On January 29, 2007, an authorized delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, consisting of His Eminence Archbishop Hilarion of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand, Chief Deputy President of the Synod of Bishops and Continue Reading
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MOSES
We offer our readers photographs of the divine services performed by His Eminence Archbishop Hilarion of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand in his church Continue Reading
In writing my report, I first thought to compare the situation of the prophet of the Old Testament, Lot, who lived in the city of Sodom, with that of the typical Russian living abroad, in the corrupt Western world today. But after an exhaustive reading of materials available on the internet, after the work of the Synod of Bishops was completed, I decided to look to the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and her purpose; not her purpose according to mortals, but according to God.
An Orthodox Perspective on the Da Vinci Code
Archpriest Nicholas
Lecture 10 from the 2004 Youth Conference
As Orthodox Christians, why would we bother worrying about, or even reviewing, a novel? In the 21st century, we are living in the post-Christian era. This does not mean that Society now considers Christianity redundant and outmoded, supplanted by modern philosophy and science, and even by new theology – end of story. This may well be the case, but it is not sufficient; Christianity must now be attacked and ‘proved’ wrong. How? Continue Reading
The Nature of the Soul
Priest David Moser
Lecture 11 from the 2004 Youth Conference
What is a soul? You know we talk a lot about the soul, but did you ever stop and try to figure out what it is we’re talking about? We talk about saving the soul, but what is it that we’re saving. Earlier we talked about some of the theories developed by psychologists that try to describe the inner workings of the person, and probably that is the closest secular description of the soul, but even psychology doesn’t fully grasp what the soul is. Continue Reading
Orthodox Latvia : St John of Riga
Presented by Protodeacon Basil Yakimov
Author Unknown
Lecture 8 from the 2004 Youth Conference
Janis (John) Pommer was born to a peasant family in the district of Vendzen, Latvia in 1876. He had no Russian blood, even though he later showed a great love for Russia. His great-grandfather had been one of the first to accept the Orthodox Faith in this region, and as a result he had been subjected to severe persecution.
At that time there was a great interest in Orthodoxy among the peasants of Lithlandia, thanks to the preaching which had been begun in the Latvian language.Continue Reading
