North American Hierarchs

This past week hierarchs from all Orthodox jurisdictions met in Chicago for, I believe, their third joint meeting so far as the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops. There were forty three in all. They met for three days and certainly the highlight of the gathering was on Tuesday, September 11th, the feast day of the

Arguing

H/T: Salt of the Earth (here) “And all who sat in the council, looking steadfastly on [Stephen], saw his face as it had been an angel.” (Acts 6:15) O rare thing: it was in the midst of dispute, in the heat of an argument, that Stephen’s face was transfigured and became angelic, even to the

My body a church, blood a river and my hair trees

H/T: Mystagogy (here) What Scientists Have Said About the Miraculous Chapel of St. Theodora in Vasta By John Sanidopoulos What we know of the life of St. Theodora of Vasta comes entirely from local tradition, but her little chapel in southern Greece is known throughout the world and visited by thousands every year. The Chapel

A glass of water

H/T: Serbian Orthodox Patriarchate, interview with Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) here How does Your Eminence see perspectives that lay ahead of the Orthodox Church given great challenges of increasingly changing world? Can the world see the Orthodox Church as THE Church, not only as a mere ethnic experience of the Faith? Which challenge of modernity should

Weeping Icon in Columbus

H/T: Diocese of the Midwest, OCA (here) Icon reported to be weeping at St. Nicholas Church, Columbus, OH COLUMBUS, OH [MW Diocese Communications] — On Tuesday, August 28, 2012, the eve of the Feast of the Icon of Christ “Not Made with Hands” according to the Julian Calendar, an icon of our Lord, of the