At its March 9 session, the Holy Synod of the Russian
Orthodox Church decided to
add St. Patrick, the Enlightener of Ireland, St. Alban
the Protomartyr of Britain, St. Genevieve of Paris, and
twelve other Western saints from the first millennium,
before the West departed into heresy, to its official
calendar.
As Interfax-Religion reports, the
Russian Orthodox Church intends to continue adding such
revered Western Church figures to its calendar for
annual celebration. Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of
Volokolamsk stated on the “Church and the
World” television program that “This
process is not completed. It has only started.”
According to the bishop, St. Patrick and the others were
added to the calendar at the request of Russian dioceses
in the diaspora which have already been venerating such
saints. “There are other Western saints whom I hope
will also soon be included in the calendar of our
Church,” His Eminence stated.
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I am very pleased with this development. I think this will open up Orthodoxy more to the West, and as its young men look for refuge from the collapse of these societies, the Orthodox community will grow. The Church must not sleep as this chance presents itself, nor worse still resist it by appeasing the decadent forces already in motion, from which they will be trying to locate shelter in Tradition.
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ReplyDeleteIannes, could you explain that remark please?
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