Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
How tragic today's story of the life of Christ is. A man had been paralysed for years. He had lain at a short distance from healing, but he himself had no strength to merge into the waters of ablution. And no one - no one in the course of all these years - had had compassion on him.
Fr. Touma Bitar
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
Some writers and journalists criticize the positions of church leadership toward the uprisings, demonstrations, and protests that are occurring in our Arab countries under different names. Their criticisms might be true if we looked at them in an abstract, intellectual way that did not take into account how the situation will be when after the success or failure of these movements in achieving their stated goals. Arab Christians are anxious about their future.
On a bleak Yorkshire moor, overlooking a stretch of turquoise sea, stands one of the most isolated communities in Britain. "Blink and you miss this place," says my taxi driver, Val Hutchinson, as she abruptly swerves off the main road out of Whitby and on to a long bumpy track. We drive past a stern sign: "Monastery enclosure, do not enter." Another decidedly unwelcoming sign follows: "The monastery does not receive visitors. There is no guesthouse." And another: "The monastery, churchyard and church services are closed to visitors."
Stephen Methodius Hayes
One of the most important questions that Orthodox mission faces at the beginning of the 21st century is that of evangelism and proselytism and the difference between them. Some have said that there is no difference between them. If people talk about the need for evangelism, they meet with the response, "The Orthodox Church does not proselytise", as if evangelism and proselytism were the same thing..
Christopher Tripoulas
Rating: 6,3|Votes: 3
There are few opportunities like Holy Week to gain empirical knowledge and partake in the Philokalic (love of beauty) Hellenic tradition that masterfully comes to life each year in Greek Orthodox churches and homes all over the world. The Orthodox Christian mentality is expressed in our persistent focus on the Resurrection.
