| Archive Bishops of Local Orthodox Churches express support to Lvov diocese of Ukrainian Orthodox Church over arson attack on Church of St. Vladimir in Lvov 8 February 2018 year 11:28 Following an arson attack on the Church of St. Vladimir in Lvov, which occurred on February 3, 2018, Archbishop Philaret of Lvov and Galich keeps receiving letters from hierarchs of the Local Orthodox Churches. On February 3, a letter from Bishop Joanikije of Budimlje and Nikši (Serbian Orthodox Church) came, in which he condemned the actions of the arsonists and expressed his support to the archpastor, clergy and laypeople of the Lvov diocese. “It is hard to believe that in the country, to which the holy prince had brought the light of Christ’s Gospel, his churches are being subjected to arsons. This crime could only be committed by those who are completely devoid of Christian ethics and respect for the fundamental right of every human being to have his/her own house of prayer,” the message reads, in particular. Bishop Joanikije also expressed his hope that the law enforcement agencies would do all within their power to find the criminals and would defend the right of believers to have their churches where they meet with God. While referring to the arson attack on the church in Lvov and to the sorrows of the Church throughout its history, Bishop Jovan of Pakrac and Slavonia (Serbian Orthodox Church), mentioned in this context death camps in Jasenovac in Croatia, “where in the 20th century the blood of hundreds of thousands of Orthodox Christians was shed by those who also called themselves Christians.” He assured Archbishop Philaret of his prayers and promised to raise the problem of sufferings and discrimination of the clergy and laypeople of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church while interacting with international organizations. Metropolitan Panteleimon of Veroia, Naousa and Kampania (Orthodox Church of Greece) called the arson a sacrilegious act, regardless of who had committed it, as well as a shameful and mean manifestation of religious intolerance, and also assured Archbishop Philaret of his support. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Archive Metropolitan Hilarion meets with leaders of Baptist organizations 27 March 2018 year 10:23 March 26, 2018 – Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), met with the chairman-elect of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (RUECB), Petr V. Mitskevich, and the president of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) Ngweda Paul Msiza. Participating in the meeting were also V. Ignatenkov, RUECB first vice-chairman, S. Belov, assistant to the RUECB chairman for the World Council of Church and mass media, as well as Archimandrite Philaret (Bulekov), DECR vice-chairman, and Ms. Ye. Speranskaya, adviser, DECR secretariat for inter-Christian relations. Metropolitan Hilarion congratulated P. Mitskevich on his election to the important post of chairman of the RUECB and stressed that, despite doctrinal differences Russian Baptists share the stand taken by the Russian Orthodox Church with regard to the need to preserve traditional Christian values and the institute of the family. The talk concerned religious education, preservation of moral values and social work as spheres in which it is possible for the Orthodox and Baptists to conduct dialogue, to share experience and to maintain a certain cooperation. The BWA president Ngweda Paul Msiza gave a high value to the work of the Russian Orthodox Church, especially to that of His Holiness Patriarchate Kirill for his tireless work for peace. In conclusion, it was agreed that in today’s world Christians should devoted themselves to the cause of reconciliation in which people of difference confessions should become together an ‘area of reconciliation’ and call people of other religions to dialogue. Special attention should be given to Christians in the Middle East and other parts of the world where the followers of Christ are subjected to persecution and have to leave their homes and countries in which their ancestors lived for centuries. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Tweet Нравится Which professions incompatible with priesthood? Russian Church to discuss Moscow, January 17, 2017 Photo: All dioceses of the Russian Church will soon be receiving the document “Professions compatible and incompatible with the priesthood,” intended for broad discussion, writes the Church’s official site . The draft document was created by order of an inter-council commission dated January 28, 2015. To discuss and comment on the document is possible on the official site of the Inter-Council presence, Bogoslov.ru , and the Inter-Council’s official blog . The draft document notes that “conditions of modern life sometimes raise the question of reconciling the priesthood and secular professions,” reports the online journal Foma . The following professions are suggested as incompatible: Comments on the document will be received up through May 2, 2017. 17 января 2017 г. Рейтинг: 3.3 Голосов: 4 Оценка: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Подпишитесь на рассылку Православие.Ru Рассылка выходит два раза в неделю: Предыдущий Следующий Смотри также Apocalyptic Angels and Unworthy Servants Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov Apocalyptic Angels and Unworthy Servants A Discourse on the Sacrament of the Priesthood Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov The priest is the apocalyptic angel of the Lord God Almighty, and, beholding our preceptors, holy and pious pastors, we, modern priests, are summoned in unity with the hierarchy our own hearts to edify, and human souls to heal, not for the sake of filthy lucre, not for the sake of vainglory, but to the glory of the Lord, Who, gazing upon us from Golgotha’s Cross, Divine strength gives us to bear the candle of the priesthood unto our victorious end. Refresher for a Russian Orthodox Pastor Met. Philaret (Voznesensky) Refresher for a Russian Orthodox Pastor Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky) Having accepted the grace of ordination, bear in mind of what a gift and of what mercy the Lord has found you worthy – and what responsibility you now bear. A Russian-Language Website for Clergymen, Russky Pastyr, is Launched A Russian-Language Website for Clergymen, Russky Pastyr, is Launched Though the website is intended for clergymen, laypersons can also find much of value, from works by past writers to current authors in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. |
| Amphilochius of Pochaev, Laurence of Chernigov, Aristoclius of Moscow and other saints are recognized as universal saints for Churchwide veneration Moscow, February 4, 2016 On hearing a report by Bishop Pankraty of Troitsk, chairman of the Synodal Commission for Canonization of Saints, the Council of Bishops decreed: 1. To bless the Churchwide veneration of the following locally venerated saints as universal saints and to include their names in the ROC calendar: Venerable Alexander Peresvet; Venerable Amphilochius of Pochaev; Venerable Andrei Oslyabya; Venerable Aristoclius of Moscow; Venerable Varlaam of Serpukhov; Venerable Vassa of the Pskov Caves; Holy Hierarch Gennady, Archbishop of Novgorod; Venerable Gerasim of Boldino; Holy Hierarch Gerontius, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia; Venerable Dosithea, Recluse of Kiev; Righteous Passion-Bearer Eugene the Doctor; Venerable Elisei of Lavrishev; Holy Hierarch Joasaphus, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia; Holy Hierarch Jonah, Bishop of Hankou; Venerable Jonah of the Pskov Caves; Venerable Cornelius of Krypets; Venerable Cornelius of Pereyaslavl; Venerable Confessor Kuksha of Odessa; Venerable Laurence of Chernigov; Venerable Leonid of Ustnedumsk; Venerable Mark of the Pskov Caves; Venerable Martin of Turov; Holy Hierarch Menas, Bishop of Polotsk; Hieromartyr Mitrofan the Priest and those with him; Righteous Paul (Pavel) of Taganrog; Holy Right-Believing Prince Rostislav (in baptism Michael) of Smolensk; Venerable Simeon of the Pskov Caves; Holy Hierarch Simeon, First Bishop of Tver; Venerable Simon of Soyga; Holy Righteous Princess Sophia of Slutsk; Venerable Theophilus of Kiev, Fool-for-Christ; Holy Hierarch Philaret (in schema Theodosius), Metropolitan of Kiev; Holy Right-Believing Prince Yaroslav the Wise. 2. To compose a separate service to each of these saints, if it has not been written yet, and to celebrate services for the moment using the General Menaion according to their types of holiness until the individual services have been composed. 3. The Churchwide celebration of the memory of these blessed ones is from now on to become the Churchwide veneration of them as saints on the days previously established. 4. To paint icons to these blessed ones for veneration in accordance with the definition of VII Ecumenical Council. 5. To publish the Lives of these blessed ones, if they have not been written yet, or to write them again and publish for edification of the Church’s children. 6. To report the list with the names of these saints to primates of Local Orthodox Churches for inclusion in their calendars. Source: Patriarchia.ru. 4 февраля 2016 г. Смотри также Комментарии Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Pennsylvania: Archimandrite Athanasy (Mastalski) reposed in the Lord Source: Eastern American Diocese (ROCOR) February 6, 2016 On Friday, February 6, Archimandrite Athanasy (Mastalski), longtime rector of Joy of All Who Sorrow Church in Philadelphia, PA, reposed in the Lord. He was 69 years old. Fr. Athanasy was born on June 24, 1946 in Philadelphia. In 1975, he was ordained a deacon, and in the following year a priest, by Archbishop Nikon (Rklitsky). In December 1978, Metropolitan Philaret performed Fr. Athanasy’s monastic tonsure. Hieromonk (and later Abbot) Athanasy led Joy of All Who Sorrow parish in Philadelphia for many years; he served in Holy Protection Church in New Brunswick, NJ and St. Nicholas Church in Red Bank, NJ, as well as at the convents in the Holy Land – Holy Ascension on the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane Convent. In December 2005, Metropolitan Laurus elevated Fr. Athanasy to the rank of archimandrite. For many years, Archimandrite Athanasy was the guardian of the myrrh-streaming icon of the Holy Righteous Anna, Mother of the Most Holy Theotokos, with which he traveled to a multitude of churches and monasteries in the dioceses of the Russian Church Abroad. The holy image was painted in the Mount of Olives Convent by Nun Mastridia, and began to stream myrrh in the United States. It was well known that the future priest fell in his childhood and was very badly hurt; he prayed to St. Anna, promising that, when he had the opportunity and the funds, he would order an icon of St. Anna. Archimandrite Athanasy spent the final years of his earthly life at St. Tikhon’s Monastery (OCA) in South Canaan, PA, where the services for the departed will be held. Tuesday, February 9 – Vespers & Matins at 16:30. Panihida – at 19:00. Wednesday, February 10 – Meeting of Metropolitan Tikhon, Divine Liturgy – at 9:00. The funeral will be served according to the monastic rite at 11:30 AM. Through the intercessions of the Most Holy Theotokos and the prayers of the Holy Righteous Anna, may the Lord grant blessed repose to the soul of His newly departed servant, the Archimandrite Athanasy, in the mansions of the righteous, and make his memory to be eternal! Eastern American Diocese (ROCOR) 7 февраля 2016 г. Подпишитесь на рассылку Православие.Ru Рассылка выходит два раза в неделю: Смотри также Комментарии David Naess 8 февраля 2017, 03:00 With the saints give rest, O Christ, to the soul of my Spiritual Father Athanasy. Where there is no pain, nor sorrow, nor suffering, but life everlasting. Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Archive DECR representatives take part in”Protecting the Future” International Conference 24 November 2021 year 18:25 The 3rd “Protecting the Future” International Conference on Combating Xenophobia, Antisemitism, and Racism was held in Moscow on November 22-23, 2021. Attending the opening session with the blessing of Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), was Archimandrite Philaret (Bulekov), DECR deputy chairman. Yuri Kanner, President of the Russian Jewish Congress; Sergey Vershinin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Konstantin Kosachev, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation; Kairat Abdrakhmanov, OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities; and Vitaly Suchkov, head of the National Policy and Interregional Relations Department of Moscow City Government, were among the speakers. The first plenary session was followed by panels and youth sessions on preventing xenophobia, antisemitism, islamophobia, racism, their media coverage and influence on culture as well as the role of religious leaders in countering these kinds of intolerance. The second plenary session on “Religious leadership and its influence on interethnic and interfaith tensions” was held in the evening of November 22 with Borukh Gorin, head of external relations department of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, as moderator. Rev. Dimitry Safonov, DECR secretary for interreligious relations and executive secretary of the Interreligious Council of Russia, presented a report on interreligious and peacemaking ministry of religious leaders. On November 23, Archimandrite Philaret and Rev. Dimitry Safonov attended the round table of patrons and philanthropists on financing projects against xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism. The moderator was Viktor Vekselberg, consul of the Russian Jewish Congress for Combating Antisemitism and a member of the Bureau of the Presidium of the Congress. The Conference was organized by the Russian Jewish Congress with the support of the Moscow Government, the Federal Agency for Nationality Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, and the World Jewish Congress. Attending the conference were religious leaders, experts, and state and public figures from forty countries of the world. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Archive Joint Working Group for Cooperation between Russian Orthodox Church and Holy See in Rome 12 February 2020 year 18:42 On 12 February 2020, the Joint Working Group for Cooperation between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Holy See met at the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity in Rome. From the Russian Orthodox Church there were Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR); Archimandrite Philaret (Bulekov), DECR vice-chairman; Archpriest Leonid Kalinin, chairman of the Russian Orthodox Church experts council for church art, architecture and restoration; Hieromonk Stephan (Igumnov), DECR secretary for inter-Christian relations: Rev. Alexander Aleshin, deputy head of the synodal department for church charity and social service; Hieromonk Ioann (Kopeikin), executive director of the Poznanie Foundation; Hieromonk Ambrose (Matsegora), executive secretary of the Moscow Patriarchate parishes administration in Italy; Rev. Alexiy Dikarev, DECR; A. Puzakov, artistic director of the Moscow Synodal Choir; P. Baranov, head of the Zaryadie Park museum-exhibition project; and I. A. Nikolayev, an interpreter. The Holy See was represented by Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity; Bishop Carlos Azevedo, delegate of the Pontifical Council for Culture; Msgr Marcos Pavan, director of the Sistine Chapel Choir; Rev. Andrea Chucci, Pontifical Academy for Life; Rev, Alexander Sapunko, Congregation for Eastern Churches; Rev. Jaromir Zadrapa, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity; P. Gumeniuk, Papal Foundation “Aid to the Church in Need”; Ms. N. Govercar, Dicastery for Communications; Ms. G. Gambino, Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life; and G. Paravicini, an interpreter. The meeting summed up the work of the Joint Working Group for the past period. Metropolitan Hilarion underscored the great importance of broadening the terms of reference of the Joint Working Group by including social problems in it, which will make it possible to broaden considerably the area of cooperation between the two Churches. The group also discussed and outlined for implementation a number of new projects to be carried out in cultural and social spheres in 2020-2021, including projects for humanitarian aid to people in Syria who suffered during the war. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| The Ukraine needs its “own” Church, Petro Poroshenko says Kiev, July 29, 2015 The Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko believes that a “Local Orthodox Church” should be established on the territory of the Ukraine and relies upon the support of the Ecumenical Patriarch in this respect. P. Poroshenko with the pseudo-Patriarch Philaret Denisenko at the St. Vladimir’s Cathedral: photo by Podrobnosti.ua “Today we thank the Hierarchy of the mother Church of Constantinople for its assistance in the establishment of the Ukrainian Local Orthodox Church in our country, we rely on the prayers and hope for the support of the Ecumenical Patriarch,” said Poroshenko on Tuesday at a meeting of the state leaders with members of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches, reports RIA-Novosti . “Nearly every independent Orthodox state has its own independent Autocephalous Church … Why should the Ukraine be different? Why should we be an exception to this rule? As the President and head of the state, I assure that the state will not resort to any kind of violence or pressure – we must cherish the interfaith peace as the apple of one’s eye,” he added. In June this year Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All the Ukraine appealed to Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, asking for an explanation: why were his hierarchs involved in activities (without the UOC MP’s authorization) in the Ukraine – “the canonical territory of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, without consent of the Church Hierarchy of UOC MP?” Furthermore, it has been reported that Petro Poroshenko attended a church of the so-called “Kyiv Patriarchate” on the Day of Baptism of Russia. None of the representatives of the Ukrainian governmental authority attended the festal Divine Liturgy, celebrated on that day by Metropolitan Onufry at the Kiev Caves Lavra. Concerning Petroshensko’s promise of non-violence, the experience forceful seizure of UOC MP churches in the Ukraine recently show rather convincing evidence that the President is doing very little to prevent violence. 31 июля 2015 г. Смотри также Комментарии Sally Iloff 3 августа 2015, 03:00 Porosshenko received an order to instigate revot in the Ukrainian Church by overseas. He listen idiot, follow idiots, push idiots to make idiotisms. If Ukrainian Church and nation follow this idiot one day will finish in the pit of idiots. Porosshenko is very contemporary event in the new Ukrainian history, as very contemporary and traceless will be his overseas mentors. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church is part of the body of Christ and one of the Brides. The church leaders should abstain what Porohenko demands, and follow the 1800 years tradition of the entire Orthodox Church. In other way for years the entire Ukrainian nation will suffer till come back to the proper cannon. It is proven fact what I say here! Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| A handwritten letter of St. Seraphim to Archimandrite Anthony In 2006, a photographic copy of a manuscript was published containing spiritual counsels written by the hand of St. Seraphim of Sarov († 1833) to the then young Hieromonk Anthony (1792-1877), who regularly visited and sought advice from the Saint. In 1831, St. Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow, chose Father Anthony as his spiritual Father and appointed him Rector of the Holy Trinity Lavra near Moscow (the Metropolitan was then Abbot of the Monastery). Father Anthony, as Archimandrite, worthily served the renowned Lavra, and Russian monasticism more generally, for more than forty years, until his saintly repose. It seems that the original text was found among the personal archives of Father Anthony at the Lavra. We do not have further information regarding either the original or the photographic copy; nevertheless, the Grace-filled spiritual admonitions of the text are wholly consistent with the well-known “Brief Teachings” of St. Seraphim. A copy of the original handwritten letter and an English translation of the text follow. Father Seraphim: words written by his own hand. 1. Learn noetic prayer of the heart as the Holy Fathers teach it in the Philokalia; for the Jesus Prayer is a light on our path and a star leading us to Heaven. 2. Learn to practice the Jesus Prayer while breathing in through your nose, with your lips shut; this technique is a scourge against the flesh and carnal desires. 3. Add “through the Theotokos have mercy on me” to the usual Jesus Prayer. 4. Outer prayer alone does not suffice, for God is attentive to the mind. Thus, monks who do not unite outer prayer with inner prayer are not monks, but little black heads. 5. Fear like the fire of Gehenna those painted ravens [women]; for they often transform soldiers of the King into servants of Satan. 6. Keep in mind that the true mantiya of a monk is patient endurance of slander and disparagement with joy; where there are no sorrows, neither is there salvation. 7. Do everything gradually, calmly, and not at once. Virtue is not a pear; it is not devoured in one bite. St. Elisabeth Convent 17 января 2017 г. Подпишитесь на рассылку Православие.Ru Рассылка выходит два раза в неделю: Смотри также Комментарии Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| A struggle is going on for oil, for natural resources, and industrial wealth in both the Ukraine and Russia, as well as in the Near East. They have made the East a hell, warring with those who they had earlier created—the so-called Al-Qaida. Meanwhile, Christ’s Church is being destroyed in the East. Fanatical Islamist movements are destroying Christianity in its entirety there. And again we are up against a totally antichristian ideology, which is acting in the interests of the new world order in all spheres of human life. It is subjugating everything to itself. Parallel to this, everything is returning to the call for the “bread and circuses!” of pagan Rome, and the final remnants of Christianity are being routed from the spaces of Europe and America. Metropolitan Amfilohije (Radovi) of Montenegro. Photo: A.Goryainov/Pravoslavie.ru —How are we servants of Christ supposed to react to these challenges against the Church and Christianity? What should we change in ourselves? What should we do? —We should do what I heard many years ago from a fool-for-Christ in the Smolensk Cemetery in St. Petersburg. 5 She said to me then, “Go deeper, father, go deeper!” Orthodoxy is the modern Job. You can take everything away from it, but you can’t touch its soul. God preserves the soul. Testimony to this is all that has happened over these thousand years since the time of Prince Vladimir. 25 августа 2015 г. The English translation of this passage (Job 2:6) reads: And the Lord said to the devil, Behold, I deliver him up to thee; only save his life . In the Church Slavonic text, however, the word “dusha” or “soul” is used instead of “life”. This gives a deeper meaning. This is a reference to the so-called “Kiev Patriarchate”, headed by Philaret (Denisenko), who united under himself one branch of a previously existing system. Denisenko is encouraged and supported by the current Ukrainian government for political purposes—mainly to wrench the soul of the Ukraine from its historical roots in Holy Rus’. The canonical autonomous Ukrainian Orthodox Church is headed by Metropolitan Onuphry (Berezovsky).—OC. |
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