http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/rss.xml English Orthodox Christianity en-gb Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:47:00 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 On Trinity Sunday, known as Pentecost, Orthodox were saddened to learn that the national football teams of Greece and Russia had on the eve been playing a football match, which had been watched by millions of baptised Orthodox. Why were they not all praying in church and preparing for one of the greatest feasts of the Orthodox Year on the morrow? The event characterises the unChristian times in which we live. Nevertheless, we know that considerable minorities in both countries were praying in church. The following report gives hope for the future, the hope that the rays of light shed by small minorities will one day create majorities, as of old. ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/8rays.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/8rays.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2008 19:35:00 GMT Your Eminences, reverend fathers, dear brothers and sisters in Christ, I was originally invited here today to repeat to you the address that I made at the Fourth All-Diaspora Council in San Francisco in 2006. Although I will say again a part of what I said there, I do not wish to repeat it all. It is not only available on the Internet, but, above all, this happened two long years ago, before the great events in Moscow on Ascension Day 2007 under the leadership of our ever-memorable Metropolitan Laurus. What I would like to do is to talk about the renewed significance of our part of the One Russian Church since Ascension Day 2007. ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/vosnes.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/vosnes.htm Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:25:00 GMT The four-yearly Council of Bishops of the multinational and multilingual Russian Orthodox Church is now taking place in Moscow. It has been announced there that the Russian Orthodox Church now has 196 bishops, 30,544 clergy and 769 monasteries and convents. The number of churches is increasing by five per day, between 1,500 and 2,000 per year, and is now nearly 31,000, the same as the number of clergy. ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/churchunity.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/churchunity.htm Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:35:00 GMT The following presents part of the research dated 14 June 2008 as made by Barbara Drezhlo, an Orthodox commentator in the USA. It indicates that for numbers of visitors we have overtaken the official ROCOR site and are now coming close to the number of visitors of the Antiochian site in North America, which represents some 200 parishes and have about half as many visitors as the OCA, which has over 600 parishes. All we can say is a big thank you to our webmaster, David Davies! ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/oestats.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/oestats.htm Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:30:00 GMT On 24 June Fr Vsevolod Chaplin (born 1968), Deputy Head of the Department of External Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, again recalled the position on ecumenism of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, which since the Year 2000 has gradually been adopted by the rest of the Russian Church. How heartening it is to hear almost the very words that we used to say over thirty years ago from the lips of a senior official in Moscow today. He stated: ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/rocorviews.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/rocorviews.htm Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:30:00 GMT The 2008 Bishops’ Council in Moscow has ended, as it began, with calls to Unity within the multinational and multilingual Russian Orthodox Church. This is especially relevant on the fringes of Russian Church territory, outside the political borders of the Russian Federation and its 104 nationalities. For Church Unity is under secular, political and nationalist threat in the Ukraine, in Estonia, in Moldova and elsewhere. However, other issues were also discussed by the bishops. ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/ninthoc.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/ninthoc.htm Thu, 04 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT Already deeply divided on the issue of homosexuality, which it will have to face up to at the forthcoming Lambeth Council, the Church of England now faces division on the question of women bishops. The division takes the usual secular forms of liberalism and conservatism. ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/acrisis.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/acrisis.htm Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:40:00 GMT The Patriarchate of Moscow considers that the present Russian government should condemn the old Communist regime, not only in words, but also in deeds. Just days before the Russian Orthodox world commemorates the ninetieth anniversary of the martyrdom of the Imperial Family on 17 July, this was the appeal made today, 9 July 2008, by Fr George Riabykh and reported in the Russian media. He spoke as Head of the Church and Society Secretariat of the Department of External Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church. Interviewed, he called for the condemnation of Communism, already begun in the 1990s, to be taken to its logical conclusion. http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/communism.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/communism.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:40:00 GMT Faced by spiralling food and fuel prices and a property crisis, in the last few months the mood of the Western world has turned sour. In heavily-indebted Western countries, especially in the USA and many countries in Western Europe, the property bubble, financed by huge debts, has, just as predicted, burst. Just as it has burst on all the other occasions in the recent and distant past, when the gullible public, manipulated by advertising and government irresponsibility (‘deregulation’) borrowed so much money from greedy and corrupt banks that it could never be paid back. The US economy is shuddering, as two of its largest mortgage corporations, which underpin five trillion dollars of home finance, face possible meltdown. http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/world_crisis.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/world_crisis.htm Sun, 13 July 2008 18:10:00 GMT Tsar Nicholas II was a model for the politicians of his time, and in my view he can serve as a model for contemporary politicians. He had the desire to influence the world in such a way that there would be peace on earth and harmony, so that arms could be cut back to a reasonable level…Brought up in the Orthodox faith, his soul exemplified such moral values as conscientiousness, love for our neighbours and the desire to find agreement. He hoped that he could influence others to bring about the ideals of unity, brotherhood and mutual respect, including respect between politicians, between statesmen, between peoples and between states. When we study his activities as a ruler, we see him as a man who based his rule upon the Christian values that his parents had taught him. He tried to spread these values among all the heads of state with whom he associated. ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/1918.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/1918.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:40:00 GMT In His earthly life Christ was opposed by three groups among the Jews, the Saducees, the Scribes and the Pharisees. The Saducees were the Conformists, the elite, the aristocrats of the day, who were not too bothered what they believed, as long as they had their practical comforts and so were happy to co-operate with the Roman occupiers. The Scribes were the Intellectuals, the literate and educated class of the day, forever debating details, but always missing the main point. The Pharisees were the Sectarians, the superior and hypocritical ritualists, who separated themselves from ordinary believers, convinced that only they observed the true faith, which they reduced to the complex but external and ritual observations of the Jewish Law. ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/behindme.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/behindme.htm Mon, 21 July 2008 11:00:00 GMT In the darkness of the early hours of Thursday 17 July some 35,000 people took part in a religious procession in Ekaterinburg. This was the 90th anniversary of the murder of the Imperial Family. According to the Diocese of Ekaterinburg, the procession was preceded by an all-night vigil at the Memorial Church of the Saviour on the Blood, which is built on the precise spot where Tsar Nicholas II and his family were martyred. There was not enough room in the church for all of the worshippers, many knelt in the street and the area directly in front of the church was filled with a vast throng. ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/july17.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/july17.htm Mon, 21 July 2008 11:00:00 GMT Russophobia used as a weapon against the Church has a long history. Notably, it has been used for centuries by the Vatican, for example in sending the Teutonic Knights to destroy the Orthodox Church or in founding the Uniat heresy in the late sixteenth century. In the nineteenth century Cardinal Sibour of Paris, launched the Crimean War against Russia as ‘a Crusade against the anti-filioquists’. At the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century the Austro-Hungarian Empire used it to invent the Galician nationalist myth of ‘the Ukraine’ in Little Russia and Carpatho-Russia. ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/rusphobe.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/rusphobe.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:57:00 GMT Russia today called to mind the events of 17 July 1918 - 90 years ago - when the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their children were executed. The country still remains deeply divided about the Communist period. Will Lenin’s tomb be moved? ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/romanovs.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/romanovs.htm Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:10:00 GMT Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the great Russian writer, comparable only to Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, has passed on. ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/asmem.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/asmem.htm Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:47:00 GMT