http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/rss.xml English Orthodox Christianity en-gb Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:45:00 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 To err is human. Therefore, since we are prone to err, we should at least strive not to err again, that is, to repeat our mistakes. In order to do this, we must first recognise our mistakes with the benefit of hindsight. Only then can we hope to have the insight and foresight to learn from those mistakes and not repeat them ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/hindsite.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/hindsite.htm Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:20:00 GMT "In the Footsteps of the Forgotten English Saints" is a pilgrimage to the shrines of the early English saints that will also include visits to the most important historical and monastic sites of the early English (Anglo-Saxon) Church. Our pilgrimage offers a rare glimpse into the often misunderstood and marginalized history of the unique development of Christianity on the British Isles. During our pilgrimage we will visit many unique places, among them traditional pilgrim destinations at St. Alban's, Canterbury, and Lindisfarne, the cities of London, Winchester, York and Durham, the painted churches of the southern English counties and countless other sites and monuments scattered throughout the provinces from the English Channel to the Scottish border. We will be accompanied by Dr. Paul Cavill, Professor of Old English Literature at the University at Nottingham and author of several books on Anglo-Saxon Christianity. The cost of this two-week, largely all-inclusive religious tour is 3000 USD per person, based on double occupancy in a group of 25 people. The price might change based on the actual exchange rate or number of participants ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/convert.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/convert.htm Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:25:00 GMT The greatest Western myth, indeed the very basis of ‘the West’, is the self-delusion that man can live without God. This is the ideology of rationalist humanism. This developed in the eleventh century with the concept that the human reason is greater than God. This is based on the anti-Christian heresy of the filioque, the concept that the Power of God can proceed from human nature, which then takes the place of God on earth ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/delusion.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/delusion.htm Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:50:00 GMT The temptations of the ancient world remain as before temptations for the human race. We see how European civilisation which was once built on Christian foundations is gradually being transformed into a pagan civilisation, from which the worship of the true God is being driven out and the cult of man, the cult of consumption, is being raised up in the place of God. Life lived according to the law of instinct is becoming a value preached by that civilisation ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/westdec.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/westdec.htm Sat, 15 Jan 2010 03:05:00 GMT Conversion means change. However, if a conversion lacks faith, then the change is superficial, not deep. We have seen this over the years on a secular, political level. Thus, in France the rise of the extreme right-wing National Front Party in the 1980s was ironically mainly due to disillusionment with Communism. Most of the new support for a more or less Fascist ideology came from disappointed Communists. Psychologies which liked extremes simply exchanged one extreme for another ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/repentance.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/repentance.htm Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:20:00 GMT Dear Parishioners, The Anglo-Russian TV portal ‘Russian Hour’ (London) in association with the Diocese of Sourozh would like to invite you to take part in a TV project called ‘There IS God!’ ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/exist.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/exist.htm Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:45:00 GMT The 29 November referendum in Switzerland on whether to allow minarets to be built there or not saw a ‘no’ vote. It at once unleashed a storm of outraged and hypocritical political correctness – as well as threats by some wealthy Arabs to withdraw their money from Swiss banks. This was followed by expressions of sympathy for the Swiss decision in both France and Germany. In Germany, some even expressed a desire to outlaw Muslim cemeteries. Now that the dust is settling, what can be said of this matter from an Orthodox standpoint? ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/minarets.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/minarets.htm Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:30:00 GMT On the first anniversary of the repose of His Holiness Patriarch Alexis II, ‘who embodied…the mission of Russian Orthodoxy’, and in view of the forthcoming Synodal meeting of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow, it seems not out of place to speak here of the Diaspora ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/diaspora3.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/diaspora3.htm Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:30:00 GMT The following is a compilation of questions asked in the course of January and early February 2010 by four different correspondents, two from the USA and two from the UK, and answers to them. They are published here, in a slightly edited form, as they may perhaps be of interest to others ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/diasp.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/diasp.htm Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:35:00 GMT The Church is the Body of Christ, the God-man, Who is the Son of God Incarnate, in the world but not of the world. This paradoxical fact, the source of creative tension in the Church, is represented by two principles which have always been present and always will be present in Church life. On the one hand, there is what may be called the Prophetic or Visionary. On the other hand, there is what may be called the Pragmatic or Political ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/rocrocor.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/rocrocor.htm Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:45:00 GMT The contemporary Orthodox world presents many bright sides, but also many dark sides. Of its dark sides, it must be said that its disunity, caused above all by petty nationalism, called ‘phyletism’, is by far the most disturbing. In the recent past, its nationalism was flattered, exploited and manipulated by the powers of that age, France and Great Britain. Today its nationalism is flattered, exploited and manipulated in the same way by the successor State Unions of those powers, the EU and the US ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/united.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/united.htm Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:40:00 GMT On the evening of Saturday 13 February, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk was greeted by shouts of ‘heretic’, as he came out at the polyeleios at matins. The disturbance took place in the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God of All those who Sorrow, which is on the Ordynka in Moscow. Metropolitan Hilarion serves regularly in this church ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/heretic.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/heretic.htm Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:47:00 GMT The Orthodox Faith is summarised in the Niceo-Constantinopolitan Creed, which was drawn up in its definitive form in the fourth century (1). Based on the first-century Scriptures and other revelations of the Holy Spirit delivered to the saints since the first century, the Creed, also known as ‘the Symbol of the Faith’ (2) is guarded only by the Orthodox Churches. No others have kept the Creed intact against all the attacks of this world down the centuries.... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/neoarianism.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/neoarianism.htm Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:35:00 GMT On Tuesday 2 March President Medvedev together with his wife Svetlana venerated the Saviour’s crown of thorns, a piece of the Tree Cross and a nail from the Cross of Christ, all kept at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The holy relics were plundered from Constantinople and taken to Paris by Louis IX in 1239 (except for the piece of the True Cross, which was taken there from Rome) ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/parism.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/parism.htm Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:35:00 GMT I have always defended my view of what is happening, my thoughts about the place where I was born and lived. That is, thoughts about people who live in the Balkans, thoughts about the bridge over the River Drina, which connected and connects two civilisations, two worlds, the East and the West. The frontier between Orthodoxy, Catholicism and the West is precisely here. There has always been a lot of tragedy here, a lot of sorrow and a lot of bloodshed. Not a few wars, including the First World War broke out in the Balkans, in Sarajevo, the city of my birth ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/techidol.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/techidol.htm Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:35:00 GMT Following the open expression of disgust by a Bulgarian Metropolitan, now Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus has written to Queen Elizabeth II about the blasphemy of Elton John, who called Jesus Christ a homosexual. ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/ejohn.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/ejohn.htm Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:26:00 GMT His Holiness Patriarch Kyrill of Moscow and all the Russias has stressed the importance of spiritual dialogue between Russia and Greece in order to offer a united defence of the Orthodox foundations of their two cultures. ‘In an age of globalisation we should all look to the survival of the values and moral fibre of our (Orthodox) civilisation. In order to do so, we should strengthen co-operation among the various Orthodox countries’, he said on Tuesday at a meeting in Moscow with the debt-bound Greek Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou. The stricken Greek economy is being supported by the Russia Federation ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/schizparis.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/schizparis.htm Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:25:00 GMT It was reported by various news agencies on 11 March that the great number of sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church can be attributed to the fact that ‘the devil is working in the Vatican’. This is according to the 85 year-old priest Fr Gabriele Amorth who has been the chief exorcist of the Vatican for the last 25 years. In the past the exorcist also stated the obvious - that both Stalin and Hitler had been possessed by the Devil ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/devil.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/devil.htm Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:50:00 GMT The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) was for decades the only canonical authority for Russian Orthodox outside Russia. From 1920 its thirty-four bishops united Russian Orthodox worldwide, in the Far East, throughout the Americas and all over Europe ... http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/home.htm http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/home.htm Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:45:00 GMT