Orthodoxy is a Way of Life

A talk with Marilyn Swezey, the secretary of Bishop Basil (Rodzianko)

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Orthodoxy Today

Rating: 9.5|Votes: 11

Orthodoxy is a Way of Life

A talk with Marilyn Swezey, the secretary of Bishop Basil (Rodzianko)

My interviewee has had an extremely interesting and unusual life for an American woman. Charming, intelligent, she looks some 15 years younger than she really is. And behind her there is a long life full of the hard labors of a noble, self-sacrificing person who seeks to see Divine providence in every turn of her life. Here she is: secretary of Bishop Basil (Vasily) Rodzianko, assistant to Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen), an expert in the Russian literature and arts, honorable parishioner of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Marilyn Pfeifer Swezey.

The Travelling Hand: A 17th century royal martyr, Portuguese friars, a ruined Augustine church and a search that stretched on for over 25 years

Srinath Perur

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Church History

The Travelling Hand: A 17th century royal martyr, Portuguese friars, a ruined Augustine church and a search that stretched on for over 25 years

Srinath Perur

The queen’s post-mortem travels may not be finished yet. Talks are on between the governments of India and Georgia, and who knows, it may not be long before Queen Ketevan’s travelling hand finally reaches home, 400 years after she left for Shiraz.

Ramblings Of An Orthodox Hospice Shepherd

Alexandr Cvejkus

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Church History

Rating: 10|Votes: 1

Ramblings Of An Orthodox Hospice Shepherd

Alexandr Cvejkus

I awoke today with the remembrance of Archimandrite Cyprian in my head. For those who are unfamiliar with the name, Archimandrite Cyprian was the world famous iconographer of Jordanville.

On the Revival of the Veneration of Local Western Saints in the Orthodox Church

Answers to Questions in Recent Correspondence

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Rating: 9|Votes: 5

On the Revival of the Veneration of Local Western Saints in the Orthodox Church

Answers to Questions in Recent Correspondence

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

The other question that I asked myself was why there were no longer any saints, no new saints, only these ancient ones. The source of holiness had clearly dried up. No-one was interested in holiness any more. We now lived in a different Civilization, with different values, alien to me. Why?

Defending the Synodikon

Fr. Lawrence Farley

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Rating: 8.2|Votes: 5

Defending the Synodikon

Fr. Lawrence Farley

The point of the Synodikonis to draw very thick lines in the doctrinal sand and say that if anybody in the Church crosses those lines and strays into heresy, they must either recant or get out, and it is precisely this approach to truth that is necessary and saving.