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- Mon 29 April 2024 11:08 pm
- Forum: Synaxarion Orthodoxia
- Topic: Elder MichaelII ofValaam&Pskov
- Replies: 2
- Views: 42
Re: Elder MichaelII ofValaam&Pskov
"In the Soviet era Valaam Monastery was for many years under the jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church of Finland, which introduced the new calendar and planned other Church reforms. The monks who refused to accept the reforms were severely punished. The “Old Calendarists” defended the old Julia...
- Mon 29 April 2024 10:46 pm
- Forum: Monasteries and the Monastic Life
- Topic: Struggle on Valaam 1923-39
- Replies: 7
- Views: 186
Re: Struggle on Valaam 1923-39
See the new thread in Orthodox Synaxarion forum for the text of the Orthodox America story linked to above.
- Mon 29 April 2024 10:38 pm
- Forum: Synaxarion Orthodoxia
- Topic: Elder MichaelII ofValaam&Pskov
- Replies: 2
- Views: 42
Re: Elder MichaelII ofValaam&Pskov
https://pravoslavie.ru/sas/image/103073/307322.p.jpg?mtime=1545659373 "In Pskov, Elder Michael continued to serve Liturgy daily. as before. He did not attend the monastery church but would serve alone in his cell at night, commemorating upwards of 8000 names at the, Proskomedia. And these were...
- Mon 29 April 2024 12:43 am
- Forum: Synaxarion Orthodoxia
- Topic: Elder MichaelII ofValaam&Pskov
- Replies: 2
- Views: 42
Elder MichaelII ofValaam&Pskov
Today is the day of repose in 1962 of Hieroschemamonk Michael [Pitkevich], of Valaam and later of the Pskov Caves Monastery, confessor for the Old Calendar. Slightly edited article : "In 1902, Michael entered Valaam Monastery and abandoned the world forever. Behind the ancient stone walls of t...
- Mon 29 April 2024 12:37 am
- Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
- Topic: Monday: Discussion (Debate?) w/Fr John Whiteford and Patrick Craig Truglia on True Orthodoxy
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2569
- Mon 29 April 2024 12:36 am
- Forum: Book and Media Reviews
- Topic: Reviving "Out of Print" books by World Orthodox censorship.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 203
Re: Reviving "Out of Print" books by World Orthodox censorship.
Thank you for digging up the quotations. Elder Nektary was certainly the most quirky of the Optina Elders. Let's remember that he was extremely well-read, because he had sequestered himself for several {?} years away from anyone. He read books on varied topics, more than the other Elders were ever ...
- Mon 29 April 2024 12:29 am
- Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
- Topic: Met SeraphimofPiraeus-GrStateChurch
- Replies: 3
- Views: 45
Re: Met SeraphimofPiraeus-GrStateChurch
Oh thank you ! I didn't see the reply.
Could he be mentally ill ?
Yes, that is worse than almost anything a Church hierarch would normally be expressing an opinion about to be in favor of that diabolical practice !
It's unfathomable.
Does no one pay attention to Met Seraphim anymore, then ?