Archpriest Andrew Phillips
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The above principles may seem obvious common sense to many, but they are often overlooked, precisely because they are so obvious.
Rod Dreher
If you are a husband or a wife, then you must be so as a Christian — that is, not as a husband or a wife who happens also to be a Christian, but as a Christian husband, a Christian wife, in a Christian marriage. If you are a writer, you must be a Christian writer, even if you never write a thing about religion; the experience of living with the mind of Christ must inform everything you write. If you are an electrician, you must be a Christian electrician. No, there is not a Christian way to wire a building, but you must do the work you are called to do in the awareness that you are doing it in sight of God, and as His servant, and as part of a Christian community to which you must be accountable.
In the evening of 19 October 2015, Archpriest Sergei Garklavs, Dean Emeritus of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Chicago, guardian of the Tikvin Icon of the Mother God, died at a Chicago hospital at the age of 87. His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia sent condolences to His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of All America and Canada over the deat of Fr, Sergei. The text of the message is given below.
Benedict Sheehan
On November 9, a new recording by the Chamber Choir of St. Tikhon’s Monastery of original compositions and arrangements, entitled “Till Morn Eternal Breaks: Sacred Choral Music of Benedict Sheehan,” will go on sale from St. Tikhon’s Monastery Press. The project is the first of its kind: a recording of new Orthodox music by a professional vocal ensemble under the auspices of one of America’s best known and most venerable Orthodox institutions.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
The question for Christians is this: is the apostolic Tradition which the Church has received authoritative, or not? Have we the authority to move the ancient boundary landmark which our fathers have set?