| Author of Everyday Saints to make presentation at the Library of Congress September 25, 2012 Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov). Everyday Saints and Other Stories. Pokrov Publications, 2012. 504 pages, illustrated. ISBN 978-0-9842848-3-2, 978-0-9842848-4-9. Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), author of Russia’s number one bestselling book, will speak and answer questions in the Library of Congrees, Whittall Pavilion of the Jefferson Building, at 11:00 am, October 5, 2012. This event will mark the first U.S. presentation of the English translation of his extremely popular book, Everyday Saints and Other Stories. Archimandrite Tikhon’s book has already won the Russian national “Book of the Year” award, and the Russian internet award, surpassing the next runner up with thirty times more votes. It has sold 1,100,000 hard copies and several million e-books in less than a year. The English translation by accomplished translator Julian Henry Lowenfeld will be released in the U.S. on October 1. Harold Liech, Russian area specialist of the Library of Congress, has called the book “amazing”, and the translation “excellent”. Archimandrite Tikhon is the abbot of one of Russia’s most well-known religious institutions, the Moscow Sretensky Monastery. This monastery, located in the heart of Russia’s capital city, is a leader in religious and cultural education. It has one of the largest religious publishing houses in the country, and runs Russia’s most visited religious website, Pravoslavie.ru. Father Tikhon is the author of numerous books and articles, and creator of a series of documentary films. He is active in numerous social and cultural programs, and has often appeared on Russian national television. Another more melodious feature of Father Tikhon’s Monastery is its world-famous choir, which will be touring the U.S. for a second time this October. Father Tikhon will be accompanying the choir as it performs in nine U. S. cities: Washington, DC, Chicago, New York, Boston, Miami, Dallas, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. The full schedule of the US tour is available at www.camimusic.com/choir . Father Tikhon will also be serving in a number of Orthodox Churches during the course of the choir tour, which is dedicated to the five-year anniversary of the reunification of the Moscow Patriarchate with the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad. Updates will be posted regarding the schedule of services in U. S. churches where the Sretensky Choir will sing. More information on the book, Everyday Saints and Other Stories can be found on its official website, Everyday-Saints.com 25 сентября 2012 г. ... Комментарии Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Metropolitan Sergy of Ternopil: “It is important not to be despondent and not to increase one " s despondency”/Православие.Ru Metropolitan Sergy of Ternopil: “It is important not to be despondent and not to increase one " s despondency” Ternopil, the Ukraine, March 24, 2015 Metropolitan Sergy (Gensitsky) of Ternopil and Kremenets has answered the question of the Pravlife.org website: How a modern Christian should follow the words of the Savior, “You are the salt of the earth… You are the light of the world” (Matthew 5:13-14). “In order to be “the salt of the earth” we must act as Christians, according to the Gospels – only then we will become “the salt” of which the Lord spoke, the salt in which there is the Grace of God. Without Christ, without the Gospel and the holy fathers we will not be able to receive the Divine Grace. Take pure babies, for example, little cherubs – their eyes shine! And if we persevere in cleansing our souls from the sin, then someone will notice something good in us as well. The most important thing is not to lose your heart and not to increase despondency. In order to see light in another person, we ourselves need to be filled with light,” Metropolitan Sergy said. 26 марта 2015 г. Предыдущий Следующий Смотри также St. Lawrence of Chernigov: Some Prophecies and Statements on the Ukrainian Situation Dimitra Dwelley St. Lawrence of Chernigov: Some Prophecies and Statements on the Ukrainian Situation Dimitra Dwelley St. Lawrence was known for his gift of prophecy, especially concerning events surrounding the end of the world and the coming of Antichrist. His words have striking significance for us today. Metropolitan Sergius of Ternopil: “Sorrows and persecutions lead us to God” Metropolitan Sergius of Ternopil: “Sorrows and persecutions lead us to God” What is essential to remember for a Christian who is being persecuted? Metropolitan Sergius of Ternopil and Kremenets has answered the questions of the Pravlife.org portal. Elder Ephraim of Vatopedi is asking the Ukrainian people to remain faithful to the canonical Church Elder Ephraim of Vatopedi is asking the Ukrainian people to remain faithful to the canonical Church The elder shared his concern about the events in the Ukraine. Комментарии © 1999-2015 Православие.Ru При перепечатке ссылка на Православие.Ru обязательна Контактная информация Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Предыдущий Следующий Смотри также Gay Marriage and the Houston Gay Rights Ordinance Fr. John Whiteford Gay Marriage and the Houston Gay Rights Ordinance Fr. John Whiteford We, the Orthodox clergy of Houston and Southeast Texas, are compelled by our responsibilities before God to speak out plainly against the rebellion against God " s created order that we see being waged on both the local and national level. Supreme Court rules that states must allow gay ‘marriage’ Supreme Court rules that states must allow gay ‘marriage’ The Supreme Court has ruled that the U.S. Constitution contains an inalienable right to same-sex “marriage.” Head of Georgian Church: U.S. Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Ruling ‘Big Mistake’ Head of Georgian Church: U.S. Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Ruling ‘Big Mistake’ Head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Ilia II, said in his Sunday sermon that the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing same-sex marriage throughout the United States was a “big mistake.” Комментарии Nikolai Timchenko 8 июля 2015, 00:00 The murder of Our Lord set in motion and established the 2 thousand year fight with LOGOS. Feminism/SEXUAL LIBERATION is against Logos, abortion the murder of the innocent is against LOGOS, debasing sexuality through pornography is against LOGOS, USURY is against LOGOS, unbridled corporate greed is against LOGOS, homosexuality, is against LOGOS and all the governments that side with the GOD LESS and make all of this into law are against LOGOS. Some think that it will stop here but the fact is that it will not stop getting worse. Pedophilia is the same homosexual issue with age of consent as the only social barrier. In many countries in the world the question of age has been overcome. This process will only stop until God " s creation in His Image and His Church is completely vanquished by the Godless who under the guise of freedom, democracy and the eradication of sin are determined to sweep the old world away and welcome the NEW AGE with its NEW NORMAL into existence. If WE ARE TO DEFEND LOGOS and THE GOSSPLE we must prepare for persecution It should be clear that in the not so distant future Christianity will not be tolerated in our counties or must become part of the new syncretic religion being planned for us. Although we know in the long run the gates of hell will not have their way however in the short term many will suffer the process we are seeing unfold. Другие статьи автора Archpriest John Whiteford Новые материалы Выбор читателей © 1999-2015 Православие.Ru |
| On Misogyny and Anti-Semitism The questions of anti-Semitism and misogyny require circumspect comment. The patristic writers are perceived by some to be incurably anti-Semitic or misogynous or both. 1 would like to briefly attempt a cautious apologia for the ancient Christian writers, leaving details to others more deliberate efforts. I know how hazardous this is, especially when done briefly. But it has become such a stumbling block to some of our readers that it prevents them even from listening to the ancient ecumenical teachers. The issue deserves some reframing and careful argumentation. Although these are challengeable assumptions and highly controverted, it is my view that modern racial anti-Semitism was not in the minds of the ancient Christian writers. Their arguments were not framed in regard to the hatred of a race, but rather the place of the elect people of God, the Jews, in the history of the divine-human covenant that is fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Patristic arguments may have had the unintended effect of being unfair to women according to modern standards, but their intention was to understand the role of women according to apostolic teaching. This does not solve all of the tangled moral questions regarding the roles of Christians in the histories of anti-Semitism and misogyny, which require continuing fair-minded study and clarification. Whether John Chrysostom or Justin Martyr were anti-Semitic depends on whether the term anti-Semitic has a racial or religious-typological definition. In my view, the patristic texts that appear to modern readers to be anti-Semitic in most cases have a typological reference and are based on a specific approach to the interpretation of Scripture – the analogy of faith – which assesses each particular text in relation to the whole trend of the history of revelation and which views the difference between Jew and Gentile under christological assumptions and not merely as a matter of genetics or race. Even in their harshest strictures against Judaizing threats to the gospel, they did not consider Jews as racially or genetically inferior people, as modern anti-Semites are prone to do. Even in their comments on Paul’s strictures against women teaching, they showed little or no animus against the female gender as such, but rather exalted women as “the glory of man.” Compare the writings of Rosemary Radford Ruether and David C. Ford10 on these perplexing issues. Ruether steadily applies modern criteria of justice to judge the inadequacies of the ancient Christian writers. Ford seeks to understand the ancient Christian writers empathically from within their own historical assumptions, limitations, scriptural interpretations and deeper intentions. While both treatments are illuminating, Ford’s treatment comes closer to a fair-minded assessment of patristic intent. Читать далее Источник: InterVarsity Press. Downers Grove, Illinois. 2001 Поделиться ссылкой на выделенное |
| Orthodox publications in Chinese presented at Beijing Book Fair Beijing, September 2, 2012 As part of the International Book Fair in Beijing there was a roundtable " The Russian book in China: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. " The round table was devoted to the translation and publication of Russian literature in China. The round table was attended by G.M. Gupalo, chief editor of " Dar " [ " Gift " ] publishing house; by Fr. Dionisy Pozdnyaev, parish priest of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul Church in Hong Kong; and by Zhang Baichun, professor of Beijing Normal University. The discussion covered various aspects of the history of Russian books in China — the events of the early period associated with the interaction of Russia and China during the Qing Dynasty, publications undertaken by the Beijing Mission, the publication of works of Russian Sinologists in China. Roundtable discussion topics touched the little explored period of publishing by the Russian emigration in Beijing, Harbin and Shanghai during the " 20- " 40 of the last century, the question of the interrelation of the cultures of China and Russia, as reflected in the literary experience of the Russian emigration in China. And systematic research of this layer of culture is an important and interesting challenge for both Chinese Russianists, and for Russian Sinologists. Topical issues of modern translations of Russian literature into Chinese, publishing trends, current directions in the development of interests of Chinese readers were discussed by roundtable participants. The discussion also touched upon the problems facing the promotion of Russian literature in China, among which the main ones are: specialists-interpreters, the need to increase the level of professionalism of literary critics, translation of Russian classics of modern literature. A separate and interesting direction of the round-table discussion was the discussion of issues of translating and publishing in China books which introduce the reader to Orthodoxy in the Chinese language. During the roundtable publications by Orthodox parish in Hong Kong were presented. Roundtable participants and book fair guests were given tens of titles of books, the publication of which is of interest to a wide range of Chinese readers, and responds to the academic demands of Chinese scholars. Orthodox.cn 8 сентября 2012 г. ... Комментарии Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Азбука веры Православная библиотека блаженный Аврелий Августин The City of God Пожертвовать Вход блаженный Аврелий Августин The City of God Источник The City of God (Book XIV) The City of God (Book XVI) Скачать epub pdf The City of God (Book XV) Having treated in the four preceding books of the origin of the two cities, the earthly and the heavenly, Augustine explains their growth and progress in the four books which follow; and, in order to do so, he explains the chief passages of the sacred history which bear upon this subject. In this fifteenth book he opens this part of his work by explaining the events recorded in Genesis from the time of Cain and Abel to the deluge. Chapter 1.– Of the Two Lines of the Human Race Which from First to Last Divide It. Of the bliss of Paradise, of Paradise itself, and of the life of our first parents there, and of their sin and punishment, many have thought much, spoken much, written much. We ourselves, too, have spoken of these things in the foregoing books, and have written either what we read in the Holy Scriptures, or what we could reasonably deduce from them. And were we to enter into a more detailed investigation of these matters, an endless number of endless questions would arise, which would involve us in a larger work than the present occasion admits. We cannot be expected to find room for replying to every question that may be started by unoccupied and captious men, who are ever more ready to ask questions than capable of understanding the answer. Yet I trust we have already done justice to these great and difficult questions regarding the beginning of the world, or of the soul, or of the human race itself. This race we have distributed into two parts, the one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God. And these we also mystically call the two cities, or the two communities of men, of which the one is predestined to reign eternally with God, and the other to suffer eternal punishment with the devil. This, however, is their end, and of it we are to speak afterwards. At present, as we have said enough about their origin, whether among the angels, whose numbers we knownot, or in the two first human beings, it seems suitable to attempt an account of their career, from the time when our two first parents began to propagate the race until all human generation shall cease. For this whole time or world-age, in which the dying give place and those who are born succeed, is the career of these two cities concerning which we treat. |
| St. Ambrose censured judges who issued the death penalty, St. Basil excommunicated soldiers who killed in battle, and St. John Chrysostom demanded that the political establishment redistribute its wealth on behalf of impoverished laborers and refugees who had no legal standing. Not only do these issues remain with us today, these interventions bear witness to the fact that the saints did not jettison their moral convictions for the sake of political expediency or predetermined alliances. It was during St. Ambrose " s tenure as bishop that the emperor Theodosius first declared Christianity the official religion of the empire. Theodosius was also responsible for orchestrating the Second Ecumenical Council. But neither endeavor did anything to deter St. Ambrose from repeatedly condemning the emperor for behavior and policies that contravened the Gospel. The political, social, and economic setting of Orthodox Christian history is certainly different than our contemporary context. And, of course, we face a great number of political and social questions for which there is no unambiguous answer from Christian thought or practice. But there are some important lessons from the Orthodox Christian experience that would benefit all American Christians who hope to be active in the public arena. Most importantly, we learn that the engagement in politics should be motivated by a concern for the public good for its own sake. We also learn that the most significant Christian thinkers were those who maintained their moral credibility rather than strike deals with the politically powerful. A politics that entails moral self-contradiction may be expedient, but it can never reflect a genuine Christian politics. TheHuffingtonPost.com 11 января 2016 г. Рейтинг: 7 Голосов: 1 Оценка: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Подпишитесь на рассылку Православие.Ru Рассылка выходит два раза в неделю: Смотри также Комментарии David Sanders 15 ноября 2016, 21:00 Life begins at conception just as the Church teaches. Although the political right supports the death penalty, the left not only supports abortion but abortion as a means of birth control. This women " s " right " should be up until the baby is born is the equivalent of murder. At least in the death penalty the accused as a trial and several years of appeals before the sentence is carried out. The number of those who are executed are few. Those who have been murdered in the womb number in the millions. I oppose the death penalty but I think I " ll stick with the political right that by the evidence alone values human life more dearly than the left. |
| Speech by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate " s Department of External Church Relations at the OSCE high-level meeting " Preventing and Responding to Hate Incidents and Crimes against Christians "/Православие.Ru Speech by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate " s Department of External Church Relations at the OSCE high-level meeting " Preventing and Responding to Hate Incidents and Crimes against Christians " Mr. Chairman, dear participants in the meeting! The Russian Orthodox Church considers it to be an important and timely initiative of Lithuania, the current chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), to hold a special meeting dedicated to the position of Christians in the OSCE region. We value highly also the endeavours of the Holy See, which has taken an active part in organizing the event. We believe that the time has come to discuss openly the violation of the rights of Christians and respond to this challenge through our common efforts. For decades now the encroachment upon of the rights of religious minorities has been widely discussed on the European continent. Yet, practice shows that the position of the majority, which is comprised of traditional Christians in almost all the OSCE participating states, is far from being the best guarantee of their rights. The most convincing example of this was the way the European Court of Human Rights conducted the Lautsi v. Italy case on the question of the presence of crucifixes in Italy " s schools. The resolution of this problem in favour of Christians was possible thanks only to the united efforts of a whole number of countries that spoke out against the Court " s original decision. Among the countries united in support of Christian identity in Europe were Russia, Armenia, Bulgaria, Greece, Lithuania, Malta, and others. This was an unprecedented for our times fact of multilateral cooperation on the grounds of common Christian values. |
| В.В. Ремезов The purpose of a christian’s life and the ways of his feat according to the letters of st. Theophan the Recluse to the laity Аннотация. Статья посвящена вопросу цели жизни христианина и путей его подвига. Данный вопрос успешно раскрывает один из наиболее значимых представителей христианского наследия – святитель Феофан Затворник Вышенский . Делает он это в своих письмах к разным мирским лицам, среди которых большинство составляют его духовные чада. Эту проблему, без сомнения, можно отнести к одной из самых важных в жизни любого православного христианина. Среди адресатов святителя встречаются как мирские, так и духовные лица. Епископ Феофан в полной мере раскрывает обозначенные проблемные вопросы духовной жизни. Путь раскрытия – четкое и ясное разграничение целей, методов и средств достижения заявленных вопросов. Святитель делает анализ причинно-следственных связей действий православного христианина в земной жизни. В конце каждого своего доказательства епископ Феофан старается делать небольшой вывод. Безусловно, святитель, как ревностный пастырь и верный сын Православной Церкви, обращается к тексту Священного Писания , а также к своему личному духовному опыту. В статье приведены выводы исследователей, обращавшихся к наследию святителя Феофана касаемо практических вопросов жизни православного христианина. Abstract. The article is devoted to the question of the purpose of a Christian’s life and the ways of his feat. This question is successfully solved by one of the most significant representatives of the Christian heritage – St. Theophan the Recluse of Vyshensky. He does this in his letters to various lay people, among whom the majority are his spiritual children. This problem, without a doubt, can be attributed to one of the most important in the life of any Orthodox Christian. Among the addressees of the saint there are both lay and spiritual persons. Bishop Theophan fully reveals the identified problematic issues of spiritual life. The way of disclosure is a clear and clear delineation of the goals, methods and means of achieving the stated issues. The saint makes an analysis of the causeand-effect relationships of the actions of an Orthodox Christian in earthly life. At the end of each of his proofs, Bishop Theophan tries to draw a small conclusion. Of course, the saint, as a zealous pastor and faithful son of the Orthodox Church, refers to the text of the Holy Scripture, and also, to his personal spiritual experience. The article presents the conclusions of researchers who turned to the legacy of St. Theophan with regard to practical issues of the life of an Orthodox Christian. |
| In this vein, Fr. Dmitry Smirnov, chairman of the Patriarchal Commission for Family and Protection of Motherhood and Childhood, noting IVF’s low success rate, terms it “absolutely unacceptable,” in that spare embryos are created and destroyed. He also speaks against surrogacy as “an affront to the human dignity of the hired mother,” and against the practice of donating sperm: “Marriage is a mystery of the two, in which there is no place for a third party.” In this point, Fr. Dimitry follows the Holy Synod’s 2000 document “The Basis of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church,” which states , The Church cannot regard as morally justified the ways to childbirth disagreeable with the design of the Creator of life. If a husband or a wife is sterile and the therapeutic and surgical methods of infertility treatment do not help the spouses, they should humbly accept childlessness as a special calling in life. In these cases, pastoral counsel should consider the adoption of a child by the spouses’ mutual consent. Among the admissible means of medical aid may be an artificial insemination by the husband’s germ cells, since it does not violate the integrity of the marital union and does not differ basically from the natural conception and takes place in the context of marital relations. However, the document goes on to state, “Manipulations involved in the donation of germ cells do violate the integrity of a person and the unique nature of marital relations by allowing of a third party to interfere… The use of donor material undermines the foundations of family relationships, since it presupposes that a child has, in addition to the “social” parents, the so-called biological ones” (XII.4). “In the end, every person, caught in some situation, is faced with the question of what is moral or immoral,” Met. Hilarion concluded. 22 мая 2017 г. Оценка: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 скрыть способы оплаты скрыть способы оплаты Смотри также Комментарии Подпишитесь на рассылку Православие.Ru |
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