Showing posts with label Optina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Optina. Show all posts
03 May 2010

On Hieromonk Clement (Sederholm)

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A recent comment on this post , by ‘a Lutheran (conservative Missouri Synod-type) with many years’ interest in Orthodoxy’, suggested the ide...
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21 April 2010

St Sebastian of Optina on Tolstoy's Last Days, Part 2

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Continued from this post . After his departure from Optina on 29 October 1910, Tolstoy’s next stop was the women’s monastery at Shamordino, ...
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20 April 2010

St Sebastian of Optina on Tolstoy's Last Days, Part 1

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Until quite recently, when I began tutoring a grad student working on an independent study course on Tolstoy, I had only recalled vague circ...
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19 April 2010

'A Successor of the Grace of Optina Eldership'—St Sebastian the Confessor

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Today, 6 April on the Church’s calendar, we celebrate the memory of St Sebastian the Confessor of Optina and Karaganda (1884-1966). Although...
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24 October 2009

An Apology on the Synaxis of the Holy Optina Elders

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I’m afraid I must offer my apologies for the non-activity here the last couple of days. My family and I are staying with some cousins in Aus...
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12 May 2009

'Lightness, Joy, & Peace'—St Nektary of Optina

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Today, 29 April on the Church’s calendar, we celebrate the memory of St Nektary (1853-1928), the last elder of Optina Pustyn’. Rather than p...
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13 April 2009

Elder Nektary, C.G. Jung, & C.S. Lewis on Rider Haggard

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The subject of imaginative literature does not often come up in the biographies of holy ascetics. One happy exception, however, is The Life ...