Lord Have Mercy!

romiosini · Post by **romiosini** » Mon 12 April 2004 11:31 pm

Lord Have Mercy!

Anastasios · Post by **Anastasios** » Tue 13 April 2004 1:12 am

I will try to scan in the Cyprian group's comments on St Alexis of Wilkes-Barre tomorrow.

romiosini · Post by **romiosini** » Tue 13 April 2004 9:54 am

Lord Have Mercy!

Anastasios · Post by **Anastasios** » Tue 13 April 2004 12:13 pm

Archbishop Chrysostomos of Etna and his publication Orthodox Tradition came out against the glorification of St Alexis due to its political nature and several other reasons. They were not opposed to St Alexis but to the glorification process as handled by the OCA.

Justin Kissel · Post by **Justin Kissel** » Tue 13 April 2004 12:51 pm

There are a number of links on this page to information on Fr. Alexis Toth. I've not been able to locate copies of the two books mentioned, though perhaps a good Orthodox library (like at a seminary) would have copies. My wife and I, at one point, had something of a fervent devotion towards Fr. Alexis, though it sort of waned as questions arose in our own mind as to the propriety of venerating him as a saint when we had doubts and questions. Speaking personally, I would very much like to think of Alexis Toth as a Saint since I followed not a totally different path than he (former Catholic, convert, American, Pennsylvania, etc.), but obviously those reasons have nothig to do with whether Alexis was in fact a saint.

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Tue 13 April 2004 1:09 pm

anastasios wrote:
I will try to scan in the Cyprian group's comments on St Alexis of Wilkes-Barre tomorrow.

This link here says 'of Minneapolis'

Justin Kissel · Post by **Justin Kissel** » Tue 13 April 2004 1:12 pm

Ok, we Pennsylvanians will try to take St. Nikolai from Serbia, and you can have Alexis Toth? Just kidding I hope no one gets offended because of this (it's part jest, part curious commentary on how we recognize saints and what we call them)...