The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

I posted these excerpt here several years ago. Should be helpful:



Some excerpts from Father Seraphim Rose: His Life and Works -

By this time(after Archbishop Averky's repose), the fathers had concluded that, if no one else was going to take up where Archbishop Averky had left off, they would ...

Does he have any theological training? Does he attend a parish?

When I see the non sense made by people who have theological training in France, I really think it is not a serious criteria .

Jean-Serge,
I tend to agree with you there.

Still, at least in the Russian Church, it seems many who ...

More of the same hate theology....

Where is the hatred in what Constantine is written?

Really Katya given the fact this is lent you should not be so pompous, presumptious and judgemental.

Theophan.

Wow. You really have the nerve to write this after all of your slander?
Who is this wise ...

Perhaps this forum is the Church now? Hmm...
I often get the feeling that the most extreme members of the World Wide Orthodox Web have little contact with other Orthodox people in "real time". They also seem to live in areas with little Orthodox presence. This must make it easier to set up ...

The Sergianists on this list tend to appear or geniunely are well mannered, calm and thoughtful. The closest thing we had to someone more representive of Sergianism as a whole has been banned quite a long time now (Rostislav). A Moldovan friend of mine told me recently that a "Russian" pulled a gun ...

The overwhelming majority of the faithful in any of these local churches has never even heard of Ecumenism. How can they be heretics?

It sounds like your saying a person can only be "guilty" of heresy if they have been personally informed of the heresy they may be unwittingly participating in ...

You have not addressed the fact that the 1983 Anathema anathemizes those who knowingly have Communion with the Ecumenist heretics nor have you produced any Church Father or precedent in Church history of a purely "local" Anathema.

I suspect that you do not care much so in that you are right there ...