Deacon Jan Veselak
Rating: 9|Votes: 1
"Behold how good it is for brothers to dwell as one" (Psalms 133:1). Unity and one-mindedness (edinomisliye) are important aspects of the Christian life. St Paul tells us repeatedly that the Church is the Body of Christ (Colossians 1:18). As parts of this body we must work together. This implies, then, that we are interconnected (to use a popular term).
Anna Prokrovskaya
Rarely does a documentary film about Medieval history evoke such heated discussion and growing polemic in society as did the film, The Fall of an Empire—the Lesson of Byzantium, the latest work by Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), the Superior of Moscow’s Sretensky Monastery.
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
No recent documentary film can boast of such a response among Russian viewers as the film by Archimandrite Tikhon, The Fall of an Empire—The Lesson of Byzantium. Some learned much that they did not know before, and drew conclusions from the history of Byzantium for their own lives. Some cast doubt upon Fr. Tikhon’s right to “teach” from the screen. But nearly no one who watched the “Lesson...” yawned and looked off to the side.
The decision of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Church Abroad on the election of His Eminence Archbishop Hilarion of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand as her First Hierarch, Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, is confirmed by His Holiness the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
An exlusive documentary archive of destroyed and vandalized churches and monasteries in Kosovo
