| Cooperation of Serbia, Russia will be " progressive " Moscow, May 26, 2012 Newly elected Serbian president Tomislav Nikolic assured Russia " s President Vladmir Putin Saturday that cooperation between the two countries would be “progressive " . Putin said that the new Serbian president could count on Moscow " s support in the implementation of his policy. The two officials met on the margins of the 13th United Russia Congress in Moscow on Saturday for about 15 minutes before the press, and then continued the conversation behind closed doors. Nikolic thanked Putin for Russia’s support to Serbia on the international scene, especially when it comes to preservation of Kosovo within Serbia. I assure you that the cooperation between Serbia and Russia will be progressive. I assure you that Serbia is Russia’s partner in the Balkans, he told the Russian president. Serbia is on the road toward the EU. It’s a long and uncertain journey. We will organize the country in accordance with the EU rules, the newly elected Serbian president said and added that he so far had not heard that Serbia had to recognize Kosovo’s unilaterally declared independence. We cannot do it, even if it means we have to stop the negotiations that very moment, Nikolic stressed. He also pointed out that Serbia was committed to military neutrality according the resolution passed by the Serbian parliament. Serbia will not join NATO, he said, adding that he spoke openly about that to the citizens of Serbia in the election campaign, and won. Putin congratulated Nikolic on his victory in the presidential election and wished him to accomplish everything that he promised to the Serbian people. You can count on the help of Russia, Putin said. The position of Russia is known, said Putin. The Russian President then asked Nikolic to meet his, he said, an unusual request. I know that Boris Tadic was your opponent in the campaign. But since I worked with him in previous years, I am asking you, and it is unusual, to convey to him my greetings and my best wishes for his future work, Putin said. Putin and Nikolic then continued the conversation behind closed doors. Russia ready to grant Serbia USD 800 million loan Russia will provide a loan to the amount of 800 million U.S. dollars to Serbia, President Vladimir Putin said after a meeting with Serbian President-elect Tomislav Nicolic on Saturday. The loan will be provided for the development of the infrastructure. Russia is ready to implement projects in this field, the Russian president said. Putin noted that Russia waited for a concrete feasibility study from partners. He urged Nicolic to give a corresponding impetus to newly created executive structures. 27 мая 2012 г. ... Комментарии Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Journeying Up the Mountain: A Sacred Choral Music Workshop with Maestro Vladimir Gorbik/Православие.Ru Journeying Up the Mountain: A Sacred Choral Music Workshop with Maestro Vladimir Gorbik An Interview with Isaac Crabtree Jesse Dominick , Isaac Crabtree On September 27 we posted an interview with Benedict Sheehan, choirmaster at St. Tikhon " s Monastery and Seminary in Pennsylvania, in which he shared his thoughts on the state of Church music in America and about the various projects with which he is involved. One of those projects is the Patriarch Tikhon Russian-American Music Institute (PaTRAM) which is dedicated to promoting high-quality Church singing, through private instructions and also through Master Classes throughout America. September 2 —6 the institute offered its first Master Class in Russia, at the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra Podvoriye in Moscow, where Institute co-founder Maestro Vladimir Gorbik, of whom Benedict spoke, is choirmaster. Singers from America, Canada, and Russia came together for an intensive workshop in Slavonic choral music, as well as several pilgrimage-outings, under the direction of Maestro Gorbik. We spoke with Isaac Crabtree of St. John Chrysostom Orthodox Church in House Springs, MO, one of the thirty-five participants in the Master Class, about the experience. His thoughts and reflections are a testament to the work of PaTRAM and give us insight into the depth of the Orthodox choral tradition, and what can be accomplished both technically and spiritually when we give our best effort and our first fruits to the Lord. —Give us a run-down of the daily schedule of the conference. —This was a four-day Master Class, Wednesday—Saturday, that also included several planned excursions to holy places. Our final practice was on Saturday afternoon and we sang the Vigil at the Podvoriye Saturday evening, and the Divine Liturgy on Sunday. Each day was scheduled differently, but all were a combination of rehearsals or divine services and either planned or informal excursions. |
| Ukrainian archpriest with 12 children loses house to fire Stavische, Ukraine, February 13, 2020 Photo: zhytomyr-eparchy.org An archpriest of the canonical Ukrainian Church, his matushka, and their numerous children lost their home to fire last week. Fr. Alexei Busko is a cleric of the Zhytomyr Diocese of the UOC in the village of Stanische in the Zhytomyr Province. The accident occurred in the afternoon of Saturday, February 8. Thankfully, no one was injured, but the family with its 12 children, including 3 adopted, lost their home and most of their belongings, reports the diocesan press service . “All our lives, Batiushka did everything with his own hands, with God’s help,” the message reads. “He repaired the church, built a small house at the church, and then began construction of a new church and a new house. After more than a decade of work on the new home, it was recently completed.” “But a great misfortune occurred. On Saturday 2.28.2020 around 12:00 PM, someone noticed smoke coming from the second floor. Attempts to put it out with a fire extinguisher and buckets of water led to nothing, except for the loss of time, which was barely enough to get all the children out on the street, barely in their around-the-house clothes,” the message continues. “In the end, we managed to save some little things, but everything else, equipment and other things turned into ashes. An hour later, the roof collapsed and the first floor burned. Firefighters drove for more than an hour and extinguished the fire at 5:00 PM. Resigned to God " s will, the priest went to serve Vespers, without waiting for the firefighters to finish…” Photo: zhytomyr-eparchy.org The Zhytomyr Diocese is actively seeking arrangements for the family and to gather funds towards new housing. If any readers of OrthoChristian are able to help, donations can be sent to the PrivatBank card of Alexei Alexeevich Busko (Бусько Алексей Алексеевич), no.: 5168 7573 9250 1039. May God have mercy upon Fr. Alexei and his family! Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , Vkontakte , and Telegram ! 13 февраля 2020 г. скрыть способы оплаты Комментарии Подпишитесь на рассылку Православие.Ru Рассылка выходит два раза в неделю: Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| [News] On Saturday, October 4, Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York (the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia) consecrated the new Orthodox Church of St. John the Baptist in New York (Brooklyn, Sheepshead Bay). [Homilies and Spiritual Instruction] Roman Savchuk This is a question that is close to every Christian. Does God hear us? And why does He so often keep silence in answer to our requests? And if He answers, then why don’t we hear that answer? [News] The protest action, which lasted more than two hours, was organized by the foundation, “In Defense of Family and Traditions”. According to head of the foundation Varro Vooglaid, the rally is meant to show the parliament deputies that the people are opposing the partnership law enactment and attempts to change the essence of such concepts as marriage and family. [News] On Saturday the 25th and Sunday the 26th of October, the parish of St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Washington, DC will hold its annual pilgrimage to visit the grave of Jose Muñoz-Cortes at Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY. [News] The service became possible thanks to numerous requests from the faithful of the Russian Orthodox Church residing in the region. [News] Up to 3,000 militants from the Islamic State and other jihadists occupy the mountain range between Lebanon and Syria near the Sunni town of Arsal. [News] During the journey the missionaries visited 10 settlements with a population of between 500 and 15,000 people. [News] Disorder has been going on in Hong Kong for already several days. In the experts’ view, they are developing according to the same scenario as the events on the Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kiev and the Arab revolutions. [News] The elder brother of the catholicos-patriarch reposed at his home in Mtskheta on September 30. Recently he was often ailing. Српска bepзuja [Вести] Преосвештенство Епископ топлички г. служио данас у цркви Свете у Београду парастос барону Петру Врангелу, руске Царске |
| Orthodox Priest Brutally Gunned Down in Kiev July 26, 2015 Roman Nikolaev, a priest in the Moscow Patriarchate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, was shot outside his home in northern Kiev late on Saturday night, and is listed in critical condition. A police car stands outside Roman Nikolaev " s home in Kiev. Nikolaev is in critical condition after being shot twice in the head on Saturday night. A spokesman for the Church told Russian news radio service RSN that Nikolaev was found by a neighbor on the stairway of his apartment building, is in critical condition, and " cannot give any evidence " as to the identity of his assailants. The spokesman noted that in his opinion, the attack, committed by two unknown men, was unlikely to have been connected to Nikolaev " s work. " The attack did not take place in a temple. Nikolaev served as the parish priest of a church which I believe has not yet been completed. He was ordained a priest two years ago. " One version of events, suggested by the press service of Ukraine " s Ministry of Internal Affairs, is that Nikolaev may have been shot after getting in the way of apartment robbers. Ukrainian police have launched an investigation into the attack. Ukraine is home to three major denominations of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, including the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (believed to be the largest religious body in Ukraine, with the greatest number of parishes, churches and communities), the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kievan Patriarchate, created in 1992, and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. Following the Maidan coup d " état last year, relations between the Moscow and Kievan patriarchates have declined considerably. In February, UOC Kiev Patriarch Filaret made headlines by urging the United States to send lethal weapons to fuel Kiev " s military campaign against independence and autonomy supporters in Eastern Ukraine. In April, the patriarch was reported to have held nearly 20 meetings with various NATO and EU leaders in a bid to garner European support amid the ongoing conflict in Donbass. 27 июля 2015 г. Смотри также Комментарии Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| PM repeats promise made 6 years ago to Syriac Orthodox Church/Православие.Ru PM repeats promise made 6 years ago to Syriac Orthodox Church January 5, 2015 Prime Minister Ahmet Davutolu promised on Saturday at a meeting with representatives of religious minority groups to allow the construction of a church in stanbul " s Yeilköy neighborhood for the Syriac Orthodox community, a promise first voiced by the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) six years ago in the lead-up to local elections in 2009. The Syriac community of stanbul has had a longstanding request for Turkish authorities to allow the construction of a Syriac church in the city. The stanbul Metropolitan Municipality approved its request in December 2012, the first permission granted for the construction of a new church in the history of the Turkish Republic. Davutolu reiterated the promise at the event on Saturday that land will be given to the Syriac community for the construction of a church. The stanbul Metropolitan Municipality has been expected to allocate a 2,000-square-meter plot of land in stanbul " s Yeilköy neighborhood to the Syriac Church Foundation for the construction of a church since 2012. If the project is brought to completion, it will mark the first time a municipality has issued permission for the construction a place of worship to a non-Muslim community. The pro-government media publicized the matter along news of the construction of a mosque on Çamlca hill in stanbul " s Üsküdar district. The Star daily published a report in December 2012 with the headline “Mosque in Çamlca, church in Yeilköy. " The construction of the Çamlca Mosque, which is expected to be visible from all over the city, has forged ahead and is scheduled for completion on July 1, 2016. With dwindling numbers, most of Turkey " s non-Muslim communities do not need new churches to be built, as the current functioning churches are enough to support their communities. However, the Syriac Christians feel they need a church of their own in stanbul since they have had to use other communities " churches for their religious practices, such as Latin Catholic churches, a practice that has often created scheduling conflicts with prayers and rituals for the religious communities. |
| Reporters of the Russian Orthodox television broadcaster Tsargrad have been deported from Moldova in the wake of an information blockade in that country. Tsargrad Editor-in-Chief Aleksey Kravchenko told TASS that on Saturday morning Moldova’s special services forced a TV team - the correspondent Ivan Kolesnikov and the cameraman Sergey Krasnov - to leave their hotel and then drove them to the airport where the reporters were made to board an Aeroflot airliner bound for Moscow. On Thursday, the television reporters arrived in Moldova to film an interview with Moldova’s Eastern Orthodox Bishop Marchel of Balti and Falesti. " Citing his tough schedule, the bishop asked to put off their meeting until Saturday, " Ivan Kolesnikov said. " As the hotel we were staying at was located in (Moldova’s capital) Chisinau’s centre where the streets under our windows were crowded with people, we came out to shoot some backgrounds. We were planning to use them later for creation of a plot about the city and its residents. " The reporters said that they had been treated correctly by the special services but before crossing the border they were notified, but not given a copy of the document, on their deportation for absence of Moldovan Foreign Ministry’s accreditation and that they were banned to cross into Moldova for a span of ten years. The Tsargrad Orthodox television has become the fifth Russian channel whose journalists have been deported from Moldova over the past week. On Thursday, journalists of four television broadcasters and other Russian media outlets were denied access to Moldova at Chisinau’s airport and were forced to leave the country. Reporters of the All-Russia TV and Radio Broadcasting Corporation (VGTRK), Channel One, LifeNews and RenTV television broadcasters and a correspondent of the RIA-Novosti news agency were expelled from Moldova. Earlier, Moldova’s border police spokesperson said that several Russian journalists were denied entry to the country as they allegedly did not say what the purposes were for their visits. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Moldova had violated the right to freedom to expression and dubbed the situation as unacceptable. TASS 25 января 2016 г. Смотри также Комментарии Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Jordanville, NY: Metropolitan Jonah leads Divine Services for Pentecost in Holy Trinity Monastery Jordanville, NY, May 31, 2015 On Saturday the 30th and Sunday the 31st of May, the clergy and brethren of Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY celebrated the great feast of Holy Pentecost – the Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles. Leading the All-Night Vigil on Saturday evening and the Divine Liturgy and Great Vespers on Sunday morning was His Eminence, Metropolitan Jonah (former Primate of Orthodox Church in America). Co-serving with His Eminence were Archimandrites Luke (Murianka; monastery abbot) and Nektarios (Harding), Archpriest Michael Taratuchin (rector of St. John of Kronstadt Memorial Church in Utica, NY), Hieromonks Theophylact (Clapper-DeWell), Cyprian (Alexandrou), Moses (Borges), and Gabriel (Astrahankine), Priest Andrei Rudenko (cleric of Holy Virgin Nativity Church in Albany, NY), Protodeacons Joseph Jarostchuk (cleric of St. John Memorial Church) and Alexander Jarostchuk (cleric of Holy Epiphany Church in Boston, MA), Hierodeacon Seraphim (Nikoloski), and monastery Deacons Andrei Psarev, Andrew Doubleday, and Peter Markevich. The monastic and seminary choir (including Priest Ephraim Willmarth) sang under the direction of Reader Nicholas Kotar. The three Kneeling Prayers were read by Metropolitan Jonah, Fr. Luke, and Fr. Theophylact. Upon completion of the service, Metropolitan Jonah addressed the faithful with a sermon, in which he said, in part: " We celebrate the descent of the Holy Spirit… so that we might be united to Him, and He to us; so that He might dwell in us, and we in Him; so that our union with God might be fulfilled and completed. So often in our culture, we think of God as somewhere out there, somewhere distant, and the more secular our culture, the further God is from this reality. They have no concept that God permeates reality, that God permeates this existence, that God permeates the creation. The sending of the Holy Spirit is a type and a sign, as well as the reality, of God’s sending down the Holy Spirit upon all flesh: first of all upon us, who are believers, so that our faith might be ignited, our knowledge of God might be kindled, and our awareness of the presence of God throughout this creation might be enabled, and strengthened, and energized, so that our whole life might become an act of awareness of God. " Click here to view Metropolitan Jonah’s sermon. Tomorrow, the feast day of the Holy Spirit, Metropolitan Hilarion will arrive at Holy Trinity Monastery to lead the patronal feast day. 2 июня 2015 г. Смотри также Комментарии Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Предыдущий Следующий Смотри также How the Holy Light Descends Upon the Holy Sepulchre Russian Abbot Daniil How the Holy Light Descends Upon the Holy Sepulchre Russian Abbot Daniil May the blessing of God, of the Holy Sepulchre, and of all the holy places be with those who read this narrative with faith and love; and may they obtain from God the same reward as those who have made the pilgrimage to those holy places. Happy are those who, having seen, believe! Thrice happy are those who have not seen, and yet have believed! (Photos) Orthodox Christians Prepare for Holy Fire Ritual in Jerusalem This Saturday (Photos) Orthodox Christians Prepare for Holy Fire Ritual in Jerusalem This Saturday Known as the Miracle of the Holy Fire, believers contend that a fire is mysteriously lit in the exact spot where Jesus was entombed over two thousand years ago. In pictures: Stunning scenes from Orthodox Easter Holy Fire ceremonies In pictures: Stunning scenes from Orthodox Easter Holy Fire ceremonies Thousands gathered at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem this weekend to mark the Orthodox Christian ceremony of the Holy Fire. The Holy Flame: the Greatness of the Miracle, and the Helplessness of the Skeptics Hieromonk Job (Gumerov) The Holy Flame: the Greatness of the Miracle, and the Helplessness of the Skeptics Hieromonk Job (Gumerov) The skeptics gather “witnesses” in order to cast doubt on the miracle of descending the Holy Fire, they once again display incompetence in basic methods of scholarly and scientific research. Unbelief and skepticism are barren, infertile. “As someone withdrawing from the light does not in the least do harm to the light, but does very great harm to himself, becoming immersed in darkness, so also one accustomed to scorning the power of the Almighty does not in the least do harm to it [His power], but upon himself brings extreme harm” (John Chrysostom). In Defense of the Holy Fire Deacon Giorgi Maximov In Defense of the Holy Fire Deacon Giorgi Maximov Last time in the Russian-language Internet, a whole campaign was conducted to discredit the miracle of the Holy Fire. The fundamental idea of these “exposés” is that purportedly there are Orthodox who themselves deny the genuineness of this miracle but at the same time continue to “dupe simple, ingenuous people.” What arguments are offered to support this idea of duping and conscious deceit? Комментарии Jean 8 мая 2017, 06:34 This is such a wonderful story. What a wonderful gift Christians all over the world will share because of the generosity of the Russian people. Thank You. Подпишитесь на рассылку Православие.Ru Рассылка выходит два раза в неделю: |
| This specific Saturday is a special commemoration of the Great Martyr Theodore of Tyre and the miracle of the kolyva. In 361, Julian the Apostate was doing his utmost to restore pagan customs. Knowing that the Christians were accustomed to sanctify the first week of Lent by fasting and prayer, the wily tyrant told the Prefect of Constantinople to have all of the food set out for sale in the markets sprinkled with the blood of animals sacrificed to the gods, so that no one in the city would escape the contagion of idolatry. However, the Lord did not abandon His chosen people, but sent His servant Theodore to outwit the tyrant. Appearing in a vision to Patriarch Eudoxius (360-364), the holy Martyr informed him of what was happening and told him to instruct the Christians not to buy food from the markets but instead to eat kolyva made from grains of boiled wheat. Thus, thanks to the intervention of the holy Martyr Theodore, the Christian people were preserved from the stain of idolatry. The Church has commemorated this miracle ever since on the first Saturday of Great Lent, in order to remind the faithful that fasting and temperance have the power to cleanse all the stains of sin. Hymns Of The Feast Apolytikion (Tone Two) O Christ our God, begging forgiveness of our sins, we venerate your pure image O Good One. Of Your own will You condescended to ascend upon the Cross in the flesh and delivered those you created from the bondage of the enemy. Wherefore, thankfully we cry out: When You came to save the world You filled all things with joy, O our Savior. Listen » Kontakion (Plagal Fourth Tone) The undepictable Word of the Father became depictable when He took flesh of you, O Theotokos; and when He had restored the defiled image to its ancient state, He suffused it with divine beauty. As for us, confessing our salvation, we record it in deed and word. References The Lenten Triodion. translated by Mother Mary and Kallistos Ware (South Canaan, PA: St. Tikhon’s Seminary Press, 1994), pp. 51-52, 299-313. Schmemann, Alexander. Great Lent: Journey to Pascha (Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1969), pp. 73-75. Barrois, Georges. Scripture Readings in Orthodox Worship (Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1977), pp. 61-62. Farley, Donna. Seasons of Grace: Reflections on the Orthodox Church Year (Ben Lomond, CA: Conciliar Press, 2002), pp. 100-102 The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America 7 марта 2013 г. Подпишитесь на рассылку Православие.Ru Рассылка выходит два раза в неделю: Смотри также Комментарии Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
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