The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

Forgive me for offending you. However, I do admit that any translation will have its mistakes, but I think Holy Transfiguration Monastery do make pretty good translations. Should someone come along and make translations in traditional English (using 2nd person singular) that accurately the original ...

The problem is not the English language itself but those who speak English, and their ignorance thereof. By the time of Shakespeare, English already had a vocabulary twice the size of German, French, Spanish, or Italian. Secondly, English's power is its ability to absorb words from other languages ...

"Personally, I have NEVER bought any of those items because I find their "interpretation" of English to be HORRIBLE. It is as bad as Fr. Laurence of Jordanville."

Your conclusions of their translations only illustrate your own ignorance of the English language. Anybody can find mistakes in any ...

Justin,

It seems you are suddenly obsessed with the whole "homosexual" issue because on most of your posts, you have been telling us that it is not a sin. I read your blog and it seems that you have ceased to believe in the Orthodox Christian faith. If your loss of faith is due to being on this ...

"Thanks. I see both sides of it now. But with what you are saying above, wouldn't that mean that the Greeks and Nikonian Russians have been wrong all this time, and that the OBs are the True Orthodox?"

If you take the Greek Old Calendarist or ROAC or ROCIE ecclesiology to its logical conclusion ...

"Old Beleiverism was a move away from liturgical unity, as had been occuring in the Orthodox Church for the past 1500 years as more and more local usages died out and were replaced with new ones--yes, new ones, as the Neo-Sabbaitic synthesis was an amalgamation of monastic and cathedral rites--these ...

When I lived in Moscow, I had a great deal of contact with the "Edinovery", which are Old Ritualists who re-entered the Russian Church in 1801 and now function in the present day Moscow Patriarchate. The Old Rite ROCOR parish in Erie, Penn. could also be viewed as such.

I visited an Old Believer ...