I have a serbian orthodox friend who says that ROCOR is a political sect and that I should stay away from them. anyway to answer this charge sucincty? Nicholas...
I must agree with Nicholas. This is a rather polarising issue; one that leads to a great deal of argument, name-calling, and bad-feelings. Frankly, I would...
Dear List Members, Please pray for my father Simeon if you can. He had some pain in his heart and went to the hospital in the middle of the night. He is...
... to hear about ... thank-you Nicholas dear Nicholas, I see that this question is on at least two lists and no one has answered you. I have not studied at...
Nicholas, Your Serbian Orthodox friend is really going against what the Serbian Orthodox Church says. As I understand it, ROCOR and the Serbian Orthodox Church...
Dear Nicholas, Good Lent! I would just add something to the comments about the relationship between ROCOR and Serbia. Metropolitan Amphilochije of Montenegro,...
CHURCH LOSES IN WACKY HOLY WAR By DAREH GREGORIAN ... April 3, 2003 -- A Russian church has lost a bizarre legal bid to take control of its former leader's...
... JRS: It seems rather unfortunate that this had to be in a New York court. In general, ROCOR seems to lose most court cases in that State. There was the...
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dear all, my Serbian "aquaintance" responded with some more charges: he claims that ROCOR is spritually proud, pharasitical, and should have been disbanded...
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Dear Nicholas, I hope I don't offend anyone by what I am going to write, but it sounds to me like your acquaintance he has been talking to (and had been...
Dear List, Good Lent! About Metropolitan Anthony, others would probably know far more about this than I do, so by all means I hope someone else responds and...
GLORY TO JESUS CHRIST - GLORY TO HIM FOREVER Dear Elizabeth, You have written a very good post.I came to ROCOR from the OCA and have have NO problem. My ONLY...
Dear List, Good Lent! With regard to the earlier message I sent about His Eminence, Metropolitan Anthony, I discovered the following in a footnote to a homily...
Fascinating. I heard last year from my relations in England that they have been struggling with what to do about the leaderhsip -- Metr. Anthony (Bloom) is...
thank you all for the wonderful responses to my inquiries. I found a home in a local ROCOR parish and met new people who are very serious about the faith....
... One of the complaints Patriarch Alexey makes in this letter, however, is that previous calls to dialogue have gone unanswered. This seems to me to be an ...
... aggressive toward ROCOR, ... JRS: All the letter really says, though, is that the Patriarch *suggests* closer cooperation between our bishops in Western...
Fr. John R. Shaw
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... Father, bless. I am pretty sure that you will agree with most of these thoughts, my take on our position: Sure we communicate, we simply refuse to...
God bless! Hello Michael, You wrote: "Sure we communicate, we simply refuse to negotiate the faith for reconciliation's sake." I would agree if we were talking...
... This letter refers to parishes of "Russian tradition." As a sympathetic outsider, I wonder whether there are any "Western rite" parishes in ROCOR in...
By Frank Schaeffer Sunday, April 6, 2003; Page B07 A few weeks ago my wife, Genie, and I got the news that our Marine son, John, would shortly be deployed to...
We put not our hope in our weapons that they will save us, O Lord, but we entreat Thine almighty help, and having boldness in Thy power, we take up our weapons...
It may not be my place to respond to this, but I feel that I must. You are not alone and your son is not alone. My wife's mother and her sister have gone to...
... Father, bless. The posted website letters from the SYNOD have expressed our position very openly, lovingly and with unyielding clarity. Without starting a...
God bless! Hello Michael, You wrotye: "The posted website letters from the SYNOD have expressed our position very openly, lovingly and with unyielding clarity....
Just a thought: I, and others I know, have another way of looking at this possible re-unification and what amounts to a kind of eventual re-integration. As...