Moscow's Position

Absence of particular Churches from Amman will not make the meeting less significant

The Institute for Ecumenical Research: Call for Papers: “The Byzantine Liturgy & the Jews” (via Byz TX)

Metropoplitan Hilarion

Orthodox Christianity: The Church has never belittled the role of women—Met. Hilarion

But a sad concession: "Moreover, today in the Orthodox Church, His Eminence noted, there are many women working in leadership positions."

Metropolitan Hilarion in Ireland

Learned of This Today

This happened in November of last year: Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Baptized With the Name of Panteleimon
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa: “Do Not Fight, But Do Not Give Up!”

His clothing is more Chinese (or Northeast Asian) than Japanese...

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa: I’m Not Afraid to Die, I’m Just Afraid I’m Not Worthy of God’s Love

Gravitas

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He Should Come to SF Again

Post by Orthodoxy and the World.

Post by Митрополит Иларион Алфеев (Metropolitan Hilarion).

Metropolitan Hilarion in Romania

Post by Митрополит Иларион Алфеев (Metropolitan Hilarion).

This Sounds Good...

Post by Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church.

Waiting to See if There Will Be Any Special Dignitaries and Visiting Prelates

Post by Western American Diocese, Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.

Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts (Metropolitan Hilarion)

The 20th anniversary of the Glorification of St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco is July 2.

Related:
In the Footsteps of St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco By Ekaterina Stepanova

Pravmir: ‘Traditional Values in an Era of Globalization’ Symposium takes place in London

While Metropolitan Hilarion was in the UK:

Post by Orthodoxy and the World.

Pravmir

More Photos from Metropolitan Hilarion's Visit

This time at the FB page for Holy Virgin Cathedral.

Fort Ross Bicentennial Concelebration 2012
Vigil for the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos 2012
Liturgy for the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos 2012

More Photos from the Fort Ross Celebration Last Weekend

The 200th-Anniversary Celebrations at Fort Ross (Photo-Report)

These photos have already appeared at the Mospat site: Metropolitan Ilarion of Volokolamsk Celebrates Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow”

Милость мира / Mercy of the World / 救主慈悲


Seeing the mitres of the bishops I was reminded of what was written in The Myth of the Domus Ecclesiae by Steven J. Schloeder:

The ascendency of the residential model as the authentic liturgical form raised another question of architectural history: what to do with the intervening 1700 years of church building? For the mid-century and later architectural writers, the simple answer was that the domestic model was the ideal, and all later grand and hierarchical buildings are the deviations. Therefore, all the intervening eras, liturgical and artistic expressions, and architectural forms and styles came in for censure.

The changes in the age of Constantine were implicated for the advent of clericalism, turning the congregation into passive viewers at a formalistic ritual, the loss of liturgical and spiritual intimacy, and the subjugation of the Church’s evangelical mission to the politics of the emperor. The Christian basilica was thereby rejected as an expression of power-mongering and imperialistic tendencies.7

The Byzantine churches were rejected for their courtly imperial formality, where the ministers are hidden behind the iconostasis, only to venture out in courtly processions.

The Byzantine-rite mitre is more obviously derived from the Imperial crown, is it not? (Though the same is true of the Western mitre and papal tiara.) It is supposed to be a symbol of their office and a reminder that they are representatives of Christ. Still, given its secular origin (shared by other vestments?) might repel some, but there is a hierarchy associated with the sacrament of order, and as animals we need sensible reminders of this reality. Still, could a unique Christian headdress have been created?

Photos from Holy Virgin Cathedral

Here they are! I really missed out... it doesn't look like many of the Orthodox faithful were in attendance; there probably was enough room for me to be in one of the back corners.

(English translation of the article)

Very nice!

The links to the various articles covering Metropolitan Hilarion's visit to the SF Bay Area have been updated with photos?

I hope there will be photos of today's liturgy!

Edit. Boo. There is a single photo accompanying the headline, but nothing at the linked pages (yet?). If you want to see the photos you need to go to the Russian version of the website.

I hope he visits again soon.

Was thinking of seeing Metropolitan Hilarion today, but I was just too tired to drag myself out of bed and head to San Francisco. Here are some articles on his visit, but no photos or videos yet.

Round-table conference in USA on cooperation between Russian Orthodox Church and expatriates in North America and Oceania
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk addresses round-table conference on cooperation with expatriates
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk visits Trinity Cathedral in San Francisco
DECR chairman meets with dean and students of the Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute in Berkeley
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk leads celebrations marking 200th anniversary of Fort Ross

Oh! Some photos here: Metropolitan Hilarion and Metropolitan Ilarion Lead Anniversary Celebrations at Fort Ross, CA

I hope someone is taking photos or video at the cathedral today.

Edit. Man, now I'm wishing I went. Divine Liturgy must have started already.

Fr Alexander Krassovsky's sermon

Metropolitan Hilarion in town?

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk will visit USA to take part in celebrations on the occasion of 200th anniversary of Fort Ross

He will be celebrating the Divine Liturgy at St. Nicholas tomorrow, at Holy Virgin Cathedral on Tuesday.

Fort Ross 2012 Bicentennial
Diocese of the West

From February: An Interview with Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev





IEC 2012: Br. Alois Löser, Dr. Maria Voce, Liturgy of Word and Water - June 11, 2012

Items of Interest, 3 October 2011

Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Pope Benedict XVI

Transition: BBC2′s ‘Town’ programme about Totnes now online!


Shifting the Suburban Paradigm by Allison Arieff

Three strikes and you are out? - commentary [on Daniel Yergin's latest]
by Jeffrey J. Brown (EB)

Mark Mitchell, On Power (the subject of the post - On Power: The Natural History of its Growth by Bertrand de Jouvenel)

MARSHALL AUERBACK, Are Trade Deficits Really That Bad?

Has he looked at the problem of unmployment in connection to the supply of cheap energy and its displacement of human energy?

The new recession by Barath Raghavan (EB)

The real recession never ended
Anthony Mirhaydari, MSN Money

We're well into a recovery, so why does it still feel so bleak? Here's why: The crunch we’re in is rooted in stagnant paychecks and payrolls, and it’s more than a decade old.

Why an understanding of money creation is essential to financial reform by Josh Ryan-Collins

Redesigning business by Justin Ritchie (EB)

VIJAY PRASHAD, De-Colonize Wall Street

99% Wrong by Jim Goad

Jeffrey Polet, Plutonomics (he links to this article in Atlantic: "Can the Middle Class Be Saved?"

Reflections of a Questioner: The Palmetto Freedom Forum Revisited by Robert P. George

The importance of the Fourteenth Amendment for Robert George.

Fr. Z: Video interview with the Secretary of the Pont. Comm. “Ecclesia Dei”. Link to the video.



PATRICK COCKBURN, The Deadly Costs of Muslim Sectarianism

Yang Lan: The generation that's remaking China