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Orthodox art,quotes and videos. Everyone is welcome! This channel was established with the purpose of evangelising people in the West and elsewhere to Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
In strong Orthodox countries Christianity peacefully coexists along with Islam, that's good, it's the way it should be. On the other hand, theological errors of every wrong teaching must be exposed, it was done by Priest Daniel Sysoev. In English https://azbyka.ru/otechnik/world/islam-orthodox-view/
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Theology without practice is the theology of demons.
St. Maximus the Confessor
Orthodox view of Salvation
A comparison of the mainstream juridical-substitutionary atonement views and an Orthodox view of salvation illustrated with chairs.
The oldest church of Cotmeana Monastery, Romania. The monastery itself is considered the oldest in Wallachia, and its first church is a unique monument - its appearance is extremely Byzantine, and it is also one of the few churches where it is clearly evident that Serbian masters who worked in the Moravian style participated in its construction. The exonarthex of the church was later extensively rebuilt in the Brâncovenesc style.
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This is a must read article from Abbot Tryphon. Tell us what you think about this one.
https://www.patristicfaith.com/orthodox-christianity/a-gift-from-god/
In 1900 the Russian Church opened a school for Orthodox children in Bethlehem. In the photo it's pilgrims in Bethlehem, 1890. May the Lord protect Christians in the Holy Land.
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Orthodox Christians Celebrate Christmas In Former Soviet Republics
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https://auroca.org/%EF%BB%BFshould-we-get-vaccinated/
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However, amidst such dark times traditional Orthodox laymen and clergy have risen up to face the challenges of modernity and destructive ideologies with boldness and courage. Many appropriated the technology being used for evil and used it for good, spreading the gospel for the Kingdom of God. With the blessing of their priests and Bishops, these courageous Orthodox content providers helped disseminate traditional Orthodox teachings in accordance with the Fathers. Unlike most of the watered-down, superficial, and politically-correct Christian content being provided on the web, these traditional Orthodox were producing educational content on various topics in Orthodoxy in a way that reached a hurting world thirsting for a profound and real Christian experience. Their work boldly declared the gospel and the timeless truths of the Orthodox Church that was leading to many inquirers not only to discover and learn about Orthodoxy, but led to a large number of them converting to Eastern Orthodoxy.
At this point, I began to realize the potential of an evangelizing ministry in accordance with the Great Commission of Christ that would not only expose nonOrthodox to the Faith but provide continuing education for the Orthodox Faithful through published Orthodox articles and media that would serve to edify, educate, and teach the Faithful how to live a Christian life in the Orthodox Church. I came to believe, as well as the other Orthodox content providers, that if I were to unify these talented individuals, the goals of such a mission could be actualized and would prove to be an enormously successful evangelizing and educational ministry for the Orthodox Church. In light of such perilous times, we agreed there was a need for an evangelizing and educational ministry that could equip the faithful with the necessary tools to live out the faith. It was here that I created the idea of Patristic Faith, a web platform and ministry that will serve to host valuable Orthodox content such as video, podcasts, a PDF bank (free PDFs of essential Orthodox writings), and articles written by Orthodox scholars and clergy. These materials will aim at promoting an Orthodox ascetical life of prayer and participation in Liturgical services, instructing people on the spiritual virtues, commemorating the lives of the saints, and faithfully teaching the traditions of the Fathers, and defending the faith (apologetics). Patristic Faith will equip people with the tools necessary to better understand and properly respond to the various challenges of the modern world.
Mothers, be specially careful to regulate your daughters well; for the management of them is easy. Be watchful over them, that they may be keepers at home. Above all, instruct them to be pious, modest, despisers of wealth, indifferent to ornament. In this way dispose of them in marriage. For if you form them in this way, you will save not only them, but the husband who is destined to marry them, and not the husband only, but the children, not the children only, but the grandchildren. For the root being made good, good branches will shoot forth, and still become better, and for all these you will receive a reward.
St. John Chrysostom, 9 Homily on 1st Timothy
Any attitude of showing the body or showing off to others is a mortal sin. The same can be said of men, however, as we know that it is more women who have this tendency to show themselves, it is necessary to say that for them this self-control is more important. I speak self-control, because it's not just dressing decently that we don't "show" ourselves too much. In many other attitudes as well, taking pictures and posting on facebook just for boasting, with inappropriate positions, bragging to others by thinking or wanting to be better than them, etc. Therefore, for us sinners, it is necessary to have self-control and know not only how to dress well, but also how to behave well.
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☦️ The Orthodox Christian and the spirit of the world☦️ Video N• 1
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Jesus Christ in a very strong form (with double stress, as Zygabenus points out) warned the faithful against falling to the two sides, different pits, Pharisee and Sadducee mentality. The same two pitfals are there in our time, other Orthodox authors explain. One of the dangers is associated with the belief that to be nice to humans in expense of love to God is fine. The abyss on the right is pseudozealotry, when people are harsh and proud in their alleged righteousness. One manifestation of that is sharp reaction to any contact with heterodox. But when somebody stands firm within the canonical law which forbids joint prayer with heretics, it's good mentality, no problem here, only obedience to God. And another abyss, abyss on the left is lukewarmness. One of the forms is desire to be nice to everybody, "let's disobey God to look nicer to the heterodox". Only few variants were listed here, but they illustrate the phenomenon well.
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Our Nature Teaches Us
https://orthochristian.com/143739.html
Time for God, Part 3
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
In these extreme situations of isolation, in moments of despair and depression, which are common today, when you feel suppressed, in these moments, you have only one opportunity left—a very great, very, very great opportunity—the opportunity to talk with God.
Ordinary people have very basic idea about Angels. But Prophets and the saints who saw them in action were impressed deeply. The great Prophet, St Daniel, fell exhausted when the Archangel spoke to him. May the Lord direct us all the right way to spiritual (non-visual) communication with holy Angels. It's good and necessary to listen to inspiration of divine messengers. Every Orthodox Christian has a Guardian Angel who sleeps no second, directing the soul to the Kingdom.
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Despite its modern look, the church is quite old. This is the Church of the Holy Archangels in Pașcani, Romania, and it was actually built in the 17th century, but after several unfortunate restorations it took on this appearance. The protruding fragment with a window, niches in the upper part and, most of all, the dogtooth course at the base of the church give away its real age.
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Read about the Greek War for Independence and the White Army. Be educated on Christian wars and revolts throughout history. More modern examples like the Chetniks and the Serbian paramilitaries are also worth looking into.
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Jesus Prayer Has Two Functions The Jesus Prayer has two important purposes. The first is worship as with all prayer. The second is a discipline to help our soul gain control our overactive brains and create stillness so the Holy Spirit can work through us and help us live the virtues in union with God.
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Reminder: It is sinful to purposely lead someone into lust or to desire to give lustful pleasure to another person
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“We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God.” – St. John Chrysostom
In a post-modern, neo-gnostic technocratic age of globalism, a world that H.T. Engelhardt calls “after God,” Christians find themselves in a perilous situation that is hostile to tradition. Their faith is being threatened and attacked both externally and internally from “principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world,” from “spiritual wickedness in high places.” (Eph 6:12). The problem originates in the fundamental shift in thinking and orientation that occurred in modernity. Modern man began to view himself, the world, the cosmos, the polis, and his proper place in relation to them all in a radically different way from the ancients. In his Promethean rebellion, man severed the transcendent ground of being from the intelligible world, mechanized nature, and gave himself a pretended autonomy whereby he thought he could now exercise full dominion over being. In his Nietzschian deicide, modern man created speculative gnostic systems, and like Adam and Eve, he attempted to hide his sin by having his system conceal the truth. The abolition of both the transcendent God and nature resulted in a loss of objectivity, something that would have served as a helpful restraint on the morals, thoughts, and actions of man. Consequently, the libido dominandi (the will to power) became the only guiding principle, a sheer will to power where man could use (or misuse) technology to control, dominate and exploit nature all in the name of “science” and progress. For the modern man, “the speculative system in which the gnostic unfolds his will to make himself master of being” is insisted on being called “science.” (Eric Voeglin) However, in order to commit such deeds, science had to become absolutized, and with it, the entire scientivization of the world. This became the very essence of Scientism. It “is, literally, a resolution of the will: the resolution to accept as real only what can be verified empirically by everyone.” (Augusto Del Noce) Nevertheless, to carry out a complete scientivization of the world, Scientism had to relate to the socio-political sphere. Hence, the atheistic gnostic speculators created what is known as technocracy. Within our current technocratic totalitarian system, we have found another gnostic ideology that is dehumanizing, anti-scientific, atheistic, and completely at odds with Christianity.
It is now more apparent than ever there are two worlds: a city of man and a city of God, and we are reminded of the Gospel passage that warns us “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.” (Matthew 6:24) As Engelhardt states, “We do not share common ground. Christianity has ancient roots that are immune from the consequence of the collapse of the Western moral-philosophic project.” Therefore, we find two paradigms, the Christian and the modern secularist, two world-views that are simply incompatible with one another. Within society, law, government, education, ethics, science, and medicine we find ideological conflicts, as well as conflicting prescriptions on how to conduct one’s life in the aforementioned areas. The neo-gnostic movements of cancel culture, secularism, anti-traditionalism, political-correctness, progressivism, scientism, critical-race theory, et. al. are at war with traditional Christianity and seek to destroy our Orthodox ethos. Indeed traditional Christians find themselves in perilous times.
https://southernorthodox.org/orthodox-granny-women/
St. Sophia’s story is truly amazing. Widowed at a young age, after her only child died she was told by The Panagia to go and live in the Monastery of the Nativity of the Theotokos in Kleisoura. She stayed there all her life, living in humble circumstances showing grace, humility, love, and a Christ-like, mystical insight. She was a wild Fool-for-Christ with a shabby appearance, long, unkempt, graying hair, and a dark ragged cloak. She healed herself through the power of prayer alone, slept in the cinders, and preached God’s word to her visitors whom she always showed great hospitality.
الاينوس باللحن الاول للمرتل الأول متري المر.
أداء: إيلي ابو مراد
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