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ROCOR could canonize Metropolitan Philaret, Fr. Seraphim (Rose), and Br. Jose in coming years, says Archbishop of Canada
https://orthochristian.com/163752.html
All three men are venerated throughout the Orthodox world, and Fr. Seraphim was locally canonized in the Akhalkalaki Diocese of the Georgian Orthodox Church last year.
https://orthochristian.com/163752.html
All three men are venerated throughout the Orthodox world, and Fr. Seraphim was locally canonized in the Akhalkalaki Diocese of the Georgian Orthodox Church last year.
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Fr. Seraphim Rose on the Extremes of Ecumenism and Old Calendar Zealotism, 1979
Fr. Seraphim's recording is from from "Orthodox Christians Facing The 1980's (1979): Restored Recording of Fr. Seraphim Rose":
https://youtu.be/E_Wc5EEd0Qg?si=lDzp2dgZKY0V-kv8
Fr. Peter's recording is from from Lesson 24: The End of the Deceiver, The Lake…
https://youtu.be/E_Wc5EEd0Qg?si=lDzp2dgZKY0V-kv8
Fr. Peter's recording is from from Lesson 24: The End of the Deceiver, The Lake…
Today we commemorate New Martyr St. Peter of Krutitsa. St. Peter was one of three Locum Tenens appointed by St. Tikhon of Moscow. St. Tikhon was martyred in 1925 and with the first two in prison, the Locum Tenens role fell St. Peter. Over fifty bishops signed a decree approving of him as Locum Tenens.
Here is a brief account from Russia’s Catacomb Saints on St. Peter
Here is a brief account from Russia’s Catacomb Saints on St. Peter
Today the Church commemorates the uncovering of the relics of St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco
Read a first hand account here from Fr. Peter Perekrestov: https://orthodox-europe.org/content/st-john-relics/
Read a first hand account here from Fr. Peter Perekrestov: https://orthodox-europe.org/content/st-john-relics/
Orthodox Christians of these latter times are indeed spiritually sleeping and desperately need to be awakened by a trumpet of the Spirit like Saint Symeon [the New Theologian]. Those who are Orthodox by birth and habit are not those who will inherit the eternal Kingdom of Heaven; they must be awakened to the conscious fulfillment of Christs commandments and a conscious reception of God's Holy Spirit, as Saint Symeon so eloquently taught.
...For Saint Symeon, as for all true Orthodox Christians, theology is life; the true words of God which speak to the Christian heart, raise it from its sloth and negligence, and inspire it to struggle for the eternal Kingdom, which may be tasted in advance even now in the life of grace which God sends down upon His faithful through His sanctifying Holy Spirit.
-Fr. Seraphim Rose, Preface to The Sin of Adam and our Redemption: Seven Homilies by Saint Symeon the New Theologian
...For Saint Symeon, as for all true Orthodox Christians, theology is life; the true words of God which speak to the Christian heart, raise it from its sloth and negligence, and inspire it to struggle for the eternal Kingdom, which may be tasted in advance even now in the life of grace which God sends down upon His faithful through His sanctifying Holy Spirit.
-Fr. Seraphim Rose, Preface to The Sin of Adam and our Redemption: Seven Homilies by Saint Symeon the New Theologian
OW 1-105 Searchable.pdf
1.1 GB
The Orthodox Word, issues 1-105 in a single searchable PDF
These are all the issues Fr. Seraphim published, including the last few published after his repose which include material he helped translate and produce.
These are all the issues Fr. Seraphim published, including the last few published after his repose which include material he helped translate and produce.
“It is difficult for us in the free world even to conceive under what conditions believers live behind the Iron Curtain. But those who are being persecuted and martyred by the Communist regime are our brothers in faith, and we cannot close our eyes to their sufferings; more, it is our duty to find out and make known the privations, indeed the tortures and deaths they are undergoing for the Orthodox Faith.”
-Fr. Seraphim Rose, The Orthodox Word #1, p. 35
-Fr. Seraphim Rose, The Orthodox Word #1, p. 35
S has been tried for his attack on someone while drunk, and the judge wants to send him here for three months instead of to prison! Please pray for him and for us. It will probably be difficult for everyone (although not so bad if his father comes also), but we are ready to help the boy out (he would be ruined for good by prison).
-Fr. Seraphim Rose, Letters from Father Seraphim, p. 218
-Fr. Seraphim Rose, Letters from Father Seraphim, p. 218
We, of course, are already guilty of many of the "sins" with which Fr. R castigates our Church—worst of all (I suppose), the giving of Communion to New Calendarists. I can see how each priest should be free to do as he thinks best on this question, but for us, I see that we must open ourselves to all the Orthodox [emphasis in original] who aren't being helped by their own bishops and priests. Recently we were visited by another Antiochian priest (from Los Angeles), and just the fact of our friendship is a source of strength which helps them to struggle more themselves. What the end will be, jurisdictionally speaking, I don't know. But we must have the image of the Russian Church Abroad adjusted away from the "fanatic party line," which up to now has tried to take over—and whose failure is now becoming evident.
-Fr. Seraphim Rose, Letters from Father Seraphim, p. 227
-Fr. Seraphim Rose, Letters from Father Seraphim, p. 227