Or, in Dutch: Christus is opgestaan! Hij is waarlijk opgestaan!
It’s a bit early (six more hours to go here on the East Coast) but, in anticipation…
The Resurrection of the Lord at the Church of Christ of Chora, Constantinople (14 c).
Orthodox Christianity
Receiving the Holy Fire in the Middle of the Wilderness
Maria C. Khoury
“Come ye and receive light from the unwaning Light, and glorify Christ, Who a rose from the dead.”
Human rights should be based on moral norms – Metropolitan Kirill
MOSCOW. April 4 (Interfax) – The Russian Orthodox Church should develop a universal approach to human rights based on moral norms andcombining various traditions, said Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Kirill.
NCC exploits Orthodox Church
NCC PRESIDENT URGES COMMUNICATORS, TAKE ON ‘FALSE RELIGION’
New York, March 30, 2006–The president of the National Council of
Churches, the Rev. Michael Livingston, strongly urged church
communicators to, “Tell our story. By any means necessary.”
“Mainline Protestant and Orthodox churches have been pounded
into irrelevancy by the media machine of a false religion,” Livingston
said. He described what passes as religion to be, “a political
philosophy masquerading as gospel; an economic principle wrapped in
religious rhetoric and painted red, white and blue.”
Continuing Anglican Bishop converts to Orthodoxy
Bishop Robert F. Waggener will trade his bishop’s mitre for a priest’s biretta in the Western Rite.
Bishop Waggener, who until recently served as bishop of the Diocese of the Holy Cross, has become the first Continuing Anglican bishop to convert to the Antiochian Orthodox Church’s Western Rite Vicariate.
Fr. Michael Keiser will receive Bp. Waggener and his parishioners at Christ Church of Lynchburg, VA, as catechumens on March 5. Deo volente, Bp. Robert Waggener will then be ordained to the priesthood within the Orthodox Church.
U.S. Church Leaders at WCC Assembly Beg Forgiveness for ‘Raining Down Terror’ on World
Note how an Orthodox leader presumes to speak for all Orthodox.
Institute on Religion and Democracy Alan Wisdom
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil-Delegates representing U.S. denominations at the Ninth Assembly of the World Council of Churches issued a letter February 18 begging God’s forgiveness for their nation’s policies relating to war, the environment, and poverty. “From a place seduced by the lure of empire we come to you in penitence,” they said, “eager for grace, grace sufficient to transform spirits grown weary from the violence, degradation, and poverty our nation has sown, grace sufficient to transform spirits grown heavy with guilt, grace sufficient to transform the world.”
Orthodox, Catholics should work together to restore Europe’s Christian culture
CWNews Feb. 27
Pope Benedict XVI (bio – news) told a visiting Greek Orthodox delegation that Catholic and Orthodox believers should work together to restore the Christian heritage of Europe.
The Holy Father met on February 27 with 30 students and teacher from the Apostoliki Diakonia theological school, administered by the Orthodox archdiocese of Athens. The Pope said that East and West should unite against “the challenges that threaten the faith.”
A former infantry commander now leads his Marines on a different path – a path of faith
Marine Corp News Cpl. Joseph Digirolamo January 31, 2006
When was a Marine infantry officer, he never thought that duty would call upon him to lead Marines in a special way.
He is now a 42-year-old lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and the chaplain for 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, Camp Lejeune, N.C., which is deploying with about 20,000 other Marines and Sailors to Iraq this year.
Wozniak, from Newton, N.J., graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1985 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. After going through The Basic School and the Infantry Officers Course he made his way to California to serve as a platoon commander for 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment. He even maneuvered through the difficult Range 400 at MCAGC, an experience that has allowed him to quickly connect to the Marines as they go through the same training themselves.
“I loved being in the infantry,” Wozniak said. “I really couldn’t see myself doing anything else until one day I was called to do ministry for the Lord.”
Now a bishop, he took a winding path to Orthodox Church
Philadelphia Inquirer David O’Reilly
Tikhon drifted away from the Episcopalianism of his boyhood, but found faith in a Chicago church.
A curious thing happened to Marc Mollard on his way to veterinary school.
He decided to join the Orthodox Church.
Then he entered an Orthodox monastery, where his spirituality earned him the admiration of church leaders.
Now he is the newly ordained Bishop Tikhon, head of the Diocese of Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania of the Orthodox Church in America.
Yet he is just 39 – young enough to remember what it was like to be young and searching. And he hopes his journey into Orthodoxy might encourage other Americans to follow.
“People today are looking for something real – for deeper reality and the meaning of life,” he said during a recent visit to St. Stephen pro-Cathedral in the Northeast. “I was looking as well, and I think I was led providentially to Orthodoxy.”
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Orthodox Leader Says He Will Meet Pope
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I told reporters that the pope plans an official visit sometime this year to his headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I told reporters that the pope plans an official visit sometime this year to his headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey.
The spiritual leader of the world’s 200 million-plus Orthodox Christians said Thursday that he is eager to meet with Pope Benedict XVI sometime in the coming year in an effort to heal the long-standing rift between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches. (AP)
The spiritual leader of the world’s 200 million-plus Orthodox Christians said Thursday that he is eager to meet with Pope Benedict XVI sometime in the coming year in an effort to heal the long-standing rift between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches.
