| Archive Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: The most important task of the Church is to consolidate our unity 26 July 2021 year 10:52 Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk answered questions put by Yekaterina Gracheva, host of “The Church and the World” TV programme, and called the anticanonical and brigand actions of Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, which have split the world Orthodoxy, the key challenge in the sphere of external activities of the Russian Orthodox Church. The chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations underscored: “The developments we faced in 2018 have split the whole Orthodox Church. This schism is exacerbating because of the Patriarch of Constantinople’s actions.” “This is a great tragedy, but, as I have said many times, this schism is developing outside of our Church. We deplore it and we pray for Patriarch Bartholomew and other hierarchs who have lapsed into schism or supported it. We thank God for that schism has not affected our Church. “Our bishops in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and other countries in our canonical space and beyond it hold the same views and stand in full solidarity. During all these years our Church has lost no part of its canonical territory and none of our church buildings except those on which the Ukrainian schismatics had laid their violent hands, but even in those places we have built many new church buildings.” Besides, the DECR chairman added, in 2019 there was restored the unity with the Archdiocese of Parishes of the Russian Tradition in Western Europe that were in the Patriarchate of Constantinople’s jurisdiction for a long time. The Metropolitan is convinced that “the main church-wide task is to consolidate our unity.” He underscored that the most important responsibility of the Department he heads is to guard the sacred borders of the Russian Orthodox Church and to prevent any possible encroachment on its heritage that has been forming over centuries. “What is going on outside our Church will weight on the conscience of people committing anticanonical actions. They have already disgraced themselves by these actions here and, most certainly, will account for them in the future life,” said Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| When he was at the gates of Damascus, Saul from Tars, the persecutor, later on Saint Paul the Apostle understood that it was a living relationship between Christ, the Lord, and those who believed in Him, and that when the Church, namely the Body of Christ, suffered, Christ suffered too”, the Primate of the Romanian Orthodox Church explained. While speaking about the preaching of these Saints Apostles, the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church showed that the people were hostile to them and that they suffered a lot because of their faith in Christ, becoming models worthy following, examples of confessing the Gospel of Christ not only in good times, but also in times of persecution: “These great teachers of repentance become great missionaries too, people who enlighten the life of many pagans, who guide the confused ones, raise the fallen ones, and encourage the disappointed ones. Saint Peter the Apostle and Saint Paul the Apostle preached the Gospel of Christ in a hostile world, and they were imprisoned several times. (…) These imprisonments were complemented with many troubles, having been beaten and mocked. They suffered a lot, this fact showing that the world they were preaching in was against them very often either because of a formalist faith of the Jews or because of the pagan faiths. (…) Saints Peter and Paul the Apostles preached the Gospel in a hostile world, with much confusion from the point of view of the faith, of the life with much injustice. Nevertheless they were victorious through the power of God. (…) Today, these two great apostles, preachers, missionaries, teachers of repentance, as well as of courage, are enlighteners of the Church for us, who pray and urge us to preach the Gospel not only when everything is well, but also in times of persecution and hostility. To end with his speech, His Beatitude wished all those who were celebrating their name days joy and much help of God for keeping, transmitting, and intensifying faith: “Today about 500,000 Romanians are named Peter or Paul, the names of these Saints Apostles or of other names derived, which fact shows that our people have great devotion for these great Apostles whom we pray to protect and enlighten us to love Christ and the Church, to be confessors of the right faith, supporters of the Church and of her work in the world. We wish all those named Peter and Paul many years of life, good health, joy and much help of God for keeping, transmitting and intensifying the faith”. Saints Peter and Paul the Apostles are considered protectors of those deprived of liberty in Romania. 11 июля 2013 г. Подпишитесь на рассылку Православие.Ru Рассылка выходит два раза в неделю: Предыдущий Следующий Комментарии © 1999-2016 Православие.Ru При перепечатке ссылка на Православие.Ru обязательна Контактная информация Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Something my great-grandfather did out of necessity, I hope to do by choice. He left his country to find new opportunities in another country; I hope to leave mine to represent it abroad. My goal is to be a Foreign Service Officer — a diplomat representing the United States. For my great-grandfather, life in the United States meant economic security, freedom and safety from the sectarian clashes of the old world. For me, the modern American life makes it difficult to build something enduring while racing from job-to-job and city-to-city searching for that elusive promise of economic security. The two pictures that I’ve seen of my great-grandfather are of an austere, well-mustachioed young man about my age and another from the late 1950s, as a wrinkly, smiling and proudly toothless old man bouncing my father on his lap. At the very least, it’s comforting to know that the life of an immigrant-soldier-autoworker can lead to happiness — which, when I’m feeling cynical, I think is restricted to those getting the “starting street” salary in their first year out of the Business School. I’ve never been to Lebanon. The country of my ancestors (for full disclosure, half of them) is still wracked by violence and plagued by a weak government. A century after my great-grandfather left Lebanon, the Maronites and Muslims have flipped demographics, but it’s still a very divided country with an unfortunate penchant for never-ending retaliatory rocket attacks. Eventually, maybe, I’ll get there. For now, it seems about as distant as America must have seemed to my great-grandfather. 3 октября 2013 г. ... Смотри также Комментарии Hieromonk Timothy Tadros 21 октября 2013, 03:00 In a similar circumstance I can identify your article in remembering my great-grandfather who came to America seeking religious and economic freedom from the Ottoman Turkish rule. I no longer identify with being Arab as much being Middle Eastern in the Middle West. My forefathers came to America in 1888, I " m the fifth generation in America and third born here. My one side of the family all left Zahle and Firzol because of the hardships they endured but with this trying to become American we lost our faith and culture becoming Catholics and Protestants. Me and my brother are the only ones left in our family who have preserved our Orthodox Faith upholding my great-grandfathers Fr. Antonios Abu-Allam Farah " committment to the little church he and his family built in Michigan City, Indiana. He was a priest of the Syro-Arabian Mission under the Russian Orthodox Church in American founded by Saint Raphael Hawaweeeny, Bishop of Brooklyn. |
| Brest exhibition highlights Russian Orthodox Church during Great Patriotic War Brest, August 26, 2015 The exhibition " Russian Orthodox Church during the Great Patriotic war " was opened at the Russian Science and Culture Center in Brest, BelTA has learned. The exhibition presents the archival documents and photographs which used to belong to Patriarchs Sergius and Alexy I. Many documents have not been published before. This is the first time they have been made available to the general public as they were declassified just a few years ago. This makes the exhibition unique. It tells visitors about the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church during the war and its role in the international arena in the postwar years. “Before the war atheism was the main doctrine in the Soviet Union. Hitler also paid much attention to religious issues as he was planning to hold the occupied countries subjugated. On the first day of the war Patriarch Sergius typed a message calling on people to stand up to defend the homeland and sent it to all parishes,” Director of the Russian Science and Culture Center in Brest Yelena Maslova said. It is symbolic that the exhibition has been organized in 2015. This year marks 70th anniversary of the Great Victory and the 1000th anniversary of the repose of St. Prince Vladimir. “Hence we had the idea to show the role of Orthodoxy in the period of the Second World war. This topic is still not well researched,” added Yelena Maslova. " We know little about this common page in the history of Russians and Belarusians. The exhibition opens new facets of the history of the Great Patriotic War. Unselfish patriotic serving to the Church greatly contributed to the Victory,” Consul General of the Russian Federation in Brest Igor Konyakin said. The exhibition was prepared based on the materials of the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 (Moscow). It also uses the copies of the documents and photos from the holdings of the Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War. The exhibition in Brest will run until mid-October. 26 августа 2015 г. Смотри также Комментарии Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Russian Orthodox Church obtains official registration in the Kingdom of Cambodia Phnom Penh, July 22, 2013 The representation of the Russian Orthodox Church in Thailand, which administratively includes Cambodia, has received a resolution from the Minister of Cults and Religions of Cambodia regarding the decision made by the government to officially register the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in Cambodia as a religious organization, reports Sedmitza.ru . The request for the state registration of the Moscow Patriarchate in the country was made after the meeting of the Holy Synod in October 4, 2012, which accepted the newly-established parishes in Cambodia (of St. George the Victory-Bearer in Phnom Penh and Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon in Kampong Saon) into the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Moscow Patriarchate was registered on the territory of Cambodia by its authorities as a religious organization under the name, " Orthodox Christian Church of Cambodia (Patriarchate of Moscow) " . The decision made by Cambodian authorities allows the opening in Cambodia of Orthodox parishes, the purchase and registration of parcels of land in Cambodia in the name of the Church, the building of churches, opening of theological schools, freedom to preach, and so on. In accordance with the resolution of the Ministry of Cults and Religions of Cambodia, the regional representative of the Russian Orthodox Church Archimandrite Oleg (Cherepanin) sent notifications of this decision to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. At the present time, upon completion of the registration of the Church bank accounts in Cambodia, fundraising is being planned within all churches of the representation of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in Thailand for the purchase of parcels of land and building for Church use in Phnom Penh and Kampong Saon. The regional representation of the Church is also working to supply the Orthodox parishes in Cambodia with permanent clergy. The representative of the Russian Orthodox Church (Patriarchate of Moscow) in Thailand Archimandrite Oleg (Cherepanin) has sent letters of gratitude to the king of Cambodia Norodom Sihamoni, Great Supreme Cambodian Patriarch of Buddhists Tep Vong, the Minister of Cults and Religions of Cambodia Min Kinh, as well as the embassies of Cambodia in Russia and Thailand. 23 июля 2013 г. ... Комментарии Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Archive Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk presides over the great consecration of a church in Tarquinia 23 October 2022 year 18:31 On October 23, 2022, Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, temporary administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate parishes in Italy, presided over the great consecration of the Church of the Holy Transfiguration and St. Anthony the Great in the city of Tarquinia, the province of Viterbo, Italy. The historical building of the former 13th century Catholic church has been transferred to the Administration of the Moscow Patriarchate Parishes in Italy. After the transfer, His Eminence, back then an archimandrite serving as the Administration secretary took a personal care in founding in Tarqunia a parish of the Russian Orthodox Church. Through the efforts of benefactors, restoration work was carried out with time and liturgical vessels were purchased. Metropolitan Anthony’s concelebrants in the rite of consecration and the Divine Liturgy were Archpriest Vyacheslav Bachin, rector of the St. Nicholas Metochion in Bari; Hieromonk Ambrose (Matsegora), secretary of the Administration of the Moscow Patriarchate Parishes in Italy; Hieromonk Avel (Usachev), rector of the Church of the Transfiguration, and pilgrims in holy orders. During the service, the archpastor also consecrated new corporals for Italian parishes. According to the Decree of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Hieromonk Avel was rewarded at the Lesser Entrance with the right to wear a decorated pectoral cross. After the Dismissal, Metropolitan Anthony addressed himself to the worshippers with an archpastoral admonition. On behalf of the concelebrants and numerous parishioners, the hierarch was greeted by Hieromonk Avel who pointed to the hierarch’s personal participation in the life of the newly consecrated church. For the prayerful memory, Metropolitan Anthony was presented with an old engraving depicting St. Anthony the Great. The archpastor’s fellowship with the clergy and the flock continued at a festive tea party. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Предыдущий Следующий Смотри также With Love for Truth Jesse Dominick With Love for Truth On Patriarch-Catholicos Ilia II and the visit of Pope Francis to Georgia Jesse Dominick As a wise and discerning shepherd, Patriarch-Catholicos Ilia II maintained a balance between respect for his guest and respect for his own flock and Church, and his own ordination, with all its ensuing responsibilities, stating: “True faith, humbleness and our traditions—these are the ancient treasures that we preserve and will continue to do so in future. We greet you again and confess that our unity is in the true faith. Only true faith and love will open the path towards our communion.” Ecclesiastical Delegation from Greece Meets Patriarch and Hierarchs of the Church of Georgia Ecclesiastical Delegation from Greece Meets Patriarch and Hierarchs of the Church of Georgia Meetings Focused on the Church of Georgia " s Response to the Synod in Crete VIDEO: Georgian Orthodox Church rejects document on ecumenism drafted for the Great Council, 2016. VIDEO: Georgian Orthodox Church rejects document on ecumenism drafted for the Great Council, 2016. Following the session of the Holy Synod of the Georgian Apostolic Orthodox Church held on February 16, 2016, His Holiness Ilia II, Patriarch and Catholicos of Tbilisi and All Georgia announced that the Synod has rejected the document " The relation of the Orthodox Church towards the rest of the Christian world " which was prepared for the upcoming Pan-Orthodox Council to be held in Crete in June 2016. Комментарии Anthony 8 октября 2016, 11:00 Thank you Fr Peter. An absolutely brilliant, succinct erudite summation of why this heretical council must be rejected. The Church is in such desperate need of people like Fr Peter to bring us Truth when our own hierarchs are dragging us into an abyss with their heretical ecumenism. Of course the Church has always suffered being battered by enemies from within - in the former times it was the valiant minority - saints like Athanasios the Great and Mark of Ephesus who defended the purity of Dogma. Nowadays we have men like Father Peter doing the same thing. God bless him and all those who defend our Church. © 1999-2016 Православие.Ru |
| Archive His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia visits Representation of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Moscow 25 May 2018 year 12:29 In the evening of 24 May 2018, His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia visited the Church of Ss. Peter and Paul at Yauza Gates – the Representation of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Moscow. His Holiness was accompanied by Bishop Irinej of Baka; Archimandrite Isihije (Rogi), abbot of the Kovilj Monastery, Bishop elect of Moha; Deacon Aleksandar Prascevi, head of the Patriarchal Office; and Mr. Dejan Naki, personal secretary to the Patriarch and director of the Belgrade archdiocesan workshop. Meeting His Holiness Patriarch Irinej were Bishop Antonije of Moravica and clerics of the church. Among those who arrived at the Representation to greet the high guest were Metropolitan Niphon of Philippopolis, rector of the Representation of the Orthodox Church of Antioch in Moscow; Bishop Paisy of Schigry and Manturovo; Bishop Andrei of Rossosh and Ostrogozhsk; Bishop Ioann of Domodedovo; Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, DECR vice-chairman; and Archimandrite Seraphim (Shemyatovsky), rector of the Representation of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia in Moscow. Bishop Antonije of Moravica greeted His Holiness Patriarch Irinej on behalf of the clergy and parishioners of the Serbian Representation, congratulated His Holiness on receiving an award of the International Foundation for the Unity of Orthodox Christian Nations and presented him with an icon of St. Arsenius the Archbishop of Serbia. His Holiness Patriarch Irinej thanked the rector of the Representation for hospitality and the gift. The Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church said he thanked God for the two days spent in Moscow in the splendid spiritual and prayerful atmosphere. “Moscow has always been and still is a great spiritual centre not only for the Russian Orthodox Church, but for the whole Orthodoxy as well,” Patriarch Irinej said, “The Serbs have always tied their small boat to the great Russian ship. We pin high hopes on Russia’s help. These days we are enduring ordeals in Kosovo, and the Russian Church – in Ukraine. Today’s rulers want to take away our land, where our greatest shrines are located. For these shrines our ancestors who defended Kosovo shed much blood.” His Holiness Patriarch Irinej thanked Bishop Antonije for his service of many years as representative of the Serbian Orthodox Church and presented the Representation with an icon of St. Sava of Serbia. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Your All-Holiness, highly esteemed and beloved president of this sacred gathering,Your Holinesses and Your Beatitudes, beloved primates of local Orthodox Churches,Your Eminences and Your Graces, brother hierarchs, gathered at this elevated sacred gathering, Very Reverend and Reverend Fathers, dear brothers and sisters, We express our gratitude to God Who has made us worthy of abundant grace to be the participants of this pan-Orthodox gathering here at the Ecumenical Patriarchate at Chambesy, that has as its aim a God-pleasing deed to define and unanimously prepare the Holy and Great Council of the Eastern Orthodox Church that has been prepared and expected for quite a long period of time. We firmly believe and resolutely confess that our Church is One and unique, that it is Holy, Apostolic and that it has its foundation in the living patristic Tradition, that becomes manifest through conciliar deliberations, the image of which we reflect being gathered like this here, but whose seal will be the Holy and Great Council of the Eastern Orthodox Church It is thanks to the grace and benevolence of the All-Holy Spirit that we have gathered here in brotherly love, following the example of our holy predecessors who have left us a bequest, starting with the first Apostolic council (Acts ch. 15), to deliberate with one another frankly and honestly about the most significant matters that pertain to the life of the Church – all of that in the spirit of the Holy Tradition of the Holy Orthodox Church, of the holy and great Church Fathers – our predecessors, and of the sacred canons of the Church of Christ. We assure you that we, the representatives of the local Serbian Church, are going to act wisely and soberly, investing all our efforts – both through prayer and through theological knowledge – so that this elevated gathering could achieve full success, and so that, consequently, we could whole-heartedly and zealously profess Orthodoxy in face of each others and the heterodox, whereby everybody will recognize us as His disciples (John 13:35). We are praying to the Lord, the Founder of the Church, that during the forthcoming days He may inspire us with the spirit of truth and love, and that His blessing may direct this gathering of ours to be inspired by charity, which is the bond of perfectness (Col 3:14), to the glory and benefit of our God-loving Orthodox faithful. Amen. Patriarch Irinej of Serbia Serbian Orthodox Church 26 января 2016 г. Смотри также Комментарии Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Tweet Нравится Sunday of Orthodoxy Liturgy and Procession at Vatopedi Monastery (VIDEO) Source: Pemptousia March 15, 2017 The first Sunday of Great Lent is known as the Sunday or Triumph of Orthodoxy, in which victory over the iconoclasts, who opposed the veneration of the holy icons, is celebrated. The Church teaches that we can depict Christ in iconography because He became incarnate, taking on a visible body. Thus the icons are a safeguard to the dogma of the Incarnation. On this Sunday we process with holy icons, professing the triumph of Truth over falsehood. This video presents highlights of the Divine Liturgy and procession with the holy icons on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, 2017, at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi. Pemptousia 23 марта 2017 г. Подпишитесь на рассылку Православие.Ru Рассылка выходит два раза в неделю: Предыдущий Следующий Смотри также Catch a Fire: An Athonite Missionary to America Jesse Dominick Catch a Fire: An Athonite Missionary to America On Elder Ephraim, Founder and Elder of St. Anthony " s Monastery Jesse Dominick It is said that the state of monasticism in a local Church is a microcosm of the state of that entire local Church, and thus America is undoubtedly in need of strong monasteries that can provide clear, Patristic guidance. Elder Ephraim came to America in response to the pleas of the faithful to provide this guidance, but in doing so many questions have been raised concerning the nature of Orthodox monasticism and teachings. To assess his role and importance for American Orthodoxy it is helpful to investigate his life and spiritual development, which will provide insight into him whom Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos says “received fire, and ... has imparted this fire ... to the Church in America that has great need of it.” The Great and Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi The Great and Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi December 17/30 the holy Orthodox Church commemorates Sts. Athanasius, Nicholas, and Anthony, the tenth century founders of Vatopaidi Monastery, one of the twenty great monasteries on the holy mountain of Athos. As with all of the monasteries on the mountain it has a deep and rich history, with a number of saints, and today it houses several miraculous icon and relics. The feast of Theophany at Vatopedi Monastery, Holy Mount Athos – 2015 The feast of Theophany at Vatopedi Monastery, Holy Mount Athos – 2015 The feast of Theophany at Vatopedi Monastery, Holy Mount Athos. Комментарии © 1999-2016 Православие.Ru При перепечатке ссылка на Православие.Ru обязательна Контактная информация Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку × |
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