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From http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/synod/engdocuments/enuk_ukaz362.html Ukase No. 362 The Resolutions of His Holiness the Patriarch [Tikhon], of the Sacred Synod and Higher Ecclesiastical Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, 20/7 November 1920...

Great! :thumbsup: The juridictional dispute is a very bad thing, like the puhalism of the schismatic HOCNA. Fr. Seraphim Rose advice and warning us of that very shamefull thing.

Dear all, Are smoking a sin? Im don't have doubts about the vice in cigarrettes or others, but in smoking sometimes a cigar and others, without be a vitiated in smoking.

For contemporary humanity for the most part has lost completely the feeling, the sense, the acceptance of truth and the ability to discern in its spiritual essence what is happening in the world. And the threatening, sorrowful prophecy of the Apostle is being accomplished concerning those who...

The heart is the center, the mid-point of man's existence. And not only in the spiritual sense, where heart isthe term for the center of one's spiritual person, one's "I"; in physical life, too, the physical heart is the chief organ and central point of the organism, being mysteriously and...

An Orthodox View of Heart Transplantations by Metropolitan Philaret The world, including most people who would identify themselves as "Christians, receives every new attainment of modern science as an undoubted blessing to be accepted as a matter of course. Orthodox Christians, however, must...

St. Basil the Great expressed this in his first canon. He explains the absence of grace in the baptism of the Cathari whom "the ancients ordered to be cleansed anew by a true Church baptism", but then writes that "inasmuch however, as it has seemed best to those in the regions of Asia for the...

Bishop John of Smolensk in his commentary on the forty-fifth Apostolic canon, as Bishop Nikodim (Milash) notes, "quite wisely observes" that the canons strive not only to protect the Orthodox from infection by an heretical spirit, but also to guard them from indifference to the faith and to the...

Strictness and Economy Resolution of the ROCA Synod of Bishops on the Reception of Converts by Protopresbyter George Grabbe In the period when heresies and schisms developed in opposition to the authority of the Church, the question arose, always with greater or lesser acuteness, as to...

RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF BISHOPS OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH ABROAD 15/28 September, 1971 On the question of the baptism of heretics who accept Orthodoxy the following resolution was passed: The Holy Church has from old believed that there can be but one true baptism, namely that...

By father: Sycilian and Syrian. By mother: Portuguese and jewish (from France)

http://www.orthodox.net/russiannm/index.html This is the best book about it. :thumbsup:

I agree with you, Repentant. :thumbsup: A few months ago, i did not believe in toll houses. But, afer this discusion, and after read citations like above, i was convinced of the existence of toll houses. I Even in the time i rejected the toll houses, i never think about one similiarity with...

St. Mark of Ephesus: "But if souls have departed this life in faith and love, while nevertheless carrying away with themselves certain faults, whether small ones over which they have not repented at all, or great ones for which – even thought they have repented over them – they did not...

Some e-mule links (open only in e-mule): ed2k://|file|russian.orthodox.church.akafist.Svyatitelyu.Nikolayu.128kbps.mp3.rar|38064523|89E83F40FC04E6A8D963E6B1D8B27543|/...

Please, read this: http://www.holytrinitymission.org/books/english/early_eucharist_w_rordorf.zip http://www.holytrinitymission.org/books/english/early_christian_liturgics.zip Vladyka Alexander, Memory Eternal!

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us...

1. THE ACT OF THE CHURCH OF CYPRUS (1815) This is the aphorism of the national New Martyr, Cyprian, Archbishop of Cyprus, who in the year 1821, during the Greco-Roman revolution against the Ottoman Turks, shed his blood in defense of the liberty of his homeland from Turkey. [From The Rudder...

Me too. Im not talking about Pope Benedict XVI or some other. Im talking about the office of the Pope and the agenda of the RCC. Im not judgind people, but im talking about methods and historycal facts.

:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: I agree. And some times, in machiavellians ways, like the Uniatism in Middle Easte and Ukraine.