A Russian Catholic
This is a Substack of a Russian Catholic of the Byzantine rite, a seminarian and a tonsured reader who loves the Catholic Church, his Motherland, and the Christendom. All the discourse here is about these three, for their peace and unity in Christ.
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My Russian Catholic Wedding: It’s Been Two Months (opens the original)
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Two months ago, on 3 July according to the old calendar — that is, 16 July according to the new style, the feast of St Hyacinth of Rome and the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel — I took Sophia Krasheninnikova as my wife. She now bears my surname.The Sacrament was celebrated by Fr Alexander Burgos, parish priest of the Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit, where I grew to the point of entering the Seminary and where my vocation to the priesthood was strengthened, concelebrating with Fr Vasil
Another Case of East-West Agreement on the Filioque (opens the original)
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From: Алексей Бармин, «Полемика и схизма. История греко-латинских споров XI – XII вв., Институт философии, теологии и ист
‘Mutua Concordia’: A Guide for Catholics and Orthodox (opens the original)
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Pope Leo has just given the synods of the patriarchal and major archiepiscopal Eastern Catholic Churches the power to remove their patriarchs and major archbishops when the bond between the Pater et Caput and his brother bishops has become seriously and irreparably compromised, and when serious discord has arisen within the Church. Subscribe nowThe document named Mutua Concordia, whi
‘FOR THE EMPRAH!’: Martyrdom and Sainthood in the Post-Schismatic Christian East (opens the original)
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Recently, with the participants of the annual retreat of Russian Byzantine Catholics, we visited the Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery in Moscow. Our guide spoke not only about the history of the monastery, but also about the secret monastic communities that were served in the early twentieth century by Archbishop Bartholomew Remov. It is worth mentioning that he later became a Catholic and was given by Rome the titular see of Sergiev Posad — the town beside the Lavra of St Sergius of Radonezh, one of
The Archaeotech of the Council (opens the original)
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Extract from the proscribed treatise of Magos-Historian Kyriakos of the Hellenic Sector. Unauthorized possession is punishable by compulsory recitation of the Philokalia in binary.During the Dark Age of Ecclesiology, Mankind possessed a machine of such perfection that even the study of its operating principles now borders upon heresy.It was designated the Ecumenical Council.Subscribe nowThe surviving datascrolls classify it as an archaeotech s
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