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Yes! I meant to include this link. They saw that video before we even asked them which is partly why they take it so seriously.
Well, the Protestant-evangelical method would be to try to convince or entice them to become Christians, as if it were just an outer process of signing a life insurance or joining a club. I would say focus on your faith, pray and trust that your family is in God's hands. We can't do anything for anyone. As an Orthodox, there is no point knocking other people's doors with a bible or writing Jesus loves you stickers. Our Church is mystical and will attract those who are mature to respond on an inner level. What we can do is to be good exemplars. God will do the rest. If you trust yourself, you don't have to "try" to make people like you. The same is with the Orthodox Church, she already is the real Church and people who recognize it will come to her.
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That's a great story. They are around, but you have to know your ways and look around carefully to spot them.
The Russian-Orthodox church I'm inquiring has made national headlines in the last days, as they didn't accept the Moscow patriarch stance on the Ukraine-Russian situation. Now apparantly they've come into conflict with the Archbishop, as they were reprimanded. Now they're looking into moving over to the Constantinople patriarchate. What I gather is that the Constantinople patriarchate has been in conflict with the Russian Orthodox Church in the last years, also by recognizing the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Can someone elaborate a bit on that and what this move would mean?
Thank you!
I'm not sure if you mean the priest or the parish council or both. A priest flat-out cannot leave his bishop without his approval for another jurisdiction except in cases of heresy. It is so wildly uncanonical for a priest to leave a jurisdiction because of what secular world leaders are doing. And especially siding with the Jewish GAE puppet who has been shelling civilians in the Donbass for years. What this means for you, I don't know and I don't want to give you that kind of advice but I can guess what other members here would say.
For some more background, the so called OCU was a schismatic group that the entire Orthodox world recognized as schismatic. They were expelled from the Church, and demoted to laymen, or really less than laity. Those laymen in costumes then "consecrated" new "bishops" who make up their current structure. Patriarch Bartholomew with a stroke of a pen, recognized them as no longer being schismatic and in fact the official Church of Ukraine. Did any of them repent? Were hands laid on any of them by valid Orthodox bishops? Not to my understanding. They are also a minority of Orthodox, more are in the UOC-MP, but the OCU has state backing (being extremely nationalistic) and has been confiscating UOC parishes and there has been lots of violence between the two. Frankly there can be no justification for what the EP did in Ukraine.
Allegedly some well known icons have started bleeding now, can anyone confirm? Is this real? Is it a sign from God? Hard to tell these days, what is real and what is fake. The comments in the video are interesting. I cannot post to the "Spiritual dimensions of the war and signs of God's hand".
I am currently reading Mystical Marriage: Spiritual Life According to St. Maximos the Confessor, a series of talks given by the Athonite Elder Aimilianos. I'm one chapter in and I already feel like a complete beginner again, the Elder does a fantastic job making the top-tier work of St. Maximos easily accessible through his wisdom and communication skills. It's already a contender for my Book of the Year 2022 (last year's was Saint of the Prisons by Monk Moise).
I'm told, though as far as I know it's speculation and not confirmed, that the person running his Twitter account uses some kind of algorithm whereby anyone who follows certain accounts gets automatically blocked.
I opened a new PDF books subforum: https://www.rooshvforum.com/forums/pdf-books.60/
You can find the link underneath the main Orthodox listing:
If you have any worthy PDFs on your hard drive, please share.
You can find the link underneath the main Orthodox listing:
If you have any worthy PDFs on your hard drive, please share.
In the context of spiritual warfare and anti-materialism, I’ve recently taken the position that hardly anyone makes up a total fabrication ex nihilo. By this, I mean that false witness to visions and spiritual phenomena will fall apart in history through repeated questioning, inconsistency, or unwillingness to suffer persecution for that which was seen.
The Jews never said “Jesus doesn’t exist,” because they knew that such a thesis would be laughable. Instead, they accused Jesus of being a sorcerer and magician, which actually testifies to our atheist friends that Jesus performed genuine spiritual works.
From this, following reasonable principles, I conclude that if the Greeks saw visions of Zeus, they must have been real, but it came from the demons.
The whole concept of “mass hallucination” that secularists push is actually so dumb and unbelievable when you think about it. It’s predicated on a Darwinian model of sense perception. But the Orthodox know that man was created good and is able to see the external world with his senses. Ultimately, the true stories of the fallen angels, documented in ancient and modern times, do not testify against the Orthodox Faith but actually confirm it.
The Jews never said “Jesus doesn’t exist,” because they knew that such a thesis would be laughable. Instead, they accused Jesus of being a sorcerer and magician, which actually testifies to our atheist friends that Jesus performed genuine spiritual works.
From this, following reasonable principles, I conclude that if the Greeks saw visions of Zeus, they must have been real, but it came from the demons.
The whole concept of “mass hallucination” that secularists push is actually so dumb and unbelievable when you think about it. It’s predicated on a Darwinian model of sense perception. But the Orthodox know that man was created good and is able to see the external world with his senses. Ultimately, the true stories of the fallen angels, documented in ancient and modern times, do not testify against the Orthodox Faith but actually confirm it.
That really puts the burden on neo-pagans to prove that their old gods exist, otherwise they're just atheist nationalists or cultural chauvinists. Or if they do, they're usually just another occult group.
Please pray for the well-being and safe return of Father Gennady and Archimandrite Lavr, two Ukrainian Orthodox clerics who have been kidnapped recently and whose whereabouts are not currently known.
Just started the Orthodox Survival Course. I have been wanting to read this for a while now.
The title had me expecting something different, but so far I can tell it is a paradigm-shifting, important book. It is a shame that it has not been properly published, since I would like to buy a proper copy. Thank God it has been preserved the way it has been.
Hi all
I was wondering if anyone can recommend the most beginner friendly (and enjoyable to read) book for someone just starting out. I am very familiar with the bible as I was raised Jehovah's Witness. But I'd love to learn more about the martyrs and saints as I know nothing about them. Someone at the Orthodox chapel I've started visiting recommended The Mountain of Silence.
I was wondering if anyone can recommend the most beginner friendly (and enjoyable to read) book for someone just starting out. I am very familiar with the bible as I was raised Jehovah's Witness. But I'd love to learn more about the martyrs and saints as I know nothing about them. Someone at the Orthodox chapel I've started visiting recommended The Mountain of Silence.
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For life of saints the Prologue of Ohrid is good, but it is pricey. You could also get the Synaxarion, which I believe is 7 volumes, but that is even more pricey. Lastly, there is the Orthodox Calendar app if you have a smart phone, which is good and free but obviously not as good as having the books.
I like St. Theophan's books a lot. I think "The Spiritual Life" is probably good for beginners and "Unseen Warfare" is also great. "The Law of God" by Daniel Sysoev is a good book for inquirers and catechumen, as it covers many different topics related to Orthodox Christianity and is intended for beginners.
Patristic Nectar’s Synaxarion is free and audio based, where you can listen to the lives of Saints for each day of the year - great resource.