In a report at the Moscow Diocesan meeting yesterday, the head of the Russian Church urged clerics to not go beyond the particular statements of the Russian Holy Synod on the matter.
For the first time since its establishment by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church last December, ordinations specifically for the African Exarchate were celebrated over the weekend.
In this season leading up to the coming of the Prince of Peace in the flesh, His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of Washington and All America and Canada, primate of the Orthodox Church in America, has issued a statement calling on all to pray and fast for peace.
Priest Savva Gagloev
There was no shock, but it really took time to get used to the new reality, in which I providentially found myself. Sometimes I could not believe that I already lived in Cuba.
Throughout all times it has been important to find a balance between the eternal and the temporal, the spirit and the letter, the content and the form. It is a tragedy when the letter takes precedence over the spirit, and temporal interests and the current state of affairs—over universal ideals and eternal values.