The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

Dear Cyprian, I had a lovely Sunday with Bishop Andrew today. And I remembered to ask him about the GOC. He was never with the GOC. He was with the Matthewites after Copenhagen. He then waited some 4 years in the U.S. for a response from them and never received any. It was at that time that he went ...

Dear Cyrpian, Thank you for that info. ,the only thing I am confused about now from your info, is that the article you've posted states Met. Philiret ordained him, but it doesn't say as Fr Andrew. So I assume that he kept his legal name of Michael until he was tonsured as a monk by Gregory in 2004 ...

No dancing at a reception after the wedding????

Jean-Serge, I don't know what the Cajun's here would think with no "fais do-do". :lol:
I'd like to read those homilies you mentioned, are they online?

So the canon you cited only prohibits dancing at weddings for Christians, not that Christians ...

Not all Old Ritualists are priestless. Some have even been in communion with the Church for a long time.

By no means am I any authority on the matter. But yes, it would seem that any Old Ritualist in Russia would in this age be in communion with the churches.

Do both the Old Believers and the ...

I think the only way you might find out more about them is to go talk with them, that is, if they will even talk with you. I am referring to the ones in the US, I don't know about the ones in Russia.
Which "writings of Holy Fathers"? Theirs or ours. Most Russian Old Believers don't accept any saints ...

Cyprian posted -"I do know that Gregory of Colorado has for many years engaged in hagiomachy against the saints, and that is why I found it disturbing when I learned (after the fact) that ROAC had made him a bishop. Further doubts arose in my mind after I came to learn that the current archpastor ...