“Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven”
orthodoxaustralia “Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven” Every Sunday during the Beatitudes part of the Divine Liturgy, we hear this being chanted: “Blessed are…
In Memory of our Blessed Metropolitan Paul Saliba
This photograph is his Eminence Metropolitan Paul (Saliba). He passed away to the Lord about three days ago. Aged about 78. He was the bishop for Australia & most of…
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage”
There may be something rather intriguing in this Epistle of Holy Apostle Paul to the Galatians which starts off with what may look a very clear passage that may seem…
The rigging of gold and silver
Deutsche Bank accepted an earlier settlement by admitting rigging precious metal markets for turning others in. There is a bigger (involving many more banks) and far more important lawsuit in…
Fr Seraphim Rose: Seeking the realization of Christian “ideals” in this world is idolatry; it is of the Antichrist
A Letter to Thomas Merton, 1962 By Eugene Rose (excerpts in video format and some very important additional information at the end of the article – please watch) I am…
Appeal of Elder Raphail of Mount Athos to Patriarch Kirill and the Russian Orthodox Church
Elder Raphail Berestrov is one of the few spiritual giants left in the world. He is 85 years old. He is a schemamonk who spent many years in the monastery…
Ethereum
One of the most troubling projects, one that will fundamentally change the world, one about which nobody is telling you anything in the media, a project in which billions upon…
Pope Paul VI in New York 1965
by Eugene Rose from The Orthodox Word issue #5, September 1965 (in video format at the end of article) Perhaps no other event in recent history has been so clear…
Christianity and Socialism
By the New Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitsky) Men verily swear by the greater (Heb. 6:16). This truth remains ever and everywhere immutable. Any single truth or any series of truths always…
St. Meletios the Confessor on the Tollhouses
Newly discovered excerpts unavailable at the time of publishing The Departure of the Soul: St. Meletios the Confessor of Mount Galesion (+1286) – (commemorated on January 19th) Called by God…