The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

Welcome aboard David! When a man is ordained a priest or tonsured a monk, he takes a vow not to cut his hair or beard. In a way this is a showing of being open to God's will as your hair will grow however God has ordained it to. It also helps prevent the pride and time taken in shorter, worldly-sty...

I don't know. No one does. Now, you may BELIEVE that they are - but no one alive actually KNOWS it as fact. I actually do believe that they are. But I also believe that God is God - and is not swayed by anyone or anything. For he truly knows what is in our hearts - and does not need anyone to help ...

TomS wrote:

Daniel wrote:

If she can not help us then who amongst the rest of the saints can?

None.

Then that brings this question:

Are the saints alive or dead?

Good to hear the Antiochians do not do that. Most Orthodox Churches and all Roman Catholic churches are still committing this travesty. We need to put Christ FULLY into Christianity and remove this misguided idea of Mary as a co-redeemer. Did not the obedience of the Theotokos anull the disobedienc...

Please forgive my boldness, but...Using a ‘Liturgical’ language is ridiculous! There is no sound reason to keep a language that few understand and other wise would be considered dead. Some of the comments regarding Saints Cyril and Methodius didn’t seem quite right. I have only a limited knowledge o...

Hear are some more thoughts on the WCC... Though there may have been some hope among some Orthodox (like Fr. Georges Florovsky), it sure has been dashed over the decades (Even Fr. Georges became disenchanted with the whole thing, I believe). WCC is has only one function: To help build the Religion o...

Kollyvas, I'm short on time at the moment, so I can only give a short reply. Given what one has to sign off on to be a full member in the WCC I don't see how one can still lay claim to 'orthodoxy' at the same time as being a member of the WCC. In short, I believe, not with out due reason, that full ...