Alexander
@ponderousProses
Just to give everyone a update i have received everything needed to start this Sunday I am going to get my priest to pick what book I should start with and a blessing !
More historical facts that have been suppressed for the sole purpose of misguiding people. (Other methods would be knowing how to recognize propaganda, or the art and science of protestantizing.) internetsobor.org/index.php/isto… averkij-o-istinnom-i-falshivom-pravoslavii
My spiritual father was close with Fr Alexey Young and is of course, GOC-K.
He also has a spiritual child (who he baptized) in the GOC: youtube.com/watch?v=OExdQW…
Bulgarian Government & Patriarch Continues Persecution of the Bulgarian Old Calendarists: orthodoxtraditionalist.com/post/bulgarian…
I must decrease, He must increase. Slow of heart is a disease of the psyche, aka soul, as is self-deception. From Metr. Demetrius, another home run, one of my top five faves. youtu.be/YFQGmjtvCRc?fe…
Attention — sustained and focused w/ endurance, is a tool for spiritual weapon vs unseen warfare that’s been waged on us since A&E. No surprise that distraction is their favourite arsenal. Attention is also an intensively studied subject with psychology. open.substack.com/pub/stevenalle…
Saint Sabbas of Serbia receiving the icon “Of the Three Hands” at the Lavra of Saint Sabbas the Sanctified
Plato’s The Republic (375 BC). The fallen state of human nature — people who can’t/don’t control themselves (inner state; note that Plato did not use Socratic method in self-examination) tend to control others, due to insidious and corruptible pride, a quality easy to exploit.
Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God. That fact is written all across human history; but it is written most plainly across that recent history of Communism.
”Our time is like in many ways the time of Saint Mark of Ephesus in the 15th century…But our time is much worse and considerably more dangerous than his. The union was then forced from the outside, while now the orthodox are prepared in the ‘ecumenical’ melting pot of churches…
Before you consent, be informed. Entire pdf here: imoph.org/pdfs/2014/03/2…
LETTER OF ST. PHILARET OF NEW YORK TO METROPOLITAN EPIPHANIUS OF KITION On September 20, 1975, St. Philaret wrote to Metropolitan Epiphanius of Kition, the leader of the Old Calendarist Church of Cyprus, with whom he continued to have friendly relations even after the Matthewite…
We are asked to be of a pious mind (of the Church) and be rational sheep in the sheepfold of our Saviour — each one of us is responsible for being reasoned out, informed, intelligent, educated sheep. Not just exterior but interior. Not us vs them or superiority mentality.
Channels such as NFTU: True Orthodox News and Apologetics is a helpful YouTube channel when it comes to researching True Orthodoxy (genuine etc same thing) and networking to find True Orthodox synods "locally" and globally. Channel link below: youtube.com/@nftuorthodoxa…