Rating: 10|Votes: 2
It would have been impossible to imagine a public conversation on icons and their veneration a quarter of a century ago in communist Romania.
Dmitry Lapa
Rating: 9.7|Votes: 12
Father John Musther, an Orthodox Englishman, serves in the Orthodox missionary parish of Sts. Bega, Mungo and Herbert in Keswick, Cumbria, North West England. His community, which is under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, is part of the ancient tradition of the Orthodox Church. The congregation is a living witness of the truth of Holy Orthodoxy to the people living nearby.
On the night of 6-7 March 2014 armed robbers broke into the premises of the Monastery of the Descent of the Holy Spirit in Gerardville, south-west of Pretoria, and shot Artemius Mangena, the caretaker.
Archpriest Andrew Phillips, Dmitry Lapa
Rating: 10|Votes: 7
It is no good us Russian Orthodox saying, “It cannot happen here.” Remember the Tower in Siloam. “Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” (Luke 13, 4-5). If we do not go to Church, at least attempt to live a Church life, the same thing will happen to us, our children and grandchildren.
Please forgive me for what will be a rather boring email, but I want you to know where we are at the end of this first year.