The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

I don't think the issue of grace is as black-and-white as some are making it out to be. Jonathan and Maria both make good points. I think this quote from the book Not of This World about Fr Seraphim Rose sums up the problem that I always see associated with those who want to make such broad proclam...

I don't think the issue of grace is as black-and-white as some are making it out to be. Jonathan and Maria both make good points. I think this quote from the book Not of This World about Fr Seraphim Rose sums up the problem that I always see associated with those who want to make such broad proclama...

he "royal path" doctrine, if I understand it right, is that a Local Church does not have the authority to declare another Local Church to be deprived of sacramental grace, i.e. the ability to perform valid sacraments. This was the position of ROCOR from 1974 to 1994, when they refused to ...

This is a very problematic discussion that reeks of the armchair Orthodoxy that the Internet encourages. Whatever one may think of the ecclesiology of the late Met. Cyprian, as far as I know it has never been condemned as a heresy by the GOC. In fact it is likely that many GOC hierarchs and clergy ...

I'm on a mobile phone so I can't upload it now, but when it comes to the question of Grace in others Mysteries I would recommend checking out the article written by Fr Seraphim Rose titled The Royal Path . I'm sure that this "royal path" viewpoint is not one shared by many people here but ...

Good Morning, As part of my search into my family's Russian Orthodox faith. I ask you if there could be such a directory. I am interested in getting information on the (then) ROCA priest who performed my baptism in 1953. He was the rector of my church from the mid to late '40's through the mid '60s...