This is such a great article. The only problem is that the author talks about how Orthodoxy continues to thrive and doesn't even mention Russia, where there...
... JRS: Ironically, many of the customs of the Russian Church may have looked more outwardly "Latin" before Patriarch Nikon, than after. For example, the...
Yes, he should be deposed for such action but EP Bartholomew and Pope Benedict did not concelebrate the Divine Liturgy at the Phanar. The Pope attended the...
Interesting film is being released today 5 Feb 2008: Monastery: Mr Vig and the Nun Synopsis: Wills are tested, and lives are changed forever in this...
An Orthodox friend told me she read an article--long ago--that wearing black is not a traditional Orthodox custom and was an import from Italy via Greece and...
I realize that the ROCOR Parish directory was maintained by St. John of Kronsdadt Press, which left our jurisdiction after the reunification on May 17, 2007....
... JRS: By "wearing black", I assume you mean wearing black *vestments* (as opposed to black cassocks, or simply black clothes in general!). At any rate, in...
Thnaks father. Actually I meant wearing balck for 40 days, for a year or even the rest of your life. This was the import which came from the west and was not...
Perhaps either Fr. Matthew Williams or Fr. John Whiteford may know. Fr. John is on this list, obviously, but I don't know Fr. Matthew's email. I have not heard...
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... JRS: Today, it's hardly practiced in the West, either....
My brothers and sisters in Christ, I'd liek to ask a favor for those of you who know church Slavonic. I've been hearing a what sounds to me like a prayer that...
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Dear Randy, What you are hearing is the Priest's exclamation before the Lord's prayer. "I spodobi nas Vladiko..." In English it's: "And vouchsafe, O Master,...
... The priest's exclamation before the Lord's Prayer at Divine Liturgy in Slavonic reads: "I spodobi nas, Vladyko, so derznoveniem neosuzhdenno smeti...
I thought women only had to cover their heads when praying... Is that not the case? Article: 07 February 2008 Interfax-Religion The Yekaterinburg archbishop...
I was wondering if anyone here knows where the Kursk Ikon is, and where it will be in the near future. I last heard it was in Europe, but I was hoping to find...
Up until at least WWII (if not later), most women AND men didn't leave the house without their heads covered in the US. ... -- Christopher Shashkin Columbia...
thank you Father Alexander. Now i woudl liek to know what's the ending of the prayer after ot lukavago. i don't know Slavonic much, but I'd love to learn it....
Randy Tijerina
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The Kursk-Root Icon has pretty much been "home" at the Synodal Cathedral since just before its Festal Celebration of Dec. 9/10, with a few trips to parishes...
And, I remember when I was younger, at least through the ‘50’s and maybe even later, there were still plenty of women’s hats (women still wore hats) that...
... [ml] Oh, yeah, I *loved* those veils!! Dimitra, life has been crazy since the year began, but I *will* write when I get a chance to sit down and think...
Although the hat styles of Americans is interesting I think this is somewhat off topic; what interests me is whether there is any Orthodox belief that women...
All you have to do is look at the icons of the Mother of God and the women saints and you will notice that at one time Christian women dress pretty much as the...
... JRS: The difference is that men are supposed to take their hats *off* on entering a church, whereas women wear them to church as religious attire. There...
... A gentleman always did (and does even now -- watch any military man) remove his hat indoors and tips his hat in the presence of a lady. A lady *never* was...
... *off* on entering a church, ... men (including boys) ... years. ... But aren't ties an american thing? I recall reading St. John of San Francisco saying...
