Friday, January 06, 2017

Feast of Theophany



Pravmir: St. John of Kronstadt on Prayer by Holy Hieromartyr Seraphim (Chichagov)

Father John had the greatest gift of prayer. This was his distinctive characteristic. He profoundly believed with all his heart in the grace, given ...
Pravoslavie: The Holy Name by Fr. Stephen Freeman
It is easy to say, without fear of contradiction, that no group within Christianity holds greater reverence for the name of Jesus, in word and in practice than Orthodox Christianity.

Diakonia Retreat Center Church



FB and website

Thursday, January 05, 2017

Icon of the Nativity

The Circumcision of Christ





The Incarnation
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
Probably none of you has experience of being in the street; I had it when I was a child and a youth, and it’s a very unpleasant feeling to know that you have nowhere to go and that you are totally unwanted in any of the places that shine with light, which obviously speak of warmth to you.

The Nativity of Christ in Chronology from the Creation of Man
Anatoly Vitvitsky
The goal of this article is to show the results of a calculation of the “5508 years” according to texts of the first translation of the lost original of ancient Hebrew Old Testament Books, made by the Israelite translators from the third to second centuries B.C. (the Septuagint) and preserved up to the twenty-first century in the Bible published by the Russian Bible Society in the Russian language.
Pravoslavie: The New Year: The Mystery of Time
Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann
On New Year’s Eve we feel the mystery of time more powerfully than at any other time.

Edward Feser's Book on Capital Punishment

Joseph Bessette is co-author.

COMING SOON: By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed
It seems that the editor of Pray Tell approves, by the wording of his title: Hope for Shared Communion for Married Couples

Luthernas do not constitute an Apostolic Church.

Jonathan Pageau Interview

Wednesday, January 04, 2017

CWR: Byzantine and Catholic in the Secular Northwest By Jim Graves
An interview with the Very Reverend Fr. Richard Janowicz, pastor of Nativity of the Mother of God Ukrainian Catholic Church in Springfield, Oregon, and Apostolic Administrator of the Eparchy of St. Nicholas of Chicago.

Church website and FB page

Past, Present, and Future of Orthodox Music

Using Facebook for Fedback to the Artist

To Be Published This Month

Les editions du cerf: Vers la plénitude du Christ. Louis Bouyer et l'oecuménisme de Bertrand Lesoing

Tuesday, January 03, 2017

Another anniversary.

Another occasion to ask, "What is the state of the congregation?"

What's next for the progressives?

Intercommunion: The Next Step in Theological Ambiguity? by John M. Grondelski

Theologian: Shared Communion With Protestants Would be Blasphemy and Sacrilege by Edward Pentin
Msgr. Nicola Bux reflects on the possibility this pontificate is sympathetic to Protestant theologian Jürgen Moltmann’s theory of “open Communion.”
Crisis: When God’s Authorship of Creation is Denied by Fr. Daniel Pattee, TOR

St. Silouan on Providence

Commandments

One take...