tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18955546027620521292024-03-13T05:46:00.513-07:00Traditional Orthodoxy in AmericaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger173125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-56696695674197523242012-12-28T07:33:00.001-07:002012-12-28T07:33:10.536-07:00Orthodox Answer To a Question About head coverings, veil, 1 Cor 11:2-16 - Answer #1103Orthodox Answer To a Question About head coverings, veil, 1 Cor 11:2-16 - Answer #1103
My Orthodox Study Bible is silent on the text contained in I Cor 11:2-16 and the thorny question of head covering. Can you help?
ANSWER:This text is indeed perceived as a "hot potato," (which may explain the absence of commentary on it) but it is actually quite straightforward: the universe is by nature Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-2401164900772212252012-10-07T13:38:00.004-07:002012-10-07T13:38:59.982-07:00Archpriest Pimen Simon on Mission
We Orthodox Christians, probably because of our own sin of pride,
often make comments that, very often, let’s say in Roman Catholic
Churches now, and even Protestant Churches, they’ve become more social
agencies than repositories of salvation. And we really need to
understand, of course, that the first goal of the Universal Church and
also of the parish church is to save souls. That’s Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-59109385373294970672012-10-02T04:44:00.001-07:002012-10-02T04:44:37.030-07:00"Liturgics"One of the textbooks we use in liturgics class at seminary is Archbishop Averky's "Liturgics". Archbishop Averky of Blessed Memory taught Litugics at Holy Trinity Seminary. His lecture notes are some of great value to those who would like to know more about the Typicon and or serve according to the Russian Ustav.
+Metropolitan Laurus had this to say about the notes that were compiled. "We Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-60900838823147610692012-09-15T10:09:00.000-07:002012-09-15T10:22:07.834-07:00TOWARDS REAL ORTHODOXY That good thing which was committed unto thee, keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us. 2 Timothy 1, 14 Foreword Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodoxy, Greek Orthodoxy, Russian Orthodoxy, Romanian Orthodoxy: whatever name it is given, it is surrounded by ignorance, myths, inventions and fantasies. Perhaps the greatest ofUnknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-45920192827330112042012-09-07T04:55:00.001-07:002012-09-07T04:55:11.568-07:00The Orthodox Approach to Mission || PRP SpecialUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-10517809262662082032012-09-03T07:40:00.001-07:002012-09-03T07:40:46.334-07:00How to Keep the Church TypiconHow to Keep the Church Typicon
The Question of Uniformity in the Church Services Discussed at the Council of Hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (1951)by St. John (Maximovitch)The divine services and rites of the Orthodox Church, having as their foundation one typicon and preserving commonality in all that is substantially important, are extremely different one from another in Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-44102080377895861282012-08-28T15:27:00.002-07:002012-08-28T15:28:56.292-07:00When No Priest is Available: Reading the Service Books While Traveling or at HomeWhen No Priest is Available: Reading the Service Books While Traveling or at Homeby Archpriest Sergei ShukinNote: The article that follows is over fifteen years old. You will want to check out Fr. John Whiteford's Liturgical Texts and Resources Site for more recommendations on current liturgical materials available in English. Nevertheless, this article is still timely due to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-11046794671756020382012-08-27T13:41:00.001-07:002012-08-27T13:41:23.246-07:00Fort Ross CelebrationDIOCESE OF WESTERN AMERICA: August 27, 2012
Metropolitan Hilarion and Metropolitan Ilarion Lead Anniversary Celebrations at Fort Ross, CAOn August 25, 2012, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, His Eminence Metropolitan Ilarion of Volokolamsk, President of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department of External Church Relations, andUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-52134689389011445182012-08-27T10:40:00.001-07:002012-08-27T10:40:35.735-07:00John of Damascus, on the DormitionJohn of Damascus, on the Dormition
This day the Ark of the living God even the holy and living Ark, wherein once its own Maker had been held, is borne to its resting place in that Temple of the Lord which is not made with hands. Her ancestor David leapeth before it. And in company with him the Angels dance, the Archangels sing aloud, the Virtues ascribe glory, the Principalities shout for joy,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-13509829744687794512011-07-27T16:10:00.001-07:002011-07-27T16:13:47.999-07:00The Temptation from the Right: The Spiritual Root of Schism
In recent times we have seen several examples of tiny groups of zealots, who have split away from various Local Orthodox Churches, Greek, Romanian, Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian and others. Their schisms have occurred on the self-justifying pretext that their participants alone have the pure Orthodox Faith and alone adhere to the canons. We have also seen, almostUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-721164033849113892011-07-04T21:28:00.002-07:002011-07-04T21:28:50.496-07:00New Blog SiteI have started a new blog site to journal my experiences at seminary. My post to this blog will be quite limited.
http://stots-journal.blogspot.com/Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-41820289188785311462011-06-30T17:59:00.003-07:002011-07-04T08:29:30.158-07:00St. Tikhon's Seminary - Our New JourneyThis is one of the more personal posting that I have ever made here. Since enrolling in the Orthodox Pastoral School (which I highly recommend for those looking for an online theological education) I have largely neglected this blog. This neglect will likely only continue as I start my seminary education this fall at St. Tikhon's Theological Seminary.
I found out this news out only last week Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-78257574429742086032011-04-25T06:17:00.001-07:002011-04-25T06:18:42.957-07:00The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia - Official Website
The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia - Official Website: "NEW YORK: April 22, 2011
Paschal Epistle of Metropolitan HILARION of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia
I greet you, fellow archpastors, and dear in Christ fathers, brothers, and sisters, with the luminous, universal, and eternal triumph of Holy Pascha. Along with you, IUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-55592942995641310732011-04-05T18:44:00.000-07:002011-04-05T18:44:05.512-07:00On Attendance Declining in Russian Churches in the West : A Russian Orthodox Church WebsiteOn Attendance Declining in Russian Churches in the West : A Russian Orthodox Church Website: "Why is Attendance Declining in Russian Churches in the West?Archpriest Serafim Gan Mar 23rd, 2011Archpriest Serafim GanThere are, of course, many reasons.The old emigration was more ideological: it was concerned with the instruction and upbringing of future generations in the spirit of Orthodoxy, with Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-59155071037324096582011-04-05T18:40:00.000-07:002011-04-05T18:40:27.555-07:00"Let My Prayer Arise" Bortniansky duetUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-51375150773910582852010-10-12T20:44:00.000-07:002010-10-12T20:44:33.588-07:00WHY CHRISTIANITY SHOULD NOT CHANGE WITH THE TIMES
Saint Theophan the Recluse
It reached my ears that, as it seems, you consider my sermons very strict and believe that today no one should think this way, no one should be living this way and therefore, no one should be teaching this way. “Times have changed!”
How glad I was to hear this. This means that you listen carefully to what I say, and not only do you listen, but you areUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-21328629389835388212010-09-21T08:59:00.000-07:002010-09-21T08:59:39.607-07:00DISCOURSE ON THE NATIVITY OF THE MOST HOLY MOTHER OF GODof Sainted Andrew, ArchBishop of Crete
The present feastday is for us the beginning of feastdays. Serving as boundary limit to the law and to foretypes, it at the same time serves as a doorway to grace and truth. "For Christ is the end of the law" (Rom. 10: 4), Who, having freed us from the writing, doth raise us to spirit. Here is the end (to the law): in that the Lawgiver, having made Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-51744527640074647462010-09-18T08:35:00.001-07:002010-09-18T08:43:13.426-07:00Interview with Abbot Seraphim (Voepel)Holy Cross Monastery in West Virginia has become one of the most rapidly growing monastic communities in the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad. Media Office correspondents spent a week living amongst the monastics in order to gain a better understanding of the daily life of monks. Reader Peter Lukianov met with the deputy abbot of the monastery, Abbot Seraphim (Voepel), for an interview on the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-42490465010128108852010-09-17T08:25:00.000-07:002010-09-17T08:25:26.598-07:00A Convenient ExcuseThe assumption that every offense could cause violence insults Muslims.
Is Michael Bloomberg to blame for the deaths of the 18 Muslim men in Indian-controlled Kashmir who rioted over reports that someone in America burned the Koran?
Let’s think it through.
As I explained at length in an earlier column, I believe that the New York City mayor could have stopped the Park51 (“Ground Zero mosque”)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-9604129018859880952010-09-16T07:52:00.001-07:002010-09-16T07:54:25.316-07:00Holy New Hieromartyr Maxim SandovichTHE PERSECUTION AND DEATH OF
FR. MAXIM SANDOVICH
A 2Oth Century Carpatho-Russian Martyr for Orthodoxy
The Orthodox movement in Carpatho-Russia had deep roots and causes. The infamous union with Rome did not originate with the masses of the common people, but had been imposed through the machinations of the urban merchant class and a small minority of the clergy who greatly desired the same Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-28060287235928462372010-09-10T10:33:00.000-07:002010-09-10T10:33:49.389-07:00The Monk Moses Murin the BlackCommemorated on August 28
The Monk Moses Murin the Black lived during the IV Century in Egypt. He was an Ethiopian, and he was black of skin and therefore called "Murin" (meaning "like an Ethiopian"). In his youth he was the slave of an important man, but after he committed a murder, his master banished him, and he joined in with a band of robbers. Because of his mean streak and great physical Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-63160314843505779292010-08-25T20:30:00.000-07:002010-08-25T20:30:17.364-07:00From St. Tikhon's Will.Sainted Tikhon of Zadonsk, Bishop of VoronezhCommemorated on August 13 (O.S.)
Glory be to God for everything! Glory be to God for having created me to His image and likeness. Glory be to God for having redeemed me, the fallen. Glory be to God for having extended his solicitude to me, the unworthy. Glory be to God for having led me, the sinner, to repentance. Glory be to God for having offered me Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-6913522028105692082010-08-22T20:31:00.000-07:002010-08-22T20:31:47.732-07:00The Holy Martyr and Archdeacon LaurenceCommemorated on August 10 (O.S.)
Sermon by Fr. John McCuen
The holy martyr and archdeacon Laurence of Rome shows us the labors of a martyr, and the reward, both earthly and heavenly, that is paid to one who testifies to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, even at the cost of one’s life. The holy martyr Laurence was an archdeacon and servant of the Pope, St. Sixtus, and the treasurer of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-55801128382323133082010-08-16T19:46:00.000-07:002010-08-16T19:46:03.125-07:00Development of the heartDeveloping the heart means developing within it a taste for things holy, divine, and spiritual, so that when it finds itself amidst such things it would feel as though it were in its element. Finding them sweet and blessed, it would be indifferent to all else, with no taste for anything else; and even more—it would find anything else revolting. All of man's spiritual activity centers in the heartUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895554602762052129.post-69119072558989174622010-08-15T14:39:00.000-07:002010-08-15T14:39:26.729-07:00Exercises for developing the will, focusing also on awakening the spiritBy St. Theophan the Recluse
Developing the will means impressing upon it good dispositions or virtues—humility, meekness, patience, continence, submissiveness, helpfulness and so on—so that in blending with and grafting onto the will, the virtues would eventually constitute its very nature, and when something is undertaken by the will, it would be undertaken according to their inspiration and inUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0