The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

Nevski, I followed the link you offered, and read the article by Archmandrite Ambrosius.(snip) As you know, canonical and patristic issues, just like scriptural ones, are difficult. I suggest you join the Indiana List and take the matter up with His Grace, as the article was posted on "his&quo...

Gotta run. More later. Here's the "more" of which I spoke: A super-trad once said the following to Bishop Tikhon: Perhaps then I could finally get an answer as to how one, such as the author of this message, can defend the argument that heretic baptisms have Grace. to which His Grace resp...

Nevski, So you have no significant response to this official document , which espouses an ecclesiastical heresy, except your own opinion? And this opinion has not been credited with a single example showing anyone at all in the OCA who does not accept this document and what it has to say. Very well...

I do not understand what you are getting at, according to the sources above, ROCOR is NOT in communion with Serbia or the JP. As I've done a bit of research tonight I see that your sources have put it quite simplisitically. It appears that ROCOR was clearly in communion with the Serbian Church some...

Daniel, Funny thing, in my last post I qouted Matusiak saying that a Latin can receive a Mystery of marriage in an Orthodox church without converting. Then I read this... "In the Orthodox Church it is not permitted for an Orthodox Christian to be married to an individual who has not been bapti...

Asking OOD once more before I sign off tonight:

http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/documen ... erican.htm

Is that an official OCA document?

"I did not become orthodox to leave the false Roman church for the true Orthodox Church... For me the Orthodox and Roman churches, together with the various non-Chalcedoninan churches, these are all the one, true, apostolic, catholic churches of Jesus Christ... The sacraments in these churches...