http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/rss.xml English Orthodox Christianity en-gb Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:08:00 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 21 November 2011 a meeting of the First Hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Churches of Georgia, Poland, the Czech Lands and Slovakia, together with Representatives of three other Local Churches, took place at the Patriarch’s Palace in the Moscow Kremlin. His Holiness Patriarch Kyrill of Moscow and all the Russias chaired the meeting ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/communiq.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/communiq.htm Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:17:00 GMT 17 May 2012 marks the fifth anniversary of the reconciliation of the Moscow-based part of the worldwide Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church Inside Russia, and the New York-based part, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR). Various measures will be taken to commemorate this event and to iron out misunderstandings which have occasionally occurred between the two parts ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/beyondmay.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/beyondmay.htm Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT In recent years doubts have been expressed about the need for the continued existence of the New York-based Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) as one of the self-governing parts of the Russian Orthodox Church. For instance, some say: ‘In the past ROCOR had a reason to exist, but in today’s post-Soviet world, there is no reason for its continued existence, it is time to ‘integrate’’. ‘Why continue a separate existence when the Moscow-based part of the Russian Orthodox Church is now free and also has many dependent parishes outside Russia for new emigrants, sometimes even in the same geographical area as ROCOR’? Before we look at the answer to this question, we must leave aside two huge practical considerations ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/need4rocor.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/need4rocor.htm Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:05:00 GMT The two parts of the Russian Orthodox Church, the one inside Russia and the other outside Russia, are now beginning to know one another and so move together, both having to overcome off-centre attitudes and lack of understanding, born of mutual isolation. For example, for those inside Russia, some outside Russia may sometimes seem rather paranoid and out of touch, as a result of émigré suspicion and distrust. But that is only natural given the events after 1945, when many émigrés returned to Russia and were at once betrayed and bitterly disillusioned. Events of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, when the secular authorities governing the Church inside Russia forced its captive representatives to embark on lamentable compromises, ecumenism and adventures abroad, placing charlatans in its seats of power, only reinforced the distrust. As a result of this history, the authorities of the Church inside Russia sometimes still have to prove that they are worthy of trust, overcoming certain ‘komsomol attitudes’ of Soviet conditioning. But then many outside Russia also have to learn to trust, accepting change, reality and the march of history ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/rochurch.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/rochurch.htm Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:00:00 GMT I have been asked to give an impression of Moscow. I can think of no better way than that of relating my conversations with three taxi-drivers http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/3conversations.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/3conversations.htm Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:50:00 GMT The crisis in the Eurozone that has been dragging on for some six months now, is not yet over. The paralysis of the EU is clear to all. China, quite naturally, like Germany, quite naturally, has refused to bail out the bankrupt Eurozone. Now a key architect of the whole disaster, the Social Democrat Jacques Delors, former President of the European Commission, has admitted what we all said at the time, that the Eurozone was flawed from the beginning and that ‘a fault in execution’ had doomed the euro to its present crisis. Moreover, as he added, the efforts to tackle its problems have so far been ‘too little too late’ ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/new_europe.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/new_europe.htm Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:00:00 GMT As the European Union stumbles from crisis to crisis, it is ever clearer that it is not led by several nations, or even by France and Germany, but by Germany alone, as an economic Fourth Reich. Germany now uses France (or rather its political elite) as a Vichy regime to intimidate peripheral countries like Great Britain, not to mention Sweden, Ireland, Portugal and Greece, or for that matter Italy and Spain ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/aachen2berlin.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/aachen2berlin.htm Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:00:00 GMT For generations the British Conservative Party has largely been dominated by the unprincipled. We only have to think of recent figures like Chamberlain, Halifax, Heath and Major. It has mostly been the Party of mammon, money and monetarism, of conformism to the tide of lucre; not often have principles or patriotism come to the fore ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/kingdoms.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/kingdoms.htm Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:55:00 GMT Recent concelebrations between the Metropolitans of ROCOR and the OCA have surprised some. It seems surprising to us that some should be surprised: both Metropolitans are hierarchs of the Orthodox Church, therefore they are free to concelebrate. Nevertheless, it is worthwhile considering the three areas which cause some to be surprised ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/ocarocor.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/ocarocor.htm Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:05:00 GMT On a visit to the Saint Petersburg Theological Academy on 2 November 2011, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokalamsk spoke of preparations for the Inter-Orthodox Council (the so-called ‘Pan-Orthodox Council’). He said quite clearly that if this Council does actually take place – and he and Archbishop Mark of Germany and Great Britain are the key Russian Orthodox representatives at pre-Conciliar talks – it will not be some kind of ‘Council of Antichrist’. This, he said, is what is being asserted by certain extreme propaganda which is trying to scare Orthodox ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/8thcouncil.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/8thcouncil.htm Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:00:00 GMT Twenty years ago Communism fell and the Soviet Union collapsed. After this momentous event, the new Russian Federation became a sort of Wild East. The kleptocrats of the ex-Communist Party – and the Soviet Union had been a kleptocracy from the outset; it had long been led by the former bank robber and bandit Stalin – then began to pocket whole industries for a few roubles. Their crime of massive theft was dubbed ‘privatisation’. Thus were born the oligarchs as, overnight, ‘Communists’ became ‘Capitalists’ ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/trinityrus.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/trinityrus.htm Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:50:00 GMT It has fallen to our lot to be born into an incredibly decadent period of history, when nations slaughter one another. Believers do not do this, for hearts of faith do not kill others. However, this decadence, and this word means ‘fall’, is precisely a loss of faith, caused solely by the illusions brought on by material benefits, and it has spread everywhere. The Orthodox world, as the only one which has faithfully adhered to the Christian Creed and so kept the integrity of the Faith, was naturally the first to undergo this attack of decadence from the evil one. Much later have come attacks on the less threatening Protestant/Roman Catholic world, which lost its wholeness nearly a millennium ago ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/forest.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/forest.htm Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:45:00 GMT I have read somewhere that you wrote that all isms are secular. But surely you adhere to old calendarism and traditionalism? Also in French, and I know that you know French, the word for Christianity is christianisme. How do you explain this? ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/questions2011.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/questions2011.htm Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:08:00 GMT This book was kindly sent to me by an Orthodox in Germany who wanted an Orthodox response to its thesis. This thesis by implication is anti-Orthodox since it states that no other civilisation, including the Orthodox Christian one, can in any way compete with or generally stand comparison with Western civilisation. Since the lady in Germany was interested in my response, which makes Western people question their age-old conditioning or rather ‘manipulation’, we have thought to publish it here in a more formal version ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/civilizationw.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/civilizationw.htm Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:20:00 GMT The glorification is to take place on Saturday 4 February and Sunday 5 February 2012 on the feast of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Lands. This is the patronal feast of the Cathedral in Munich. Alexander (Schmorell) was martyred and will be glorified locally among the Holy New Martyrs ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/antinazi.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/antinazi.htm Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:45:00 GMT