Rating: 10|Votes: 2
But outside of our Orthodox Churches we are increasingly encountering a new Christianity which presents us with a new version of Christianity, a new Gospel … a Christianity without the Cross. A Pascha with no Good Friday. How pleasant this appears to the world and how much it is attracting followers.
Fr. Maximos (Constas)
Rating: 6,4|Votes: 18
We’re all drawn to beautiful things, and of course the beauty that inheres in all beautiful things is the beauty of the Divine. The ultimate beauty that exerts its magnetic pull on us is not a beautiful face, or landscape, or piece of music, but it is the beauty of the Divine which is refracted or reflected in these earthly beauties. “Philokalia” means the love of the beautiful.
Paul Gilbert
Rating: 2|Votes: 1
The church takes its name from the eponymous Ukrainian Baroque cathedral that was built in 1718-35 in place of an earlier church commissioned by St. Mitrofan of Voronezh; it was destroyed by the Soviets in the 1950s. The existing bell tower echoes the one designed for the old cathedral built by Giacomo Quarenghi.
Archpriest Alexander Shargunov
Rating: 5,5|Votes: 2
The Most Pure Virgin Mary’s answer is the joyful, prayerful concentration of all ages of Christian sanctity; the fate of every person, into which we are all called to delve. Let everyone who turns his mind and heart to the Lord always stand before this mystery, and with thankfulness witness the joy of today’s feast. The Annunciation has happened. Be it unto me according to thy word.