Cultures/Communities

Welcome to the Western Orthodox Communion! Welcome to this space for sharing information, thoughts, articles, links, and other resources about life in the Communion of Western Orthodox Churches! At present, the communion comprises the French Orthodox Church, the Celtic Orthodox Church, and the Orthodox Church of the Gauls, and has monasteries, parishes, and missions in France, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Poland, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, the Caribbean, and the United States of America. Everybody is welcome to participate who has an interest in Orthodox Christianity in its Western liturgical, spiritual, and cultural expression, through which the lands of the West were hallowed by the saints who worked out their salvation here in ancient times. We only ask that you abide by our three simple rules: We are Christians.  Please remember that behind the words on the screen is a human being, made in the image of God, and let us treat each other accordingly. Canonicity means faithfulness to the Apostolic Tradition - nothing more; nothing less. The partisan dismissal as "uncanonical" or "not Orthodox" of Orthodox jurisdictions that are faithful to the Orthodox liturgical, spiritual, patristic, scriptural, and canonical Tradition, simply because they are not subordinate to particular, larger jurisdictions, is not accepted practice here. This is a place for discussing various aspects of life in the Communion of Western Orthodox Churches.  Posts illustrating how the Orthodox Faith is lived in a western expression in other jurisdictions are welcomed, insofar as they provide inspiration and an example of what is possible locally; as are those expressing the universal Orthodox Tradition, provided they may be of spiritual benefit.  If your post does not meet these criteria, please consider whether another group might be a better place for it.

Orthodoxy grew and thrived in times where village life was the most common human experience of society: human-scaled, personable, with a sense of stability and permanence. Perhaps the most under rated challenges confronting the life of the Church today are the atomizing and anonymizing forces that minimize familiar personal human interaction. (We don't even know our own neighbors!) Orthodoxy in America, unfortunately like many other churches, is now characterized by commuter culture. New Urbanism is a movement that seeks to return the built environment from the post-war forms prioritizing automobiles to older walkable ones scaled and designed for people. In more village-like communities with robust social networks, Orthodoxy could much better take root organically.

This circle is for all Orthodox military from all over the world. Any service is welcome.

If you are an Orthodox Christian, and a truck driver, or have a family member who is a truck driver, or you just like  truck drivers, this is the  group for you!! Also, share pictures and stories about your adventures out on the road. 

A page setup specifically for discussions on the spread of Orthodox Christianity within the state of Tennessee.

This group is for Orthodox Christian teens and young adults wishing to meet other Orthodox Christians and make friends! It's good to develop a close community with other Orthodox teens, since we have things like high school, college, and jobs to keep us busy in not necessarily Orthodox (or even Christian) environments. Here, we can share our experiences, musings, and questions as well as give and ask for advice.

Welcome to the Orthodox Carpatho-Rusyn Group. This group is designed to allow those Orthodox Christians with ethnic ties to the Carpatho-Rusyn area of Eastern Europe to share their stories, histories, and variations of the Rusyn Culture as they know it. It also give those people a place to discus various subjects that affect their ethnic traditions and ancestral homelands. Of course we also welcome those who are not Rusyn but who would like to find out more about the culture and traditions of the Rusyn People.

This little group is for anyone who is interested in discussing and supporting the work of the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Korea.

This is a group for Native American Orthodox issues and community. All are welcome

Y de repente vino del cielo un estruendo como de un viento recio que soplaba, el cual lleno toda la casa donde estaban sentados; y se les aparecieron lenguas repartidas, como de fuego, asentandose sobre cada uno de ellos. Y fueron todos llenos del Espiritu Santo, y comenzaron a hablar en otras lenguas, segun el Espiritu les daba que hablasen.