November 14, 2009 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
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March 2, 2009 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
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January 27, 2009 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
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if you’ll permit me, I’ll start off by saying that an Orthodox Patriarch is not normally a “little Pope” whose word is law among those whose Patriarch he is.
October 24, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
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The other day Cuba’s first Russian Orthodox Cathedral was consecrated by a high-level bishop from Russia. It was built in Old Havana largely by the Cuban government itself, beginning in 2004.
Earlier this year the government gave the Greek Orthodox Metropolis covering Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and nearby parts of South America, a large old building [...]
October 12, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
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This weekend 9 Primates and 5 other Bishop-representatives of Orthodoxy’s 14 universally-recognized Autocephalous Churches convened a “synaxis” in Istanbul chaired by the First Among Equals, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople BARTHOLOMEW. Their end-of-summit communique, released just today, is worth reading in its entirety. In particular, Section 13(ii) declares
our desire for the swift healing of every canonical anomaly [...]
October 9, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
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Every time I made it to Divine Liturgy while he was with my parish, or just about,* the priest who Chrismated me, preceded Communion with a collective reminder about the o/Orthodox understanding of the Mysteries (sacraments) as special encounters with God’s Uncreated Energies. I can’t remember it verbatim, but he said Communion is like a fire that risks [...]
September 30, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
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If the CBS Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson hasn’t aired in your market yet, or if you have access to the West Coast feed, Melina Kanakaredes (there to plug CSI) spends her whole 7 minutes explaining to Craig about Orthodoxy and how she was part of the delegation that met with the Pope of [...]
June 25, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
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The homepage of St. Paul’s now reports that although the Theotokos has stopped weeping, St. Nicholas has started, so they’re continuing twice-a-day Paraklesis with hymns to him also.
Recall that the original instances in 1960 were also in quick succession, as they mention.
This icon of “St. Nick” demonstrates the Orthodox experience that even store-bought print-icons (mounted [...]
