|
|
|
0 members (),
1,781
guests, and
94
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
Forums26
Topics35,508
Posts417,509
Members6,159
| |
Most Online3,380
Dec 29th, 2019
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 458
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 458 |
Archbishop Tikhon elected Primate of the OCA after the second round of voting this afternoon. See article here. [ oca.org] Axios.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 6
Junior Member
|
|
Junior Member
Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 6 |
Axios indeed. In my humble opinion Archbishop Tikhon is an authentic monastic. When I was a student at St. Tikhon's, back in the day, Fr. Tikhon was still a monk - one of my Instructors in Old Testament. He also taught me to chant and put the services together from the kleiros. A more meek individual you would be hard pressed to find. I believe he will provide a calm to the Holy Synod and the OCA in these troubled times.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 458
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 458 |
It is interesting that the new Metropolitan is also a convert from the Episcopal Church.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 7,309 Likes: 3
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 7,309 Likes: 3 |
Metropolitan Jonah was also a convert. Orthodoxy in the U.S. is becoming a convert-driven phenomenon. This is causing tensions between the converts and the ethnics, the latter frequently having a more rigorous approach to Orthodoxy combined with an evangelical zeal that a lot of ethnics find off-putting.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 6
Junior Member
|
|
Junior Member
Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 6 |
Yes, it is causing tension; I see this as a good thing. Having grown up ethnic and initially leaving the Orthodox Church due in some measure to the off-putting nationalism of my home parish and overall ignorance of what comprised the faith, the influx of converts has at the very least challenged many "cradle" to learn of what their faith consists. Converts insure the Church will in time truly become a Church for Americans as the Church is for the Ukrainians, Russians, etc., in their native coutries. I will never forget an "ethnic" say to a convert they could never be Orthodox because they were not born Orthodox from an Orthodox country; and still converts are coming into the Church.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 839
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 839 |
It is interesting that the new Metropolitan is also a convert from the Episcopal Church. He also converted in Met. Jonah's hometown-Chicago!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 978
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 978 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 2,855 Likes: 8
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 2,855 Likes: 8 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 10,090 Likes: 15
Global Moderator Member
|
|
Global Moderator Member
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 10,090 Likes: 15 |
Axios! Axios! Axios!
Eis polla aeti, Despota!
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
