tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post113855732302136494..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Orthodox Church of Saint Seraphim of SarovUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1138728495682853432006-01-31T17:28:00.000+00:002006-01-31T17:28:00.000+00:00Greetings in Christ!Sylvia has passed on your arti...Greetings in Christ!<BR/>Sylvia has passed on your article to us. It is good to know that St Seraphim's is getting a higher profile. We are promoting the appeal through our free newspaper, Orthodox News. We, St George Orthodox Information Service, share a founder with St Seraphim's and are therefore closely linked. <BR/>Andrew BondAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1138631505261562422006-01-30T14:31:00.000+00:002006-01-30T14:31:00.000+00:00Dear Mr Shingleton,THANK you for your support.Our ...Dear Mr Shingleton,<BR/>THANK you for your support.Our fundraising campaign for the Church of Saint Seraphim is now underway, and the issue of Orthodox News out shorthly will give up-to-date information.<BR/>with gratitude,<BR/>Sylvia BatchelorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1138631124205740692006-01-30T14:25:00.000+00:002006-01-30T14:25:00.000+00:00You mean nuclear fission...You mean nuclear fission...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1138572705771743872006-01-29T22:11:00.000+00:002006-01-29T22:11:00.000+00:00Garth, many thanks for your, as ever, valuable com...Garth, many thanks for your, as ever, valuable comments.<BR/><BR/>I have corrected my slip of Russian geography which you quite correctly pointed out, Kursk is now in the west of Russia. The relation between east and west and dollars and pounds seems to give me trouble as I progress through middle age.<BR/><BR/>The personal story you add to my article is particularly touching. It is uncanny how these <I>overgrown paths</I> really do lead to new discoveries and understandings. I had been re-reading Geoffrey Haydon's biography of John Tavener who has strong connections with the Orthodox Church, and it was that <I>path</I> that led us to Saint Seraphims on a beautiful, but bitterly cold, Norfolk January day.<BR/><BR/>Thanks also for reminding us of the Kursk submarine tragedy. All my regular readers will know that <A HREF="http://theovergrownpath.blogspot.com/2006/01/winters-tale.html" REL="nofollow">the terrible power of nuclear fusion</A> is a recurring theme on this blog.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1138571260665047262006-01-29T21:47:00.000+00:002006-01-29T21:47:00.000+00:00Thank you for the interesting story about this Ort...Thank you for the interesting story about this Orthodox church in<BR/>Britain fashioned from a disused railroad station.<BR/><BR/>One point of clarification. The city of Kursk, the birthday of Saint Seraphim of Sarov, can, I think, be best described as being in Western Russia [not far from Ukraine], and not Eastern Russia (or the Eastern "Russian Federation"). <BR/><BR/>The city of Kursk, Russia has some resonance for me, since one of N.'s uncles, a young Soviet soldier, was killed there by the Nazis in World War II. (One of her grandmothers was killed by the Nazis in what is now Kharkiv, Ukraine, during World War II. Her family poignantly remembered both of these relatives during the recent Orthodox Christmas eve and day dinners we shared together.)<BR/><BR/>Thanks again for the post, for sharing your photograph, and for the important links.<BR/><BR/>*<BR/><BR/>PS. Several crew members of the Russian Kursk submarine, who lost there lives in the tragic August 2000 Barent Sea incident, are buried in a cemetary across the harbor from central Sevastopol, Ukraine/Russia (the military port is leased to Russia until 2019). One can take the harbor ferry to visit this cemetary and memorial site -- one of many in the city. <BR/><BR/>The Kursk submarine, itself, was capable of carrying 24 cruise missles with either conventional or nuclear warheads; and 28 torpedoes.<BR/><BR/>http://www.russialink.org.uk/kursk/events.htm#SSGN%20KURSKGarth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1138568889334337102006-01-29T21:08:00.000+00:002006-01-29T21:08:00.000+00:00Quite moving that my little story has been picked ...Quite moving that my little story has been picked up by <A HREF="http://orthodoxia.org/" REL="nofollow">the official Russian Orthodox Church web site.</A>Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com