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by Barbara
Tue 19 March 2024 4:03 pm
Forum: Prayer Life
Topic: Prayers requested
Replies: 3
Views: 50

Re: Prayers requested

Oh no ! Is the surgery a major one ?
And dental problems are ALWAYS very, very vexing
Sorry about all that !

by Barbara
Mon 18 March 2024 3:59 pm
Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
Topic: Sarah Riccardi-Swartz:Menace Supreme
Replies: 20
Views: 422

Re: Sarah Riccardi-Swartz:Menace Supreme

Sarah Riccardi marshals a phalanx of like-minded opponents of Orthodox traditionalism and general conservatism to gather at a conference she has organized at Northeastern University in Boston next week. Notice who has the haloes : not Saints but ONLY American political figures ! This depiction reve...
by Barbara
Sun 17 March 2024 12:06 am
Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
Topic: Meagan S, SarahR Attack Rocor, Fr JohnWhiteford
Replies: 4
Views: 78

Re: Meagan S, SarahR Attack Rocor, Fr JohnWhiteford

An Orthodox American man named Michael, I think, wrote the following retort to Meagan Saliashvili in relation to the Texas Monthly article : " Saliashvili is a Georgian surname, I can only assume she is Georgian. So, she should know firsthand that being far right is not incompatible with Ortho...
by Barbara
Sat 16 March 2024 11:47 pm
Forum: Synaxarion Orthodoxia
Topic: St Amvrosy of Optina
Replies: 7
Views: 1027

Re: St Amvrosy of Optina

And a similar eerie tale : "...in Shamordino, knocking was heard at the doors and windows, etc. When they communicated this to the Elder, he said, "Well, he won't knock anymore." "But who is knocking, Batiushka?" [the nuns] asked [Fr Amvrosy] . "He who was knocking won...
by Barbara
Sat 16 March 2024 11:41 pm
Forum: Synaxarion Orthodoxia
Topic: St Amvrosy of Optina
Replies: 7
Views: 1027

Re: St Amvrosy of Optina

Meanwhile, a good ghost story for Forgiveness Sunday : Hieromonk Dorotheus related the following about himself: "After my entrance in 1874 into the Optina Monastery, the obedience of working as a cook was entrusted to me. A half year passed, and then I began to have fears at night in my cell, ...
by Barbara
Sat 16 March 2024 11:32 pm
Forum: Synaxarion Orthodoxia
Topic: St Amvrosy of Optina
Replies: 7
Views: 1027

Re: St Amvrosy of Optina

Why did i write the post above ? Because I fear that the likes of Sarah Riccardi and Meagan Saliashvili will feel emboldened at some point to start criticizing the Optina Elders and maybe Valaam Elders. These liberal-leftists or others might insist that the monasteries were "misogynistic"...
by Barbara
Fri 15 March 2024 7:49 pm
Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
Topic: Ex-Antiochian Met. Joseph defrocked
Replies: 0
Views: 29

Ex-Antiochian Met. Joseph defrocked

Former Metropolitan Joseph has been defrocked. He way overreached, obviously. "The former head of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, Joseph Zehlaoui, was defrocked by the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Antioch during its session in Balamand, Lebanon, this week. ...