1918: The Marks of the Beast by Vladimir Moss
[Original Posting of Article at Dr. Moss’s Site] As Archpriest Lev Lebedev observed, Leninism, far from being a scientifically based doctrine, was much closer in essence to pagan demon-worship with...
View ArticleSt. Basil the Great’s “Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek...
I. Many considerations, young men, prompt me to recommend to you the principles which I deem most desirable, and which I believe will be of use to you if you will adopt them. For my time of life, my...
View ArticleBaptism and Economy in Relation to the Arians
Hieromonk Enoch The question of economy in receiving the non-Orthodox has been a much discussed question. These are a few remarks upon the situation of the historical Arians and how the Church has...
View ArticleNon-Commemorator MP Hieromonk Open Letter to ROCOR-MP Bishops
(Source) [Fr. Raphael (Berestov) is somewhat well-known hieromonk in MP circles, who has ceased commemoration of Patriarch Kirill, stating he is in heresy. He also known for his medical conditions,...
View ArticleFr. Theodore Zisis’ Letter Declaring Non-Commemoration
Originally posted at “Orthodox Ethos” Protopresbyter Theodoros Zisis Professor Emeritus Theological School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, Greece March 3rd, 2017 His Eminence,...
View ArticleSt. John of Krondstadt and the Renovationists by Vladimir Moss
[Original Here] The traditional mainstays of Tsarist Russia had been the peasantry and the Church. And the Church in turn gained much from the support of the State. However, it was increasingly...
View ArticleJordanville Dean: Cretan Council Shows Trojan Horse Already Behind the Gates
[Original Here] by Fr. Alexander F. C. Webster The benighted Pan-Orthodox Council in Crete in June 2016 reminded Orthodox Christians that the rock of Orthodox faith and practice has been splitting for...
View ArticlePatriarch Bartholomew: “Growing Interest” in Heresiarch Luther
[Original Source] The Orthodox Church has been taking an active and increasing interest in the person and works of Martin Luther lately, according to His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew....
View ArticleThe Dark Heart of the Enlightenment by Vladimir Moss
Original Article Here There were obvious deficiencies in the optimistic view of the world presented by the philosophers of the French Enlightenment. In the first place, it failed to explain the...
View ArticleSt. Raphael Hawaweeny (+1915) on the Historical Problems of the Brotherhood...
NFTU: St. Raphael’s “An Historical Glance at the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre” was translated into English for the first time in 1995 by an Antiochian Archpriest Michel Najim . The work is...
View ArticleMight and Right in Middle Byzantium by Vladimir Moss
[Original Article] It was a fundamental principle both of the Emperor Justinian’s legislation in the sixth century and of St. Photius’ in the ninth that Church canons should always take precedence over...
View ArticleCanons, Commemoration, Chaos, and Churches: Thoughts and Unpopular Propositions
A somewhat free-wheeling overview of controversial issues. Breaking Communion: Public and Private Teaching Canon 15 of the First-Second Synod of Constantinople in 861 states the following: “The rules...
View ArticleMetropolitan Philaret (Drozdov) of Moscow [+1867] on Prayer for the Departed
There are some ‘Christians’ who deprive themselves of the consolation of prayers for the dead. And who are they? Without doubt those who, knowingly, or in ignorance, love to argue, rather than to...
View ArticleLetters of Pope St. Gregory II (+731) to Emperor Leo Against Heresy of...
This letter, by Pope St. Gregory II, was presumably written in the year 729. We can gather this because his speaks of St. Germanus of Constantinople as in his 95th year; and St. Germanus was born in...
View ArticleTsar Nicholas II: Restorer of Orthodox Autocracy by Vladimir Moss
[Original Here] The title “Restorer of the Orthodox Autocracy” has been ascribed to Tsar Paul I, and not without reason. After the extreme westernization of the eighteenth-century Tsars, he began to...
View ArticleHieroconfessor Basil, Bishop of Kineshma and Those with Him [+July 31 OS /...
[Source] Bishop Basil of Kineshma was born Benjamin Sergeyevich Preobrazhensky, in 1875 (according to other sources, 1873 or 1876) in the family of Protopriest Sergius and Matushka Paula of Kineshma....
View ArticlePatriarch Kirill Dedicates Statue / Monument to “Patriarch” Sergius
NFTU: This event happened this past Sunday. This demonstrates that there has been no retreat on the part of Sergianist MP from the principles of its founder, the pseudo-Patriarch Sergius Stragorodsky,...
View ArticleTomos of Synod of Blachernae in 1285 Against the Filioque
Source: http://www.oodegr.com/english/oikoumenismos/filioque_beccus.htm?fref=gc By the most holy and ecumenical Patriarch, Lord Gregory of Cyprus, who was attacked by certain individuals, and for whom...
View ArticleSome Preliminary Notes on the Influence of Freemasonry on Early Greek...
Source: https://www.geopolitica.ru/en/article/influence-freemasonry-early-greek-ecumenism Introduction in our modern times we are all experiencing the rapid, forced advance of globalization in its...
View ArticleThe Origins of the Israelite Autocracy by Vladimir Moss
Original Source: http://www.orthodoxchristianbooks.com/articles/832/-origins-israelite-autocracy/ It was not given to Abraham or any of the patriarchs to build the true kingdom of peace – that is, the...
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