A commentary by the Reverend Metropolitan of Kyrenia, Paul.
Article published in the newspaper “ORTHODOX PRESS” – Issue No.1802 / 16-10-2009
On the 8th to the 14th of October in 2007, the 10th plenary session of the Joint International Commission for the Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox and the Roman Catholics had convened in Ravenna [...]
“St. Peter the head of the Christian Churches who hold the key of the heaven and earth as Moses who had two tablets of Commandments of the Lord which leads believers to Heaven. It was from the very beginning the early Christian fathers especially St Ephrem the Syrian and all had seen St Peter as [...]
Dear Believers,
“May God bless us all with His holy symbol – CROSS – which is an acronym of five-fold divine virtues – Compassion, Reconciliation, Obedience, Self-emptying, Salvaging!”
Except the Roman church, most of the world inhabitants has a wrong notion that adoring the CROSS is an idol worship that gives more food for thought during the [...]
Dear Orthodox Church Members,
Now I feel it as a disgrace and a pity that our bishops and priests have to receive a gift or money for giving sacramental services that are alien to the concept of Jesus’ formula, “Freely you have received; freely you give”. All sacramental services are to be offered without receiving [...]
The participation of the Russian Orthodox Church in dialogue with Roman Catholic Church has once again received a lot of publicity. Currently the head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, is in Cyprus for the current session of the Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue group. In this interview with www.synod.com, the [...]
[This year marks the 25th anniversary of the death as a martyr of the late Bishop Paul de Ballester-Convallier (1927-1984). As a memorial to him we reprint here his article which explains why and how he was converted to Orthodoxy from Roman Catholicism.
The article below of the then Hierodeacon Fr. Paul Ballester-Convollier was published in [...]
Coining of certain terms, words, phrases may not contain the depth of the whole meaning of what it ought to be. We say that the Word became flesh, but we don’t know how the Word that came through the ear came into being as flesh. The Incarnation of the Word is a fact, yet not [...]
A painting is sometimes more than just a painting.
“There’s art that has the power to transform,” said the Rev. Anthony Salzman, a Greek Orthodox priest.
He also is a Byzantine iconographer with a workshop in Watkinsville, Ga., who specializes in intricate depictions of Jesus Christ and the saints of the church. Today, the Rev. Salzman [...]
Patriarch Bartholomew – A Passion For Peace
“War in the name of religion is war against religion”
The true peacemakers of history not only struggled to reduce conflict among others, they also showed compassion toward people who persecuted them. In recent times, they have included Martin Luther King, Andrei Sakharov, Aung San Suu Kyi, Shimon Peres, Archbishop [...]
Category: Journeys To Orthodoxy
Independent Article
LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, Md. — Cal Oren was threading his way through the Santa Cruz Mountains of California early one evening in 1993, driving his wife, brother and three tired children back from a day of hiking amid the redwoods. As their car neared the town of Ben Lomond, Mr. [...]
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