The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

It has become very clear for most clergy and the faithful of ROCOR( A )based in Russia, that they can not commemorate Met Agaphangel as their First Hierarch. Two main reasons. Number one - [edited] . Number two - his visceral Russophobia . OK, the Russians are bad- everyone knows that, but please d...

Meeting of Nun and Wolves: http://stjenichanka.blogspot.com/2012/0 ... olves.html

This event occurred at the Serbian True Orthodox monastery of Novi Stjenik.

One of the best solutions to your question is an article by New-Martyr Hilarion (Troitsky) called "Christianity or the Church?" St. Hilarion makes the very good point that the Church is not a philosophical school of thought, but an actual organism: the Body of Christ. Membership in that bo...

Actually that is not the essence of Cyprianism. Cyprianism was never about whether heretics have valid priesthood or sacraments, but whether the New Calendarists were truly heretics in the first place a crucial distinction, and one the Matthewites often fail to make when discussing Metropolitan Chr...

How can that be, Father Deacon Ephrem, when the GOC-K is now involved with talks with the ROAC seeking unity? Oh, I do not believe that this is the official GOC position, Maria. Mostly I have heard this idea from lay people. It is understandable, given the circumstances. Their bishops have recogniz...

That would be witty if it were not irrelevant seeing as how ecumenism has been Anathematized as a heresy by a saint and a church which were never schismatic. Ecumenism was anathematized by ROCOR. Cyprianism was anathematized by ROCOR at the same time, since the anathema against ecumenism specifical...