The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

I was a member of an Antiochian Western Rite parish for several years before moving to the ROCOR many years ago. Many liturgical aspects of the Western Rite are certainly quite ancient, dating to the earliest years of the Orthodox Church. And the Latin liturgy was, of course, an integral part of the...

Just an FYI, my friends in Christ. I have an old hardback edition of St. John's diary, [i]My Life in Christ,[/i] which was published in English translation by the St. Job of Pochaev Press at Jordanville, New York. I recently discovered a Kindle eBook edition of [i]My Life in Christ [/i] at Amazon.co...

For the record, on the subject of the MP and internet censorship, something happened to me a few years ago which I never mentioned publicly, as I recall. It was around the time of the ROCOR-MP union in 2006 or early 2007. At the time, I was trying to find information, and to engage in an on-line dis...

Cyprian, Historical question-- unrelated to the topic of "universal" Orthodoxy. Wasn't Bob Marley baptized in a Greek Orthodox parish in New York prior to his death? I saw a television bio about Bob Marley a few years ago, and they said almost nothing about his conversion from Rastafariani...

Today Is The Sunday of the Dread Judgment, and it is natural for us to speak of the Dread Judgment and of the signs of the end of the world. No one knows that day; only God the Father knows; but the signs of its approach are given in the Gospel and in the Revelation [Apocalypse] of the holy Apostle ...

Father Nilos,