Archpriest Andrew Phillips
We should in no wise think that this mutual act of unity came from us. It did not. It was and is a miracle of the saints. It came from the New Martyrs and Confessors, it came from St Tikhon of Moscow and from St John of Shanghai. It came from holy elders inside Russia and it came from holy elders in the emigration.
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No recent documentary film can boast of such a response among Russian viewers as the film by Archimandrite Tikhon, The Fall of an Empire—The Lesson of Byzantium. Some learned much that they did not know before, and drew conclusions from the history of Byzantium for their own lives. Some cast doubt upon Fr. Tikhon’s right to “teach” from the screen. But nearly no one who watched the “Lesson...” yawned and looked off to the side.
The decision of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Church Abroad on the election of His Eminence Archbishop Hilarion of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand as her First Hierarch, Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, is confirmed by His Holiness the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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WMV file. Length 71:03 min. Size 168.6 Mb
A documentary about one of the last remaining spiritual centers of Orthodox faith in Kosovo today – the monastery of High Decani. This film is also a testimony that true spiritual life is ultimate diplomacy given our innate ability to forgive, show compassion, and love one another.
