Материалы 12 февраля 2013 г.

Год назад, 12 февраля 2012 года, отошел ко Господу протоиерей Алексий Зотов, первый настоятель возрожденного храма святых мучеников Флора и Лавра на Зацепе, много потрудившийся для того, чтобы вернули храм верующим, чтобы в нем, благолепно украшенном, вновь возносились молитвы Господу.

По дороге к месту казни Феодор с сияющим лицом радостно беседовал с палачами, поскольку был убежден, что движется к жизни, а не идет на смерть.

О великий святителю, Церкве Российския первопрестольниче, града Москвы пастырю и учителю, отче наш Макарие блаженне, добре подвиг жития твоего совершивый и дерзновение у Господа стяжавый! К тебе во умилении сердец наших припадаем и усердно молим: буди о нас теплый предстатель у Престола Вседержителева и умоли Всеблагаго Бога: да не презрит нас, во многая и лютыя грехи впадших, но дарует нам вся благая и потребная, яже ко спасению.

Протоиерей Максим Козлов — о причинах отречения папы римского Бенедикта XVI и опасности давления на нового главу Католической церкви.

At the heart of modernism, both in Russia and in the West, is one and the same thing - the rejection of Patristic tradition in its entirety.

According to ITAR-TASS, armed extremists in the north of Syria have desecrated the Church of Saint Maron, a Syrian hermit of the fourth century and the patron of the Maronite Eastern Catholic Church.

There is much in common among the three hierarchs and great ecumenical teachers whom we commemorate today: Saints Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom. All three lived in a time when the Christian Church, after almost three centuries of persecution, received freedom and was flourishing throughout the Byzantine ‘oikoumene’. All the three were involved in contesting contemporary heresies. All the three combined serving the Church in episcopal rank with literary activity, and it is precisely their literary legacy which secured for them the paramount place that they occupy in Christian Tradition. All the three were victims of ecclesiastical intrigues. Their posthumous glory, however, exceeded any expectations their contemporaries might have had, and their significance for the entire Christian Church in East and West cannot be overestimated.

As part of its 75th anniversary celebration, Saint Tikhon’s Seminary here will host a rigorous three-day master class for the select student choirs of three of America’s premier Orthodox Christian seminaries — Saint Tikhon’s Seminary, Saint Vladimir’s Seminary, and Holy Trinity Seminary — February 28—March 3, 2013, with world renowned Moscow choirmaster Vladimir Gorbik.

On February 7, 2013, Bishop Nestor of Chersonese blessed the first cupola and the cross for St. Mary Magdalene church under construction in Madrid, the website of the Diocese of Chersonese reports.

On February 11, 2013, the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, made comments to ITAR-TASS news agency concerning that coming reports about the retirement of the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI.

Priest Georgiy Kochetkov is the leader of a heretical movement within the Russian Orthodox Church. His activities have lead to a considerable disturbance among the Orthodox, and his community is in conflict with the rest of the Orthodox community in Russia. Even more alarming is that it he is not content to confine his activity to Russia, but is attempting to spread it in other countries among people new to the Church, who do not know better. Biblical scholar and hieromonk of Sretensky Monastery Fr. Job (Gumerov) explains why Fr. Georgiy Kochetkov’s teachings are heretical in the extreme.