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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18 April 2010

'We Long for Your Church'—Saints of Thessaloniki

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Today, the Third Sunday of Pascha, besides the well-known commemoration of the Myrrh-Bearing Women, the great city of Thessaloniki also comm...
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17 April 2010

'Theologian & Collector of Oddments'—St Isidore of Seville

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Today, 4 April on the Church’s calendar, we celebrate the memory of St Isidore (c. 560-636), Archbishop of Seville. An article on the Orthod...
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16 April 2010

'That Brilliant Young Star'—George Herbert

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A recent and brilliant post by Felix Culpa analysing the poem ‘Church-monuments’ by the dear English poet George Herbert made me realise ...
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15 April 2010

Literature & Moral Philosophy—Henry James

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Well, I’ve gone and missed a writer that I really wanted to post on. William Wordsworth’s birthday was last Wednesday, and aside from the fa...
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