The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

As for the question that you raised as regards scholarship and historical research on the Catacomb Church, in reference to my comments on Seraphim Pozdeev and Gennady Sekach, one does indeed have to be very careful in discerning who is doing the research and for what purpose. The MP has indeed publi...

I also took the time to watch the Metropolitan’s television appearance last January. The link is also posted on the official site: http://ipckatakomb.ru/?s=news&newsgroup=2&nid=1221 and http://www.1tv.ru/promoovideo/57310 I have to admit I was shocked. The program, “Dobrogo Zdorovitsa!” (“Go...

Dear Fr. Deacon Joseph, I’m very sorry to say that at this point neither I nor our librarian has been able to find the book that Met. Raphael’s parishioner from Germany left us, which contained his autobiography. I therefore have to ask you, for now at least, to accept that what I wrote was my since...

Thank you, Barbara. We have 3 sisters here that remember St. John of Shanghai, and he tonsured our Abbess a rassaphore nun back in 1960. Unfortunately, they don't remember anything specific about this service. And while we have quite a few photographs of Vl. John at the monastery, we don't have many...

Dear Fr. Deacon Joseph, congratulations on the Sunday of Orthodoxy! Thank you for your serious, conscientious and extremely polite reply. I would very much like to reply in the same manner, but I will ask you to be patient, as it's Great Lent, and I'm extremely busy here at the Monastery, as I'm sur...

The rubrics of this service call for a bishop to celebrate, and say that this service is celebrated in Cathedrals and some monasteries. The anathemas, as well as the commemorations and "Memory Eternal's", and then the "Many Years" are proclaimed by a deacon and chanted by all the...

With all due respect, and with no desire to stir up controversy or offend anyone, I have to disagree with Fr. Deacon Joseph. I have never met Met. Raphael, but I have met several clergymen of his jurisdiction and I have a copy of his autobiography in Russian. Soon after we (the Lesna Monastery) left...