
- Forum: Monasteries and the Monastic Life
- Topic: FrSavvas Mt Athos agst Resist From Within
- Replies: 0
- Views: 28
FrSavvas Mt Athos agst Resist From Within
Elder Savvas of Mt. Athos to Fr. Nikodemos: A Letter of Confession Against the "Resist From Within" Heresy By Elder Savvas (Trichakis) Introduction The respected Elder, Father Savvas (Trichakis), had followed the policy of the nineteen ruling monasteries of Mount Athos, which believed, as...
- Mon 13 May 2024 11:32 pm
- Forum: Synaxarion Orthodoxia
- Topic: Elder Nektary of Optina
- Replies: 3
- Views: 66
Re: Elder Nektary of Optina
Great !Thank you, eish. To clarify, in case any readers are not 100% clear, Archbishop Andrew [Maklakov] is a contemporary figure, the head of the American diocese of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church headquartered in the classic city of Suzdal, part of what's called the Golden Ring of histori...
- Sun 12 May 2024 11:35 pm
- Forum: Synaxarion Orthodoxia
- Topic: Elder Nektary of Optina
- Replies: 3
- Views: 66
Elder Nektary of Optina
There are varied, interesting references to Elder Nektary here at Euphrosynos Cafe, but until now, he has not had his own thread ! Here is perhaps the fullest explanation of Elder Nektary's mysterious movements in the last five or six years of his life. It is from the book "Elder Nikon of Opti...