tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10336499.post2980707081977698811..comments2023-07-08T08:12:28.854-04:00Comments on Oh Taste and See: St. AlexisFr. Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03489705490983833993noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10336499.post-50826457960789793912010-05-17T21:47:06.735-04:002010-05-17T21:47:06.735-04:00I greatly appreciated the email opportunity to rea...I greatly appreciated the email opportunity to read this, and was blessed to be able to attend Liturgy on his day, and thought of it a lot during it.<br /><br />Thank you!Mimihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02645484704486562810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10336499.post-38175635616523250962010-05-10T18:04:46.950-04:002010-05-10T18:04:46.950-04:00I propose, in sweet ecumenical fashion, the beatif...I propose, in sweet ecumenical fashion, the beatification of his Eminence, bishop John Ireland, as (involuntary) founder of the OCA. <br />:-)The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10336499.post-62311281237453027192010-05-07T14:45:30.370-04:002010-05-07T14:45:30.370-04:00Another aspect of the anti-Hungarian bias was the ...Another aspect of the anti-Hungarian bias was the shared memories of forced labor and payment of the Hungarian priest aristocracy in the old country.<br /><br />On the ROCOR practices, when last I went to a Met. Jonah talk he commented that what is practiced in their parishes today is a preservation of the 19th century Russian practices. The standard parish in Russia will not match up with the Byzantine, TXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17845681957622343484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10336499.post-27522056133853916792010-05-07T14:27:02.219-04:002010-05-07T14:27:02.219-04:00Couple more things: the "didn't quite mak...Couple more things: the "didn't quite make it" comment seems to also be validated by Metropolitan JONAH's tendency to look to Moscow when making rubrics adjustments.<br /><br />I found Archimandrite Serafim Surrency's book <i>The Quest for Orthodox Church Unity in America</i> (in the endnotes) to be a very informative guide through the whole process of the twentieth century.Fr. Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03489705490983833993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10336499.post-52659808769987557572010-05-07T14:23:35.664-04:002010-05-07T14:23:35.664-04:00Josephus,
Indeed, there was a sense that St. Alex...Josephus,<br /><br />Indeed, there was a sense that St. Alexis (and, even more so, St. Mary's Church in Minneapolis) were extremely eager to embrace Muscovite Orthodoxy. As you no doubt know (but I'll put it here for information's sake), <i>the</i> reason for St. Alexis' expulsion from St. Mary's was the arrival of a Russian hieromonk who subbed for him while he was Fr. Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03489705490983833993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10336499.post-80183300458689096642010-05-07T12:34:10.407-04:002010-05-07T12:34:10.407-04:00The following is a paper I wrote for Church Histor...The following is a paper I wrote for Church History; appropriate for the saint commemorated today. Also an insight (though this is not the topic of the paper) that the "Low Slavic" nature of the OCA (as opposed to the "Higher Russian" flavor in the ROCOR can be attributed in large part to the heavy Carpatho-Russian origins of much of the OCA, origins which were immediately Byzantine, TXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17845681957622343484noreply@blogger.com