Rating: 4.7|Votes: 37
This brilliant defense of traditional Orthodox ecclesiology by the Holy New-Martyr Archbishop Hilarion — who received a martyr's crown on December 15th, 1929 —, does not seem to be well known, probably owing to its limited publication decades ago by a small monastery press in Canada.
Rating: 5.5|Votes: 2
A new version of The Law of God by Archpriest Seraphim Slobodskoy published by the Moscow Sretensky Publishing House is now available. The book has been reviewed and recommended by Orthodox Hierarchs internationally. First published in 1957, this latest version of “The Law of God” is sure to engage readers with its exciting new contemporary layout.
Seminary prepares people for service in God’s Church and cultivates the corresponding set of qualities. It seems to me that seminary, first of all, gives a person a clear understanding of what service in the Church is, with all its positive sides, and also a proper understanding of all the difficulties. Often people entering a theological school still aren’t aware of a lot of things. Being immersed in a seminary environment, they come to understand that here one finds not only magnificent church-services and fellowship in love and oneness of mind, but also a particular set of inner trials and temptations.
Archimandrite Zacharias (Zacharou)
Rating: 8.2|Votes: 16
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.
Protopresbyter Theodore Zisis
Rating: 6|Votes: 2
It is truly dreadful the vision that Saint Anthony had regarding the presence of the heretics inside Orthodox churches. This vision illustrates and explains graphically the reasons why the Holy Fathers forbid with Synodal canons the entry of the heretics into consecrated places, their participation in services and liturgies, with common prayers and common worshipping.