April 2nd, 2019
The Central Place of the Orthodox Academy in the Church’s Resistance to Secularism
By Archpriest Peter Heers
Sydney, Australia
Monday, April 1 (March 19), 2019
Articles tagged: Secularism
April 1st, 2019
The Boundaries of Salvation: The ‘Two Natures’ of Communion in Christ
Lecture by Archpriest Peter Heers
Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church
Blacktown NSW, Sydney, Australia
Sunday, March 31 (18), 2019
March 31st, 2019
Becoming One With Christ: The Spiritual Presuppositions of Participation in the Mysteries
A Lecture By Archpriest Peter Heers
Saint Alexis the Man of God Orthodox Church
Alexandria, Sydney, Australia
Saturday, March 30 (17), 2019
QUOTE FOR CONSIDERATION:
St. Symeon the New Theologian on the Presuppositions to Participation in the Holy...
March 28th, 2019
PHOTO REPORT: Lecture Delivered to the Clergy Assembly of the Serbian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand
Lecture Entitled: “The Church and Secularism: Standing Before the Spirit of Antichrist”
PHOTO REPORT
LECTURE DELIVERED TO THE CLERGY ASSEMBLY OF THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND
I am presently in Australia delivering lectures to the faithful of the Serbian Orthodox Archdiocese at the invitation and with...
March 27th, 2019
PHOTO REPORT: Lecture Delivered to the Clergy Assembly of the Australian Diocese of ROCOR
Lecture Entitled: “The Boundaries of the Church and the Demonic Method of Adulteration of the Faith in Ecumenism.”
PHOTO REPORT
LECTURE DELIVERED TO THE CLERGY ASSEMBLY OF THE DIOCESE OF AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND of the RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OUTSIDE OF RUSSIA
“The Boundaries of the Church and the Demonic Method of Adulteration of the Faith in Ecumenism.”
On Tuesday, March 26 (13), in addition to lectures I am delivering to the faithful of the...
March 23rd, 2019
Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God: The Spiritual Priorities of Pilgrims on the Path to Heaven
By Archpriest Peter Heers
Archpriest Peter Heers
Saint Stephan the Protomartyr * Rooty Hill, Australia
Friday, March 22 (9), 2019
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St. Gregory Palamas: A Guide of Orthodoxy vis-a-vis the West and Roman Catholicism
By Archpriest Peter Heers
Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church
Brisbane, Australia
Saturday, March 23 (10), 2019
...March 9th, 2019
The Orthodox Ethos: Its Distortion, and Our Acquisition and Realization of It
Lecture by Archpriest Peter Heers
March 7th, 2019
NEW LECTURE: UNDERSTANDING SIN AND FORGIVENESS (+ Q & A)
By Archpriest Peter Heers
June 27th, 2018
Jean-Claude Larchet calls for abstinence from social media during fasting periods
Prof. Jean-Claude Larchet
During the first day of the International Conference on Digital Media and Orthodox Pastoral Care in Crete (DMOPC18), the renowned theologian Jean-Claude Larchet said that during the fast seasons Christians ought to reduce their activity on social platforms.
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Petition to all local Churches to include the abstinence from the use of the...
May 25th, 2018
How our world stopped being Christian: anatomy of a collapse
Review by Jean-Claude Larchet of Guillaume Cuchet’s book Comment notre monde a cessé d’être chrétien. Anatomie d’un effondrement [How our world stopped being Christian: anatomy of a collapse] (Paris: Seuil, 2018), 276 pp.
For half a century, many authors have noted the spectacular decadence of Catholicism in France and more widely in Europe, and have worried about it: Louis Bouyer in The Decomposition of Catholicism (1968), Serge Bonnet in À hue et à dia. The Avatars of Clericalism in the Fifth Republic (1973), Michel de Certeau and Jean-Marie Domenach in Christianity Exploded (1974), Paul...
April 12th, 2018
On the Essential Identity of Ecumenism and Phyletism
By Archpriest Peter Heers
As Fr. Seraphim Rose once wrote, the difference between Orthodoxy and heterodoxy is most apparent in that the Orthodox Church (in Her Saints) is able to discern the spirits. Moreover, discernment of the methods of the fallen spirits is a requirement in the formation of Christology and Ecclesiology. As the Evangelist John writes, “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the...