Archimandrite Zacharias
Rating: 7,4|Votes: 9
It is unfortunate that there is widespread confusion, not to mention delusion, in the inexperienced, whereby the Jesus Prayer is thought to be equivalent to yoga in Buddhism, or 'transcendental meditation', and other such Eastern exotica. Any similarity, however, is mostly external, and any inner convergence does not rise beyond the natural 'anatomy' of the human soul.
Russian Greek-Orthodox Archimandrite Tikhon studied film production before entering the clergy, and when his first work as a director and narrator was released earlier this year in “The fall of an Empire – The Lesson of Byzantium” documentary, it created an uproar! The film deals with the Empire’s degradation and how it lost its “ability to respond to the calls of history.” A Greek version has already been released and an English version is underway.
Hierodeacon Ignatius (Shestakov)
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
The Holy Confessor Dositheus (Vasich), Metropolitan of Zagreb, was canonized by the Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church in May 2000, together with the other New Martyrs of Serbia. They all suffered in the middle of the twentieth century, either at the hands of the Croat Ustashi or else as a result of the Communist terror campaign.
WMV file. Duration 71:03 min. Size 168.6 Mb
Natalia Narochnitskaya, Doctor of Historical Sciences
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
The film Fall of an Empire displayed in panoramic vision the general movement of human history—what modern man does not want to look at. Unfortunately, modern man sees only the surface of this film, wishing to guard himself from the yoke of responsibility for his actions as observed under the microscope of history. Modern man prefers to see that small stitch of zigzag on which he sits, and doesn’t want to know where this winding river of history flows as a whole. The film reminds us about our foremother Byzantium, something intentionally removed not only from the soviet Russian historical awareness, but also from that of the European.