Ad Orientem: Head of Antiochian Archdiocese Calls for Monastic Revival

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Now there is a post title I never expected to see on this blog. Details can be read here.

Thiago Santos de Moraes said...: Why you never expected somthing like this?; 7/10/2014 2:31 PM
John (Ad Orientem) said...: Metropolitan Philip (memory eternal) was decidedly cool towards monasticism.; 7/10/2014 2:43 PM
Abbot Theodore said...: From His Eminence's lips to God's ears!; 7/11/2014 4:44 PM
bob said...: Pretty trivial. What a fantasy, that monasticism is a magic solution to dishonest bishops and clergy, dishonest church history. Even Joseph doesn't realize that if you have good laymen you get good clergy. Monastics are a smokescreen.
Sucker converts have stars in their eyes every time they see a funny hat, a beard and lots of black cloth.; 7/19/2014 12:37 AM
The Anti-Gnostic said...: Sucker converts have stars in their eyes every time they see a funny hat, a beard and lots of black cloth.

Most of the funny hats, beards and cassocks are fully assimilated Americans at this point. The Antiochians in Central and South America have made it clear that culturally they are a "Latin American" Church. And Orthodox missions are starting among the ethnically distinct indigenous peoples in Guatemala and elsewhere.

At some point, a church of converts perforce becomes a church of cradles, as with the Angles, Slavs and everybody else of Late Antiquity.; 7/20/2014 12:35 AM