Eastern Orthodox Christianity 2.0

Excommunication, for Orthodoxy, is not expulsion from membership in the Church, merely barring from receiving Communion, usually temporarily, on account of some sin or other offense taken particularly seriously by Holy Tradition or the Canons.  This article is very informative.  In fact, when Latins discuss this kind of excommunication, they state that you’re still required to [...]

The valuable copy of the Priest’s Service Book that used to be available on the site of Sts. Peter and Paul OCA parish in Meriden, Connecticut, seems fully available via the Wayback Machine.
It’s the Russian-oriented translation (into English) by Archbishop DMITRI of Dallas and the South, including directions (rubrics), prayers, and hymns from very many [...]

…for a possible new home for this blog, to get the word out to more readers. I won’t be adding new posts here for the time being, just at WordPress, but I will still try to respond to Comments here as health permits (which has been a bit difficult since last Spring).
I wish you [...]

This site may be the next stage in the life of the blog Eastern Orthodox Christianity. I’m under the impression that WordPress blogs get read more than Blogspot/Blogger ones, so we’ll see. I’ll post only here for a while, but continue to respond to Comments over there too, and won’t import it all just yet.
Sincerely,
Leo [...]

This Washington Post feature story will become unavailable to those of us without the money to sign-up (ironically). But the quoted remark of a museum curator in Russia in favor of Russian tycoons buying-back the nation’s Orthodox Christian religious heritage, including Holy Icons, from abroad, where it had been taken, stolen, or sold after the [...]

It’s easy to forget that almsgiving is not only a good idea and helpful to the needy, but also good for the giver, a spiritual discipline, encouraging detachment from things, and a form of union with God’s Energies and activities everywhere - which may be why the Lord said, “It is more blest to give [...]