http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/rss.xml English Orthodox Christianity en-gb Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:17:00 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 In an interview with the foremost Russian Orthodox website, pravoslavie.ru, in Moscow on 4 May, Metropolitan Jonah, the head of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), spoke of how he came to join the Orthodox Church ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/orthorth.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/orthorth.htm Tue, 12 May 2009 18:25:00 GMT The revelations of May 2009 about systemic (‘institutionalised’) political corruption, involving the allowance and expense claims of UK Members of Parliament, should not surprise. This scandal, which involves a great many MPs paying themselves large amounts of public money, is not a legal scandal, but a moral one. The MPs are right when they claim that they ‘have not broken any rules’. They have not, because they made the rules of the feeding trough themselves. It is rather like someone who plays the game of Monopoly without any other players. Somehow, he always wins ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/uksurvive.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/uksurvive.htm Sat, 23 May 2009 19:50:00 GMT After three generations of stagnation, the movement towards visible Orthodox unity is now gathering speed. It opened with the heroic canonisation of the New Martyrs and Confessors by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) in New York in 1981. This in turn led to the Rebaptism of Russia in 1988, followed by the fall of the Berlin Wall a year later and the collapse of atheism in Eastern, though not Western, Europe ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/ascenef.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/ascenef.htm Sat, 23 May 2009 19:50:00 GMT There exists in Britain a minute political party, which calls itself the BNP – ‘the British National Party’. It receives tiny numbers of votes - except in a few deprived, urban areas where working class people have been utterly betrayed by a Labour Party corrupted by huge sums of money and power ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/bnp.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/bnp.htm Tue, 26 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT After I finished university in 1977, a close friend in Russia, Archpriest Lev Lebedev, suggested to me that I study at the Moscow Theological Academy. However, I soon discovered that as a result of the Cold War, Russia was out of bounds for study to a British passport-holder. Therefore, I decided to go and help, and also learn, in missionary work in Kenya with Andreas Tyrillides (now Archbishop Makarios of Nairobi) Unfortunately, in August 1977, Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus, the great sponsor of Orthodox missionary work in ex-Commonwealth East Africa, reposed. That possibility was also therefore ruled out ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/greekdrama.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/greekdrama.htm Wed, 27 May 2009 17:05:00 GMT От неба глаз мы отвести не смеем - И как же нам на небо не смотреть? - Отныне мы Заступника имеем, - Нам, наконец, не страшно умереть... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/ascension.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/ascension.htm Thu, 28 May 2009 18:15:00 GMT Magazine download ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/mag/oe12_4_dlp.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/mag/oe12_4_dlp.htm Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT The above was prophetic, for the Russian emigration did not ‘come home once more’. It died in exile and lies out beneath the sun and rain in graveyards from Berlin to Brazzaville, Caracas to Christchurch, Gallipoli to Galway, Harbin to Hobart, Jersey to Jerusalem, Lima to London, Lisbon to Los Angeles, Paris to Prague, Rio to Rome, Shanghai to Stockholm, Singapore to Sofia, Tokyo to Tunis, Teheran to Toronto, Warsaw to Washington, and in a multitude of great cities and small villages inbetween, scattered across the whole face of the earth, in ‘foreign towns’ so exotic that only the singer Vertinsky could have thought of them ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/ascens.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/ascens.htm Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:35:00 GMT My first conscious exposure to Orthodox culture was through Doctor Zhivago, the novel by Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), the Russian poet, writer and translator of Shakespeare. This was when I was aged nine. The story overwhelmed me with its sense of destiny. I felt deeply at home in the culture portrayed. It came to influence me deeply and in my teens I knew many of its wholly Orthodox Christian poems by heart, feeling completely at home in their ethos. Later I was able to speak of this to Pasternak’s sister, Lydia Slater, in Oxford ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/zhivago.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/zhivago.htm Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:49:00 GMT Some would say that the EU is not a concern for Orthodoxy. However, this cannot be the case, for of 500 million EU citizens, some forty-three million or nearly 9%, are nominally Orthodox ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/soveurope.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/soveurope.htm Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:03:00 GMT On the feast day of the holy Prophet Elisha, Saturday 27 June, the ROCOR Archbishop of Great Britain and Ireland, Archbishop Mark, is bringing holy relics of the Royal Martyr Elizabeth, the Grand Duchess, to England ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/releliz.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/releliz.htm Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:40:00 GMT It was yesterday confirmed that the Sourozh Diocese is indeed the owner of the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition in Ennismore Gardens, South Kensington, and of other Church properties and assets. In this way the quite unnecessary three-year long court case has been resolved in favour of the Church. Readers may recall that the challenge to the legal ownership began when a small group broke away from Russian Orthodoxy under their Bishop Basil. They wished not only to take over the Cathedral, but also other Church property and assets elsewhere ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/sourozh3.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/sourozh3.htm Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:15:00 GMT We knew André Malinin as a little boy. For years he served together in the altar with our sons at the ROCOR parish in Meudon near Paris. He came from the well-known Malinin singing family, who were related to the Kedrov dynasty. His father had been our ROCOR conductor and we learned much from him. Then André became the conductor at the Three Hierarchs church of the Moscow Patriarchate in Paris, as well as founding the Volga youth choir. We still sing the Kedrov music in Slavonic and in English. He represented that authentic and vibrant Russian Orthodox Church culture which still exists in Paris, handed down from father to son and mother to daughter ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/andrei.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/andrei.htm Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:05:00 GMT The revelations of May 2009 about systemic (‘institutionalised’) political corruption, involving the allowance and expense claims of UK Members of Parliament, should not surprise. This scandal, which involves a great many MPs paying themselves large amounts of public money, is not a legal scandal, but a moral one. The MPs are right when they claim that they ‘have not broken any rules’. They have not, because they made the rules of the feeding trough themselves. It is rather like someone who plays the game of Monopoly without any other players. Somehow, he always wins ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/uk2021.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/uk2021.htm Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:20:00 GMT In the United Kingdom there are, unfortunately, very few Orthodox of island ancestry. Although in a recent article the imaginary figure of 25,000 was mentioned, the real figure is certainly no higher than 3,000 and may well be as low as 1,000. However, being few in number does not have to mean that we have to be few in fruit. To be fruitful as Orthodox Christians, even to bear fruit ‘an hundredfold’, we have to struggle against three temptations which distract us from ‘the one thing needful’ (Lk. 10, 42). What are these distractions ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/distractions.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/distractions.htm Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:17:00 GMT On Saturday 27 June, the feast day of the holy Prophet Elisha, Archbishop Mark of Berlin, Germany and Great Britain (ROCOR) brought holy relics of the Holy Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth and nun Barbara to London. They came from their resting-place at the Gethsemane Convent in Jerusalem to the Patriarchal Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition in London. Three Orthodox hierarchs, Archbishop Mark, Bishop Elisey of Sourozh, whose namesday it was, and Archbishop Anatoly of Kerch concelebrated together with the clergy and faithful of both the Patriarchal and the ROCOR dioceses. Afterwards a moleben was concelebrated in front of the holy relics ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/torzhestvo.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/torzhestvo.htm Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:30:00 GMT