The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

Would you care to elaborate, Sava? Something official from a saint or synod would be valuable, but if being outside the canon is enough to make it forbidden, I shouldn't read Philo of Alexandria either. ... Whichever the correct numberings are, I would reject out of hand the later medieval works at...

Thank you for creating this resource thread. I hear many say “The fathers did not speak on this, so both positions are acceptable”, something that Father Seraphim puts well to rest. They're always saying that kind of tripe, on origins questions as much as in Ecumenism. I begin to doubt if any of th...

I shall share a brief story of the New Calendarist elders. Not personal, but close enough. Now if you're on this website, you're either brand new or you've been around long enough to know how many New Calendarists run around from place to place looking for “spiritual” (emotional) experiences in gene...

86BB18A3-4E50-4FB6-BD96-22CD3BCE06A9.jpeg I agree with you. Gonna reread those letters again. I read them a few weeks ago and posted them here off memory because they relate with Fr. Alexei’s article. Do you know where Saint John Kronstadt got that from? Was it the letter from Pontus Pilate to Caes...

I think Holy tradition holds the most weight when it comes to this question. The Holy Spirit plays a part in the painting of an Icon and Christ is never depicted nailed through the wrists. Ropes could have played a role. We have to trust the texts and holy tradition like Gi-Ming-Shien was saying ab...

I suppose it's possible that this could only apply if there's an element of gambling involved, but then again, chess isn't something I would usually think of when it comes to gambling. There could have been a culture surrounding it back then though. Chess is historically a gambling game. Our concep...