2007 AFR Interviews about Fr Seraphim Rose

On this day in 1982, Fr Seraphim Rose of Platina reposed. Three years ago, Ancient Faith Radio recorded a three part series of interviews about Fr Seraphim. The first two are interviews with Hieromonk Damascene. The last is an interview with Abbot Gerasim. Father Seraphim Rose: Spiritual Father (mp3 link; will open in your computer’s [...]

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Father Seraphim’s Intercessions

About three and a half years ago, I wrote about how Father Seraphim’s prayers for me regarding a particular matter about prayer had been answered (and here). More recently, I’ve asked Father Seraphim’s intercessions on some other matters. God saw fit to answer his prayers for me regarding some physical healings of minor ailments (in [...]

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On Patron Saints and Leaving Academia

While I have previously here remarked on the fact that both my patrons saints left academia to pursue monastic vocations, it took the jest of a friend and co-worker to cause me to wonder if my leaving academia more than two years ago was, in fact, perhaps inevitable. Since, after all, both my patron saints [...]

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Happy Anniversary to The Orthodox Word

Forty-five years ago today, Eugene (the future Father Seraphim) Rose and Gleb (the future Abbot Herman) Podmoshensky started the journal The Orthodox Word as a work of the Father Herman of Alaska Brotherhood they had formed (which would become the St Herman of Alaska Monastery). On 29 September, for $200, Eugene received the printing press [...]

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How Fr Seraphim Became One of My Patron Saints

[A note to certain of my Protestant friends and family: an important article of Christian faith lies behind the following account--the communion of all the saints. It is essential to understand the connection of that dogma to this account.] In October 2002, I began reading the first edition of Father Seraphim Rose’s biography, Not of [...]

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Blessed Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose) of Platina

Troparian Tone 4 As a faithful ascetic of Saint Herman / thou didst flower as a spiritual rose in Platina / As an illuminator of Orthodoxy in America / thy writings bring hope throughout the world / Having taught us the True Faith / O Blessed Seraphim / pray to God for us. Kontakion Tone [...]

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Podcasts About Father Seraphim Rose

Recently, Fr Peter Alban Heers put up a podcast on the veneration of Fr Seraphim Rose, one of my patron saints (with St Benedict of Nursia), in Greece: Fr Seraphim Rose in Greece (mp3 link) You may also want to check out the three-part interview about Fr Seraphim put up on the 25th anniversary of [...]

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Platina-Style Coffee

Another thing they [Frs Herman and Seraphim] used sparingly was coffee. I remember learning how to make coffee Platina-style. You leave the old gounds in the percolator from the day before, and you just add two scoops. The next day you add two more scoops . . . and it gets stronger and stronger. That’s [...]

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Friday Meditation I

[H/T: Fr Stephen] This next features a couple of photos of one of my patrons, Father Seraphim Rose: And here is the Kyrie:

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Father Seraphim: On Knowing the Truth

I think one of the reasons God put me in the path of the life of Father Seraphim, is that I, too, am a crippled and deformed Christian. I love God with my mind, my strength, even my soul, but I do not love him well with my heart. My Restoration Movement upbringing, and my [...]

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