1/27/2020
Archpriest Vladimir Dolgikh
God’s intervention in the usual course of the laws of the universe is not only an extraordinary event—it is always “new”, and therefore science with its methods of cognition of the “old” is powerless in this case.
Certain philosophers of antiquity are sometimes referred to as “Christians before Christ”, and there are reasons for this.
The teaching of the responsibility of people for the material world, which we often forget, was very close to the holy hierarch.
If the goals of transhumanism are reduced to pragmatic formulations, they boil down to the desire for total control over matter and oneself.
Mere isolation will not work.
Here we could start a conversation about the possibility of salvation for any Christian living in the world; however, considering that it’s Great Lent, let’s take a slightly different path and turn our attention to the monastic podvig, and more precisely, to our ability to be included in it.
Since the very beginning of the emergence of the project called the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” (OCU), it was clear that in order to popularize it within the nation, a bet was lodged on nationalistic sentiment.
On January 21, 1059, the Patriarch of Constantinople Michael I Cerularius died. In the eleventh century, this wonderful man began the battle against the claims of Papal supremacy, which led to the Great Schism of the Churches in 1054. Today we will talk about these fateful events.
