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The Daily Offices for Morning and Evening Prayer in the Rite of St Tikhon. The readings are as assigned by the Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate, unofficially supplemented with other devotional material taken from the Breviary and the Psalter. Each MP/EP link will take you to a complete office, needing only the daily Psalter or, for…

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The Daily Offices for Morning and Evening Prayer in the Rite of St Tikhon. The readings are as assigned by the Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate, unofficially supplemented with other devotional material taken from the Breviary and the Psalter. Each MP/EP link will take you to a complete office, needing only the daily Psalter or, for…

I see conversations about human sexuality inside American Orthodoxy that are the same ones that happened in Anglicanism. It concerns me when we have conversations about sexuality without questioning our cultural assumptions about Ontology. In thinking about these things, I’ve published a new Essay called Ontology IV.

MYSTAGOGY: “Religious People Are Dangerous … God Protect Us From Them” Therefore let us take care of ourselves to understand that the Church is a hospital that heals us and helps us to love Christ, and the love of Christ is a flame that burns within our hearts.

So, I’m listening to “It’s Fun to Smoke Marijuana” on Freakonomics, a podcast from National Public Radio and I really needed to co to confession.  Not in a little way, mind you, but a big way.  The episode was all about Evil Imaginations. I’ve no idea what it is in Slavonic or Greek, in Russian it’s злые фантазии and…

The Daily Offices for Morning and Evening Prayer in the Rite of St Tikhon. The readings are as assigned by the Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate, unofficially supplemented with other devotional material taken from the Breviary and the Psalter. Each MP/EP link will take you to a complete office, needing only the daily Psalter or, for…

Orthodoxy says she is the Church: her institutional boundaries are the visible boundaries of the Church. There maybe invisible boundaries – but that’s in God’s hands. If you want to see the Church, see Orthodoxy. That’s all there is. Recently all the heads of the Autocephalous Churches (except the Orthodox Church in America, which autocephaly…

I’m always amused by the way we craft our stories.  The life of St Gregory in the earlier post says, He rebuked the presumption of John, Patriarch of Constantinople, who had taken to himself the title of Bishop of the Universal Church.  I found that interesting: since this is 500 years before “The Great Schism”…

Styled in the East, “the Dialogist” Tonight at Vespers (the First Vespers of the feast) was read, in the Rite of St Tikhon, the “Legend” or the Life of the Saint. In the Rite of St Gregory, a monastic rite, it will be read later tonight at Matins, for either as follows: Gregory the Great…

Father Alexander of blessed memory, says: What we have to understand first of all, is that the problem under discussion is complicated by something our well-intentioned “conservatives” do not comprehend, in spite of all their denouncing and condemning of secularism. It is the fact of the very real connection between secularism—its origin and its development—and…

As the Prophets beheld,As the Apostles taught,As the Church received,As the Teachers dogmatized,As the Universe agreed,As Grace illumined,As the Truth revealed,As falsehood passed away,As Wisdom presented,As Christ awarded,Thus we declare,Thus we assert,Thus we proclaim Christ our true Godand honor His saints,In words,In writings,In thoughts,In sacrifices,In churches,In holy icons.On the one hand, worshipping and reverencing Christ…

If in my actions or words or tweets I have sinned against you or made you stumble or made you angry, please forgive me.

The Daily Offices for Morning and Evening Prayer in the Rite of St Tikhon. The readings are as assigned by the Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate, unofficially supplemented with other devotional material taken from the Breviary and the Psalter. Each MP/EP link will take you to a complete office, needing only the daily Psalter or, for…

The Daily Offices for Morning and Evening Prayer in the Rite of St Tikhon. The readings are as assigned by the Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate, unofficially supplemented with other devotional material taken from the Breviary and the Psalter. Each MP/EP link will take you to a complete office, needing only the daily Psalter or, for…