Joseph of Nova Caesarea

Almighty God the Father, let thy will be done in us and all the world! Lord Jesus Christ, Son and Logos of the Living God, have mercy on us! O All Good and Life Creating Spirit, illumine us and guide all souls unto truth! Lord have mercy! Lord have mercy! Lord have mercy!

@valorthodoxia Hmm, okay perhaps. I don't think lust of any kind is natural but I am assuming you just mean sexual attraction in general by it. Thanks for explaining your point of view then!

@CaesariteJoseph Not the same thing and the scriptures don’t treat it the same. Homosexuality is referred to as “unnatural” “against God’s design”, heterosexual lust is not.

“Maronite”😂 the jokes write themselves

@RealBenLuigi BPD ADHD diagnosis + only son of my Father + conscientious objection I will be staying home Glory to God for His mercy

In the event of a draft I will put together a free conscientious objector form for you guys to use if your conscience obligates you. I'll try to get signatures from clergy and heirarchs too.

@valorthodoxia Or rather, "Christians who struggle with lust." I would not even say lustful Christians.

@valorthodoxia Why are there lustful Christians then?

Do not seek to be understood by others; rather strive to understand them. And do not ask that your life be easy, but that you may have the strength to endure all with humility and trust in God. -- St. Paisios the Athonite

After death our bodies emit an offensive odour, whilst theirs remain fragrant & flourishing in life & after death. We, by building up our body, destroy it, whilst they, by destroying theirs, build it up caring only for the fragrance of their souls before God. St John of Kronstadt

Glory to the Holy Trinity

@Brown1956Roy @AppyOrtho Clearly the Holy Spirit did not mind the calendar at Nicaea. There's no reason that astronomical accuracy ought to fundamentally have a bearing on the life of the Church.

@AppyOrtho - The Julian calendar (named after the pagan, Julius Caesar) gets farther and farther away from from the solar cycle as the centuries go by. - The Gregorian calendar (named after a pope), fixed this problem. - If enough time passes, Orthodox Pascha will come in the winter.

This weekend is not Easter yet for Orthodox Christians. Why? Orthodox Easter often falls on a different date than Western Easter for two main reasons… -Different calendars: The West uses the modern Gregorian calendar. Orthodox still use the older Julian calendar which runs 13 days behind the Gregorian. For example, March 21 the equinox, is actually April 3 on the Gregorian calendar. -Moon rules: Both calculate Easter as the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the spring equinox. The Orthodox stick strictly to the ancient Nicene method (no Gregorian approximations), which can shift the Easter full moon by up to a week compared to the Western tables. Therefore, Orthodox Easter can be 1–5 weeks later than Western Easter (and is never before April 4 on the Gregorian calendar).

@REALSGTPIPER @tenbuchira the diaspora throughout the world which is now leading to the harvest of Christians beyond Eastern Europe and the Holy Land. It was God's will. Those Christians who were martyred are now in Paradise.

@REALSGTPIPER @tenbuchira The Nazi regime also mistreated Orthodoxy under it's yoke and wanted to reform Christianity. You can just dislike both of them lol. St. Matrona of Moscow says God allowed Russia to be taken by communism because there were very few true Christians anymore. This also led to-

Niggas will argue nazis bad because they killed people while they literally venerate St. Emperor Justinian who massacred over 30 thousand of his own people in a day, and instigated wars that killed hundreds of thousands of people.

@Josiaicae_ Bro it's funny what about it is miserable?

Why are you people so miserable?

@kuntryu2 @hickman0000 Orthodoxy is anything but a faith of scholars.

@hickman0000 Quit listening to so called religious scholars read the Bible.

Why are so many Americans converting to Orthodoxy, with thousands upon thousands around the country scheduled to be baptized this Holy Week? Whether he intended to or not, Tucker Carlson gave a commentary on it in the last 10 minutes or so of his latest episode. “Huge parts of Protestant Christianity in the United States, the leadership — are totally corrupt… Corrupt on the level which matters most, which is spiritually corrupt. They’re not preaching Christianity… there are many Protestant American church leaders who are preaching a religion that bears no resemblance to Christianity… Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, shows up at the White House yesterday. To pray over the president so he’ll have wisdom and restraint? No! To endorse the murder of civilians, which is a war crime, but more important, it’s a moral crime… The point isn’t to beat up on poor Franklin Graham. The point is that it’s the end of something. Whatever that religion is is not gonna continue. It just won’t, because it’s a lie. And so it will end, as all lies do — it will be revealed as a lie, as all lies are. And so you’re watching the end of the global American empire, the unipolar world… and you’re watching the end of whatever American Protestant Christianity… whatever it became… It’s also a prerequisite, it is a necessary step — and this is something that all Christians are thinking about in Holy Week — to rebirth. The seed doesn’t produce the tree until it dies. And so the death of the unipolar moment and of the institutions within the evangelical movement — American Protestant Christianity — are going away. But they will be replaced, by something better, and purer, more true to itself. Constructive, unifying, healing. Institutions that build and don’t just destroy. That’s going to happen, and, God willing, we will live to see it. So rejoice in that, as sad as this is, and Happy Easter.” “I tell you, one day, America will be holy.” - St. Paisios the Athonite

@RexxDauzat @hickman0000 Constantinople Alexandria Antioch Jerusalem Russia Serbia Romania Bulgaria Cyprus Greece Poland Albania Czech America All have autocephalous Churches. Russia's holiness is not relevant.

@hickman0000 Sure Russia is real holy. Highest level of abortions in the world.

@thaddeusthought I also have tons of obvious red flags though and if I see myself and genuinely fundamentally worse than them it's hard to think I ought to have better. My current girlfriend is amazing I am so blessed to have her but I still feel like the same storm in others lives as always

> "all women are like this" > "show me some women you dated" > tons of obvious red flags Maybe... maybe consider you are picking wrong

@KalebAtlanta You seen this Kaleb? Always made me think of you haha

Jesus Christ Conquers

@THEORTHOCHAT Who? We ought to love Greece 🥲

There’s plenty of Orthodox accounts who would love this guy

@eek4436 @AL_J82 @AngloVarangian Yeah, that's what I was reaffirming lol. Symbolon points towards a real presence view, and "as the flesh and blood of the Lord" literally does not make sense in a memorialist view.

@CaesariteJoseph @AL_J82 @AngloVarangian Right, but the key here is that it's not an either or which he assumes without demonstration.

The same arrogant protestants who make claims like this deny the Church Fathers taught Baptismal Regeneration and the real presence of the Eucharist which was universally agreed upon from the Church Fathers from day 1.

@eek4436 @AL_J82 @AngloVarangian to the institution of the eucharist at the Last Supper, so I am not 100% on what that would ultimately say definitively about the eucharist from my theology. Allegoron is similar to symbolon in that it can be "employing a likeness in communication," so it's not really conclusive.

@eek4436 @AL_J82 @AngloVarangian The citation I already used was in Chapter 6, but I am using the Greek. It's actually not even saying metaphor really. ἀλληγορῶν allegoron is "speaking allegorically" Now that I read it a bit deeper though it's really talking about Christ's words in John 6, which is prior-