The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

Almost had to chuckle in reading your listing to these site (links). Find it almost laughable that you list the top two then insert (propaganda) in the bottom two. Not so funny part about that (this) is this is the main reason there will never be unity in the Russian Church. Interesting enough I che...

My guess would be the Priestess Old Believers. I grew up in the 70's in PA. Lucky for us my parents excepted English and the restoration into ROCOR. The Old Timers broke off, built their own church. If we went into there church, we were told not even to make the sign of the cross. Sad part was it wa...

Oh come now, there is no "conspiracy theory" going on here, at least from where I sit. Lets go way back in time. The Russian Church has a long history of tolerance on resisters, look at the Old Believers, but what happened in 74. Now they are one in the same. So the resistor mentality had ...

Kollyvas, I don't think that was her point at all. The thread as I understand it is believing in one. Well in believing in "one" we have to start from the beginning, referring to post 17 activity. Restoring the Traditional Church. Have a feeling that once that happens the resistor churches...

It is very hard for some to believe the history of our Church before 1991. If one looks at the history of the Russian Church even pre-ROCOR it was phyletism. In all do respect, if we are going to live and die by Traditionist ideas, lets not pick and choose which one's we follow. The Russian Church w...

See now I am confused. Traditionalist, hear that allot lately. I agree we have a wonderful tradition in being Russian Orthodox. But by definition, if one claims to living traditional Orthodoxy in the Russian sense, then no one but blood Russians are welcomed in her churches. Where would the Church b...