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“Of course, you know what ecumenism is; it is the heresy of heresies. It wants to completely wipe out the concept of the Orthodox Church as the guardian of the Truth, and to create some kind of new, strange church” - Metropolitan Philaret of NY

The heretical Jewish sympathies of the Roman Catholic Church 'With Judaism therefore we have a relationship which we do not have with any other religion. You are our dearly beloved brothers and, in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.' - Pope 'St.' John Paul II, 1986 Address at the Great Synagogue of Rome A thread🧵

@JustinTime82313 @OrthoTexan70 That’s not the approach Sts. Cyril and Methodios took while converting the Slavs

@OrthoTexan70 Then learn it in the original language. Translations are only ever a fraction of the original. Do you want only a fraction of the truth?

Uncontroversial Opinion: Orthodox in the US need to standardize the translation of the Creed and Our Father. i’m tired of visiting parishes and hearing a different Creed every time.

“Christian patriotism is completely alien to hatred of other peoples. If I love my own people, then surely I must also love the Chinese, the Turks, or any other people. Not to love them would be non-Christian” (On the Law of God). - Metropolitan Philaret of NY

Day 161 since @RepJoeWilson was invited to visit the ROCOR parish in his district. #SavetheUOC

That the condemnation of Adam was passed to the entire race from him is by no means disputed by anyone, except by some evil-minded heretics.

Fr. Seraphim Rose, pray that in this month of pride that by your intercessions homosexuals will repent and come to our Lord Jesus Christ

“The principle of irreducible complexity is in no way compatible with the theory of evolution.” - Hieromartyr Daniel Syseov

@elkkiea My priest explained it like this "in Adam, all humanity is one body, so his fall is truly ours, not as personal acts, but as a shared condition of guilt and death. In Christ, that same shared humanity is raised and healed, so His righteousness becomes ours as well

@Cri1823759Cris Read his life by Bishop Possidius who was a contemporary and friend of St. Augustine. It is clear that he lived a life of asceticism and had the gift of clairvoyance. tertullian.org/fathers/possid…

“ I personally don’t get the ascetic vibe from Augustine but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt that he probably saw the uncreated light. “

@satisfyjustice @AngloVarangian

"The children who are killed from abortions do not go to Paradise, because they are covered with the ancestral sin, and they did not receive Baptism. However, they do not go to hell, because they do not have any personal sins" ~ “Words of Warning”, Chanted by Saint Paisios

No, it is incorrect to say that the Church "allowed the funeral service" for unbaptized infants. [...] For we know the words of the Savior: "Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God." Statement from the Moscow Patriarchate (2018)

@NewsNFTU Ofc. And St. Paul calls them enemies of the entire human race.

@OrthroAug Well the Scriptures do say "Let His blood be on us and our children," not "on the pharisees and chief priests"

It is a teaching of the Orthodox Church that the Jewish people killed God in the flesh. Notice it doesn't say only the Pharisees and Chief Priests, but the Jewish people.

"The Jewish people who slew the prophets of old, from envy hath now made themselves slayers of God, raising upon the Cross O Word of God, Thee Whom we exalt throughout all ages" (Canon of the Resurrection, Tone 6, Ode VIII)

"Only St Athanasius the Great remained, and in the West only St Hilary of Poitiers; all the other episcopal cathedras, hundreds of cathedras, were taken by bishops who were themselves Arian heretics. The Church, however, was not lost" (Sermon on Nicea) - Blessed Philaret of NY

St. Photius, the church’s condemnation of a supposed blessed state for unbaptized infants.

@stpetermogila This is so consistently taught by our fathers and councils that saying the opposite gets to a point where it's no longer a difference of opinion and it really is just contempt for our patristic heritage.

“Some Orthodox Christians have mistakenly defended the Augustinian notion of ‘original guilt’—that is, that all men have inherited the guilt of Adam’s sin—and others, going to the opposite extreme, have denied altogether the inheritance of sinfulness of Adam. Fr. Michael rightly points out, in his balanced presentation, that from Adam we have indeed inherited our tendency towards sin, together with the death and corruption that are now part of our sinful nature, but we have not inherited the guilt of Adam’s personal sin.” - Saint Seraphim Rose Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky, 1st edition, p. 165, footnote

@byzantinemarine The Holy Innocents are martyrs. Not all infants who die meet the criteria for martyrdom.

Latinizers be like "yup this icon is heretical"