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This website - a collection of meditations and prayers in the Orthodox Christian tradition - is named in honor of the story of Father Arseny. (Click here to learn more about Father Arseny.) It contains traditional prayers and meditations from various Eastern Orthodox saints, monastics, clergy, and faithful. However, this website is not an official or authorized site of any particular diocese. Visitors to this site are encouraged to regularly attend a canonical, local Orthodox parish. The following statements from "Social Media & Digital Conduct Policy" of the Eastern American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia may be helpful:
This website - a collection of meditations and prayers in the Orthodox Christian tradition - is named in honor of the story of Father Arseny. (Click here to learn more about Father Arseny.) It contains traditional prayers and meditations from various Eastern Orthodox saints, monastics, clergy, and faithful. However, this website is not an official or authorized site of any particular diocese. Visitors to this site are encouraged to regularly attend a canonical, local Orthodox parish. The following statements from "Social Media & Digital Conduct Policy" of the Eastern American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia may be helpful:
"Digital media may serve as a useful means of communication, education, and initial evangelization, but it is not a substitute for the lived sacramental life of the Church. The ordinary work of pastoral ministry is fulfilled within the parish through worship, Confession, spiritual guidance, and participation in the Holy Mysteries."
"The fundamental expression of Orthodox life is within the physical world into which Our Lord incarnated: a believer participates in the Sacraments and divine services at their parish. The digital era has opened a new milieu for pastoral care and evangelization, but it cannot, and must never, replace parish life."
Many today feel either the emptiness of secularism or the superficiality of consumer-driven Christianity. Many have also appreciated the deep (and thoroughly Scriptural) form of ancient Christianity still preserved in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Despite the imperfect expressions of Orthodoxy existing in many parishes, the truth and experience of Christ's Church continues to shine. Within this Church is a vast treasure of prayers and meditations. Although some people think "written prayers" have no place in a fresh, spontaneous spiritual life, the testimony of the Church suggests otherwise. The earliest Christians were devoted to "the prayers" (Acts 2:42 - translation from original Greek NT manuscripts). May all who visit this site be blessed by meditations and prayers in the historic Orthodox Christian tradition.
Many today feel either the emptiness of secularism or the superficiality of consumer-driven Christianity. Many have also appreciated the deep (and thoroughly Scriptural) form of ancient Christianity still preserved in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Despite the imperfect expressions of Orthodoxy existing in many parishes, the truth and experience of Christ's Church continues to shine. Within this Church is a vast treasure of prayers and meditations. Although some people think "written prayers" have no place in a fresh, spontaneous spiritual life, the testimony of the Church suggests otherwise. The earliest Christians were devoted to "the prayers" (Acts 2:42 - translation from original Greek NT manuscripts). May all who visit this site be blessed by meditations and prayers in the historic Orthodox Christian tradition.
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