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[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

"We Always Prayed For the Unity of Our Church." An Interview with Metropolitan Hilarion

Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral), Svetlana Vysotskaya, Alexander Frolov

Thank God, our unity was established long ago. One can say that it happened even before the signing of the Act. The Russian people who live abroad mostly awaited unification, and prayed for it. And it was finally manifested in the form of the canonical act, because there remained no other obstacles—neither dogmatic nor historic—connected with the tragic events in the history of our country. I can state with confidence that our unity is secure.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Around the World]

A 21st-Century Confessor. His Eminence Jovan, Archbishop of Ohrid And Metropolitan Of Skopje: A Prisoner For The Faith

"The argument that each nation, only because it is different from another nation, should have an autocephalous Church is unsupported. At the same time, the argument is unsupported which says that a mature local Church cannot be self-governed only because it does not have a different nationality from one that already has autocephaly. National affiliation cannot and must not be the only criterion for independence. The Church measures according to the criterion of maturity in love and service, and according to pastoral needs, and not according to those who ask for autocephaly on the basis of the separateness of the nation and the state."

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Archpriest Mitrofan Znosko-Borovsky on the Consecration of the Dormition Cburch in Casablanca, January 1958

We thank the Lord that, this far from our Homeland, He yet gives us strength to reject any “foreign gods,” to preserve our recognition and vibrant understanding that without standing firm in the Orthodox Church, the Russian person is nothing, and his life becomes a toy in the hands of the “ancient slayer of man,” or, at best, he becomes empty, and, wandering off into political or social activity, becomes as a “tinkling cymbal,” that is, he becomes nothing but noise.

[English Edition / Education]

An On-Line Church Slavonic Study Tool: the Orthodox Electronic Publishing Society

As the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the “Days of Slavic Culture”, which yearly begins on the feast of Sts. Cyril and Methodius (May 11/24), Pravoslavie.ru/OrthoChristian.com would like to note a useful website created as an aide to anyone interested in learning more about the Church Slavonic language. This language has liturgically united Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian, and other Slavic Orthodox peoples for many centuries. Many modern converts to Orthodoxy also attend churches that use this liturgical language.

[English Edition / Church History]

Lessons from Byzantium

Michael Austin

The Byzantine Empire’s long run — 1,100 years — may seem remote from the 21st century, but a reading of its history offers at least three timeless lessons.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Around the World]

Epistle of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to the Archpastors, Pastors, Deacons, Monastics and the Faithful Flock of the Russian Orthodox Church on the Fifth Anniversary of the Signing of the Act of Canonical Communion between the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill

By Divine Mercy, the situation in our country changed fundamentally. Orthodox Christians took this as a gift from above. The Russian Orthodox Church obtained full freedom, including in the area of church-state relations. Division was painful for the entire Church, a sorrow for the whole people. This is no exaggeration; one needs only remember the attention paid by society as our reconciliation began.

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

The Life of Holy Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitsky), Archbishop of Verey

Metropolitan John (Snychev) of St. Petersburg and Ladoga (†1995)

One of the most eminent figures of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 1920s was Archbishop Hilarion of Verey, an outstanding theologian and extremely talented individual. Throughout his life he burned with great love for the Church of Christ, right up to his martyric death for her sake. His literary works are distinguished by their strictly ecclesiastical content and his tireless struggle against scholasticism, specifically Latinism, which had been influencing the Russian Church from the time of Metropolitan Peter Moghila [of Kiev].

[English Edition / Church History]

Holy Week and Pascha in Jerusalem

Monk Parthenius

For the Christians the greatest feast days and festival were approaching. The time of joy and sorrow was approaching. We rejoiced because of this, that we would receive the new grace of the heavenly Fire, and celebrate the most radiant festival of Holy Pascha in the Holy City of Jerusalem. Yet we grieved in heart that the time was coming for everyone to part.

[English Edition / Church History]

Orthodox Ireland

Vladimir de Beer

It is generally believed that St Patrick brought the Christian Faith to Ireland, his traditional title being Apostle of the Irish. Without wishing to diminish St Patrick’s importance in any way, it is relevant to point out that in 431 St Palladius was sent to Ireland by St Celestine I Pope of Rome, as the first bishop of the Emerald Isle, with the task of administering the sacraments ‘to the Irish who professed Christ’. There must therefore have been numbers of Christians in Ireland by the time St Patrick arrived in the following year.

[English Edition / Church History]

The last 10 Coptic orthodox Popes

Zeinab El Gundy

Kidnappings, abdications, conflicts; a short history of the last ten patriarchs of the Coptic Orthodox Church

[English Edition / Church History]

Why are the Dead Commemorated on Saturdays?

Hieromonk Job (Gumerov)

The Saturdays of commemorations of the dead are called ancestral Saturdays (the first universal commemoration on Meat Fare Saturday, the second, third, and fourth Saturdays of Great Lent, Trinity Saturday, and St. Demetrius Saturday). Why do these take place specifically on Saturdays? What are the historical roots of this tradition? They were not all instituted at the same time.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Church's Prayer for the Dead

Since throughout the Great Fast such commemorations as are performed at every other time during the year do not occur during the celebration of the Presanctified Liturgy, it is the accepted practice in our Orthodox Church to commemorate the departed on these three Saturdays, that the dead be not deprived of the Church's saving intercession. (The remaining Saturdays of the Great Fast are consecrated to special celebrations: Saturday of the first week to St. Theodore the Recruit; Saturday of the fifth week to the praise of the Theotokos; the sixth Saturday commemorates the resurrection of the Righteous Lazarus.)

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

The Untold Story of the Head of St. John the Baptist

Priest Maxim Massalitin

Unfortunately, few of the faithful have recourse to the help of such a lamp of grace as the precious head of St. John the Baptist, “the first among martyrs in grace”.[2] Many Orthodox Christians come to France, but not all of them know how many holy relics there are still on French soil despite the outrages committed against them during the French Revolution and subsequent forgetfulness of France’s Christian past.

[English Edition / Church History]

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: the Russian Revolution was prepared abroad

As Metropolitan Hilarion noted, the tragedy of the Russian pre-revolution intelligentsia lay in the fact that they were far from the people and the Church. ‘The people and the Church are an inseparable whole. The Church was the core of our people’s life.

[English Edition / Church History]

Parish Life in Moscow in the 1920s-1930s (A Parishioner's Recollections)

Andrei Kozarzhevsky

Whenever the theme of the Church’s position during the first two Soviet decades is discussed, attention is usually concentrated on the tragic side of her life; thus parish life, the life of ordinary worshippers, pastoral activity (Fr. Alexei Mechev perhaps being the only clergyman given scholarly attention), and traditions which have already become a thing of the past, unfortunately escape researchers' attention. All this is preserved in reminiscences of old parishioners, whose number is naturally and inexorably depleting.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

What has the Constantinople Synod Accomplished?

Deacon Giorgi Maximov

Metropolitan Amvrossios of Kalavryta and Aighialeia writes, “We are particularly shocked by the fact that the Constantinople Patriarchate has thus left poor Fr. Ephraim, their own man, to his fate, and does not allow others to sympathize with his calamity either. That is, he denies the members of the universal Orthodox community, which includes the Russians, the opportunity to apply the Gospel words… to rejoice with them that rejoice, and weep with them that weep (cf. Rom. 12:15).

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

The Church of New Martyrs

Olga Vasilieva

The year of the "Great Purge" and the following year 1938 were the hardest for the clergy and laymen—200 000 repressed and 100 000 executed. Each second priest was shot. But the Orthodox Church put up a strong resistance to the totalitarian regime. And if it comes to glorifying all Russian martyrs of the 20th century, the Russian Orthodox Church will become the Church of the Russian New Martyrs.

[English Edition / Church History]

The “Possessors” and “Non-Possessors”: to Have, or Not to Have?

Nun Cornelia (Rees)

The late fifteenth, early sixteenth centuries saw a conflict arise in Russia that had some parallels to events and movements in Western Christianity of the time. As the Spanish Inquisition was in full swing against insincere converts to Christianity, and the dissolution of monastery property had already successfully killed Catholic monasticism in some northern European countries, the existential question of “to have or not to have” was reaching like an aftershock the comparatively sheltered religious life of Orthodox Russia.

[English Edition / Church History]

A Worthy Renewal of Historical Memory

Anton Leontiev, Pavel Illarionov

Currently in Russia a movement has ensued to acquaint people there with the ascetical labors of their brothers in the faith. It is entitled, “From Nativity to Resurrection”, and includes representatives from Orthodox Churches and organizations of Greece, Cyprus, Russia, and the Greek diaspora of Kazakhstan—places where the memory of those who suffered for their faith under Ottoman rule is kept alive.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

The Holy Wells of Wales

Howard Huws

The Lord made Wales a hilly land facing the prevailing Atlantic winds, thus blessing it with abundant rain and fresh waters. Our country is equally saturated with a rich inheritance of Christian belief and practice, so one should not be surprised to learn that holy wells are numerous and prominent features of the geographical and spiritual landscape. Even a strict definition of the term “holy well” allows there to be several hundred here, and diligent research is bringing even more to light once dismissed as objects of superstition, they are now the subject of increasing interest.

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