2017.11.15. The Legacy of St Innocent and ROCOR. Lecture by Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen)
The Legacy of St Innocent and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. Lecture by Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen)
November 15, 2017
Delegation of Russian Orthodox foreign hierarchs arrives in Moscow
1. Wide of Moscow' s Sheremetyevo-2 airport
2. Wide interior or terminal building with priests walking up stairs
3. Mid of arrivals monitor
4. Wide of journalists waiting
5. Mid of Russian monks waiting
6. Wide of Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad (left) and Metropolitan Laurus of New York and Eastern America (right) walking
7. Mid of press pan left to Metropolitan Laurus and Metropolitan Kirill
8. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad:
All those reasons, those historical reasons which divided the church are in the past now. There is no godless authorities, there is no more church in Russia that is not free, there are no more obstacles that can interfere in the relationship between Orthodox people living in Russia and abroad. That is why those historic developments that divided the Orthodox church are gone.
9. Mid of Russian state emblem
10. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Metropolitan Laurus of New York and Eastern America:
I think it is an event of great importance, of course. It is of special significance for the Russian Church, which has been divided for more than 80 years, that is why the event is very important that we will have to do here.
11. Metropolitan Kirill and Metropolitan Laurus speaking to media
12. Various of Metropolitan Laurus and Metropolitan Kirill walking down stairs
13. Mid shot cameramen outside
14. Mid of cars
15. Wide of cars driving away
STORYLINE:
Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), a breakaway church-in-exile, arrived in Moscow on Tuesday ahead of a signing ceremony that will formalise its reunification with the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate.
Metropolitan Laurus, the New York-based leader of ROCOR, was welcomed at Moscow's Sheremetyevo-2 airport by Metropolitan Kirill, who is the Russian Orthodox Church's head of external relations.
The delegation was expected to take part in the signing of the Act on Canonical Communications between ROCOR and the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate,
It is an event of great importance, of course. It is of special significance for the Russian Church, which has been divided for more than 80 years, Metropolitan Laurus said upon arrival.
The signing ceremony, set to take place at the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, has been scheduled for Thursday 17 May.
The emigre church split from the Patriarchate three years after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and cut all ties in 1927, after Patriarch Sergiy declared the Orthodox church's loyalty to the Soviet Union's communist government.
The Russian Orthodox Church had said that Sergiy's move was aimed at saving the church.
It disavowed Patriarch Sergiy's declaration this year.
Talk of re-establishing ties began after the Soviet collapse in 1991.
Both churches formed working groups after a 2003 visit to Russia by three emigre archbishops and a 2004 visit by Laurus, who came at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin.
Talks between the Patriarchate and ROCOR continued for the next three years with an objective to eliminate the differences that impeded reunification.
At the end of 2006, the Synods of both Churches endorsed all the documents drafted for signing and agreed on the date, on which the Act on Canonical Communications is to be signed.
Under the provisions of the Act, ROCOR will become a self-governing agency of the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate, with a large degree of autonomy in administrative, economic, proprietary, and legal affairs.
ROCOR will get one more benefit from the reunification - the official recognition by other national denominations of Eastern Orthodoxy.
It had no such recognition over the 80 years of its existence.
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Interview with Metropolitan Jonah - Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia
Interview with His Eminence Metropolitan Jonah, former Archbishop of Washington, and Metropolitan of All America and Canada with the Orthodox Church in America (OCA).
Since his retirement as primate and subsequent release from the OCA, His Eminence has served as a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) in the USA.
His Eminence’s election had signified a monumental milestone for the OCA church, having been a convert to Orthodox Christianity in his early adult life, to go on to become the first convert to ever be elected as primate of the OCA.
The interview delves on the following topics:
- Metropolitan Jonah’s journey to Orthodox Christianity.
- Orthodox treatment of the Virgin Mary and the saints.
- Temptation, the Jesus prayer and focusing thoughts when praying.
- Knowing your faith, finding healing in our lives and Orthodox Christians serving as missionaries in Christ.
Please accept my apologies in advance that the quality of the interview may be a little rusty on my side, however it is hoped that as we look to continue with further interviews in the future, God willing we will improve on these and be able to use them as an opportunity to learn from passionate God-loving faces in the Orthodox faith.
*** For those interested, the book mentioned by Metropolitan Jonah in the interview is, ‘The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church’ by Vladimir Lossky.
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION:
Christ is Risen!
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