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I've created the most comprehensive, open source, search database of Orthodox Saints available on the internet.
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They just built this ROCOR up the road recently and found out that it does this at least once a year. 😎 ☦️
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Candace Owens identifies herself with Orthodox Christians murdered by the Bolsheviks. I think she may just be on her way to conversion.
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Literally half my parish is newly illumined. And there are more coming in than have already been admitted. 📈☦️
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The “wHoS your bIsHop!!111” crowd seethes quietly every time Fr Peter liturgizes with a concelebrant. 😤 😡 😅
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Fr Deacon is exactly right. What Protestants don’t understand is that St Joseph pondered to put Mary away quietly because his kinsmen would think that it was HIS child; just as much as he may have been tempted to believe it was another’s child. It would have disgraced him in his old age because everyone knew he took the Virgin into his home as a pretense to protect her virginity.
Protestants forget this—and can’t even understand the magnitude of the temptation for Joseph. It was not “just Mary’s honor on the line”, it was his very own!
That oddly reassuring detail of St Joseph the Betrothed confronting Doubt in the icon of the Nativity.
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This woman probably runs the most wholesome OrthoTwitter account extant. Literally never a post that isn’t solid gold.
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The photo taken moments before St Paisios prophesied that one day America will be holy.
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The OCA will canonize St Seraphim of Platina before ROCOR does.
* From my OCA parish bookstore.
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Snake in the grass Ethan Wayne strikes again!
Father Josiah Trenham praised avowed fan of Adolf Hitler, Holocaust denier, and neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes for his anti-pornography rhetoric.
Simply shameful, especially for a priest. One can only conclude that Trenham is trying to court the viewership of neo-Nazis.
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Who are the six sentinel saints standing guard on the liturgical west side of the Holy Virgin Cathedral in San Francisco? 🧵
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Metropolitan +Tikhon (OCA) just landed in Little Rυssια and this is how he was greeted by the faithful of the martyric UOC in Chernivtsi.
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We are so winning that all these protestant pastors are taking hits on our spice and getting absolutely rekt. ☦️
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If you are Russian but not Orthodox, you’re not Russian. Likewise, if you are Greek but not Orthodox, your are not Greek. I am more Greek than any Greek that is not Orthodox. Fake Greeks can fight me 🥰 ☦️
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Did you know that the events celebrated at Hanukkah are not in the Heb. Scriptures but rather in the Greek Orthodox tradition?
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When at the Reformation the Protestants threw out all the “priestcraft” of the Papists; they also ceded the “secular” to the demonic. Thus, witchcraft, alchemy, etc., had no hindrance in the modern world.
It’s why Protestants call their local Orthodox priest to handle this.
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A few days ago I poasted a vid from Insta. I shared it not to shame or scandalize, but because I found it beautiful and a humble expression of faith and healing in the ☦️Church. 100k+ scrolled that video. Listen to his beautiful testimony here. 👇
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If your Christian tradition doesn’t venerate the relics of its modern saints, it is an unserious tradition.
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Fetal fatalists protesting our hierarch ☦️ Archbishop Michael.
“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind”
Bring more evils upon them, O Lord.
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So epic, Shayne Swenson painted an icon that has the same negative effect as the Shroud.
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This ROCOR parish in the PNW just about doubled their parish size this Great and Holy Saturday. 20 baptized, illumined Orthodox!
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Jay actually has a mature Orthodox outlook and dogmatic vision of the Church; and I’m tired of people pretending he doesn’t.
This incoherent argument resurfaces every few years since 2016-17. It’s a stupid Uniate/ecumenist argument that ignores 2 ways of naming God that St Maximos mentions in the first several pages of 200 Chapters. Naming God in contrast to creation can include Pure Act or First Cause.
Naming God by His essence or in the Intra-Trinitarian life as “pure act” or “first cause” is heterodox obviously. RCism does not make this distinction (think filioque!) in naming Orthodox do.
Furthermore, the latinizing attempt to make Palamas a Thomist is condemned in the 4th Palamite Synod here: jaydyer.substack.com/p/is-th…
nitter.app/apophatic_/status/1963…
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My godfather's first day of school. Gave up his career and moved his family of 6 out to PA so he could hear all you's sick puppies confessions. Pray for the seminarians! 🙏 ☦️
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You criticize Fr Josiah because he is too based. I criticize him because he’s not based enough. We are not the same.
Joking aside, I think there is a special ring of hell devoted to those who slander priests; where the slanderers are constantly lashed by the priests prayers for their salvation. The holier the priest the greater the torture because through them God makes it easier for you to be saved, but you refuse even harder.
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Serbian athlete Lazar Đukić, 28 y/o, drowned today in Fort Worth, TX at the 2024 CrossFit Games.
☦️Memory eternal. 🇷🇸
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Reminder that Andrew Gould did an absolute stunner job on the facade refinish of the Holy Virgin Cathedral.
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The procession of Icons was never a Slavic practice. But one thing I love about the OCA, is that when they see a good thing, they aren’t afraid to do it. My parish processing around a strip mall. Suck it, infidels. 😅
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Out of your charity, please say a prayer for my grandfather, Richard, who most likely will not make it through the night alive. 🙏
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People don't know this, but you can give your children eternal life by following this one quick tip.
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Young Fr. Josiah Trenham is the chad all you hopeful-to-be-marrieds ought to look up to.
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The people you kowtow to don’t care; they will eviscerate you either way. The mercies of the wicked are cruel. The same crowd to whom you have just given an inch will now demand the whole mile.
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My grandfather has reposed. He was a great man; a personal hero of mine. 67 years married, one wife, 4 children, 11 grandkids, 5 and counting great grandchildren.
Out of your charity, please say a prayer for my grandfather, Richard, who most likely will not make it through the night alive. 🙏
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What do you do when your beloved dies at midnight? Keep vigil! Over 12 hrs my entire non-Orthodox family read the Psalms in turn. I suggested a few, my grandmother was determined to complete 150. She did; out of her undying love and dedication. Memory eternal, Grandpa! 💕 ☦️
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Friendly reminder to the OCA’s media team to leave the “AI icons” in the waste bins of Internet discourse, and not in public representations of our saints ☦️ ☺️
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What do you do if your priest gives you this resource after confession? Asking for a friend. 🙏
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A ROCOR PRIEST ON THE LATEST NONSENSE AGAINST BLESSED SERAPHIM
“It's been brought to my attention that a guy online is slandering Fr. Seraphim Rose as a schismatic who thought the Moscow Patriarchate and OCA are graceless and saying that he was an enabler of the abuses committed by Herman Podmoshensky. Allow me to address these points:
1. Fr. Seraphim wrote a veritable mountain of letters over the course of decades. Whenever people want to demonstrate that Fr. Seraphim thought that the Moscow Patriarchate and the OCA were graceless, they pick a letter from his earlier "zealot" days. I set the cutoff at 1975 when Fr. Seraphim started to notice the problems among the Zealots beginning with the issues in Holy Transfiguration Monastery. He explicitly says during this year in another letter that he and Fr. Herman felt as though they had "created a monster". From here on out, his writings take on a far more tempered tone and he is constantly going to bat for grace being present in the MP notably in his defense of Elder Tavrion (who Metropolitan Philaret also defended btw).
Regarding the OCA, he likewise toned down the rhetoric, though he never had a positive opinion of that Jurisdiction as he lived through the absolute lowest point of ROCOR-OCA relations. You can see a letter he wrote to a young Metropolitan Jonah where he warns him that he can't "fix the OCA", but at no point did he tell him he had to leave it. In fact, if you ask Metropolitan Jonah directly about this, he will tell you that he asked Fr. Seraphim if he needed to leave the OCA in order to be Orthodox, and Fr. Seraphim told him "no" and to "remain with your spiritual father" (in the OCA).
Similarly, he scolded a young Fr. Paul Baba for considering leaving the Antiochians because he didn't think his priest was Orthodox enough.
2. I don't know if you can still find this, but there used to be a message board where
Hieroschemamonk Ambrose Young (Fr. Alexey Young in the world) addressed the allegations of Herman Podmoshensky preying on his monks and young men. He confirmed the allegations against HP and said that he did not start to behave this way until the very end of Fr. Seraphim's life, around the same time that their fabled "oneness of mind" began to falter. Fr. Seraphim was, according to Fr. Alexey, frequently frustrated by Fr. Herman's erratic behavior and expressed relief when he was gone from the monastery as thats when he had peace. When Fr. Seraphim was approached about allegations of inappropriate behavior by Fr. Herman, he was heartbroken, and considered leaving the monastery and finding somewhere else to continue his monastic life, but this was right before he developed the blood clot that claimed his life. His last words to Fr. Herman as he was lying on his hospital bed were, verbatim, "I'm finished with you. Damn you."
I hate to have to address that very depressing bit about the history of St. Herman's Monastery (which remains my favorite place in the world), but I will always defend Fr. Seraphim to the hilt, and the truth (albeit, dark and painful) is much less scandalous than the aspersions. Besides, I have the benefit of having had conversations and read things that others haven't.
Hope this helps.“
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I'm convinced this guy is a psyop.
Brother Nathanael Vs Brother Nathanael
Want to quit, I can't quit
It's hopeless, There's still hope
Who grasps the power of the Jew, I grasp the power of the Jew
It's an impossible job, With God all things are possible
The Brother Nathanael Show Mid June!
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Cretans will in fact be sipping coffee when they hear of what Israel has done. ✅
A Prophecy of Elder Theodoros Agiofarangitis from Crete (+2016): "Guys, you will be drinking your coffee and you will hear that the Jews attacked the nuclear program of Persia (Iran). That's when events of greater magnitude will begin. And at the same time, or a little earlier, Erdogan will fall. These will be the signs of the big events to come, so you understand that they are near, at the door." ☦️🇬🇷
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