About Me
- Michael
- I am an Orthodox Christian and a Reader in the Diocese of Great Britain and Ireland, serving with the blessing of His Grace Archbishop Mark. I struggle along, much like most people, but I do what I can, by God's grace. I have a love for the worship of the Orthodox Church - both eastern and western - and long for the day when we have a local Orthodox Church in Britain, giving a single voice and witness of the ancient Faith of these isles to the people of these isles, with their various backgrounds and walks of life.
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9 comments:
Michael,
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for posting this, which has spoken to me so very deeply.
May God richly bless you, and Our Lady always cover you with her Protecting Veil
Elizabeth, what a lovely thing to say! I'm so pleased that you found it of some use. May God richly bless you and yours.
Through the prayers of the Theotokos, O Saviour, save us!
Michael: a wonderful article. Thank you. And what a wonderful list of articles available there: I look forward to reading them i the weeks to come.
Thanks, ian. I must admit that, although I format and upload them, I have't actually read all of them. For the first time today I read the one about the path of ROCOR. It repeated some of the things I knew but shed some new light on the situation for me by teaching me things I didn't know. In the midst of conflicting histories from one faction and another, it's useful to be able to just sit and read the account of somebody who remembers from having lived through much of it. This is what we should have done from the start.
I can't wait. It's only a month now. :-)
We are all counting down to Ascension Day, and the glorious reunion. Prayers from Down Under, and your Antiochian brothers and sisters.
Hi Michael,
This was a wonderful post! I really enjoy your blog!
Could you recommend a book which would teach me more about the Orthodox Church? I'm an associate of an Episcopalian contemplative order, and I think this topic has been sadly missing from my reading!
Blessings,
Judith
mysticalmidget.blogspot.com
Hello, Judith. Welcome! :-)
Thank you so much for your kind words. For more about the Orthodox Church, manyu recommend "The Orthodox Church" authored under the name "Timothy Ware" (later Bishop, and now Metropolitan Kallistos). It is a good read and gives a good overview of things. One that I have been reading recently is "The Truth: What every Roman Catholic should know about the Orthodox Church". While it is written with a particular aim in mind (namely, to dispel many assumptions made about the Orthodox Church from the Catholic perspective), I have found it to be an extremely useful book in realising what some of the core differences are between where I have come from and where I am now, even though I was never Catholic.
I hope those provide a good staring point for you. :-)
Pax,
Michael
Hi Michael,
Thanks so much for the book recommendations -- I'll certainly get my hands on the two you mention!
Blessings,
Judy
I hope you find them useful, Judith. Try The Book Depository. The books may7 take longer to arrive then if you were to order them from somewhere on your side of the pond but they don't charge for delivery and it may work out to be less expensive.
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