Материалы 20 января 2016 г.

Джавид Афшин

В XXI веке мы столкнулись с проблемами, корни которых в конце века XVI-го. Уния – тогдашняя модель Европейского единства – за четыре столетия не потеряла своего негативного заряда.

Что такое диктатура свободы? Чем опасен постмодернизм? Можно ли ускользнуть из-под пресса либерализма? Как отличить реальную угрозу от «теории заговора»?

Почему так важно постоянно читать Священное Писание? Как правильно заниматься изучением Библии? Как приучить к чтению слова Божия детей?

Чему учит история Марвина Химейера – обиженного сварщика, больше года строившего машину мести, с помощью которой он превратил в развалины полгорода?

Древнесаксонская поэма IX века «Гелианд» (Спаситель) посвящена жизни Христа и основана на латинском переводе Диатессарона.

19 января 2016 года, в праздник Крещения Господня, Святейший Патриарх Московский и всея Руси Кирилл совершил Литургию в Богоявленском кафедральном соборе г. Москвы. После чтения Евангелия Предстоятель Русской Церкви обратился к верующим с проповедью.

В дни Рождественских Святок, 8 января, на второй день праздника Рождества Христова, я встретился с родственниками приснопамятного и приснопоминаемого митрополита Питирима (Нечаева): с его племянницей, Еленой Николаевной, и внучатой племянницей, Анастасией Юрьевной. Мы беседовали в стенах дома, который неоднократно посещал сам Владыка Питирим.

Как-то однажды, в студеную зимнюю пору, а было тогда вечером уже хорошо за тридцать градусов мороза, я шел по улице Чернышевского и случайно заметил, что со стороны черного хода кафе лежал человек. Видимо, бедолага дошел в этом же кафе до кондиции, и его попросту вышвырнули оттуда. Он был вполне прилично одет, в руке даже был телефон. Сколько он лежал, было не ясно, но, к счастью, еще дышал.

Nations come and go. Though individuals have immortal souls, governments are not in any sense whatsoever immortal. America had a beginning point and will most certainly have an ending point some day. Contrary to the popular sentiments of many of the early American settlers, North America never was and never will be a "Promised Land" akin to what God promised Israel. America is just one among many nations in the world, a mixture of good and bad, a nation that is susceptible to the same temptations as any other nation.

A new Marist Poll released Tuesday finds that an overwhelming majority of Americans support implementing tougher restrictions for abortions, including more than six out of 10 pro-choice individuals who favor banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

St. Elijah's Monastery stood as a place of worship for 1,400 years, including most recently for U.S. troops. In earlier millennia, generations of monks tucked candles in the niches, prayed in the chapel, worshipped at the altar.

The Synaxis will deal with matters related to preparation for the Holy and Great Council, which has been decided to convene this year. His Eminence Geron Archbishop Demetrios of America will be a member of the Delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

"Today, the entire group will take part in the Epiphany blessing of the waters because for a person wearing army shoulder boards, especially not on Russian soil, faith is not an idle word. The feast of the Baptism of Christ has always been celebrated very warmly," Chaplain Fr. Ilya said.

The bombing was part of a Turkish attempt to invade Iraq and hunt down Kurdish rebels. The Kurdish rebels have been fighting with Turkey for more than 40 years. They want to create an independent Kurdish state.

The St. Nicholas Cathedral is one of the main sights of Nice and one of the most popular historic monuments of Cote d’Azur.

As many as 89,000 people participated in the Epiphany bathing in Moscow.

As of now, it has been frozen at the stage of a working 8-meter model which was planned to be enlarged afterwards.

Today’s tensions between Russia and the West have breathed new life into old caricatures that many thought had died with the Cold War. It would be ironic if in 2016 Russia’s only officially sanctioned leadership cult turned out to be one of peaceful nonresistance.

Christianity is not hostile to science. Christianity was a parent of science and Christians continue to work in science. Christianity will not allow science to overstep her bounds and claim to be the only source of knowledge. Scientism, the notion that only science finds truth, is the enemy of Christ, but it is also the enemy of poetry, art, and mathematics!

The head of the Catholic Church is very interested in resolving the controversial issue of the canonization of Croat WW2-era Catholic cleric Alojzije Stepinac.

Temperatures as low as minus 41C did not deter Russians immersing themselves as medics stood ready to offer help.

Epiphany is one of the 12 main Christian feasts that celebrate the revelation of the Son of God as human--Jesus Christ. The occasion commemorated the baptism of Jesus Christ in the Jordan River by John the Baptist.

Agafia Lykova was discharged from hospital care in Siberia’s Kemerova region on Tuesday, but will stay there until state emergency services can airlift her home, the Russian news site Sobesednik.ru reported. Lykova was hospitalized after she notified “the mainland” of leg pain via satellite phone.

Who in America could give a similar Christmas speech to young people with this spiritual message?

His statements about resurgent Russia, particularly in the last years before his death in 2008–well into the era of Putin’s leadership–did not suit those that would rather have the country in the permanently weak state of ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ of the 1990s, so that its resources could continue being plundered by domestic oligarchs and foreigners alike, while its culture–transformed into the soft authoritarianism of neo-Liberal Postmodernity. In contrast, one of the most attractive aspects of Putin’s Russia for Solzhenitsyn was the revival that Orthodox Christianity continues to experience.

Members of the newly-established community of the “Kyiv Patriarchate” took over the church on January 17 during a service.

Ако се зна да је Наполеон прегазивши Њемен рекао за Русију: «Нека се оствари њена судбина,» да ли се може говорити о најезди тадашње Европске уније на Русију? Како год, осим Балкана, који је био под Турцима, цела остала Европа је била увучена у ову кампању.

У ноћи између понедељка и уторка руски војници у ваздухопловној бази «Хмејим» у сиријској Латакији дочекали су један од најстаријих православних празника – Богојављење, преноси Интерфакс-Религија.

Његово Преосвештенство Епископ далматински Г. Г. Фотије служио је на празник Крштења Господа Исуса Христа (19.01.2016.) Свету Архијерејску Литургију у манастиру Крки. Том приликом Епископ Фотије традиционално је извршио освећење богојављенске воде.

Крајем прошле године Издавачка кућа Сретењског манастира је објавила књигу «Нека Бог говори» — зборник беседа и писама грчких духовника. Нудимо нашим читаоцима одломак из ове књиге – чланке архимандрита Андреја (Конаноса; рођ. 1970).