Aggregation in Praxis
Cette dépêche du Service orthodoxe de presse rend compte d'une réunion de l'Assemblée des évêques orthodoxes de France et de ses commissions qui s'est tenue samedi 24 janvier.
Again, some thoughts from Kalomiros’ Nostalgia for Paradise. This particular selection is on the reality of the Kingdom of God within us - and the particular importance of Hesychasm, the practice of inner stillness and the knowledge of God dwelling within us. I have written myself about the utter centrality of communion with God. His work underlines and expands this in a marvelous way.
God is the place, the means, and the power of any communion. He is the communion itself, the love itself, because God is a Trinity, a loving communion of Persons. Only the communion with God is capable of providing the communion of creaturely persons. Any attempt at direct communion among humans is doomed to failure because it is powerless. There is no true power of communion but the divine energy. Only a communion with the divine energy enables true communion among ourselves. Any communion that overlooks or ignores God comes to self-delusion. Indeed, if a communion of persons exists in the Church, it exists to the extent that those persons have communion with God.
When there is no personal communion with Him, a simple gathering of persons in the house of God, even around the Table of Sacrifice and in the communion of His Body and Blood, can be blasphemy against God and unworthiness before the Church’s most sacred mystery. For communion with God is in persons, by the Holy Spirit.
Whether a Christian is in a church, in the street, at home, in a crowd of people, or alone, the matter of communion with God is a matter of turning inward. It is in our hearts that we will encounter God. And when we do, He will take us by the hand and put us in communion with others. And in our communion with others, the bond that joins us will always be God Himself.
So there is no other path to the Kingdom of God but the one which leads to our heart, the one which leads “within you.” It is the path of hesychasm or stillness. Hesychasm is the deepest characteristic of Orthodox life, the sign of Orthodox genuineness, the premise of right thinking and right belief and glory, the paradigm of faith and Orthodoxy. In all of the Church’s internal and external battes ever, we had the hesychasts on one side and the anti-hesychasts on the other.
The very fabric of heresy is anti-hesychastic.
by fatherstephen at10:40 PM under knowledge of god, orthodox christianity, religion, union with christ (Comments)
March for Life 2007
To access a service written for the victims of abortion, click on:
And for more Orthodox Christian pro-life resources, click on
http://www.oclife.org/ (the source of the picture ot the right)
http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/prayers/abrtpryr.html (The URL for the Service for the vicims of abortion)
Posted in Christ, families, life!, Orthodoxy, prayer, U.S. ministries, vision
by armsopenwide at10:11 PM under christ, families, life!, orthodoxy, prayer, u.s. ministries, vision (Comments)
Hier, le concile épiscopal de l'Église orthodoxe russe a désigné trois candidats pour le siège patriarcal de Moscou: Mgr Cyrille de Smolensk, qui a obtenu 97 voix, Mgr Clément de Kalouga, 32 voix, Mgr Philarète de Minsk, 16 voix. 198 évêques étaient présents.
Source: Église russe
If you want to make some Protestants nervous….start talking about Mary. Why is Mary important? As was written in the blog ‘The Only Pure Truth’: "Things are true and false only as they are compared to Him.”
So is Mary the ‘Mother of God’? If Jesus is God, then technically Mary gave birth to God. To say that she did not is denying that Jesus is God. That is why she was given the title 'Theotokos' (Greek: God Bearer). There was a heretic in the Early Church that said that Jesus was not God and is only a great Prophet and wanted Mary to be just called the 'Christ Bearer.' The truth is: she bore God. She is the Mother of God.
Also, to say that Mary is not ‘blessed among women’ is denying the Scriptures: "And the angel came in unto her, and said, 'Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women' (Luke 1:28)”; "...and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: and she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women..." (Luke 1:41-42); and Mary said while filled with the Holy Spirit "...behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed (Luke 1:28).”
She is called the ‘New Eve’, by the Church. Eve failed to obey God and our place with God was lost. Mary obeyed God with the words, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; Be it unto me according to thy word (Luke 1:38).” With those words and her obedience our place with God began to be restored. In a sense, Mary was the first to receive Christ, she was the prototype of the church. Her response is what ours should be: Lord I am your servant, I pick up my cross to follow you and lay down my life.
As I wrote yesterday, we should also embrace this same attitude of heart and follow her as a role model. We quickly ‘idolize’ people in the world. We treat them with importance because they are rich, or have achieved a high place in politics or because they are in sports. Our children put pictures of football players, basketball players, NASCAR drivers, on their walls. People are wearing Obama T-shirts; you see famous singers or actors images everywhere. O miserable world!! This is all to normal to follow after them as idols, role models…..we have made them important in our society. Why? What have they done? They can sing? They can play football? They have riches? What is all this to the Kingdom of God?
They are not honored because of their righteousness, holiness or what they have done for God and His Kingdom. Mary gave birth to our Redeemer! She is blessed! Every generation should call her blessed! As I wrote yesterday, St. Paul said imitate me. I say imitate Mary. Make her obedience your role model. Someone has a picture of a football player on their wall and that is fine. Someone has a picture of Mary on their wall and they are called idol worshippers by some.
Remember what the Angel said to her: "'Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women." Can we find a better role model of righteousness, purity, and obedience than the Mother of our Savior? Mary was chosen by God to be an instrument to restore salvation to each one of us. Her womb became "more spacious than the heavens" for it is a mystery how it could have contained God, the creator of the world. She became a temple for God; no other woman has been so honored. Out of the mouth of three witnesses (Gabriel, Elisabeth and Mary herself) she is truly blessed and every generation since has proclaimed her to be so. She is 'blessed,' not solely because she bore Christ, but because she heard the word of God and obeyed it. We learn this in Luke 11:27-28: “a woman in the crowd called out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you." He (Jesus) replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it." Some Protestants say that this is Jesus' way of putting Mary down....which I just don't understand why would He put her down? Surely He would follow the command 'Honor your mother....". No, Jesus was giving her praise for she showing us why she is called blessed in the Kingdom. He is showing us the path to follow....hear God's word and obey it and we too will find favor. We should then be told by Him...Now you and go do likewise (Luke 10:37). Imitate the one that was faithful, the one that will forever be called blessed, the New Eve, the first one to receive Christ within her, the one that said ‘yes, Lord, I will do your will’, the one that heard the word of God and obeyed it, the one that was highly favored and the Mother of God.
Today is the commemoration of the Holy New Martyrs of Russia. Their exact numbers will likely never be known on this side of the veil, but most agree that one million in Russia alone is not an unreasonable figure. The last I read (it was a while ago) the number of those officially investigated and glorified by the Church as martyrs was already in the hundreds of thousands. The murderous regime of the Communists has given that country a new Holy Baptism, one of blood.
by John (Ad Orientem) at4:20 PM under feasts, new martyrs of russia, russia, russian orthodox church
Dans l'émission de radio L'Eglise orthodoxe aujourd'hui du dimanche 18 janvier 2009, Bogdan Vlaïcu vous propose in memoriam Olivier Clément, un entretien, réalisé il y a quelques années, avec ce grand théologien orthodoxe français qui vient de naître au ciel, sur l’importance de l’orthodoxie dans sa vie et en France.
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Olivier Clément, «L’essor du christianisme oriental», Desclée de Brouwer, Paris, 2009, p. 138 p.
Juste au moment où Olivier Clément nous quittait, les éditions Desclée de Brouwer publiaient son livre «L’essor du christianisme oriental». Il s’agit de la réédition d’un petit livre paru en 1964 aux Presses universitaires de France, qui allait être suivi de peu, la même année, dans la même collection, d’un volume intitulé : «Byzance et le christianisme», dont on espère que la réédition sera également entreprise dans les prochains mois. Ces deux ouvrages présentent avec beaucoup de clarté, une bonne synthèse de la théologie et de la spiritualité byzantines et de leur développement sur une période qui s’étend du IXe siècle au XVe siècle.
Tandis que le second volume traite du mouvement hésychaste, de la théologie de saint Grégoire Palamas, de la spiritualité «laïque» de son disciple saint Nicolas Cabasilas, et de la «relève russe» dans la période suivant immédiatement la chute de Constantinople, ce volume est principalement consacré à l’œuvre théologique de saint Photius relative à la question du Filioque, à la spiritualité de saint Syméon le Nouveau Théologien, au schisme du XIe siècle, à la naissance et au développement de l’orthodoxie en Russie et en Serbie, au débat dogmatique entourant la fausse union de Lyon et à sa clôture par le concile de 1285 présidé par Grégoire de Chypre.
Ces deux livres appartiennent à la première période, universitaire, de l’œuvre d’Olivier Clément, se situant autour des années soixante et marquée par des exposés historiques, objectifs et documentés ; il ont été précédés de peu par sa première étude «Transfigurer le temps» (dont on souhaite aussi la réédition, tant sont restées rares les études sur le temps dans une perspective chrétienne et patristique) et suivi de peu par la présentation générale de «L’Église orthodoxe», publiée par le même éditeur dans la collection «Que sais-je ?», et qui, au cours de ses éditions successives, a été aménagée par l’auteur selon les évolutions de sa pensée.
Jean-Claude Larchet
by Jean-Claude Larchet at7:56 AM under l'essor du christianisme oriental, olivier clément, recensions
The new and mattress and pillow appear to be doing their job; I have slept better these past 2 nights than I have slept for a while. And I am falling asleep much quicker too [though that means I do not hear as much as the BBC World Service as I used to]. Long may this continue!
Church was a great blessing. It was the Feast Day of St Gregory the Theologian, one of the Three Holy Hierarchs, and today’s reading, on The Calling of Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-10), were an encouragement in perseverance and in striving to seek and follow Christ.
Also, from next Saturday, once a month, Bible Study [which I have been rather poor at attending, truth be told] will give way to a Cooking Class and a short presentation on a topic. First up is Lebanese Sweet Cheese ['Halawatt El-Jeben'] and a discussion on the historu of the Antiochian Orthodox Church. God willing, I will be able to attend these. I am not great cook, but as a single fellow it can’t help having a few new recipes up my sleeve! And the topics sound very interesting.
It was then to McDonald’s for Skye’s Fourth Birthday. [Though Kerensa's suggestion of Macbeth as the Scottish restaurant was interesting...though not sure if eye of newt, tongue of dog, gall of goat and slips of yew are what kids are eating these days!] It was good fun and Skye, and her friends, had a great time. They have quite a good play area as the local McD’s, and there were outside rooms [in the shape of mushrooms] for the kids to eat and talk and give presents. One of the staff members also led them in games such as “What’s the time, Mr Wolf” and “Duck, Duck, Duck…Goose” before lunch. I bought, and enjoyed, a hazelnut mocha and a pecan/orange/carrot cake; then feeling hungry just before we left I grabbed an iced coffee and some fries. A very fun afternoon.
I cannot believe Skye will be four on Wednesday; the time goes so fast.
While trying to 'understand' the Roman Catholics views of Mary the Mother of God I came across this 'explanation' of devotion to Mary's Immaculate Heart:
In biblical language, the 'heart' indicates the center of human life, the point where reason, will, temperament, and sensitivity converge, where the person finds his unity and his interior orientation. According to Matthew 5:8, the 'immaculate heart' is a heart that, with God's grace, has come to perfect interior unity and therefore 'sees God.' To be 'devoted' to the Immaculate Heart of Mary means therefore to embrace this attitude of heart, which makes the fiat (latin: 'let it be done') -- 'Your will be done' -- the defining center of one's whole life. It might be objected that we should not place a human being between ourselves and Christ. But then we remember that Paul did not hesitate to say to his communities: 'imitate me' (1 Corinthians 4:16; Philippians 3:17 ; 1 Thessalonians 1:6; 2 Thessalonians 3:7,9)." (Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger)
The Orthodox Church doesn't have a 'dogma' of the Immaculate Conception, but we do call Mary Immaculate (see below quote from Fr. John Morris of the Orthodox Church). I do hope and pray that one day we all can understand each other's viewpoints and come to unity on these issues. May God grant this through His Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth.
However, Orthodox Christians do not accept the Roman Catholic doctrine of the Immaculate Conception. On the contrary, Orthodox believe that the Blessed Virgin was born in ancestral sin just like any other person. This is important because if Mary had not been born in ancestral sin, God could not have assumed sinful human nature from her. As St. Gregory Nazianzen wrote, “For that which He has not assumed He has not healed.” If God had not assumed sinful human nature from the Blessed Virgin, He could not have saved sinful human nature through the Incarnation of Christ. Indeed, a prayer addressed to the Virgin Mary from the service of Compline contains the beautiful words, “thy glorious birth-giving has united God the Word to man and joined the fallen nature of our race to heavenly things.”
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