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Paschal Services at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCc9mvT-ggE&feature=youtu.be

St. John Chrysostom says "Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls." Pick the prayers that you can really pray, and be consistent with them. That is much better for you than trying to read all of them halfheartedly and failing...

1. One generally has to attend at least some seminary training, or a similar program, such as the St. Stephen's course. 2. Deacons assist Priests and Bishops during the liturgical services (litanies, censings and the like) They should also be involved in the active ministries of the parish...

It's definitely Fr. Matthew, though if I were still there, I'd be colluding with him :)

I don't know what's worse, the fact that you keep signing into CF and Facebook at work, or the fact that the person "hacking" you is a Priest.

The greatest reason to study Slavonic is the vast amount of material in Slavonic that is not available in English opens up to you. The same with Greek.

There really is no great way to learn Slavonic on its own if you don't already speak a slavic language. There are very few materials for learning Slavonic in English. But of all the books the Best is the text written by Horace Lunt Old Church Slavonic Grammar: Horace G. Lunt: 9783110162844...

This whole debate is so funny, In all of the "Orthodox Countries" there is close to zero disagreement with the doctrine of the toll-houses. It's accepted because the consensus of the Fathers proclaims it. To disagree with them is profoundly foolish and egotistical. If there was patristic...

I doubt it. the ROCOR has had WR for decades. What's happening now is a result of the problems of the past few years. I doubt they would throw the whole thing out because of some very specific problems. However, it must be stated that The modern Eastern rite is a living rite that has developed...

The wording is not clear. It seems to me that there will still be some WR presence, but not a separate vicariate. And the preference will still be for eastern rite parishes.

I know there are many in ROCOR that really want a legit Western Rite. But there were simply no standards in that WR diocese. They can't agree on what liturgies to do, and they were kind of just leaving things up to Bishop Jerome (who was not really their Bishop, only an administrator). Seems he...

A good summary can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raskol

The situation with the Old Believers is much different. After the Nikonian reforms (led by, as you might guess, Patriarch Nikon) lots of believers in Russia thought the reforms were not needed, and some even heretical. A council in 1551 called the "Stoglav" council had condemed many of the...

There are many different groups of "Old Believers". It's more proper to call the majority of them "Old Ritualists" since, for the most part, their theology is completely Orthodox. Though in some of the more secluded groups, superstition has equal weight to actual Orthodox teachings. They are...

Having lived around him for over 6 years (literally his next door neighbor for 2) I can say that Metropolitan Tikhon is an intensely prayerful man. As well as a humble monk. He is an excellent choice for Metropolitan. His only weakness is that he is perhaps too much of a monk. He has cut off his...

There is so much conjecture here. Do you know any members of the Synod? How could you know their intentions? Almost half of the current synod were not even Bishops when Jonah was consecrated. How could they have had any expectations at all, if they were not even in that position yet? Your...

Eh, I wouldn't read too much into it. It could be as simple as "hey guys, I'm not cut out for this, so I want to resign" "Ok, we all agree, please write us a formal letter". That's the way things work in Church governance. Dn. Nikolai

Let me be clear that I was referring to using it as a contraceptive. If you need it for hormonal purposes, obviously that is different. Also, might as well mention to the OP that the ideal for all Orthodox couples is to refrain from using contraception completely, if that is possible.

What's so hard about what you said is that your beliefs on this subject are contradictory. Re-reading a contradictory statement over won't make it stop contradicting. I will even venture to say that Montalban understands you completely, but your belief is simply nonsense.

It is both. It's main purpose is to stop fertilization before it happens. But should it fail in that regard, it makes the uterine wall hostile to the newly fertilized egg. Meaning that if it's used, one never knows if they've had an abortion or not. Combine that with the horrible hormonal...