The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

The Departure of the Soul, has around 100 pages making the case that Mr. Puhalo altered icons, purposely mistranslated ancient texts, and pulled passages out of context in order to “prove” the fathers of the church did not support toll houses. I know people are wilfully ignorant to the extent that ...

91B17CE7-46E8-4537-A586-DF6947383513.jpeg † † † In the late 1970s a theological debate about the post-mortem experience of the soul took place between representatives of St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, Holy Transfiguration Monastery and Holy Trinity Monastery. Deacon Lev Puhalo opposed Fr. Seraph...

8F6C6DD5-1C97-4250-83C9-9B64D00DF393.jpeg † † † 道 No matter how much we may study, it is not possible to come to know God unless we live according to his commandments, for God is not known by science, but by the Holy Spirit. Many philosophers and learned men came to the belief that God exists, but ...

8B1DC698-43A4-417F-BD2D-409876F64AB0.jpeg † † † That’s actually what Fr. Seraphim Rose ended up doing in college. He learned the ancient Chinese language to study Chinese philosophy, taught be the leading scholar in Traditional Chinese Philosophy at Berkeley. Gi-Ming Shien and Fr. Seraphim actually...

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The Translation of the Tao Teh Ching,
Fr. Seraphim Rose used as his source to write his thesis “Emptiness and Fullness in the Laø Tzu.”

I don't really trust something written by Fr. Damascene. At the time of the writing of this book and Not of this World I think his work is more reliable and generally the subjects he’s covered aren’t dealing with topics that are contrary to what many True Orthodox themselves would teach or have a p...