The Orthodox West Journal
Moving Past Polemics, Restoring the Whole Tradition,
and Fulfilling our Mission in the West
By the Very Rev. Fr. Patrick Cardine
St. Patrick Orthodox Church, Bealeton, Virginia
Originally published in The Basilian Journal V. 2.n.1 Fall 2020 #3
As a companion discussion, listen to the Gazette Podcast episode, “Moving Past Polemics.”
Continue reading “Why the Eastern Orthodox Church Needs the Western Rite”
This essay is an edited version of “Forming the Soul”, which appeared in The Orthodox Word Vol. 19 #1-2, 1983, St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, Platina, CA.
By the Sisters of St. Xenia Skete
To come to Orthodoxy from the world of today is to come from emptiness to riches, from shallowness to depth, from shams to a reality so all-encompassing that it can, at times, leave one quite uncertain as to the possibility of existing both in the Church and in the “real” world.
Continue reading “Forming the Soul With Western Culture”