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[English Edition / Church History]

Return to Byzantium

Bishop Tikhon (Zaitsev)

The largest and latest pilgrimage by Russian Christians to the holy sites of ancient Byzantium on the territory of modern Turkey has recently come to a close. A group of sixty pilgrims and clergymen from the Russian Orthodox Church visited the places so dear to the Orthodox heart, from Constantinople to Ephesus, travelling to the regions of Bithynia, Pontus, Lycia, Pamphylia, Cilicia, Cappadocia, Galatia, and Pisidia, sanctifying their path with united prayer, and Divine Services in half-ruined churches.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

“The Russian Orthodox Church—a Summary of Twenty Years: 1991–2011”—A Major Exhibition opens in Moscow

Not one country, not one civilization, not one religious group, not one Church has experienced what we have experienced—a grandiose renaissance of Orthodoxy.

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

Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council (787). The Holy Icons.

The Iconoclasts, by repudiating all representations of God, failed to take full account of the Incarnation. They fell, as so many puritans have done, into a kind of dualism. Regarding matter as a defilement, they wanted a religion freed from all contact with what is material; for they thought that what is spiritual must be non-material. But this is to betray the Incarnation, by allowing no place to Christ’s humanity, to His body; it is to forget that man’s body as well as his soul must be saved and transfigured.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

The Orthodox Church and Society: Church-State Relations in Contemporary Russia. Part II

Nun Nectaria (McLees), Igumen Phillip (Ryabykh)

Today many people reply, “No way, the only permissible system is liberal democracy, which includes every possible view.” But this approach is both right and wrong. I think all Christians agree that people should be equally protected as to their rights and their dignity as human beings, and that there should not be any force or violence. In their community and personal life, people should have the opportunity to follow their chosen religion. But there is still a problem in this approach—the tendency to relativize religion, to say, “Everyone’s way is right, it doesn’t matter what religion they are.” This grows into a sort of indifference, a belief that religious values themselves are only relative.

[English Edition / Church History]

The Orthodox Church and Society. Part I: Historic Roots of Church-State Relations

Nun Nectaria (McLees), Igumen Phillip (Ryabykh)

We know that the conversion of the Emperor Constantine was effected by his long experience of watching how the Christians of his time maintained a high level of morality and conduct. The Roman Empire at that time was in crisis, and many contemporary writers spoke of the degradation of morals–not just bad behavior, but extremely serious corruption in society and in the state bureaucracy. Constantine put Christians into key posts, because he knew their virtue.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

More and More People in Czechia and Slovakia Are Giving Preference to the Orthodox Church

Christopher, Archbishop of Prague and Metropolitan of the Czech and Slovakian lands.

The first contacts, which became the basis of the friendship between our Churches, go back to antiquity, in the tenth–eleventh centuries, when the recluse Procopius, like St. Sergius of Radonezh, founded a monastery in the forest wilderness not far from the Sázava river, which later became a large, famous monastery.

[English Edition / Church History]

Christianity in China: God Is Red

"Sometimes, devils often follow the footsteps of God to undo his work," a local Christian whispered to me, referring to the period in the 1940s when the Communists forced their way in there, and Mao Zedong's atheist ideology clashed violently with the Christian faith.

[English Edition / Church History]

The Pentarchy and the Moscow Patriarchate

Albert G. Bondach

The news that the Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople is convening a Synod of the Eastern Patriarchs on September 1, 2011, in Istanbul, with the participation of the Archbishop of Cyprus has generated contradictory assumptions concerning the forthcoming event as an attempt to reconstitute the Pentarchy. In the light of these developments, Albert Bondach believes it timely to analyze the history and possible relevance of the Pentarchy institute and to consider the place of the Moscow Patriarchate in it.

[English Edition / Church History]

To Be Free or Not to Be. Welsh Christianity at the Crossroads

Nun Nectaria (McLees), Hieromonk Deiniol

At that point I felt that the ghost of Thomas Cromwell was striding rampantly through Wales. Thomas Cromwell was Henry VIII’s henchman and operator who closed all the monasteries throughout Britain, wrecked the shrines and relics, and destroyed the altars. I thought, “Well, they are still unwilling to invoke the saints,” and was about to write a fax that evening to say words to this effect, but at the moment I was about to send this letter, another fax arrived saying that the prayer was alright. So this prayer was used and the response was used.

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

St. Irenaeus of Lyons

Commemorated August 23/September 5

When dealing with the heresies Irenaeus not only exposed and overthrew their teaching but also sought the orthodox interpretation and teaching as well. In spite of Irenaeus' interest in guarding his flock from the many heresies, his main preoccupation was the individual and his salvation. He was concerned with humankind's progress in order that he may achieve "the vision and enjoyment of God."

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Metropolitan Hilarion: There are no grounds to expect the Pan-Orthodox Council to run into surprises

Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)

I should say that there are no doctrinal differences or disagreement in canon law among the Local Orthodox Churches. All the difficulties we encounter concern political issues that can be resolved either in dialogue between the two Local Churches or on the inter-Orthodox level.

[English Edition / Church History]

Pentarchy

Archpriest Vladislav Tsypin

The theory of "Pentarchy", deprived of both canonical and historical foundations, provided consequentially false pretexts for the defense of hegemony of Grecophone Churches over the non-Greek Orthodox Churches. The tendency expressed in this theory, as strange as it might seem, turns up from time to time in the modern era.

[English Edition / Churches and Monasteries]

Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III — The Greek Orthodox Church and the Future of Jerusalem

In terms of culture and even politics, the patriarchate is very important, first of all because it gives legitimacy to the historical claims that the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the PA have over the holy places — because they both have claims from the Muslim Caliph Omar ibn al-Khattab, when the Muslims took over the city of Jerusalem from the then-Patriarch of Jerusalem Sophronius, and it is well known that they made a peace covenant known as “the Covenant of Omar.” This fundamental agreement has been the basis of all the legal transactions or legal agreements that have taken place so far between the patriarchate and the states and their respective authorities.

[English Edition / Church History]

Liturgical Languages and Living Tradition

The Mystery of Holy Language

Nun Nectaria (McLees)

“We must avoid addressing ourselves to God in a superficial casual way. For this reason Elder Sophrony goes so far as to say that the language we use in prayer must be different from the ordinary language of everyday usage. That is why he insisted that the language of the liturgy should not be translated into the contemporary spoken vernacular.”

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

Why the Apostles Peter and Paul are Called the "Chief Apostles"

Although certain Apostles are distinguished in Scripture and tradition, for example, Peter, Paul, John, James, and others, none of them were chief, or even superior in honor to the rest. But because in the Acts of the Apostles the labors of the Apostles Peter and Paul are the most told, the Church and the holy fathers, while revering the name of each of the Apostles, call these two Apostles chief. Calling these two Apostles chief in rank and labors, the Church impresses upon us that its head is Jesus Christ alone, and all the Apostles are His servants (cf. Col. 1:18).

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

The Story of the Great Standoff on the Ugra River

We have not written this in order to reproach them, but may not the fools glory in their folly, saying, "We have delivered the Russian land by our weapons", but may they give glory to God and His Most Pure Mother the Theotokos, for He has saved us; and may they reject this folly, and do battle after battle, and bravery after bravery for the sake of Orthodox Christianity against the [works of] infidels.

[English Edition / Church History]

Why Orthodox Christians Prefer the Septuagint: Part 2

We have written in a previous article (“The Neutralization of the Netherworld”) that the Septuagint translation of the Old Testament represents an ancient and authentic Hebrew tradition. Due to the fact that there were variances in the Hebrew texts, the textual tradition that the Septuagint translation presents often differs widely from the Masoretic Hebrew text of today.

[English Edition / Church History]

On The Septuagint In The New Testament

These are principle examples of why the Septuagint Old Testament is the ‘official’ Old Testament of the Orthodox Church (that and the fact that the Masoretic text didn’t even exist until 1,000 a.d.). Enjoy!

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

How is Our Stomach Connected With Our Life, or, Should the Church Slavonic Texts be Revised?

Nun Cornelia (Rees)

After the many years of work spent on the translation, Met. Sergius came out to read the Great Canon on Monday of the first week of Great Lent [in the modernized form]. "With what shall I begin to lament the cursed deeds of my life…" After the service, the people did not disperse, and stood there silently. When the future Patriarch started leaving the church, someone asked him "Your Eminence, when will they read the Canon of St. Andrew of Crete?"

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

On the Sunday of All the Saints Who Shone Forth in the Russian Land

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

Today's feast was instituted in 1918, at a time when the terrible persecution of the Church had begun in Russia. It was considered that the people under the Soviet yoke had, as never before, to turn to the saints for intercession, protection, indeed, mere survival. As we now know, the number of martyrs of the Soviet yoke probably exceeds the number of martyrs throughout the world in the first three centuries of persecution of the Orthodox Christian faith. The whole country became the battleground of good against evil, spiritually, the centre of the world.

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