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1917 Council and Tomos: St Tikhon’s Vision Then And Now

By His Beatitude Jonah of the Orthodox Church in America Address of His Beatitude at the Conference on the Future of Orthodoxy in America, June 20, 2009 The Great Council of 1917, and the revival of the Russian Orthodox Church that it began, are aspects of the de-imperialization of the Orthodox Church and its canonical…

In Defense of the Holy Fire

By YURI MAXIMOV This article was originally published in Russian on this site on Holy Saturday 2008, the day before Pascha [Easter]. Last year [2007] in the Russian-language Internet, a whole campaign was conducted to discredit the miracle of the Holy Fire. On the eve of Pascha, a certain young man, a member of the…

A CONFESSION OF FAITH AGAINST ECUMENISM

From a Convention of Orthodox Clergymen and Monks Greece, April 2009 (Editor’s Note: We are publishing one of the latest pronouncements against the heresy of ecumenism that has infected most of the orthodox churches in recent days. We urge the readers of The Voice of Orthodoxy to read it in the right spirit of orthodoxy…

A CONFESSION OF FAITH AGAINST ECUMENISM

Convention of Orthodox Clergymen and Monks April 2009 {Editor’s Note: Orthodox Christians – Please read this important statement affirming true orthodoxy and condemning modern ecumenism, and study it and use it in our conferences and workshops to develop our own awareness of true Christianity. You may please print out this document and circulate it for…

Orthodox Church Holds Steady In A Changing World

AN INTERVIEW WITH FR. MICHAEL FRITZ First published in print: Saturday, January 17, 2009 The Rev. Michael Fritz: Assistant priest at Church of Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Russian Orthodox Church in Colonie. Background: 55, born and raised in Albany. Graduated from Hudson Valley Community College and Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary in…

Message of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on the beginning of the New Ecclesiastical Year (Indiktos)

9/1/2009 B A R T H O L O M E W BY THE MERCY OF GOD ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE, NEW ROME AND ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH TO THE PLENITUDE OF THE CHURCH GRACE AND PEACE FROM THE CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE OUR LORD, GOD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST As we come again to the changing…

Orthodox Kosovo

From the fourteenth century to the present day, the land of Kosovo and Metohija has been, and will always remain, the spiritual heartland of the Serbian Orthodox nation. Sanctified by a multitude of monasteries and churches as well as by the blood of martyrs, the holy land of Kosovo occupies a place of honor and…

2008 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE OF HIS ALL-HOLINESS BARTHOLOMEW OF CONSTANTINOPLE

+BARTHOLOMEW By the Mercy of God Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch To the Plenitude of the Church Grace, peace and mercy from the Savior Christ, born in Bethlehem Beloved brethren and children in the Lord, The great and sacred day of Christmas has dawned, the metropolis and mother of all feasts, inviting…

OPENING A DOOR FOR THE LORD IN PEOPLE’S HEARTS

(AN INTERVIEW) Father Alexy Aedo, Chilean native and archpriest with the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, is the pastor in Chile of two Orthodox communities—that of rSt Silouan of Mount Athos in the city of Conception[1], and that of St Nectarios of Aegina in the city of Santiago[2]. While still a youth, being Chilean and Catholic,…

ADDRESS OF HIS ALL-HOLINESS ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW I TO THE XIITH ORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF BISHOPS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

(The Vatican, 18 October 2008) THE WORD OF GOD IN THE LIFE AND MISSION OF THE CHURCH Your Holiness, Synodal Fathers, It is at once humbling and inspiring to be graciously invited by Your Holiness to address the XIIth Ordinary General Assembly of this auspicious Synod of Bishops, an historical meeting of Bishops of the…

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