The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

Hello Maria! Actually there is historical precedent for Conditional baptisms in Orthodoxy. For example, when happening upon abandoned infants and children in Tsarist Russia, and no one can determine one way or the other. The funny thing is that the New Calendarists don't recognize Old Calendarist ba...

This is where we need to be careful. Met Hilarion did not exactly support Sergius. He denounced his attempt to subvert the Church to the godless atheists, BUT he did believe that in all strictness Sergius remained the canonical Hierarch. He was more of a middle-road approach, trying to avoid zealotr...

"WHY is a calendar such a big deal you bigoted fanatics? Have you no scope for economia? Are you greater and more strict than our fathers?" This is a common objection usually raised by New Calendarists who haven't much researched what anathema IS... Here is why, in simple language, it is s...

Thanks Barbara, I appreciate your kindness. That Letter of St Joseph can be found in "Russia's Caracomb Saints" in the section on Metropolitan Joseph of Petrograd. Dare I say he was "Super-correct" in his mentality? Lol. I do agree with Fr Seraphim that Super-correctness is a dis...

On Confession of Faith: Is it necessary to confess the grace of the priesthood has been lost to a Church? Without the true confession of faith, the basis for a God-pleasing and godly resistance withers away. We wish to reduce so much of our resistance to moderately firm well-manicured statements tha...

Nah, it's not a resort, I have been there. Men are housed in the basement, men with families tend to get family housing and women and children get to stay in a house setting. It's quite beautiful when the sun is going down and you hike to the outlying churches and watch the sunset. By God's grace, o...