The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

Would you be willing to clarify this thought a little more? I seem to remember you writing something similar when the GOC/SiR union first took place, but I don't remember it very well. But I am interested in what you mean. For me it is difficult to separate the "grace question" from any d...

They can't. As far as I'm concerned, "GOC" refers properly to my jurisdiction alone, headed by Abp Kallinikos. Maria and other members of her church are just going to have to get used to being called GOC-S, just as I accept being called GOC-K when discussing with people outside my church. ...

My impression is that the Matthewites have always wanted to make the discussion about grace, but that was not the basis of discussion between the GOC-K and the SiR. The issue of faith was whether heretics were inside or outside the Church, and whether the GOC had authority to anathematize heresy, an...

I agree with you that St John should not have broken communion with other ROCOR bishops without them confessing heresy, even if they concelebrated with new calendarists. In the same way, right-confessing ROCOR bishops like St Philaret should not have broken communion with Abp Anthony of Geneva, who ...

And the issue is not whether Met Chrysostom was correct to talk of "potential schism", but whether his error was so serious that Bishop Matthew was justified in breaking communion with Met Chrysostom and later consecrating more bishops on his own. I believe his error was not so serious, an...

I don't know whether or not St John concelebrated directly with new calendarists, but he was a member of a synod with bishops who did. If you hold to a "light-switch" theory of grace, which many Matthewites seem to do, then it's a problem. If not, then not. But note that St John's opinion ...