December 2/ 15 1965 Your Holiness, We have inherited a legacy from the Holy Fathers that everything in the Church should be done in a legal way, unanimously, and conforming to ancient Traditions. If any of the bishops and even primates of one of the autocephalous...
by Protopresbyter George Grabbe In the pages of the Paris journal The Way, one could often read about the supposed perniciousness of the “Byzantine Period” in the life of the Church. Then, in their books, the contributors to this journal began to criticize...
Anti-Nicene Fathers Vol V. p.26 By Pontius the Deacon. ———— Although Cyprian, the devout priest and glorious witness of God, composed many writings whereby the memory of his worthy name survives; and although the profuse fertility of his...
Lecture XXIII. On the Mysteries V. On the Divine Liturgy and Holy Communion. 1 Peter. ii. 1. “Wherefore putting away all filthiness, and all guile, and evil speaking…” By the loving-kindness of God ye have heard sufficiently at our former meetings...
Lecture XXII On the Mysteries IV: On the Body and Blood of Christ 1 Cor. xi. 23. I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, how that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which He was betrayed, took bread… Even of itself the teaching of the Blessed Paul is...