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[Orthodoxy Today]

Ancient greeks about today’s democratic Russia

Vadim Venediktov

Today we are used to the fact that we have some democracy in our country. From TV screens and in different mass media well-known social and political observers tell us that Russia is a democratic state. Certainly, an authority and source for such kind of remarks and judgments is the last version of the Constitution of the Russian Federation (Article 1, 1), which says: “The Russian Federation – Russia is a democratic federative constitutional state with the republican form of government”.

[Church History]

Final documents: Message of the Bishops’ Council to the Honorable Monastics and All the Faithful of the Russian Orthodox Church

The Sacred Council of the Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, which took place at the Church of Christ the Saviour in Moscow and St. Sergius’s Laura of the Holy Trinity from October 3 to 8, 2004, addresses the Plenitude of our Church with the words of the Apostle: ’Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord’ (2 Pet. 1:2).

[Orthodoxy Today]

Moscow Patriarchate hopes that an iconostasis built five years ago will be permitted to enter into the PRC

The Moscow Patriarchate hopes that the visit by the Russia’s president to the PRC (People’s Republic of China) will facilitate in China finally giving entry to an iconostasis and church articles for a temple built five years ago.

[Church History]

The decision of the Holy Archpastors Council of the Russian Orthodox Church concerning the internal issues of the Russian Orthodox Church

The Holy Archpastors Council thanks the Lord for the continuing and all-embracing revival of church life in the canonical territory of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Council regards with satisfaction the general tendency to the development of all aspects of diocese and parish life.

[Orthodoxy Today]

"Сhild is raised by your heart"

Father George Romanenko is the prior of a church in the village of Borisovo in Moscow region. He is also a well-known children’s psychiatrist. We have met him to discuss the problems of children’s mentality.

[Church History]

Symbolism of the Orthodox monastery in "The walk of Agapius to paradise"

Yuri Klitsenko

The story about the walk of Agapius to paradise belong the apocalyptical genre of visions, miraculous ascensions to heaven and journeys to the other world. The main topic of the apocrypha is graceful tie of the Orthodox monastery with the shrines of Palestine and the Garden of Eden.

[Church History]

Metropolitan Laurus: Both Parts of the Russian Church are Preparedfor Frank and Constructive Dialog: Interfax

On the eve of his first official visit to Russia, scheduled to begin on May 14, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, Metropolitan Laurus, granted an exclusive interview to Interfax.

[Orthodoxy Today]

The recent spat between the Phanar and the Church of Greece

Kathimerini, English edition

Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios has chosen to pour more oil on the flames of the recent spat between the Phanar and the Church of Greece. The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians appears to be heading for conflict with the Greek government, unless it plays into his hands. Vartholomaios’s stand raises questions over the solidity of his judgment and his intentions, which appear, at least in part, to have politically expedient objectives.

[Theology]

Why Orthodoxy is the true faith

Alexey Osipov

Today all of us are in such a situation that by no way it is possible to separate ourselves from the world. What is the true faith? We live in the world of religious pluralism. We face so many missionaries, each of whom offers his ideals, his life standards, his religious views that the previous or my generation would not envy you for this.

[Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

On the Love of Enemies: the Teaching of St. Silouan

Jean-Claude Larchet

Although it is natural and usual to love those who love us and to do good to those who do good to us, to love our enemies is distasteful to our nature. One can say that it isn’t in our power but is an attitude that can only be the fruit of grace, given by the Holy Spirit. This is why St. Silouan the Athonite writes, "The soul that has not known the Holy Spirit does not understand how one can love one’s enemies, and does not accept it."

[Orthodoxy Today]

Revolutions and diabolism

Vladimir Neviarovich

According to St. Seraphim of Sarov, devil was the first revolutionary, who rebelled against God. That is why all revolutions are adverse to Christianity and have a diabolic origin. An accurate and unbiased analysis of Russian revolutions in the 20th century shows they were no exception of this rule being apparently of diabolic nature.

[Orthodoxy Today]

Saint women of the Orthodox Church and Islam

Yuri Maximov

In the early 18th century in the Oman Empire in the provincial town of Prusse there lived a beautiful Greek girl called Argery. She was brought up by pious parents and in her youth years she met her love – a kind Greek youth. They got married in the church and their honeymoon was happy. But, their Turkish neighbour was inflamed with lust towards Argery and tried with his sweet words to talk her into committing adultery in the absence of her husband. The pious wife declined his encroachments. Then the embittered Turk slandered her before the judge of Prusse by telling that she had promised to become Moslem. ...

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