The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

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...

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.       Self-insertions were the same phenomenon t...

Yes, also Renaissance painters like Raphael always used women they knew as models for their depictions of the Mother of God. I always thought it was dismaying !     Not only that, the artists would paint themselves, their rich patrons, and relatives of the patrons. Usually these would be minor figu...

So Fr. Joseph just learned about the Greek state church blessing sex change operations since at least as far back as 1985. Now I may not be as old as Fr. Joseph, but I am old enough to know that this has always been the conservative position. https://www.thebest.gr/article/458351- Sorry for the unsa...

Thanks for reminding me, I wanted to post this. On Death To Compromise channel. Archbishop Andrei of Rockland (ROAC) giving an account of words passed down from Blessed Nektary of Optina. "And many times, he told me what he heard from Venerable Nektary of Optina, his teacher. Venerable Nektary ...

Barbara wrote: ↑Fri 10 May 2024 11:34 pm

Isn't that OBVIOUS to anybody ?-

 

It is nevertheless necessary for the clergy to repeat it. I'll leave it at this:

https://xkcd.com/1053

  I paint with a broad brush since protestantism is as varied as its adherents and has no unified doctrine or practice. Anglicans will use the title "Saint" although it seems to carry not very much significance for them, a quaint tradition for naming streets and cathedrals. I was never on...