| Indeed, the lives of our Sister Churches have been indissolubly tied in history. Last year we prayerfully remembered the events tracing back one hundred years – the Local Council in Moscow and the election of St. Tikhon of Moscow as Patriarch of All Russia. The efforts and achievements of St. Tikhon together with such zealots of faith and devotion as St. Herman of Alaska and St. Innocent the Metropolitan of Moscow are precious parts of our common spiritual heritage. In the days when the All-American Council is meeting, we lift up fervent prayers for the preservation and multiplication of the fruits of the salvific sowing by many Russian missionaries who sow a field of Holy Orthodoxy in the American continent. Today the Council is considering matters important for the life of Orthodox Christians. To settle them is necessary for the future of the Church of Christ in the USA. We pray that the All-Holy Spirit may guide and make wise all the participants of the Council so that they could make wise decisions’. There were discussions and round-table conferences on a number of topics. Decisions were made concerning various aspects of the life and service of the Orthodox Church in America. During the Council, a talk took place between Metropolitan Tikhon of All America and Canada and Bishop Flavian of Cherepovets and Belozersk. During the talk, the guest from the Russian Orthodox Church conveyed warm words of greeting to the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America and to all the participants in the All-American Council from Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. On July 26, the commemoration day of the Righteous Jacob Netsvetov, the enlightener of the peoples of Alaska and the first native of that land who was ordained, the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America presided over the Divine Liturgy celebrated at the Council’s assembly hall. His Beatitude was assisted by members of the Holy Synod and archpastors from Local Orthodox Churches who were the guests of the All-American Council. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Orthodox Volunteers Gather at Borodino Field Moscow, July 24, 2014 On July 21-27, 2014, with the blessing of Bishop Ignaty of Vyborg and Priozersk, head of the Synodal Department for Youth Affairs, an international youth gathering of Orthodox volunteers is taking place at Borodino Field near the town of Mozhaisk in the Moscow region, as part of the Bratya (“Brothers”) XV Orthodox International Youth Festival, reports Patriarchia.ru . The gathering is organized by the Synodal Department for Youth Affairs, the Tver regional branch of the Orthodox Youth Civic Organization with the support of the Russian Union of Youth. The gathering is held as part of the Faith and Deed International Orthodox Youth Program. The gathering is a special educational platform whose key target is the exchange of experience in volunteer service as well as the development of the volunteer movement among youth and the involvement of young people in solving important social problems. On July 23, a seminar dedicated to the phenomenon of Orthodox volunteering, its history, spiritual significance and practical implementation was held as part of the forum. Among the speakers there were well-known experts in the field of social service and volunteering. Oxana Garnayeva, chairwoman of the Russkaya Bereza Charitable Foundation, gave an account of the foundation’s history and its current work — in particular, of the specifics of work with the Ukrainian refugees. Olga Abashina, coordinator of the Linia Zhizni (Lifeline) Foundation’s projects, stressed the importance of the participation of young people in volunteer projects – such work can help them improve their self-esteem, meet new friends, and teach them to trust the world. Yulia Borisova, coordinator of the Podari Zhizn (Give the Gift of Life) Foundation’s volunteer group, recounted her personal experience in participating in volunteer projects helping children and told about the significance of each participant’s contribution of their personal talents in such a project. Dmitry Pospelov, director of the Robinzony Charitable Foundation, devoted his report to his experience in organizing hiking tours and archaeological expeditions with the participation of disabled children. The seminar’s audience was composed of about 300 young people, and many of them asked the speakers questions after the event in an informal talk. The report of Alexei Gazaryan, president of the Foster Foresight Charitable Foundation for the Development of Foster Aid, is scheduled for July 26. On July 27, Bishop Ignaty of Vyborg and Priozersk will meet with the forum members. 27 июля 2014 г. Смотри также Комментарии Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Exactly five months after Fr. Johns death, on March 31, 1918 — by which time the number of murdered clergymen known to the Holy Synod had already reached fifteen — the first Memorial Liturgy for the New Hieromartyrs and Martyrs in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church in the twentieth century was served in the church of the Moscow Theological Seminary, by the Most Holy Patriarch Tikhon, four other hierarchs, and ten archimandrites and protopresbyters. At the Memorial Liturgy and Panikhida, when the supplicatory prayer was pronounced for the repose of the servants of God who have perished for the Faith and the Orthodox Church, following mention of the first slain hierarch, Metropolitan Vladimir, the first-slain Archpriest, Father John Kochurov, was remembered, who by his passion-bearing death ushered in the service offered by the confessors, the assembly of the Russian New-Martyrs of the twentieth century. 44 The Orthodox Church in America 13 ноября 2015 г. Sources and Literature 1. The central state historical archive of St. Petersburg (CSHA of S.-P.), F. 14 University of Petrograd, 3, f.31575, the personal folder of the student Dmitry Alexandrovich Kochurov. 2. CSHA of S.-P., F.19 The Church Consistory of Petrograd, 113, f.4167, the clergy list of the Holy Transfiguration cathedral in Narva from 1908, f.4333; ibid. from 1916, f.4366, the clergy list of the St. Katherine cathedral in Tsarkoye Selo. 3. CSHA of S.-P., F.139 the Office of the dean of the department of education of St. Petersburg, 1, f.11305, the annual assessment of the condition of the male gymnasium in Narva from 1908. 4. CSHA of S.-P., F.277 St. Petersburg Theological Academy, 1, f.3220, the lists of the seminarians come to the examinations in the St. Petersburg Theological Academy in August of 1891. 5. American Orthodox Messenger (until 1898 The Orthodox American Messenger ), 1896, NN1, 7; N14; 1898, N24; 1899, N11; 1900, N10; 1901, N1; 1902, N8; 1904, N5; 1905 N17; 1906, NN10,11; 1907, N14. |
| It is this Faith which lies at the spiritual roots of all Western people, to become an Orthodox Christian for a Westerner means becoming more truly himself, becoming what his forebears were in the distant past, a confessor of Orthodoxy. The meaning of Orthodoxy in the Western context is the restoration, reconstitution of the Church, reintegration into it, the returning home of the Prodigal Son. The spiritual roots of the East and the West represent the same maximum, the same standard —the Orthodox Faith. Orthodoxy in the West means not only unity with the Orthodox Church but also unity with some ten centuries of Western Christian Tradition. Orthodoxy lies at the heart of Christianity in the West, once all the layers of prejudice, ignorance and illusion are stripped way. Our spiritual roots are in Orthodoxy, the return to the deepest and truest Christian Tradition. (September 1976) From: Fr. Andrew Phillips, Orthodox Christianity and the English Tradition (Felixstowe: The Orthodox Trust, 1997). Archpriest Andrew Phillips 1 ноября 2013 г. ... Смотри также Комментарии Andrew 4 ноября 2013, 11:00 I think Justin " s point was that a brief summary can " t exactly do this topic justice. This article " s speculation as to the effects of the filioque was especially problematic. Anonymous2 3 ноября 2013, 19:00 Justin Beers: " I think this article is radically simplistic, and I doubt it will be helpful in advancing the true needs of the Church at this time. While I agree the Western developments did cause the split I think the overinflated hyperbole of this article does not capture the problems very well. " Justin, Can you recommend another brief summary that better illustrates what you feel is lacking in this article? Thank you. Alejandro Sandoval 2 ноября 2013, 12:00 thank you for the post! Justin Beers 2 ноября 2013, 01:00 I think this article is radically simplistic, and I doubt it will be helpful in advancing the true needs of the Church at this time. While I agree the Western developments did cause the split I think the overinflated hyperbole of this article does not capture the problems very well. Anonymous 1 ноября 2013, 14:00 The more East-West unity unfolds (as it does) the more the Church is drawn into contemplating the icon of the Hospitality of Abraham. Wonderful commentary - thank you! Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Russian churches to distribute 100,000 free catechetical books for Pascha Moscow, March 23, 2017 Photo: Foma.ru The Russian Orthodox educational program “Paschal Tidings” will be held this year on April 15, the eve of Holy Pascha. During the campaign, 100,000 free copies of The Basics of Orthodox Christianity will be distributed on the territory of churches and monasteries throughout Russia, reports the campaign’s site . The book contains foundational information on the layout of churches, the Divine services, the Sacraments, fasting, and the role of the priest in the lives of believers, and will contain quotes from famous saints, including St. John of Kronstadt and St. Silouan, philosophers, and priests. The book contains the following topics: “About the faith,” “Christ and Orthodoxy Christianity,” “The Church,” “Scripture and Tradition,” “Temples,” “Clergy,” “Prayer,” “Fasting,” “Feasts of the Orthodox Church,” “The Sacraments of Confession and Communion,” and “Life after Liturgy.” “We have tried to cover the maximum number of dioceses,” the organizers told Interfax-Religion . The event has been held with the participation of the Russian Church since 2011. More than 1.5 million copies of the Gospels and other Orthodox books have been distributed in that time. Every year a portion of the copies are sent to prisons and hospitals, and distributed amongst military personnel. 23 марта 2017 г. Подпишитесь на рассылку Православие.Ru Рассылка выходит два раза в неделю: Смотри также Комментарии Mary 25 марта 2017, 09:00 Eugene, I think you " re mistaken about the head coverings. If you look at paintings from before the revolution of people in church, all the women and girls have their heads covered, according to the apostle " s saying: " But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head. " However, outside the church it was as you said--married women wore head coverings but unmarried girls didn " t. Eugene Zakrjevsky 25 марта 2017, 08:00 This of course is absolutely wonderful that such a task is being undertaken. Glory be to God. And judging by the pictures posted,it is wonderful that the youth are being involved. The two girls pictured at the head of the article are undoubtedly following in the steps of their Orthodox grandmothers/great- grandmothers who undoubtedly would have been married women and hence would have worn head coverings in church. And the two girls are to be commended for their efforts to embrace Orthodoxy. They show an understanding for the need to practice piety. However what they are unaware of is that in the Russian Orthodox Church before the revolution it was only married women who wore head coverings, girls and unmarried women didn " t. However it is more important to save souls than to dot " i " s " and cross " t " s " and the task undertaken is a step in that direction. Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Tweet Нравится Death Of Ethiopian Orthodox Church Patriarch Highlights Christianity " s Long Presence In African Nation By Vivian Tsai August 17, 2012 The patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Abune Paulos, died on Wednesday at the age of 76, the government has announced. " His Holiness has passed away, " government spokesman Shimeles Kemal told Agence France-Presse, but did not provide details of his death. Abune Paulos, the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, (on the left) died on Wednesday aged 76. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported on Thursday that the patriarch had been receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness in recent weeks. The patriarch " s office is expected to meet Friday to finalize the funeral arrangements. " In his absence, based on the bylaws and canons of the Coptic Church, a new leader will come into office, " spokesman Shimeles said. Abune Paulos served as the patriarch of Ethiopia " s Orthodox Church since 1992, when he was elected to the highest order of the denomination. The patriarch had a most eventful and hectic life. After the Derg, a Communist military junta, seized power in Ethiopia in the 1970s, Abune Paulos was arrested and imprisoned for nine years, before he fled into exile in the U.S. It was not until Prime Minister Meles Zenawi came to power in 1991 that Paulos returned to Ethiopia. Abune Paulos was seen as instrumental in brokering peace in the Ethiopia-Eritrea border war that ended in 2000, and was awarded a Nansen Medal by the United Nations refugee agency in 2000 for his peace and humanitarian work. Unique in sub-Saharan African, Ethiopia has a tradition of Christianity stretching all the way back to the beginning of the Christian era. In fact, the Kingdom of Aksum, which is located in present-day Ethiopia and Eritrea, was the second nation (after Armenia) to adopt Christianity as the state religion in the fourth century. By the seventh century, when Islam swept across the Christian lands of the Middle East, Egypt and North Africa, Christianity remained a strong force in Ethiopia, although the church became isolated from the centers of Christianity in Europe and the Near East. Still, today, well more than half of the population adheres to the faith. According to the 2007 National Consensus, 62.8 percent of Ethiopia " s 84.7-million people are Christian, while 43.5 percent of the total adhere to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Up to 45 million people -- living in and outside of Ethiopia -- followed Abune Paulos " leadership. International Business Times 18 августа 2012 г. Предыдущий Следующий © 1999-2015 Православие.Ru При перепечатке ссылка на Православие.Ru обязательна Контактная информация Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Michael Prokurat, Alexander Golitzin, Michael D. Peterson Скачать epub pdf LANGUAGE LANGUAGE. The Orthodox Church has never had a unique sacred language, although during the Byzantine era (q.v.) imperial policy sought continually to enforce Greek as the common tongue within the Empire’s boundaries. Later the Phanariots, using the office of the Ecumenical Patriarch under the aegis of the Ottoman Empire (qq.v.), would attempt-to disastrous effect-to impose linguistic uniformity on the Slavs and Romanians of the Balkans. Traditionally, however, the Eastern Church both within Byzantium (q.v.) and subsequently in Russia fostered translations of the Scripture and liturgical books (qq.v.) into local languages. Greek could never, in any case, aspire to the unique position of Latin in the Christian West. The eastern Mediterranean was already home to too many ancient cultures, each with its own literary tradition, for any of them to dominate absolutely. Latin had no such competitors in the West. In another vein, language as the necessary medium of theological discourse was the constant preoccupation of the Church Fathers (q.v.), in particular the problem of adapting a Greek vocabulary shaped by philosophies and religious attitudes foreign to the Old and New Testaments to the requirements of the Christian faith. This effort effectively involved the transmutation of the Greek philosophical lexicon, a work of many centuries. Secondly, language per se had to be recognized as ultimately inadequate to the mysteries of the faith: Trinity, Christology (qq.v.), and the living experience of God (q.v.), which underlies these dogmas. The Orthodox theological enterprise has thus been characterized by Fr. Georges Florovsky (q.v.) as the search for the words most adequate (or least inadequate) to God, theoprepeis logoi. This notion of language as a vessel or as a necessary exercise in conceptual iconography not unakin to the canons governing the making of holy icons (q.v.), distinguishes the approach that the best Orthodox theologians this century have taken. It may be compared to the theory advanced by Cardinal Newman in the last century, and repeated subsequently by the better Western theologians, of the “development of doctrine.” Читать далее Источник: The A to Z of the Orthodox Church/Michael Prokurat, Alexander Golitzin, Michael D. Peterson - Scarecrow Press, 2010. - 462 p. ISBN 1461664039 Поделиться ссылкой на выделенное |
| A conference to be held in Moscow on discrimination and persecution against Christians in various parts of the world Moscow, November 28, 2011 An international conference on Freedom of Faith: the Problem of Discrimination and Persecution against Christians will be held from November 30 to December 1, 2011, in Moscow. It has been initiated by the Russian Orthodox Church with the support of the Christian Inter-Confessional Committee (CICC). The Moscow Patriarchate is concerned over violations of the rights of Christians in various countries, which have been committed on a mass scale in recent years. The political transformations in the Middle East and North Africa countries have had as one of their consequences a large-scale emigration of believers from the region. The supreme authorities of the Russian Orthodox Church have repeatedly drawn the attention of the world community to the need to work out a mechanism of ensuring the rights of Christians, which will make it possible for them to confess their faith freely, to work and to raise their children in accordance with their beliefs. The Russian Orthodox Church has invited for discussion leaders of Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant religious communities including in the regions where the number of violations of the rights of Christians is growing. The Conference will be opened by Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Department for External Church Relations. The meeting is expected to adopt a communiqué summarizing the plenary sessions. On December 1, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia will meet with the participants in the forum at the Church of Christ the Saviour. Journalists can obtain accreditation for the meeting with the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church and participants in the Conference from the Patriarchal Press Service at press@patriarchia.ru and Tel: 637-43-18 till 16.00 on November the 30 th . The meeting will begin at 15:00. DECR Communication Service 29 ноября 2011 г. ... Комментарии Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Archive Statements on discrimination against the Church in Ukraine and North Macedonia were made at UN forum 16 July 2021 year 13:08 At the high-level political forum of the Organization of United Nations for sustainable development (HLPF), which was held at the UN headquarters from July 6 to 15, 2021, in New York, human rights advocates of the Public Advocacy organization made a written statement on the discrimination against the Orthodox Church in such countries, as Ukraine and North Macedonia, reports the Union of Orthodox Journalists with reference to the Public Advocacy press service. This public organization noted that the forum held in New York was a basic platform for the UN in its further work and in monitoring the agenda in the field of sustainable development in the period till 2030. The human rights advocates called on the HLPF to make its own contribution to the support of inter-confessional peace in the above-mentioned countries. “It is inadmissible that states, on the level of their central power bodies, should pursue a policy of inequality on national, ethnic or religious grounds. Regrettably, this kind of policy is used today against religious communities in Ukraine, North Macedonia and, earlier, in Montenegro. In these countries, the state interferes in the religious affairs of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Serbian Orthodox Church, creating conditions for the emergence of alternative religious structures directly encouraged by the authorities”, reads the statement the full text of which is published on the UN forum site under No. 303. The document states, “We repeat that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is a union of millions of Ukrainians of various ethnic backgrounds united by Orthodoxy. They have a right to confess freely their faith and to enjoy equal conditions with other confessions. At this forum, we once again call upon Ukraine to ensure respect for the rights of the UOC faithful and to reject the discriminatory policy with regard to this confession”. Commenting on this statement, the Public Advocacy head Oleg Denisov noted, “In spite of the UN’s inertia in matters concerning the rights of Orthodox communities in Ukraine, North Macedonia and Montenegro, we continue doing all that is possible for us to make the problems of Orthodox Churches not forgotten by international human right advocacy structures”. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| New Book: St. Gregory Palamas " Apodictic Treatise on The Procession of The Holy Spirit, Available From Uncut Mountain Press/Православие.Ru New Book: St. Gregory Palamas " Apodictic Treatise on The Procession of The Holy Spirit, Available From Uncut Mountain Press A new book, Apodictic Treatise on The Procession of The Holy Spirit , by the incomprable St. Gregory Palamas is now available for pre-order from Uncut Mountain Press : " This towering figure of Orthodox spiritual life and teaching, the boast of Thessaloniki and spokesman for the Holy Mountain of Athos, is well known to students of Orthodox theology for his defense of the Hesychasts and exposition of the teaching of the Fathers on the Divine Energies and Theosis. What is not known, and with regard to which there is often great ignorance, even among Orthodox theologians in the West, is that the great hesychast was also a great defender of the Faith and Dogma of the Holy Trinity and a strident polemicist against the heresy of the filioque . Now the divine wisdom of the theologian of Grace applied and embraced by the Church for more than half a millennium is available in the English language for all lovers of the Holy Trinity to be edified and enlightened. For the first time, St. Gregory’s masterpiece, Apodictic Treatise on the Procession of the Holy Spirit , is available in English from Uncut Mountain Press. " Since its inception in 2000, Protopresbyter Peter Heers " Uncut Mountain Press has gained a solid reputation as a provider of Patristic and patristically-minded Orthodox texts, including The Truth of Our Faith by Elder Cleopa (Ilie), Apostle to Zaire: The Life and Legacy of Blessed Father Cosmas of Grigoriou, and St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite " s Exomologetarion: A Manual of Confession , Concerning Frequent Communion, and Confession of Faith, among others. The book can be pre-ordered now and will be available in February 2016. 25 сентября 2015 г. Предыдущий Следующий Смотри также Light for the World: the Life of St. |
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