The idea that Christians do not need the Church and can find spiritual life and sure guidance without membership of any organised community of believers is a very recent but certainly popular one. It is the end point of the development of the Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura, which established the personal interpretation and opinion […]
At a recent service I was describing the Orthodox Christian life as I understand it, and as the Fathers teach it. It is union with God in Christ by the indwelling Holy Spirit in the heart through the experience of unceasing prayer. Someone suggested that this might be the Orthodox Christian way of life for […]
I was born into a Protestant family. My parents were committed and devout evangelical Christians, and they brought me up to be active in my faith, and in the Christian community to which we belonged. I was part of a congregation of the Plymouth Brethren. We were part of the Open Brethren, not the […]
Good news? The Christian message is one of Good News for all mankind, but over the centuries it has been misunderstood and misrepresented. Orthodox Christianity has preserved the faith which was taught by the Apostles, the followers of Jesus Christ, and this faith remains Good News for all who receive it with hope. The beginning […]
Yesterday [back in 2016 now] I was blessed indeed to celebrate for the first time the Coptic Orthodox Liturgy of St Basil at the Abbey of St Mary in Glastonbury. I had arrived in Glastonbury for the Feast of the Transfiguration, and in our Liturgy we already looked forward to the Feast of the Virgin […]
In the account today from the Gospel we heard the well-known passage in which our Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God incarnate, took some of his disciples up onto a mountain, and there he was transfigured before them. We believe and confess that the humanity of our Lord Jesus was of the same substance […]
The St George Orthodox Ministry is one among many in the different Orthodox Churches which is sharing the Orthodox Faith with British people. This ministry serves within the Patriarchal Diocese of the Coptic Orthodox Church, and is under the care of His Grace Bishop Angaelos. We have only this ambition, to be able to share […]
It is undoubtedly the case that the Virgin Mary remains a great obstacle to people from an evangelical background considering the claims of the Orthodox Faith to be the one Church which is the Body of Christ, established by the ministry of the Apostles in the power of the Holy Spirit. This would hardly have […]
In this 10th reflection during the Fast of the Virgin Mary I would like to return to the account found in the Proto-evangelium of St James. The infant Virgin Mary was received into the Temple precincts where she spent her childhood in the company of angels, and in the care of the consecrated Widows and […]
It is significant that the Virgin Mary is present and active at the first miracle which our Lord Jesus Christ performed. We may remember the account of the Wedding at Cana. Jesus and his disciples were guests, and at some point in the event it was discovered that the host was running out of wine. […]