Recent content by Michał

Yesterday, the NLM website published some photos of this year's Orthodox Palm Sunday celebrations in Jerusalem: http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2011/04/palm-sunday-in-byzantine-east-church-of.html. Some people made a couple of comments about vestments coulours in the Orthodox Church...

I am aware of the fact that the current Pope never serves according to the "Extraordinary form of the Roman Rite," only according to what he himself (in 1990) called "a fabrication, a banal product of the moment." But even a NOM Liturgy can be done in the "Tridentine style." Is it the case with...

Why in the icon below (just like in many other icons of Christ distributing the Eucharist) there is a jug instead of a chalice?

Is it "Ee-ye-sus Kris-tos", "Ee-ye-sos Kris-tos", or yet another variant? Edit: I guess, I should have started this topic in the Foreign Languages section - sorry...

What would you recommend? I'm especially interested in books defending the EO position against the claims of other Christian bodies presenting themselves as the one true Church (Assyrian, OO and Catholic).

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon#Christianity): Is this information accurate? If yes, how do we know that king Solomon repented of his sins described in 1 Kings 11?

Can you recommend any online guides/handbooks/manuals for Eastern Rite Orthodox altar servers, please?

To OOs: Have you got any ex-EOs in your parish? To EOs: Have you got any ex-OOs in your parish? If yes, what were the reasons of conversion of these people? Lack of any parish of their own Church Communion in the area, or maybe unwillingness to attend a particular parish of their own Church...

1) http://socrates58.blogspot.com/2006/11/orthodoxy-eastern-index-page.html 2) http://gulielmusbyzantinus.blogspot.com/2008/08/eastern-orthodoxy.html Have anyone of you had a chance to study the materials from these two websites in depth? If yes, have you noticed any misquoting...

Did Rome accept the Quinisext Council via the Seventh Ecumenical Council?

My father received today, from a certain Orthodox priest he knows, a piece of a dried bread (which does not look like prosfora) and was told to have it with him up to 11 April (the Sunday after Pascha) and to eat it on that day. Does anyone know what this bread might be and what's the meaning of...

Once I visited a webstie providing a list of self-claimed (non-canonical, breakaway, independent) Orthodox Churches, but I can't remember its adress. Can anyone help, please? And to clarify: the site I have in mind is not this one: http://www.ind-movement.org.

Approximately how many Oriental Orthodox Christians are there globally?

Where are the WRO clergy of the ROCOR and the Patriarchate of Antioch trained? I'm asking about all the countries with the WRO presence.

What is the name of the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, present on the icon of St. Seraphim (or Nicholas) of Zagorov?