Category: Blog Archive
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Glad we got that one solved
HT: The Economist
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All-Orthodox Council on the way?
Interfax reports that planning for a council of Orthodox Churches is actively underway. “We expect that preparatory process for the great and holy All-Orthodox Council of the Eastern Church will be revived,” Inter-Orthodox Secretary of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Archpriest Nikolay Balashov said on Friday. He reminded that preparations for the…
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Battle for the ‘Soul of Orthodoxy’ in the UK?
Writing for the Independent, a UK newspaper, Paul Vallely looks at a legal battle over control of an Orthodox cathedral. The power struggle, he writes, began with an influx of Russian immigrants to the United Kingdom and their clash with an assimilated, diverse Orthodox community. “Huge numbers arrived,” says one of the parishioners, Ruth Nares,…
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Prayer as education
“Young man, be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.” Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Book VI, Chapter 3 – Conversations and Exhortations of…