June 15th, 2016 - As part of our ongoing weekly homilies, we had the great blessing this week to have Fr. Peter Heers speak to us. Fr. Peter answers many questions about the Pan-Orthodox Council.
In this interview with the Synodal Information-Education Department of the UOC, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine answered questions about why the Russian Orthodox Church is not participating in the Pan-Orthodox Council which should begin its acts on June 19. He also expressed his view on whether the crisis of Council preparations will influence the situation of religious life in Ukraine and worldwide Orthodoxy.
—Your Beatitude, what was the final reason for the decision of the Russian Orthodox Church not to participate in the Council planned for the feast day of the Holy Trinity?
—Today the world is developing in a new format. Political and economic borders are gradually disappearing, which by themselves restricted...
Do not undertake to explain the Gospels or the other books of Holy Scripture yourself. The Scriptures were not expressed arbitrarily by the prophets and apostles, but by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. How mindless then is it to explain them arbitrarily? The Holy Spirit, having expressed the Word of God through the prophets and apostles, explained it through the Holy Fathers. Both the Word of God and its explanation are a gift of the Holy Spirit. The holy Orthodox Church and its true children accept only this patristic interpretation!
June 14, 2016
The landmark meeting of the heads of all Orthodox Christian churches could be postponed as five out of 14 churches have pulled out. The head of external relations at the...
Athonite monasticism has always stood on guard for the purity of Orthodoxy. Athonites have actively participated in the work of Church councils and came out against the unions of Lyons and Florence. Ecumenical contacts have repeatedly come under criticism from Athonites (letters to the Ecumenical Patriarchate, proclamations, reports of the Holy Kinot), however most Athonite monks throughout the whole...
Moscow, June 13, 2016
The Moscow Patriarchate has refused to participate in the Pan-Orthodox Council, which is scheduled to take place June 16-27 on Crete.
“All the Churches should be involved in the Pan-Orthodox Council, and only then will the decisions of the Council be legitimate,” stated Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Department for External Relations of the...
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Tbilisi, June 12, 2016
The Georgian Orthodox Church has decided not to participate in the Pan-Orthodox Council, because there are certain issues which it finds unacceptable, announced the Georgian Patriarch Ilia II, reports RIA-Novosti.
Earlier the Georgian Orthodox Church made public the ...
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