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[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Defending Old Languages: Cultures, Discourse, and Heaven

The Mystery of Holy Language

Nun Nectaria (McLees), George Alexandrou

A Christian must fight for freedom for everyone in this world, yet at the same time we must be very strict with our own tradition. This is a tight-rope, and this is what it means to be a Christian. The Moslem-Arab way, the “moderate middle,” is to be always wise and moderate, but we Orthodox can never be proud or sure of our path, because we believe that everything that is done on earth is done through the medium of sinful people.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

Don’t Judge Priests

Archimandrite Arsenie (Papocioc)

So, whether he is worthy or unworthy, the priest’s work depends on Grace, not on anything else. So don’t rush to judge him, because you’re making an enormous mistake. And here I must get back to a previous question – you should not judge anyone, not even some terrible murderer – let alone a priest!

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Coming Home to Church Greek

The Mystery of Holy Language

Nun Nectaria (McLees)

I grew up in Australia and am an English teacher myself, so I’ve thought quite a lot about Church translation. If you take, for example, the phrase, “The Lord is with us,” in Greek it is O Theos Methimon. It resonates with such grandeur that you feel as if you are offering something beautiful to God, that this language is worthy of the Lord.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

"Orthodoxy, in its endurance and faithfulness to its roots, will always manifest a certain spiritual novelty."

An Interview with Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov

Orthodoxy is not the Russian Orthodox of which St. Seraphim of Sarov spoke as of a retaining wall, but is an entity in and of itself, something that is not necessarily for everyone, but it would be good, living this Orthodoxy, to share it. These treasures will not be taken away from you if you display them, in word, and in deed, and in thought, no?

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Reaching Out In Paraguay

The greatest concentration of Ukrainian Orthodox is in the small town of Fram, in Itapua. With amazing energy and drive they have made an agricultural paradise out of this piece of jungle. Weaving their Ukrainian culture and traditions with their Orthodox Faith, they demonstrate order and discipline, and have become an exemplary town throughout Paraguay.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

An Open Letter To Orthodox Anglicans

Fr. Geoffrey Korz

The fact is, the historical reality of Christ's Church remains undivided and unchanging, waiting with quiet patience for those who would return to Her for rest, stability, the fullness of Truth and joy. How long will those who are thirsty for this continue to visit empty wells, and remain restless and unsatisfied?

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

"Missionary Work is Always Dangerous Here." An interview with Bishop Savva of Burundi and Rwanda

Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov), Zinaida Oborneva

Missionary work in this area is always dangerous. We hope in God's grace and the protection of the Mother of God. I am often in hot spots of Eastern Congo; we experience all those events, and are consoled and thank God that we have endured these trials. We have Christians there, missionary centers and parishes, which must not be abandoned.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Missionary Work Begins With Good Deeds, Respect, and Friendship

Tatiana Veselkina, Bishop Theodosius (Ivashchenko)

As a vicar bishop, I cannot avoid dealing with matters involving youth: to hold divine services and participate in Orthodox youth conferences, give lectures and lead meetings and spiritual discussions. These are all the most common types of missionary events in our diocese.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Evangelism and proselytism

Stephen Methodius Hayes

One of the most important questions that Orthodox mission faces at the beginning of the 21st century is that of evangelism and proselytism and the difference between them. Some have said that there is no difference between them. If people talk about the need for evangelism, they meet with the response, "The Orthodox Church does not proselytise", as if evangelism and proselytism were the same thing..

[English Edition / Sretensky Monastery]

Seminary as a Milestone on the Path to Salvation

Vitaly Brovko

Obviously, I made new friends in the seminary. I see them all as the best people on the planet—they are all talented, noble, good, understanding, sympathetic, and always eager to help. Their remarkable qualities are innumerable. Now as I am nearing the end of my studies, I become more and more aware of how sorely I will miss them after graduation. But it is necessary to be separated now, in order to be together again in the future life.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Theologians

Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov)

Fr. John eagerly explained. "We know three theologians in the Church. The first is St. John the Theologian, the apostle and beloved disciple of the Savior. The second is St. Gregory the Theologian. The third is St. Symeon the New Theologian. These are the only ones the Church has named "Theologian" over its entire two thousand years of existence. You, then, are the fourth?"

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

Paschal Rebirth in Optina Monastery

Hieromonk Vasily (Roslyakov)

Expectation and presentiment of joy fixes everyone’s limbs, and only their eyes look toward the holy doors. Now, quiet singing can be heard from the altar, and as if with an unbelievable effort, the curtain is pulled aside, the holy doors open, and a flood of light and sound streams out of the altar into the church, from the church into the nocturnal darkness, then spreads out commandingly over all the earth. Fr. Archimandrite and clergy proceed from the altar in gleaming festal garments that multiply the Paschal rays, and following the marked path, go forth from the church.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Archbishop Mark of Berlin and Great Britain Speaks With the Students of Sretensky Theological Seminary

When I enrolled in university, I met some Russian emigre youth my first year, wishing to deepen and broaden my knowledge of Russian and get more practice. It happened that I would attend church with them: on Saturday evenings, Sunday mornings, on holidays… I went for many years, not having been Orthodox yet. So the impulse to accept Orthodoxy arose in me, but I was afraid of the reaction of my relatives, and so I put off that decision. But at age twenty I finally became Orthodox. Some twelve years later I was tonsured a monk.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

The Inner World of Hieromonk Vasily of Optina

Heal me, Lord! Seal the flow of impurity, sin and vice. Create a clean heart in me, O God, and renew a right spirit within me (Ps. 50:10). Because of my deeds I deserve eternal torments, but the Lord secretly nourishes a hope in my soul for His mercy. Otherwise, it would be beyond my strength for me to live.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

About One Man's Christian End

Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov)

Of course our loved ones’ passing over to the next life is a sad event; but it is by no means a reason for despair. Death is not only our grief over the person leaving us. It is also a great solemnity for a Christian—passage into eternal life! We must help him in any way we can to prepare for this most important event.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

XENO – Who Is the Stranger?

Fr. John Bakas

Forty–five years after he signed the visas, Sugihara was asked why he did it. He liked to give two reasons: “They were human beings and they needed help,” he said. The other reason he gave and he was always fond of saying it, “I may have to disobey my government but I can’t disobey God.” He told the journalist interviewing him that he was an Orthodox Christian.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Many Confess, But Few Repent

Monk Moses of the Holy Mountain

Repentance is a freely-willed, internally cultivated process of contrition and sorrow for having distanced ourselves from God through sin. True repentance has nothing to do with intolerable pain, excessive sorrow and relentless guilty feelings. That would not be sincere repentance, but a secret egotism, a feeling of our “ego” being trampled on; an anger that is directed at our self, which then wreaks revenge because it is exposing itself and is put to shame—a thing that it cannot tolerate.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Atheist Richard Morgan Finds God by Following Richard Dawkins' Forum

Three years later and still going strong, one man continues to prove to atheists that his conversion was not a “temporary brain infraction.”

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Latin America: Peoples in Search of Orthodoxy

They found me, and they knocked on my door, asking me to receive them. I sent two priests to go and meet them so that we could determine who they are and if their request is serious and valid. I was stunned. It was a "group" of more than 500.000 people, with 338 churches and chapels, most of whom were natives of Guatemala - and in fact of the ancient race of Mayans!

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

The Fruits of Occult Practices

Bishop Alexander (Mileant)

Nevertheless, in spite of the fact that so many have suffered from their activities in the occult and that there are so many documented facts relating to the danger of occultism, a multitude of people continue to hold on to the myth that the occult is inoffensive charlatanism or an innocent pastime or even a positive spiritual quest. It is none of the three. The opinion that besides the "dangerous" form there exists a "benign" form of occultism is also false. Some hope that with proper precaution one can derive some benefit from the occult.

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