The Quarterly Journal of St. Philaret’s Institute

The article presents the history of RSCM as an example of sobornost revival in the early XX century Orthodox Church. The First RSCM conference in Prerov defined the framework for all RSCM activities and further conferences. General and local RSCM conferences were marked with openly shared church fellowship and unity between laymen and the clergy. This unity was built up gradually through common effort and manifested itself in several ways: in personal fellowship between priests, professors and young RSCM members, through lectures and seminars, which revealed the depths of Orthodox spirituality, and in the Orthodox Liturgy as the focal point of sobornost. Celebrating communion at the end of these conferenсe-councils was their highest spiritual point.