http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/rss.xml English Orthodox Christianity en-gb Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:22:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Copyright: (C) www.orthodoxengland.org.uk 60 http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/oerss.jpg http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/hp.htm As the Vicariate of Amphipolis takes form, those interested in the Orthodox world see precisely the extent of its inevitable, self-imposed schism. At the time of writing, altogether eight priests and six deacons have left the Sourozh Docese for Amphipolis (the British branch of the Paris-based Exarchate under the Patriarchate of Constantinople) without canonical letters of dismissal. In addition to this, three priests and one deacon have directly joined the Archdiocese of Thyateira of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, also leaving Sourozh without canonical letters of dismissal. The at present fifteen tiny communities forming the Vicariate of Amphipolis, with perhaps only two properties actually owned by them and often provided with only occasional services, consist of perhaps 250 laypeople. Services are soon to be resumed in these communities after their suspension over the last two months ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/8lessons.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/8lessons.htm Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:30:00 GMT 1 What do you understand by spiritual guidance? ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/qnaire.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/qnaire.htm Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:25:00 GMT There is a well-known saying that: 'Born Orthodox have knowledge, but converts have zeal. What we need, however, is both zeal and knowledge'. There is of course truth in this, but the saying in the above form is objectionable for three important reasons ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/olzeal.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/olzeal.htm Sun, 3 Sep 2006 23:10:00 GMT O Foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/v10i1.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/v10i1.htm Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:20:00 GMT The April 2003 proposal of His Holiness Patriarch Alexis of Moscow and All Russia for an Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe, the building block for an eventual Church of Western Europe, is still sending out ripples. The ripples are positive, inasmuch as potential structures are now beginning to take shape. As long ago as 1988, in view of the Millennium of the Baptism of Russia, which was also the beginning of the 'Second Baptism of Russia', we put forward a vision of those structures that could one day come into existence (See 'A Vision for the Orthodox Churches of Western Europe' - also on this site under 'Orthodox Europe') ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/2wardom.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/2wardom.htm Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:00:00 GMT When at last comes freedom from atheist government, then there will be rejoicing and triumph at the restoration of the Russian Church...We pray to the Lord, that He will hasten the coming of that long-desired and awaited hour, when the First Hierarch of All Russia, going up to his Patriarchal place in the Cathedral of the Dormition in Moscow, will gather around him all the Russian Archpastors, come from all the Russian and foreign lands ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/profful.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/profful.htm Sat, 09 Aug 2006 12:00:00 GMT These are the words from the Gospel which is appointed to be read today and also witnesses to our present miracle. This is the miracle of the Church ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/mirrep.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/mirrep.htm Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:15:00 GMT When a fourteenth-century Orthodox Christian Emperor of Constantinople, who has lost most of his territory and people in the destruction wreaked by Muslim invaders, sees nothing good in Mohammed, we can understand his viewpoint. However, when a twenty-first century Pope of Rome quotes him, we can understand that Muslims protest at his uttering of the quotation in the contemporary context ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/popeisla.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/popeisla.htm Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:00:00 GMT Today I write what I have not wanted to write. Having visited the United States only twice and Canada never, I feel unqualified to write about Orthodoxy in North America. In other words, I am reluctant to write anything, because I know the situation in North America less well than in Western Europe. However, again and again over the last two years, I have received messages from members of many different jurisdictions asking me to write something and sending me factual information. If any suggest that I am being overly critical of one jurisdiction in particular, I would like to say that the most virulent critics of Orthodox jurisdictions in the USA seem to me to be their own members. Thus, OCA clergy seem to be the most critical of the OCA, Antiochian of the Antiochian jurisdiction, Greeks of the Greek Archdiocese and so on ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/oamerica.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/oamerica.htm Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:00:00 GMT There was a time when religion dealt with the salvation of the soul. However, today's Western world does not believe in the soul. It does not believe in, quite literally, the heart of the matter. It even believes that hearts are only physical organs, which can be transplanted from one body to another. This world is a secularized world. It has quite lost the sense of spiritual values of the Christian Tradition and discarded it as part of the dead past. This modern Western 'religion', increasingly a Universal 'religion', believes rather in the salvation of the body ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/newrelig.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/newrelig.htm Sat, 30 Sep 2006 21:45:00 GMT In the late 1960s 'Jacob Stroh', the descendant of a German Jewish family, became a well-known Communist student radical in Great Britain. Not many people know this, because his family had long before changed its name to Straw and their son was in fact called Jack (or John), not 'Jacob' ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/jstraw.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/jstraw.htm Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:10:00 GMT The holy New Martyr Ahmed was born in the seventeenth century to a Muslim family in Constantinople. By profession he was a copyist in the Great Archives. In accordance with Ottoman law, since he did not have a wife, he had a slave instead, a Russian woman. Another captive from Russia lived together with her, an old woman, also a slave. Both these women were very pious ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/resistance.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/resistance.htm Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:00:00 GMT The first eleven chapters of the first book of the Old Testament relate the pre-Abrahamic (Genesis 11, 26) history of mankind and creation. With the increase in scientific knowledge (and theory) in the nineteenth century, the Protestant world had to face ever increasing dilemmas about its understanding of these first chapters of the Book of Genesis. For example, Darwin's then new theory of evolution clashed with the literal understanding of that part of Genesis. Inevitably, a false understanding of these chapters would enter into conflict with scientific theory - all the more so if the scientific theory were also false ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/towardso.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/towardso.htm Sat, 14 Oct 2006 21:40:00 GMT Let us believers with one voice all praise him who was sent by God in these times of trial for our comfort and guidance, Paisius the wonderful, who struggled graciously and pleasingly for the Master, burning with love for the whole world and pledged his heart for us and for our salvation. And let us call out to him in thanksgiving, saying: Rejoice, Blessed Father Paisius, enlightener of the latter times! ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/akapaisius.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/akapaisius.htm Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:15:00 GMT The Orthodox Church in Bosnia-Herzegovina was called on to suffer trial and tribulation on more than one occasion during the twentieth century. First of all, there was World War One and the terror campaign of Austro-Hungarian troops and police, then the genocide during the years of the Ustashi (Croat Nazi) puppet regime in Independent Croatia between 1941 and 1945, then the terror of Tito's partisans and the Communist repression of the post-war years, and finally the bloody trials of the Civil War of 1992-1995... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/nmbosnia.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/nmbosnia.htm Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:22:00 GMT Dear RSS User, please note that owing to a server change the Orthodox England website RSS feed has changed its address - to update your feed please visit our homepage and re-seed your feed ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/hp.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/hp.htm Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:40:00 GMT