Devotees of the Patriarchate of Constantinople continue to harass the Albanian Orthodox Church for its support of the persecuted canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
Archpriest Gennady Shkil
So the Royal Family gave us an example, that we must always be with the Lord—no matter what may happen, no matter what circumstances we may find ourselves in. And we must always be ready to suffer not only for Christ’s sake, but also for the sake of our neighbor.
Fr. Peter Heers, Fr. John Whiteford
A discussion about the newly released book from Uncut Mountain Press, On the Reception of the Heterodox into the Orthodox Church: Patristic Consensus and Criteria with Fr. John Whiteford, rector of St. Jonah Orthodox Church (ROCOR) in Spring, TX, outside of Houston.
Archpriest John Whiteford
The book makes a compelling case for why the reception of converts by baptism should be the norm, especially in our time, and given that few non-Orthodox Christians baptize by a triple immersion.
Metropolitan Luke of Zaporozhye and Melitopol
No matter what lofty gifts a person may have been worthy of, no matter what heights of theology he has reached, no matter what ascetical labors he has performed, if all of this has not brought him to love, then all his labors were in vain.