6/16/2014
Bishop Irenei (Steenberg)
Forgiveness, real forgiveness, is the liberation of the human heart.
What are the dangers, as well as the positive potentials, of the use of Internet technologies to further the embrace of Holy Orthodoxy in our present age?
To all pious Christians, above all I exhort you to pray. Pray to our Almighty God that He will work a miracle amongst His pious flock in Ukraine.
In this interview, His Grace Bishop Irenei (Steenberg) of London and Western Europe speaks again about the recent Bishops’ Council that elected ROCOR’s new First Hierarch, His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas, ROCOR’s relations with other jurisdictions, assistance to Ukrainian refugees, and more.
The testimony of St. Thomas is so central to Christian life because, in precisely this question, he bears witness to a truth of comfort to every generation.
From his youth he sat at the feet of two of our most notable First Hierarchs: Metropolitan Laurus and Metropolitan Hilarion, serving closely with both and, as it were, received their spirit of absolute trust in God, gentle guidance of the Church’s conciliarity, and deep love for the unique mission of the Church Abroad in the world.
Christ is born! Glorify Him!
This world has shown, in these past few months, what really governs it — and it is not wisdom or compassion, or science, or truth. It is fear.
I wish to confine myself here to one specific manner in which a wrong application of Trinitarian articulations to ecclesiological matters has deeply distorted the latter; namely, the application of Trinitarian relations to the hierarchy of ecclesial primacy amongst the churches.
Rating: 8.3|Votes: 9
The Nativity of our Saviour is the reality that grounds our profound hope as Christian people.
Rating: 9.8|Votes: 52
We are witnessing, at the present moment, a fuller realisation of the disastrous theological and ecclesiological positions outlined in the text below, which were already nascent three years ago (and indeed further back).
Rating: 8.4|Votes: 12
There is something unique, something astonishing about this text. However many times we have heard it or read it before, each time it is encountered, each time its words, together with the special melodies that we sing, with the bows, the demeanor with which we experience them—each time, they effect us in a remarkable way.
Archimandrite Irenei (Steenberg)
Rating: 6|Votes: 10
This study considers the question of 'free will' in the Christology of St Maximus, and in particular the soteriological implications of his various discussions.
Rating: 8.9|Votes: 10
All the children are doing it, and we know how hard it is to get our children to swim upstream and ignore the heathenish customs of their peers. Rather than make light of this problem, we decided to ask some Orthodox priests in the United States who have to deal with this every year what they say to their own children and other families about Halloween.
Jesse Dominick, Archimandrite Irenei (Steenberg)
Rating: 8.5|Votes: 6
While visiting Moscow during the month of June, Archimandrite Irenei (Steenberg), rector of the Sts. Cyril & Athanasius Institute for Orthodox Studies in San Francisco and an Archimandrite of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, visited Sretensky Monastery for an interview with Pravoslavie.ru. This is the second part of our interview with Father Irenei, which focuses chiefly on the state of Orthodox scholarship and sanctity.
Rating: 10|Votes: 5
While visiting Moscow during the month of June, Archimandrite Irenei (Steenberg), rector of the Sts. Cyril & Athanasius Institute for Orthodox Studies in San Francisco and an Archimandrite of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, visited Sretensky Monastery for an interview with Pravoslavie.ru. This is the first part of our interview with Father Irenei, which focuses on the nature of the human person and several of the challenges facing modern society.
Rating: 10|Votes: 3
Examining a passage from the anonymous second-century Epistle to Diognetus, Archimandrite Irenei explores the witness borne by the early Christian community and asks: does it reflect our Christian testimony today?
