http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/rss.xml English Orthodox Christianity en-gb Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:45:00 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 Most of the West is captive, blinded by its culture. Just as a blind man cannot see the Sun, so most cannot see that 1,000 years ago Western culture had utterly different values from those today, and that outside Western culture there are other cultures with utterly different values from it. In the captivity of blindness it cannot see that all these values have many advantages over modern Western ones. All these values the West proudly dismisses as ‘primitive’, arrogantly presuming that all other cultures will one day resemble its own, which it has spread throughout the world, causing spiritual enslavement to it and blind imitation of it ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/wheresy.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/wheresy.htm Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:35:00 GMT I was born in a year of great change. It was the year when Stalin was denounced in atheist-besieged Moscow, but when the anti-Communist uprising in Hungary was still cruelly crushed. In other words, this was the beginning of the realisation that the Soviet Union was doomed. However, its actual fall would be a question of long and patient suffering. This was also the year of the Suez Invasion and the humiliation of the last Western European colonial powers, France and Great Britain, by the USA. As a result, these countries, feeling betrayed, turned to forming a Common Market and from there a European Union. Thus, much of today’s world came into being then ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/tzarname.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/tzarname.htm Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:50:00 GMT Today Russia is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the victory over Napoleon. This is not simply a national anniversary; it also has a spiritual significance, represented by the rebuilt Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in the centre of Moscow. Built in memory of those who sacrificed themselves to defeat Napoleon and his hordes, it was destroyed by Stalin, one who shared the same atheistic mentality as Napoleon, and it was rebuilt as soon as possible after the fall of Communism in Russia. The recent blasphemy there by a Western-backed group of women follows in the same atheist tracks as Napoleon and Stalin. It seems that whenever Western atheism expresses itself in Russia, this Cathedral is affected by it. Today’s Russia, where the Prime Minister Medvedev publicly asks for forgiveness from God for any errors he has made and where the famous Soviet-era actress Irina Muraviova enters a convent, compares positively to today’s Britain where the atheistic, pro-homosexual Prime Minister tells people that if they refuse to take off their neck cross at work, when asked to do so, they must consign themselves to unemployment and poverty ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/1812.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/1812.htm Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:20:00 GMT In dealing with the British media over the years I have seen the unspoken and unwritten criteria which lie behind their policies. Channel 4 for example, is anti-Church and Republican – like the Guardian newspaper. Its propaganda is particularly unsubtle. ‘The Independent’ is not independent because it is the newspaper of the liberal-secular who generally vote Liberal Democrat. It should be called ‘The Dependent’. The Daily Telegraph belongs to two multi-millionaire brothers and supports the right-wing rich who want to hold on to their money. Like the British tabloid press, it is very xenophobic. The Times, like the Sun, is part of the Murdoch Empire. And we know what that Empire is worth, since many of its journalists have now been arrested and face trial and prison. But what of the BBC? ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/atbbc.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/atbbc.htm Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:50:00 GMT ‘A weak, stupid, incompetent reactionary, who blocked progress towards a Western-style constitutional monarchy or republic. Such is the primitive Western stereotype of the much-slandered and later martyred Tsar Nicholas II, whose only real fault was probably that he was too kind. In actual fact, the above widely-repeated stereotype says very little about him, but far more about the hateful xenophobia and arrogant, hypocritical and self-justifying prejudices of those who hold it. ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/tsarn2.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/tsarn2.htm Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:35:00 GMT Probably the most slandered man in history, Emperor Nicholas II was the Peace-Maker who tried to disarm the war-making Western world through the great Peace Conference at the Hague in 1899. Had that Conference been successful, he would have prevented the First World War and the whole series of twentieth century wars from ever happening. However, he was opposed and ignored by the cynical and war-mongering and usurious, whose interest was in creating ever more murderous (‘advanced’) weapons of war and so debt ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/wounded.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/wounded.htm Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:44:00 GMT It seems incredible and unreal to those of us used to Orthodox normality. One after another, three metropolitans have been ‘sacked’. An archbishop has been arrested by the police. Another bishop has been suspended, others have ‘retired’. The words of a saint about America seem to be coming true as regards a tiny grouping with an amazing number of archbishops and also bishops. The moral and financial collapse of the forty year-old group, like that of the ever deepening disintegration of another even smaller group in France - which first became apparent during the 1980s - is proof of the corrosive influence of phyletism, that is, of nationalism, the localism which is always blind to the big picture ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/westphyl.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/westphyl.htm Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:46:00 GMT The twenty hierarchs gathering in London for the first ever Conference of all Russian Orthodox bishops with dioceses outside the canonical territory of the Russian Orthodox Church will doubtless have much to discuss on many and varied issues. However, the mere fact that this historic Conference, and it is historic, is taking place at all has produced various reactions ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/londconf.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/londconf.htm Sat, 27 Oct 2012 19:15:00 GMT The West loves to belittle Russia with any number of myths. For example: Vodka is not Russian - it is Polish. Serfdom is not Russian – it was introduced by Westernised and Western rulers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries – and abolished by Russian rulers in the nineteenth century, before the USA abolished slavery. Russian roulette is not Russian - it was invented in 1937 by an American. And as for Pussy Riot, as its very name suggests, it has simply all been just another Russophobic Western provocation ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/priot.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/priot.htm Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:55:00 GMT ‘We have lost Western Europe’. These were the words that a senior Catholic layman said to me last week as we discussed organising the arrival in England of the Czestochowa Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God and its visit to the London Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. His words are not exact, for Catholicism has lost not only Western Europe, but also North America and Australia... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/vatcou2.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/vatcou2.htm Sat, 03 Nov 2012 10:25:00 GMT ‘No less attention was paid by Metropolitan Pitirim to the challenges before Orthodoxy abroad. He was the only hierarch who not only shared, but also supported my idea about establishing bishops’ sees in Western European capitals ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/loncath.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/loncath.htm Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:50:00 GMT With the collapse, nearly a generation ago now, of the Western materialist ideology of Mordechai Marks (‘Karl Marx’) in the Russian lands, we have since begun to see the potential Restoration of Christendom over the whole Orthosphere. In other words, we are beginning to see the potential Re-emergence of the Orthodox Christian Lands, of the Orthodox world, as a Civilisational force. Once Reconstituted, this force, centred in Northern Eurasia, could influence for the good the rest of the world, both East and West, pulling it back at the last moment from its self-inflicted Armageddon. However, we stress the word ‘potential’, because that, for the moment, is all that it is. There is very far to go and the many hangovers of Soviet materialism have yet to be conquered ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/potential.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/potential.htm Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:59:00 GMT With the two key players in the Wikileaks affair virtually imprisoned, Julian Assange holed up in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London and Bradley Manning held in the USA for two years without trial, now former US Marine Patrick Downey has appealed to President Putin for political asylum. He says that he faces severe punishment in the USA because of his intention to publish material about American support for the ex-Georgian leader, the US-trained lawyer Mikhail Saakashvili, and for the 2008 Georgian invasion of South Ossetia.... ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/downey.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/downey.htm Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:25:00 GMT The Resurrection of Orthodox Russia began 21 years ago, in 1991. That Resurrection has been dramatic, with the restoration and building of over 25,000 churches and the reunion of the two parts of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Church Inside Russia and the Church Outside Russia (ROCOR). Although this Resurrection still has very far to go, the prophecies of the holy all agree that, if there is due repentance on the part of the whole people and not just a small part of it, this Resurrection will result in the restoration of the House of Romanov... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/1613.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/1613.htm Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:00:00 GMT For most of the century between 1917 and 2000 the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) was not free, but vilely persecuted, unfree to tell the truth. We do not judge those who compromised themselves during that time by telling untruths. Those who from the comfort of the West attacked the ROC then, today assert that She is still not free. In their aggressiveness, they in fact support those who attacked the Church before. In other words, the current media attacks on the Church are merely continuing the anti-spiritual, materialist ideology of the Russian Revolution, literally exported to Russia from the West ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/resrus.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/resrus.htm Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:45:00 GMT