ESSAY - PART I Setting the Agenda
_____________________________________________________ESSAY - PART I - Setting the agendaIf one is approaching the task of providing ourselves with a means of recovering people in the British Isles...
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Putting a little more of the background into the mix of the task before us, try reading this:newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/u...187127.stmFr. Michaelwww.orthodoxresurgence.co.uk/Petroc
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There are some few senior men in the FiF who understand quite clearly that all the things that FiF is doing are at best rearguard actions. They are not stemming the tide, they are hardly making it...
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Quote:Surely they can see that there is no genuine spiritual comfort or safety to be had in either a third province or the TAC?They desperately need the sort of certainty that only a strong,...
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Quote:I think that the best thing is still to have an regular, Orthodox ecclesial body set up and operating on however small a scale, and work from there. This is, of course, the ultimate answer, and...
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Fr. Michael wrote: Quote:If, for instance one looked at a student resident "college" - a building such as several terrace houses, together with a redundant church, one might find an organisation or...
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Fr. Michael wrote: Quote:Going in fully set up with a westerner as Bishop and a few westerners as missionary Priests is the best possible start, and it is for this that we should all earnestly pray....
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So now everyone thinks the picture of me is Ben Andersen, and the picture of Ben Andersen is Ari ....... hmmm... maybe its safer that way...Fr. Michaelwww.orthodoxresurgence.co.uk/Petroc
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Re: the parochial schools? They work. They don't have to be huge. As per the question about staff: there are a large number of highly educated Orthodox in the field of education that are simply...
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Fr. Michael wrote: Quote:So now everyone thinks the picture of me is Ben Andersen A rose by any other name...(Prov. 22:1). As long as it is prefaced by the words, "His Grace." Quote:and the picture of...
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Hi Aristibule, this college just "surfaced" in the ortho-Blogosphere a week or so ago...www.thecollegeofstgeorge.org/index.aspAn Orthodox "Great Books" college.
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I think we have a misunderstanding in English usage here. Fr. Michael is using the term "residential college" in our English sense, which primarily means a place of residence (and maybe tutoring) for...
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Thanks Huw for that link - it looks interesting - I shall go back and thoroughly explore it. I believe that the Australian Orthodox - ROCOR the Greeks and Antiochians have set up some sort of joint...
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Quote:the task of providing ourselves with a means of recovering people in the British Isles (and western Europe) to the fullness of the Christian Faith within The ChurchThe above quotation, taken...
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Quote:I really do doubt that any such enterprise could recover more than a very small percentage of membership from the Church of England to "the fullness of the Christian faith within the...
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It seems almost as though this conversation and the one going on in The Crossing (Evangelising the West) ought to be merged. However, there are differences, in that this conversation is meant to be...
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Quote:Looking at overall strategy therefore, I see much room for discussion regarding the kind and source of major episcopal and financial backing.Financial backing is going to have to be internal -...
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If thisconversation is about tactics while the other thread is about strategy, then Aristibule just crossed over into strategy.Tactics in the UK situation, as far as I can see at the moment, would...
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Ah, I thought this was the strategy discussion, and the one in the Crossings about tactics (ie, evangelisation, building community, advertising.) I'm not sure where a rule of prayer fits in.Of course,...
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Quote:Of course, I've searched further: I guess the Brazilian/Portuguese under Poland have been much reduced of late. They were the only local church with extra-jurisdictional dioceses that did not...
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