Bishop Hilarion: God’s Mercy is immeasurable

How far can the mercy of God extend? Is there a limit? According to Jesus’ own revelations to St. Faustina, the answer is no. God’s mercy for His creation is unfathomable, without boundary, and unlimited by any constraint, human, or non-human.
In an amazing, even surprising ecumenical moment in the Catholic Church’s first World Congress on [...]

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Eastern Christian Blog Awards

Thanks to our friend Joseph at Byzantine, TX, the inaugural Eastern Christian Blog Awards has been launched. The Awards are open to all blogs by Christians of an Eastern Ritual tradition (Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Catholic, Assyrian, etc.) Please visit and nominate your favorite Eastern blogs today!

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What is Orthodox Theology?

“What almost always passes for ‘Orthodox theology’ among English-speaking Orthodox these days is actually just a branch of the larger Orthodox picture. Indeed, it tends sometimes to be rather sectarian.
The Orthodox Church is an ancient castle, as it were, of which only two or three rooms have been much in use since about 1920. These [...]

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Mirabile dictu!

The entire text of After Nine Hundred Years: The Background Of The Schism Between The Eastern And Western Churches by Yves Congar, OP (1959), is available online in several different formats. As some may recall, I posted excerpts from the second chapter of this work over at Cathedra Unitatis (part 1, part 2, and part 3).

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From Unia to Koinonia

An address given by His Beatitude, Gregorios III, Melkite Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, at Holy Apostles Seminary, Cromwell, CT, on Tuesday, May 28, 2002. [Source]

It is well known that it was in Antioch that the disciples of Jesus of Nazareth were called Christians for the first time (Acts 11: 26). This indicates the importance of [...]

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Widgets

I’ve added a couple more nifty widgets to the right side of the blog, including a blogroll. I’m always on the lookout for interesting Orthodox or Catholic blogs, so please let me know if the blogroll can be improved in any way.

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Fr Kimel: “The Sacramentality of Sacraments”

Over at De Cura Animarum, Fr Alvin Kimel has posted a piece on “The Sacramentality of Sacraments”. It is most interesting how he brings Fr Alexander Schmemann and Dom Anscar Vonier (both authors of classic modern expositions of the Eucharist) into dialogue with each other over Schmemann’s claims about the deficiencies of Western Catholic Eucharistic [...]

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Prof. Antoine Arjakovsky

From the blog of OCA Bishop Seraphim (Sigrist) comes an interesting interview with Antoine Arjakovsky, an Orthodox Frenchman and Professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University (the institution which now offers “the first distance learning Master’s program in Ecumenical Studies“).
In the interview, Professor Arjakovsky addresses why he, an Orthodox Christian of the Russian Tradition under the jurisdiction of Constantinople, teaches [...]

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