Moderator: Mark Templet
ROAC's got lots of missions. Vladika Gregory and some of our other monks and priests and every laity travel around the continent and world telling people bout Orthodoxy. We've got lotsa catechumens and Baptized from Vladika's doing this. He'll even goes into prisons and teaches the True Faith.
We've got churches that chose tobe all Slavonic but mostly in America we're American using all English while keeping Russian traditions. You'd oughtta come visit us sometime and see!
Hello all God-Beloved Orthodox:
It has been a while so I would like to first say thanks to Nik for his wonderful messages to me and for this most blessed Forum.
Regarding ROAC:
I regard it as a True Orthodox Church.
Secondly, I have corresponded with His Grace Gregory and he is truly a righteous Hierarch and a true lover of souls.
Thirdly, His Grace's Monastery and Convent are doing an immense service for Orthodox worldwide with their high quality publications and ikons.
May God Grant to Vladyka Gregory Many Years!
Alexis
I will be careful in saying this. No where will I dwell on negatives. +Bishop Gregory is a talented iconographer, a strict monk, a zealous Orthodox pastor and a lover of ROCOR. I think that there should be a discussion where a consensus can be formed between ROAC, ROCiE, TOC (Chrysostomos), Lamia Synod, etc. I think that unity is a possibility. I also believe that the ecclesiology of +Bishop Gregory is flawed and overly rigourist, but I don't believe that that is not something that dialogue could not embrace.
Orthodoxia I Thanatos!
Rostislav Mikhailovich Malleev-Pokrovsky
Bp. Gregory is a lover of ROCOR???????????? I know he cares deeply for the souls that are in ROCOR and prays for their conversion, but a lover of ROCOR???????
Nicholas Zollars
That is the reason why he wrote his letter to ROCOR, and that is the reason why his site is dedicated to the legacy of ROCOR. That doesn't mean he endorses the current, ruinous path, but that he does endorse the ROCOR of the past. That is where his true jurisdictional loyalty is, another reason why the ascendancy of the lebedeff party has done nothing but promote divisions which grew into insurmountable obstacles.
Orthodoxia I Thanatos!
Rostislav Mikhailovich Malleev-Pokrovsky
Hope you stay a while...