The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

Yes we are preparing a documentary about the life and struggles of Bishop Petros.

Geronda Petros did concelebrate frequently with the Russians; he was particularly close to Lavr, Leonty and Averky (at whose funeral he concelebrated). This was in many ways a product of local circumstances, rather ...

Well, surely the most likely explanation for the small number of Chinese Orthodox saints is because Orthodox Christianity only recently came to China (missionaries from the Church of Persia had come already in the late first millennium, but I think they had already fallen away into Nestorianism by ...

God bless you! It's good to start thinking about becoming Orthodox during Great Lent. Tell us more about yourself, where you live and so forth.
I am in the GOC/HOTCA, that is, the American Metropolis (under Met Pavlos of Astoria) of the True Orthodox Church of Greece (under Abp Chrysostomos II of ...

The Matthewites separated from the other Old Calendarists very early, with only a brief period in the 70s when they were in communion with both ROCA and (I think) Auxentius' synod. So they haven't recognized the canonizations performed by ROCA since then, including St John Maximovich.
I don't ...

Most likely he would again have instructed them to fight for their homeland, without doing anything contrary to the Law of God. This is the teaching of the Orthodox Church. So no, of course he wouldn't have advised them to commit barbarities such as what happened at Nanking and elsewhere. In any ...

Well, I don't see why you shouldn't recognize the ROCA Synod's glorification of St Nicholas, which took place at the same time as that of St John of Shanghai and San Francisco and St Innocent of Moscow. If you read his life (which can be found online from an archive of Orthodox America), I think it ...

Vladimir Moss has a new article about the "New Soteriology" on his website. It's basically warning us against some of these new ideas about how the Church does not teach that we all inherit Adam's sin at birth. I find it very convincing, and certainly it's hard to read works like St Athanasius "On ...