tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post3350544676368676160..comments2023-12-16T16:17:43.886+00:00Comments on Fr Ray Blake's Blog: The Russian RevivalFr Ray Blakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-91405645090572243682017-08-11T09:43:32.465+01:002017-08-11T09:43:32.465+01:00@physiocrat: I won't give an answer that Wikip...@physiocrat: I won't give an answer that Wikipedia or the Britannica are better suited to give. In their effects though, both are devastating. "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's" ... and nothing more. But nothing less either!Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03983955289507752980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-64362973061055829352017-08-07T10:14:06.790+01:002017-08-07T10:14:06.790+01:00Decide for yourself. It this man a fraud?
Intervi...Decide for yourself. It this man a fraud?<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpe5oOjfgXk" rel="nofollow">Interview with Metropolitan Kirill</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kesRrDYkAtU" rel="nofollow"> Easter address</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eour2s9ZQSE" rel="nofollow"> Film biography</a><br /><br />My local experience is that, on the whole, our own clergy and bishops compare unfavourably with their Orthodox equivalents, and their liturgy is consistently up to an adequate standard of devotion. The Orthodox problems are about jurisdiction, a chaotic situation with the calendar and corrupt allocation of priests to parishes in some countries, but then if your face didn't fit even in A&B the priest would get a difficult parish.<br /><br />@Victor, what is the essential difference with cesaropapism and papocesarism?Physiocrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13682019625346594568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-78675987822418005222017-08-06T21:25:18.887+01:002017-08-06T21:25:18.887+01:00Interesting perhaps but not unusual. When the offi...Interesting perhaps but not unusual. When the official propaganda says that in order to be a proper Russian, you have to be Orthodox, you get these numbers. If you ran a poll in Italy or Poland you would get the same results. It is cesaropapism at its worst, and it will not end well for either church or state.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03983955289507752980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-34477663897227109502017-08-06T19:48:33.432+01:002017-08-06T19:48:33.432+01:00In an interview on Russian television, Mr Putin sa...In an interview on Russian television, Mr Putin said that he had been secretly baptised, as his mother was a devout Orthodox. I have seen Mr Putin worshipping in several Moscow cathedrals, and believe that his faith is genuine. The Orthodox liturgy is truly overwhlming in its beauty and symbolism.Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04264379572686048595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-46956384350976997582017-08-06T15:34:50.946+01:002017-08-06T15:34:50.946+01:00Reading this while listening to the recording of t...Reading this while listening to the recording of the Transfiguration service from the Church of the Transfiguration in St Petersburg. Regardless of what others say it seems wonderful to me that despite 70 years of Communism this can happen at all - somehow something has survived despite the best efforts of atheism.<br /><br />It would be great to think something similar could happen in this country. Yesterday I went to Fr Finigan's Church at Margate for a Day with Mary. Tridentine Mass, lots of hymns in both Latin and English, Litany of Loreto, an entire Rosary, stations of the Cross, Confessions etc. Two excellent talks from Father Finigan and one from a priest of the Ordinariate calling us back to Walsingham. It is a lay movement but assisted by half a dozen of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate. Our Lady was processed along the promenade in the morning and the Blessed Sacrament in the afternoon to the amazement of the passers-by who were visibly impressed. One of them commented to me how marvellous it was.<br /><br />However I am always struck by the irony of singing Faith of Our Fathers and reciting the Prayer for England in the company of faithful people who are almost entirely of ethnic and foreign origin. Where are the English I ask? But perhaps this is where the conversion of England will come from. It strikes me as the answer to my question of where I can channel my anger resulting from the current scandals in the Church largely emanating from Rome and Modernism.Nicolas Bellordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08063019108964247676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-73153737621449916762017-08-06T09:28:24.835+01:002017-08-06T09:28:24.835+01:00Thank you, Father, for this.Thank you, Father, for this.cogitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01279193827593426632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-9393587046152626482017-08-06T08:17:56.833+01:002017-08-06T08:17:56.833+01:00For years Russian Orthodoxy has been about the dom...For years Russian Orthodoxy has been about the domestic church. It is that now 70% claim adhesion, that is interesting.Fr Ray Blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-50187423844818093232017-08-06T03:34:12.767+01:002017-08-06T03:34:12.767+01:00That same Pew study says that only 6% of Russian O...That same Pew study says that only 6% of Russian Orthodox attend the Divine Liturgy on Sunday. That's hardly a revival. The vast majority of Russian Orthodox, therefore, do not avail themselves of the sacraments.Administratorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04316110629996426268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-28242885806580319322017-08-06T03:29:38.423+01:002017-08-06T03:29:38.423+01:00Best Orthodox website, from Russia: http://www.pra...Best Orthodox website, from Russia: http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/Woodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08910654300435533408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-32104505153162551172017-08-05T17:18:38.581+01:002017-08-05T17:18:38.581+01:00Thank you Father for posting the link to the Fr. M...Thank you Father for posting the link to the Fr. Montgomery Wright's BBC TV films. His reference, to his pre-conversion visit to the Cornish 'tin-chapel' and the (tangible) feeling of The Real Presence was most moving. How often I now finding myself visiting sterile churches.<br />Sixupmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12486627001579821658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-76683278639921913962017-08-05T06:27:31.305+01:002017-08-05T06:27:31.305+01:00I think the Old Believers might disagree with the ...I think the Old Believers might disagree with the assertion that the liturgy is unreformed, but I don't think they're on the internet so I think you're safe. bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07640982011003835802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-84193453660085765902017-08-04T22:45:32.359+01:002017-08-04T22:45:32.359+01:00Well said, Father.
Well said, Father.<br />gemoftheoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05521207668262592414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-81317788638064169282017-08-04T22:06:45.385+01:002017-08-04T22:06:45.385+01:00We seem to be creating our own problems within the...We seem to be creating our own problems within the Church. There are so many variations in the way in which some priests celebrate the OF Mass, largely (IMHO) because the rubrics seem so loose. Within the EF there are, I'm sure, priests who don't adhere strictly to the rubrics but, no doubt, it was ever thus. The main problem seems to be the the OF tends to 'dumb down' the Mass & people become less attentive when they seem always to be waiting to 'DO' something instead of focussing on the miracle which takes place at every Mass when Christ HIMSELF returns to His people, I am noticing more & more a lack of respect for the Blessed Sacrament reserved in the tabernacle. Priest & people seem often to pass the tabernacle with no mark of respect - & sadly that can apply to clergy & laity.David O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04023042558615821880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-36049257312152932162017-08-04T21:56:28.202+01:002017-08-04T21:56:28.202+01:00Steve, I would say our leaders have turned more to...Steve, I would say our leaders have turned more to Talmudism than Islam. As Pat Buchanan once quipped, "Congress is Israeli-occupied territory."Aged parenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05217229048176272954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-59308184395383094592017-08-04T21:52:27.105+01:002017-08-04T21:52:27.105+01:00I have to wonder if the Church in Russia isn't...I have to wonder if the Church in Russia isn't as politically manipulated as the Church in Ireland was, or the Church in the USA. For Ireland, I refer to the government subsidizing those laundries as social reform. For the USA its the proliferation of a very liberal agenda, which again I often think is subsidized by the government. In the three cases I question the wisdom of the regional churches being so aligned with their governments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-26506241000893235682017-08-04T21:16:36.731+01:002017-08-04T21:16:36.731+01:00They have already turned to islam. They have already turned to islam. Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11981406912579076381noreply@blogger.com