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Strange, Yet Familiar: My Journey: Part 3

July 28, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Those who predicted that, in becoming Orthodox, I would be cutting myself off from my own people and my national culture have been proved wrong. In embracing Orthodoxy, so I am convinced, I have become not less English but more genuinely so; I have rediscovered the ancient roots of my Englishness, for the Christian history of my nation extends back to a period long before the schism between East and West.

Filed Under: Anglicans/Episcopalians Tagged With: Anglican, Bishop Kallistos Ware, Bishop of Diokleia, Clergy, orthodox

Strange, Yet Familiar: My Journey: Part 2

July 27, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Orthodoxy, so I recognized in a sudden flash of insight, is not merely a matter of personal belief; it also presupposes outward and visible communion in the sacraments with the bishops who are the divinely-commissioned witnesses to the truth. The question could not be avoided: If Orthodoxy means communion, was it possible for me to be truly Orthodox so long as I still remained an Anglican?

Filed Under: Anglicans/Episcopalians Tagged With: Anglican, Bishop Kallistos Ware, Bishop of Diokleia, Clergy, orthodox

Strange, Yet Familiar: My Journey: Part 1

July 26, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Part One An Absence and a Presence by Bishop Kallistos (Ware), Bishop of Diokleia I can remember exactly when my personal journey to Orthodoxy began. It happened quite unexpectedly one Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1952, when I was seventeen. I was walking along Buckingham Palace Road, close to Victoria Station in central London, […]

Filed Under: Anglicans/Episcopalians, Clergy Tagged With: Anglican, Bishop Kallistos Ware, Bishop of Diokleia, convert, Oxford

 



 

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