The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

Christ is Risen! The JP was in America long before the EP established the GOA in 1930. As early as 1918 Metropolitan Panteleimon served as Exarch of the Metochion of the Holy Sepulchre, ordaining the future Athonite Elder, Fr Joachim before he set out for the Holy Mountain. The JP withdrew leaving E...

The choir at Ennismore Gardens, MP parish has sung regularly at Westminster Cathedral and at the French Protestant parish. This has usually taken place on the Sunday of Orthodoxy and began in 1960s. The idea was to witness to non-Orthodox. At that time the Anglican Fellowship of St Alban and St Serg...

Christ is Risen! <<This obsessive legalism about church canons and Tradition that leads one to believe whole churches can be automatically excommunicated without a synod actualizing such a condemnation is not of the Orthodox mindset, but the Roman Catholic one>> One of the problems facing us today i...

Christ is Risen!

To my knowledge todate, nothing has happened with Bishop Photij's synod. I still buy incense from them via agent in US and I hope to viisit again in near future.

And order some more icons...

Fr Serafim

The first time I visited the Holy City of Jerusalem I was scandalized by the commercial activities in the Church of the Holy Sephulcre. Then I saw an old lady praying quietly in a corner and I realized that where you have great piety and sanctity you have profanity. Likewise in Russia. Despite the s...

Depends on the bishop. I had this problem when two readers jumped ship and was told by receiving bishop that readers were not subject to bishops. On the other hand, said bishop would not allow his own readers to do the same. My opinion is that if you are ordained by a bishop you owe loyalty to that ...

Dear Anastasios, I have read the article in OT and a former monogram co-authored by Rdr Joseph MIller. The Archbishop writes with the premise that erractic and delusional behaviour is a 'disease', somewhat like diatbetes or Parkinsons and that it can be treated by therapy and/or drugs, surgery. I do...