Gabe Martini
Rating: 7,6|Votes: 7
Many Christians today will associate a text-centered focus with Biblical worship, but this was true neither for the contemporary Jewish people of that era nor the early Christians. In fact, a robustly Biblical worship is one that resembles the temple cult as fulfilled in Christ, and not what one might find in contemporary Protestant or even Jewish circles.
Anastasia Rahlina, Igumen Cyprian (Parts)
Rating: 8,8|Votes: 9
Of course I prayed, and asked Great Martyr Barbara, because it was the eve of her commemoration. And the prosphora turned out fine! Sunday, at the Liturgy, Father Superior sees the prosphora and they are normal service prosphora… “Fr. Cyprian, whose prosphora are these?” “Ours, Batiushka.” “What happened to you?” “Batiushka, it’s God’s mercy.”
Hierodeacon Nikolai (Ono)
Rating: 7,8|Votes: 15
Hierodeacon Nikolai (Ono) comes from an old family of priests of the Japanese Orthodox Church. His great-great grandfather’s name—Priest John Ono—is often mentioned in the diaries of Sti. Nicholas of Japan. We talk with Fr. Nikolai about his family and Orthodox churches of Japan and Russia.
On March 9, 2014, the first Sunday of Great Lent, the feast day of the Triumph of Orthodoxy, the following message from the Primates and representatives of the Local Orthodox Churches was read from the ambo of the Cathedral of St George the Great Martyr in Phanar, Turkey:
This year, we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Eastern American Diocese by the ever-memorable Archbishop Vitaly (Maximenko) in 1934. This anniversary gives us reason to stop and assess the 80-year path that has passed before us, while making provisions for a brighter future.