The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

Indeed, Britain embraced Orthodox Christianity more than 500 years before the baptism of the Rus. As I recall, St. John of San Francisco venerated the Western European Orthodox saints, and also encouraged canonical Western Rite Orthodox parishes in Europe and North America during his episcopacy. Bef...

Ephrem, I looked this up today. The reference I mentioned is, in fact, from the first English edition of Fr. Clement Sederholm's biography of [i][u]Elder Leonid of Optina,[/u][/i] ( St. Herman's Press. 1990. pgs. 123-24.) There is an anecdote about an akathist to God the Father that was given to Eld...

I'm curious. Has anyone ever read or heard a word of protest from world Orthodox leaders in America about the ongoing persecution by the MP of these dissenting Orthodox Christians in the Russian Federation? From OCA First Hierarch Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen)? Fr. Thomas Hopko of St. Vladimir's S...

Ephrem, My recollection is that the "Ancient of Days" icon is a representation of the Word, the Christ, as described by the Holy Prophet Ezekial. There was a discussion of the issue of writing icons of God the Father in one of the biographies of the Holy Elders of Optina. I believe it was ...

I recall reading a prophecy by Lawrence of Chernigov to the effect that one of two nuns whom he addressed would live to see the Antichrist, but the other would not. I once did the math concerning this prophecy, and calculated that the surviving woman was about the same age as my own mother, who is n...

Thank you, Father Suaiden, for clarifying what I suspected. I am puzzled as to why such apologists for the abominable Sergianists would suddenly appear at the St. Euphrosynos Cafe today to lecture to traditionalists about a putative heresy. My hunch is that they need to remove their own camels befor...