The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

Handmaiden, I am comforted to know that my simple words are helpful to you. I can talk for days about my conversion experience. There are so many details that happened that showed me that I was converting in my heart. The most important factor is that the evil one sees a potential convert and will s...

Anyway, learning about other religions is not necessary for our salvation. Again, I will reiterate. It's not about saving our souls to know this information, it's about knowing how to introduce them to the Living Christ. Indeed, it can become a distraction from God and a source of pride. I don't se...

The topic is on Orthodox Prayer and Buddhist Mindfulness. When an Orthodox Christian is praying Orthodox Prayers with the full intention to the best of his/her abilities of keeping one's thoughts focused on the Triune Godhead: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, on the Theotokos, and on the Holy Saints o...

Ok. I'm going to have to put my foot down on this. You ladies are going off on a completely different track. YES. We know that Buddhism is a false belief. I've read Fr. Seraphim's book. I've read ALL his books. Fr. Brendan is just explaining some basics in a 30 minute time period. . However, Fr. Bre...

Again, it is unfortunate that Fr. Brendan does not warn his listeners to be wary of Buddhism's many false gods. In his attempt to present Buddhism academically and with political correctness, he might be leading people astray. Fr. Brendan has the attitude that their beliefs are wrong. He never said...

Handmaiden50, When I chose to convert to Orthodoxy it was a compilation of experiences. Basically, it came from reading the Holy Fathers and learning about the Orthodox views. And it was about learning about the history of the Church and when the Great Schism happened. I was RC so that was a big wak...