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2026-08-02 04:22:53 UTC

"In the West there is little of such open persecution of faith in God, but the spiritual atmosphere is not as different from that of the East as it might seem. The same unbelief and unremitting worldliness are pounded into the heads and hearts of young people in the West in almost every public institution and medium; the same violence and rebellion disturb young souls that know no other way to express their need and frustration; and religion, although outwardly free, has become a private and subjective matter that does not move society as a whole and is generally seen by young people to have no particular power or significance in their lives.
The name of Christ—unlike the situation in the East—can be freely pronounced, but most often it is associated with a religion of dead formalism or, at best, of subjective revivalism, and at worst of a self-centered exploitation of religious feeling."
☦️Hieromonk Seraphim Rose
Introduction to the Seven Homilies of Fr. George Calciu

2026-07-22 16:40:22 UTC

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Yes
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2026-07-21 22:16:22 UTC

Lots of great commentaries on the Gospels out there, no doubt, but this is my go to for daily devotional reading. Archbishop Averky also has commentaries for Acts of the Apostles, all of the Epistles, and St. John's Apocalypse. Highly recommend picking up the set.
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2026-07-21 18:01:23 UTC

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Counterflow with Buck Johnson
Lord of Spirits
Heavy Things Lightly w/John Heers

2026-07-21 12:48:18 UTC

One is not like the other.
The priest in an Orthodox Liturgy when consecrating the Holy Gifts: "This is my body broken for you for the forgiveness of sin". ☦️
Pro abortion feminists: My body my choice!😈
John 15:13 KJV — Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

2026-07-21 11:24:45 UTC

The likelihood of folks who drive with their hazards on in the rain having at least 3 COVID boosters... Near 100%.

2026-07-21 02:11:23 UTC

TIL: St. Anthanasius recommended that the "Shepherd of Hermas" be used as a resource for catechism.
The Lord of Spirits: Commander Shepherd
Starting from: 00:00:00
Episode webpage: https://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/lordofspirits/commander-shepherd/
Media file: https://media.ancientfaith.com/lordofspirits/los_2026-06-30.mp3#t=0

2026-07-19 13:38:19 UTC

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It seems SI accepts the virgin birth of Christ so we would see eye to eye here. I'm not certain where he stands on things. In an earlier video of his he claims to follow "Nazarene Jewish Christianity" which effectively held the same views as the Orthodox Church, whereas in a debate video, he held an Arian view 🤷‍♂️
I saw he wrote a paper on "biblical materialism" but I cannot find it. If you know where to find it I'd look it over so I can better understand what he means by the term.

2026-07-18 23:30:28 UTC

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I've got no reason to block you nor will I. The meme I sent over was for a comedic effect, though id be lying if I didn't think there was truth buried in it.
Lots to unpack here but on Christ's Church being invisible, I'd obviously disagree. The advent of Christ is physical/material as is His baptism, transfiguration, miracles, passion, etc. His Church is no different as it marries, or is symbolic of Heaven and Earth meeting.
I don't disagree with corruption in the Church, it has always been the case and will continue to be an issue, after all, we've been in the end times since the Incarnation.

2026-07-18 18:57:15 UTC

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I am a lawbreaker, that's for sure. I am also interested in hearing your posistion and why you hold it.

2026-07-18 18:28:49 UTC

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I didn't realize you held an Aryan view. My apologies. Are you an Aryan yourself or some sect of Islam?

2026-07-18 18:14:58 UTC

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"Southern Israelite" by his own admission, is a pure materialist. A post Enlightment communist adjacent posistion to hold. Sad stuff.

2026-07-18 17:08:50 UTC

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2026-07-18 15:02:12 UTC

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Always feast after a fast 🤝

2026-07-18 14:37:38 UTC

A tribute to the Holy New Martyrs Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, Prince Alexei, and Princesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia. Martyred 108 years ago today.
May they intercede for us before Christ our God! ☦️
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2026-07-17 18:41:06 UTC

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"Penal Substitutionary Atonement"

2026-07-17 15:46:43 UTC

https://youtu.be/XdA-Kkz9fi0

2026-07-17 14:52:15 UTC

Going back through some of the books I read as an inquirer to the Church and dang, this is just incredible stuff. This is so full of meat and is only ~100pgs.
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2026-07-14 23:40:57 UTC

Yikes
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2026-07-13 23:52:09 UTC

Wild to see Jay on Tucker. 👀☦️
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2026-07-13 21:38:58 UTC

Thoughts on death 👇
https://shop.deathtotheworld.com/collections/zines
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2026-07-13 13:09:39 UTC

"For love to grow, you have to give it away. A person who does not give away even the little love they have is like someone holding a handful of seeds in their hand and not wanting to sow them."
☦️St Paisios of Mt Athos
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2026-07-12 18:53:35 UTC

While God is the Indivisible Trinity, divisions occur in mankind constantly… The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit have common thought, common will, common actions. What the Father desires, the Son also desires, and the Holy Spirit also desires. Whatever the Son loves, so do the Father and the Holy Spirit also love. Whatever is pleasing to the Holy Spirit, is pleasing to the Father and Son. Their actions are also common among them, all act in conjunction and in accord.
This is not so with man. We are in constant disagreement, we have differing desires. Even a small child expresses his own wishes, willfulness, disobedience to his loving parents. As he grows older, he separates from their more, and so often in our day becomes completely alienated from them. People simply don’t share identical opinions, on the contrary, there are perpetual divisions in all things, quarrels and conflicts between individuals, wars between nations.
Adam and Eve, before their Fall, were in full accord and of common spirit with one another at all times. Having sinned, alienation was immediately sensed. Justifying himself before God, Adam blamed Eve. Their sin divided them and continues to divide all of mankind. Emancipated from sin, we approach God, and, filled with His grace, we sense our unity with the rest of mankind. Such unity is very imperfect and lacking, since in each person some portion of sin remains. The closer we approach God, the closer we approach each other, just as the closer rays of light are to each other, the closer they are to the Sun. In the coming Kingdom of God there will be unity, mutual love and concord. The Holy Trinity remains eternally unchanging, all-perfect, united in essence and indivisible.
☦️St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco

2026-07-11 15:14:16 UTC

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Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the billions of years of cosmos are all part if the same gay grift.

2026-07-09 21:58:41 UTC

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Did bitcoin play a role in your conversion to Christianity?
Is there anybody here that found bitcoin and turned agnostic/atheist?
#nevent1q…0aa6

2026-07-07 13:04:36 UTC

“Western society has chosen for itself the organization best suited to its purpose and one I might call legalistic. The limits of human rights and rightness are determined by a system of laws, such limits are very broad. People in the West have acquired considerable skill in using, interpreting, and manipulating law (though laws tend to be too complicated for an average person to understand without the help of an expert). Every conflict is solved according to the letter of the law and this is considered to be the ultimate solution. If one is right from the legal point of view, nothing more is required, nobody may mention that one could still not be entirely right, and urge self-restraint or renunciation of these rights, call for sacrifice and selfless risk: This would simply sound absurd. Voluntary self-restraint is almost unheard of: Everybody strives toward further expansion to the extreme limit of the legal frames. (An oil company is legally blameless when it buys up an invention of a new type of energy in order to prevent its use. A food product manufacturer is legally blameless when he poisons his produce to make it last longer. After all, people are free not to purchase it.)
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is also less than worthy of man. A society based on the letter of the law and never reaching any higher fails to take advantage of the full range of human possibilities. The letter of the law is so cold and formal to have a beneficial influence on society. Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes man's noblest impulses. And it will be impossible to bear up to the trials of this threatening century with nothing but the support of a legalistic structure,”
A. Solzhenitsyn, Harvard Address.

2026-07-06 18:07:02 UTC

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Abortion is Lucifer’s demonic parody of our Holy Eucharist…..which is why the Satanists usurped and twisted the same words “This is my body” but with the opposite satanic meaning. Abortion is the sacrament of Satanism masquerading around as the religion of secular progressivism. A well known Elders once said that infanticide (abortion) is the nuclear bomb of sins. Because it’s one of the few grave sins that requires multiple participants (the mother, the father, the doctor, the nurses, anyone that works at that hospital, the people that harvest the organs/tissue and sell them, and so on…..).
“Parents need to understand that life begins at the moment of conception.”
☦️Saint Paisios
#nevent1q…hk57
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2026-07-05 22:18:12 UTC

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2026-07-04 18:00:46 UTC

Most have zero clue what the Bolsheviks really stood for and set out to accomplish.
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2026-07-03 16:42:52 UTC

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Yes!

2026-07-03 15:45:58 UTC

The Universal History series is worth a go. This is the most recent installment.
https://youtu.be/3D2bRWrbKUU

2026-07-03 14:26:07 UTC

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I've thought a lot about this too 😮‍💨

2026-07-02 22:36:13 UTC

Imagine my surprise.
Whitney Webb Says her investigation has found that Polymarket's "official" origin story, that Shayne Coplan founded the company alone in 2020 and then built "the company in his bathroom", is a lie.
Webb reports Polymarket really started years earlier as another company called TokenBnk that was specifically a crypto company founded by Benjamin Netanyahu's niece and nephew. Webb says Coplan has actively tried to obfuscate this company from his story.
“In Part 1 of this two-part series, we unravel the real history of Polymarket, directly connecting the company to Peter Thiel's efforts to resurrect controversial DARPA programs from its now defunct Information Awareness Office. Polymarket appears to have been chosen by Thiel and his associates to succeed in resurrecting DARPA's Policy Analysis Market where another Thiel-linked company, Augur, had previously failed.”
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/06/investigative-series/the-secret-history-of-polymarket-part-1/

2026-07-02 22:27:20 UTC

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🤣

2026-07-02 17:16:50 UTC

@nprofile…c5de do y'all have a ballpark on motorola/graphene device launch?

2026-07-02 17:03:32 UTC

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Fantastic.

2026-07-01 18:31:19 UTC

Found some wild blackberries on our property line. 👌
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2026-07-01 17:41:08 UTC

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Adding "and the Son" in early 11th century isn't suspicious at all 😉

2026-07-01 13:11:01 UTC

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No, it's published by an Orthodox Christian publisher, but worth a look.

2026-07-01 11:45:25 UTC

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https://newromepress.com/holy-bible-readers-edition

2026-06-30 23:47:56 UTC

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St. Luke's Gospel
Luke 2:25-52 KJV — And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel. And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him. And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed. And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem. And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth. And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it. But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him. And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing. And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business? And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them. And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

2026-06-30 15:58:17 UTC

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God promised he would not die until he held the Messiah.

2026-06-30 13:23:27 UTC

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Fun fact, St. Simeon the God receiver was one of the 70 who helped compile the Septuagint.

2026-06-30 02:53:17 UTC

https://youtu.be/yZUuKzDQSsI

2026-06-30 01:39:23 UTC

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Stolen from @nprofile…sqle
#nevent1q…ts9l
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2026-06-28 19:46:36 UTC

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No doubt about it!

2026-06-27 17:49:36 UTC

“Usually, women who have abortions do not see and are unaware of what takes place within them medically. With the slightest difficulty—it has also become fashionable—they proceed to the physician and have an abortion, as if they are disposing of a dog or a cat. We should dissuade them from proceeding to have the abortion, by telling them that this is the worst possible crime a person can commit.”
—Geronda Ephraim of Arizona☦️
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2026-06-26 16:23:03 UTC

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Yes

2026-06-24 01:25:11 UTC

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2026-06-24 01:07:15 UTC

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Why should we accept any premise of Darwinism?

2026-06-22 14:31:16 UTC

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🤣

2026-06-21 23:58:49 UTC

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Based

2026-06-21 19:50:16 UTC

☦️
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2026-06-21 17:17:35 UTC

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So few understand this 🫂

2026-06-21 12:31:31 UTC

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Based ☦️

2026-06-21 11:17:48 UTC

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The triune God.

2026-06-21 04:44:10 UTC

☦️
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2026-06-20 17:32:41 UTC

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A type of "Antichrist".

2026-06-20 17:31:23 UTC

https://www.orthodoxethos.com/post/following-our-holy-fathers-eyewitnesses-of-the-word-in-our-day

2026-06-19 20:50:10 UTC

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2026-06-19 17:53:02 UTC

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You may enjoy "The Lord of Spirits" podcast, Fr. De Young is a joy to listen to. They are long format ( ~3hrs).

2026-06-19 16:53:43 UTC

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Heiser?

2026-06-19 12:49:35 UTC

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Good to know! I am in a clay heavy area too 🤝

2026-06-19 11:50:12 UTC

St. Justin Martyr > Marcus Aurelius
https://thisblessedday.substack.com/p/june-1-the-execution-of-justin-the

2026-06-19 11:27:11 UTC

For you eBook folks, this is a pretty decent deal from Irving books.
https://irvingbooks.com/shop/bernays-founding-texts-ebook

2026-06-18 23:52:20 UTC

🔥☦️
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2026-06-18 23:44:26 UTC

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2017-2022 bitcoin twitter was absolute peak. 🫂

2026-06-17 16:54:18 UTC

Usury is always bad and all "isms" are gay.
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2026-06-17 16:42:12 UTC

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Exactly right.

2026-06-15 17:09:04 UTC

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https://open.substack.com/pub/sabaisper/p/the-faithful-and-secularism-part
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2026-06-13 18:12:47 UTC

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2026-06-13 17:30:40 UTC

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I need a tractor in a bad way 😌

2026-06-13 17:28:18 UTC

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Therefore to this day the children of Israel do not eat the muscle that shrank, which is on the hip socket, because He touched the socket of Jacob's hip in the muscle that shrank. - Genesis 32:32
Just as the truth is quite plain in this case, however, so with the good man a kind of apparition occurred that had the effect of convincing the good man of the degree of care he enjoyed from God and the fact that Jacob would be unvanquished by all those plotting against him. Then, in order that the vision he had would not be forgotten by anyone in the future, “his thigh made him limp. For this reason the sons of Israel do not eat the nerve that stiffened on the flat of his thigh, because he lay hold of the flat of Jacob’s thigh, and it stiffened.” You see, since the good man had completed his lifespan and was about to leave this life, and since the providence accorded him by God and the marvelous considerateness should be known to the whole human race, accordingly it says, “The sons of Israel do not eat the nerve that stiffened on the flat of his thigh.” Aware of their ingratitude and the way, they forgot God’s kindnesses; he therefore devised a constant reminder for them to have of the kindnesses done by him and arranged for these reminders to be preserved in their observances of this kind. You can find this throughout the whole of Scripture. In fact, this in particular is the explanation of the great number of observances. They represent God’s wish that future generations would unfailingly meditate on God’s kindnesses and, by consigning them to oblivion, not have recourse again to their own errors—a particular weakness of the Jewish people. I mean, those who give evidence of their typical ingratitude in the face of these very kindnesses would all the more readily, had this not happened, have banished from their mind all that had been done for them by God.
☦️ St John Chrysostom

2026-06-13 12:22:39 UTC

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Its incredible 🫂

2026-06-10 17:04:27 UTC

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Based 🤝

2026-06-10 17:03:42 UTC

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All of creation rejoices in thee, O Full of Grace, the assembly of Angels and the race of men. O Sanctified Temple and Rational Paradise! O Glory of Virgins! From thee, God was incarnate and became a Child, our God before the ages. He made thy body into a throne, and thy womb He made more spacious than the heavens. All of creation rejoices in thee, O Full of Grace! Glory to thee!

2026-06-10 16:57:20 UTC

This is a reason why the Orthodox venerate relics of the saints ☦️
"The holy apostle Paul worked many miracles, and it was not only his hands which were wonder-working, healing every infirmity by their touch alone; but even his handkerchiefs and aprons, which had absorbed the sweat of his body, partook of the same miraculous power: for, when they were placed upon the ailing, they immediately healed them and expelled unclean spirits from the people.
Seeing this, several itinerant Jewish exorcists invoked the name of the Lord Jesus over those possessed by evil spirits, saying 'We adjure you by Jesus, Whom Paul preacheth!'
But the evil spirit answered them, saying: 'Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are ye?' And the man afflicted by the unclean spirit cast himself upon them, and, gaining mastery over them, received such power over them that he beat them and wounded them, so that, naked, they were barely able to escape the hands of the possessed man.
This became known to all the Jews and Greeks of Ephesus, and fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was glorified, and many came to believe on Him.
And even many of those who were sorcerers, after accepting the holy Faith, cast off their books of spells into a fire; and when the price of them was computed, it was found to be about fifty thousand drachmas. Thus did the word of the Lord grow mightily and spread."
— Excerpted from The Life and Sufferings of the Holy, Glorious, All-Praised and Pre-Eminent Apostle Paul
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2026-06-10 13:40:31 UTC

The Emperor with his son Alexei at the front, WW1. Where they spent most days with generals and wounded troops, eating rations of porridge and black bread. Nicholas was never taught the duties of a Tsar when he was young so he made it priority to prepare the young Tsarevich for when his time to rule this vast empire would come, sadly it never came. ☦️
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2026-06-10 03:52:01 UTC

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Whatchu reading bro?

2026-06-08 23:32:30 UTC

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1 1/2 or 1 3/4

2026-06-08 23:02:00 UTC

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2026-06-08 14:23:35 UTC

Billions will be baptized🤝
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2026-06-07 16:49:21 UTC

We did not evolve from the lesser creation. Humanity is the crown jewell of creation and we know this because God Himself took on human flesh. As a castle is prepared for the entrance of a king so too was the world created for it's master.
“O man, why do you think so little of yourself when God thinks so highly of you? Why dishonor yourself when God so honors you? Why be so concerned with the stuff from which you are made and so little with the purpose for which you are made? All visible creation is your home. For you the light dispels the darkness; for you the sun, moon, and stars shed their light; for you the earth bears flowers and trees and fruits; for you the air and the earth and water are filled with marvelous life — all so that earthly life may not be sad and make you blind to the joy of eternity.”
☦️Saint Peter Chrysologus

2026-06-07 16:34:27 UTC

Today, the Sunday following the Great Feast of Holy Pentecost, we celebrate the Synaxis of All Saints!
“Rejoice, assembly of the Apostles, Prophets of the Lord, loyal choirs of the Martyrs, divine Hierarchs, Monastic Fathers, and the Righteous!”
These are the men and women who attained the holiness that Christ our God commanded us to attain: “Be ye holy as I am holy.”
They are our examples, our helpers, on the path of salvation. They remind us that our goal is to attain to that same holiness. That we are called to be saints.
O Holy Fathers and Mothers, pray unto God for us 🙏 ☦️
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2026-06-07 06:15:22 UTC

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Picanha

2026-06-06 13:27:48 UTC

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https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelofamerica/p/the-south-was-right
Reposting this too👌
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2026-06-06 12:31:59 UTC

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2026-06-06 05:32:44 UTC

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Darwinian evolution is fake and gay.

2026-06-05 14:51:01 UTC

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2026-06-05 14:27:09 UTC

An excerpt from a recent article I read on substack by a fellow named Joshua.
"Addiction is proof that humans are capable of deep devotion — they just submit it to false gods."
Most people hear this as a clever observation. But for those who have sat with the Holy Fathers, it lands differently — as a precise theological diagnosis. And one that comes, praise be to God, with a cure.
You Were Built for This
Orthodox theology teaches that humans are not a machine prone to random errors. You were fashioned with intention, with love — for union with God Himself. The Fathers call this theosis: the progressive transformation of the human person into the likeness of Christ, not by ceasing to be human, but by becoming fully what humanity was created to be.
At the center of this transformation is the kardia — the heart. Not the sentimental organ of Western romanticism, but the deepest seat of the person, where intellect, will, and love converge. This heart loves. This heart worships. This heart yearns.
And here is the critical insight of the Orthodox tradition: that yearning cannot be switched off. It was placed there by God. It can only be aimed.
The Passions
Orthodox theology has a precise word for what happens when desire is misdirected: the pathe — the passions. Not emotions in the modern sense, but God-given drives that have become disordered through the fall. Gluttony is hunger for the infinite, fixed upon food. Lust is eros aimed at the flesh. Greed is the longing for permanence, aimed at wealth.
Addiction, in this framework, is not a character flaw. It is not weakness. It is the spectacle of a soul built for God burning with the same intensity as the greatest saints — attaching that burning to something finite. The intensity is never the problem. Only the object is wrong.

2026-06-05 02:40:28 UTC

https://open.substack.com/pub/sabaisper/p/on-social-media
Lord have mercy!

2026-06-03 17:58:46 UTC

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St. Gregory Palamas is the 🐐 regarding the polemic/apologetic realm of the hesychastic tradition.

2026-06-01 23:39:02 UTC

We Americans have a shallow understanding of what "freedom" is. Christ and His Church offer the only path to true freedom and it is most certainly a narrow one.
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2026-06-01 04:07:14 UTC

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Agreed

2026-05-30 20:50:48 UTC

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Awesome, congratulations!

2026-05-29 18:51:48 UTC

First Fr. Josiah and now Fr. De Young.... Glory to God!
The Tucker Carlson Show: The Secret History of Biblical Giants, Demons, and the Advanced Civilizations Before the Great Flood
Starting from: 00:00:00
Episode webpage: http://www.tuckercarlson.com/
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2026-05-27 23:51:06 UTC

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What you just presented is the Orthodox view of salvation... Which is what he is getting at in the post.

2026-05-27 19:00:39 UTC

Jonathan Pageau recently on X (I'm not over there, but this was sent to me).
Following a bit of the Protestant polemics against Orthodoxy recently, and I realize just how difficult it is to communicate the mind of the Church across these lines.
A simple example is seeing people confused about whether someone who is not baptised and participating in Orthodox communion can be "saved". Protestant are noticing that there are different answers in their estimation, and so are confused about them. The confusion comes from the belief that being "saved" or not is about "where you go after you die", when for the Orthodox "saved" means being made whole, being healed, being restored to the original purpose God had for us.
For this reason, when Protestants see declarations of how communion in the body of Christ is the only way to salvation, they immediately think this is a declaration that all the non-Orthodox are going to hell after they die. When Protestants then hear the very same person who just told them that salvation is in full participation to the body of Christ go on to intimate we have nothing to say about the eschatological finality of any specific soul, it is like a short circuit that many Protestants cannot compute. This is what I could see when
@OrthodoxEthos
and
@Acts17David
were discussing and it is what I have seen in
@gavinortlund
's videos.
In a similar vein, when a Protestant says he has the "assurance of his own personal salvation", this is confusing to the Orthodox. Orthodox also obviously have assurance of salvation, that assurance is Christ. He shows us what it means to be made whole and makes us participate in that wholeness. But how can I say that I am "saved" if I see that I am still a wretch, still prideful and arrogant and sinful? So the Orthodox, knowing they are are still sinning, though also knowing Christ has made them grow in the virtues will say something like: "I know that I am being saved." That is I can see that I am being healed, being made whole, being reformed to the resemblence of God. But again, this completely confuses the Protestant who just wants to know what will happen when you die. What side of the fence will you end up on?
I am not sure how to get accross these lines, and I feel that unless we can, we will perpetually be talking past each other.

2026-05-27 13:37:14 UTC

👀 Oh boy
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2026-05-27 05:39:49 UTC

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Yes