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New reflection on service in the Holy Altar
12 September 2011
We have today published a new reflection in our Liturgical Resources area:
'To Serve in My Father's House' - Reflections on Service in the Holy Altar. Focussing on the nature and spirit of divine service, this text explores the general attitude required of pious service in the holy Altar, and offers guidance on serving in a manner that enables all those called to minister around God's Holy Table to live out their roles as living icons of the angelic orders.
Christ is Risen! Paschal Resources for 2011
23 April 2011
Christ is risen! Христос воскресе! Χριστός ἀνέστη! We greet all our readers, subscribers and visitors with the radiant joy of the Holy Pascha of our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ! During this luminous season, may we invite you to explore the rich resources provided on Monachos.net for Holy Pascha, including a
central Paschal materials area that contains the Paschal troparion and greeting in over 60 languages; writings from the Church Fathers on Pascha and the Resurrection of Christ; two patristic radio broadcasts on Holy Pascha; as well as numerous texts, hymns, readings, reflections, poems and other materials for Paschaltide.
Two major texts by St Nikolai (Velimirovich)
13 January 2011
In addition to the three brief homilies on the Theotokos by St Nikolai (Velimirovich) published earlier today, we have published two major texts by the newly-canonised (2003) Serbian saint:
The New Ideal in Education was delivered in London in 1916, and represents a clear portrait of St Nikolai's vision of the ideals in Christian education in the modern world.
The Agony of the Church was originally given as a series of lectures in Westminster, and published as a volume in 1917. In it, St Nikolai addresses the nature of the Church as it exists and interacts with modern state realities.
Translation of Monachos.net content now in-line
03 September 2010
We have added the ability for you to translate any of the Monachos.net web site's main pages (excluding the Discussion Community forum) into any of some 58 languages provided by Google Translation's services. This new feature is integrated into Monachos.net, allowing in-line translation on the site itself, without having to go to Google's servers: simply select the language of your choice from the 'Translation' box on the right side of almost all pages, and the page will be translated in-line. Your preferred language will also 'follow' you, meaning that when you click a link to go to a new page, that page will also be translated into your chosen language. The most commonly-requested languages are shown as flags; others are provided in a drop-down list. As pages are translated in-line, it may take a few seconds for the translation to complete on a given page, changing the English base text into your chosen language.
Please note that this is a computerised translation system provided by Google: expect the kind of rough translations these systems produce! These are not meant to be careful translations; rather, the system is meant to provide easier access to Monachos.net's content for those who may have trouble with English.
Orthodox poetry added for Holy Week and Pascha
16 April 2011
We have published two poems by Orthodox poet Timothy Jeffries Johnson, reflecting on the liturgical and scriptural themes of these days of Passion Week and Pascha.
'Mother, Do Not Weep' is a poetic reflection on the imagery of the Ninth Ode of the Matins Canon of Great and Holy Saturday, sung before the epitaphios and tomb of Christ, in which the crucified Lord cries out to His Mother from the grave, 'Weep not for me...'. The poem
'Do Not Touch Me (Μὴ μοῦ ἅπτου)...' is a reflection on the encounter in the Garden with the risen Lord by St Mary Magdalene.
Three homilies on the Theotokos by St Nikolai (Velimirovich)
12 January 2011
We have today published to the
patristic texts library a document containing
three homilies on the Theotokos by St Nikolai (Velimirovich). The newly-glorified (2003) St Nikolai is one of the great luminaries of the Serbian Orthodox Church of the 19th and 20th centuries, and a voice that brings the living tradition of the patristic heritage into full dialogue with the modern world. In the three brief homilies gathered here, St Nikolai addresses what he calls the 'Gospel of the Theotokos': that is, her precious witness to all Christians of the life lived in Christ.
Two early documents on the Feast of the Dormition
02 September 2010
We have today added two documents that will be of value to those interested in studying the histories of the Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God - a feast for which we have of late been publishing various documents. The first is a document from the apocryphal documents of the New Testament era: Pseudo-John the Theologian's Concerning the Falling Asleep of the Mother of God. A pseudepigraphic text of the fifth or sixth century, this document provides an interesting glimpse into some of the variations in the Dormition tradition that were in circulation in the early period (this text being an example of the 'Bethlehem tradition'), that were known to the Fathers of the Church yet not incorporated into the ongoing liturgical testimony of the feast by reason of their variation from its core details.
Similarly, we have added Theodosius of Alexandria's Discourse on the Falling Asleep of the Mother of God. This late sixth-century text bears witness to the development of the feast within the Coptic milieu, where formerly the commemoration of the dormition was kept separately from that of the bodily assumption of the Virgin, but in Theodosius' day had come together. This is thus a fascinating historical document, as well as a textual insight into some of the common themes between broader Orthodox liturgical life, and the widening gulf with miaphysite contexts (Theodosius himself was at first recognised by the Eastern Orthodox, though later rejected).
