Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Because the Western Patriarchate is Too Centralized

Headhunters for the Future Bishops by Sandro Magister
With twelve criteria for their selection. Proposed from Australia by Paul A. McGavin, theologian and economist

Awesome, Indeed

Awesome!

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

St. Elias Antiochian Cathedral

"This is St Elias Cathedral in Ottawa, Ontario in Canada"

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Monday, July 20, 2015

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Turn the Rest of the Department Over to Orthodoxy

Fordham University has received a generous gift to establish the Father John Meyendorff & Patterson Family Chair of Orthodox Christian Studies!

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Monday, July 20, 2015

Especially when Fordham Theology has been in the news lately for very bad reasons... Theology Chairman’s Same-Sex Wedding Begins ‘Flood’ of Challenges to Catholic Identity

Is There an Icon That is Smaller?

What a small icon! Lord, have mercy on us!

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Monday, July 20, 2015

Saint Andrew Orthodox Church, Patras, Greece

Here are some beautiful photos of Saint Andrew Orthodox Church in Patras, Greece!

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Monday, July 20, 2015

Finding God in Prayer

How do you find God in prayer?

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Saturday, July 18, 2015

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Patriarch John X to Visit SVS

Patriarch John will deliver a presentation at St. Vladimir's Seminary on ragic displacement of Middle Eastern Christians and others from their ancient homelands due to civil strife and war.

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Sunday, July 19, 2015

Hellenic College/Holy Cross Presidential Letter

Check it out here!

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Sunday, July 19, 2015

An Interview with Metropolitan Kallistos

In which he talks about Metropolitan Anthony Bloom.

Pravmir: Metropolitan Kallistos: No other Orthodox Has Had That Extent of Influence on the Popular Level
So what interested him was not systems, but persons and their meeting. Not God as a philosophical idea, not God as somehow an explanation for the order that we find in the world round us. I don’t think he spoke much about that. But about the need to meet God personally in our own lives.
Xenia Luchenko, Michael Sarni

Source: http://www.pravmir.com/metropolitan-kallistos-no-other-orthodox-has-had-that-extent-of-influence-on-the-popular-level/#ixzz3gMAGahZZ

Eastern Christian Books: Heroic and Holy Ukrainian Churchmen of the 20th Century

Eastern Christian Books: Heroic and Holy Ukrainian Churchmen of the 20th Century

Radio Notre Dame: Ecclesia Magazine

July 8, 2015

Émission du Mercredi 08 juillet 2015
10 ans après la mort de Louis Bouyer, regard sur l'actualité et la fécondité du théologien, à l'occasion d'un colloque qui lui était consacré les 10 et 11 octobre à l'Institut Catholique de Paris et aux Bernardins

10 ans après la mort de Louis Bouyer, regard sur l'actualité et la fécondité du théologien, à l'occasion d'un colloque qui lui était consacré les 10 et 11 octobre à l'Institut Catholique de Paris et aux Bernardins. Avec :

Patrick PRETOT, bénédictin, enseignant au Théologicum à l'Institut catholique de Paris et directeur de la revue La Maison-Dieu et Jean DUCHESNE, directeur administratif de l'Académie Catholique de France et exécuteur littéraire du Père Louis Bouyer.

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Friday, July 17, 2015

Bicentenary of Don Bosco's Birth

To mark the bicentenary of the birth of St John Bosco, founder of the Salesian family, Pope Francis has sent a letter to...

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Thursday, July 16, 2015

What Would Byzantine Christians Have Added?

Vatican Radio spoke to representatives of the Catholic-Pentecostal dialogue here at the Vatican.

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Friday, July 17, 2015

Beatification Next?

More on the Heroic Virtue of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptysky.

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Friday, July 17, 2015

Pope Francis received approved the decrees recognizing the heroic virtue the Servants of God, including Andrey Roman...

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Friday, July 17, 2015

Vatican publishes decrees of heroic virtues of several Servants of God.

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Friday, July 17, 2015

Thursday, July 16, 2015

What’s Changed? A Comparison of Self- and Divine-Referential Pronoun Usage in Hymns Written Pre- and Post-Vatican II by J.E. Sigler


(via Insight Scoop)

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A Rather Modern Icon?

"I got the most I ever have out of studying this Orthodox Study Bible in front of this icon. I heard that this icon is...

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Thursday, July 16, 2015

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

St. Volodomyr

NLM: St Vladimir the Great by Gregory DiPippo

In which he recounts:
The ancient Slavic chronicles record a famous episode that, when investigating which religion he and his people ought to embrace, Vladimir judged Islam altogether undesirable because of the prohibition on drinking alcohol, saying “Drinking is the joy of all Rus’. We cannot exist without that pleasure.” The envoys sent by him to visit the temples of various neighboring peoples reported that the Bulgar Muslim “bows, sits down, looks hither and thither like one possessed, and there is no happiness among them, but instead only sorrow and a dreadful stench. Their religion is not good.” Their report of the Latin Rite among the Germans was that “we beheld no glory there.” But they described the Divine Liturgy celebrated on a great feast in Constantinople in these terms: “(T)he Greeks led us to the edifices where they worship their God, and we knew not whether we were in heaven or on earth. For on earth there is no such splendor or such beauty, and we are at a loss how to describe it. We know only that God dwells there among men, and their service is fairer than the ceremonies of other nations. For we cannot forget that beauty… If the Greek faith were evil, it would not have been adopted by your grandmother Olga, who was wiser than all other men.”

Attention, Latin traditionalists: the Byzantine rite, not the Roman.