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by Barbara
Fri 12 April 2024 12:21 am
Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
Topic: Sarah Riccardi-Swartz:Menace Supreme
Replies: 35
Views: 775

Re: Sarah Riccardi-Swartz:Menace Supreme

Here are Sarah Riccardi's pearls of "Orthodox Expert" observation in The Atlantic article : "One of the paradoxes of modern Orthodoxy is that its rigidity has become a selling point in the West. Many conservatives complain that mainstream churches—Catholic and Protestant alike—have g...
by Barbara
Fri 12 April 2024 12:16 am
Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
Topic: Orthodox Ethos-Fr Peter Heers
Replies: 42
Views: 636

Re: Orthodox Ethos-Fr Peter Heers

If people don't mind, could anyone explain to me exactly what happened to Fr Peter Heers ? Why was he suppressed, and why will no World Orthodox jurisdiction take him ? At least SO FAR.

by Barbara
Fri 12 April 2024 12:12 am
Forum: Prayer Life
Topic: Prayers for Fr. Michael
Replies: 3
Views: 59

Re: Prayers for Fr. Michael

Sorry to hear that. Which Fr Michael was he ?

by Barbara
Fri 12 April 2024 12:11 am
Forum: Monasteries and the Monastic Life
Topic: Struggle on Valaam 1923-39
Replies: 6
Views: 81

Re: Struggle on Valaam 1923-39

Oh great, I'll read that. Looks like it was from the newspaper Orthodox America ?
This topic fascinates me.

by Barbara
Thu 11 April 2024 11:21 pm
Forum: Monasteries and the Monastic Life
Topic: Struggle on Valaam 1923-39
Replies: 6
Views: 81

Struggle on Valaam 1923-39

A fuller account than I had before read on the Calendar split at Valaam Monastery during this era. Much is taken from an article by a Nun Angelina in Russky Palomnik magazine on Elder Michael of Valaam [one of them named that]. A spectacular miracle is related which happened to Schemamonk Nicholas ...
by Barbara
Thu 11 April 2024 12:24 am
Forum: Synaxarion Orthodoxia
Topic: Elder Basilisk of Turinsk
Replies: 2
Views: 1081

Re: Elder Basilisk of Turinsk

Since today is the repose day of Elder Adrian, I am including some more material about him. Later, Elder Adrian returned to the Bryansk woods, hoping to persuade Fr Basilisk and Fr Zosima to join his Konevits island Monastery. This by the way is the Finnish spelling ; in Russian, it's called the Ko...
by Barbara
Thu 11 April 2024 12:07 am
Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
Topic: Orthodox Ethos-Fr Peter Heers
Replies: 42
Views: 636

Re: Orthodox Ethos-Fr Peter Heers

Very interesting discussion here ! So educational for everyone looking into a more serious Orthodox affiliation than just the World Orthodox or the Orthodox Ethos [sounds like Athos-! I know they are fans of a few Athonite elders, but aren't the ones all New Calendar and under the EP ?] There are S...