Rating: 9,3|Votes: 19
Father Thomas, a German raised as Lutheran, converted to Orthodoxy from Catholicism. He will tell us about the driving force behind his spiritual quests and the importance of dedicated insistence upon the Truth. We will also learn the answers to such questions as “Should we say in conversations with members of other denominations that their teachings are heretical?” and “What should our attitude be toward the Branch Theory?”
Seraphim Hamilton
Rating: 5,4|Votes: 10
Those who have died in Christ are “greater prophets,” and prophets are intercessors. We know they hear our prayers since they are in direct and intimate communion with the Holy Spirit. Christ knows everything—even in His glorified human mind. We participate in Christ through the Spirit, and those in deep contact with the Spirit participate in this all-knowing.
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
Christ’s Church, the Orthodox Church, walking the path of love, is always in a condition in which it can resolve one or another intra-ecclesiastical problem through peaceful means and witness the truth to the world.
Fr. Barnabas Powell
A pastor who only speaks about money is a problem, but so’s one who never does. Such avoidance implies that money is “unspiritual,” and cedes the topic to the devil. And he for one never shies from sharing his views.
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill
Rating: 4|Votes: 2
On October 24, 2015, on the feast day of the Synaxis of Optina Elders, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of the Kazan icon of the Mother of God in the St. Ambrose Stavropegal Convent, Shamordino. At the Liturgy, His Holiness presided over the consecration of Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov) as bishop of Egorevsk, Vicariate of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.