“Stupid Anglo-Saxon convert that thinks he knows more than Greeks”
Feb 24 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Teachings of St Chariton the confessor
Preserve the orthodox faith:
“I command you, above all, to preserve carefully the divinely transmitted faith without wavering in the least or being shaken by periodic events or danger. For a short while, as has been revealed to me by the
Lord, there will be widespread tumult in the holy Churches of Christ, caused by the heretics who will lead astray many by their heretical beliefs. You, however, must stand fast in the true dogmas of the Church,
May 20, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
St Nektarios teaching about original sin:
"What does the Church teach about the inheritance of original sin? - The church teaches that ancestral sin was always born by Adam, and that every human being is born into a state of sin; and he becomes a sinner directly as a conscience
of self and a manifestation of the opposition of this will to the divine will. In this case, original sin brings both personal guilt and responsibility and makes man responsible for punishment and hell (Rom. 5:12). The original sin makes man unworthy of communication with the
Jan 31, 2024 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
Frankish persecution of the Roman Orthodox:
“The birth of Frankish Civilisation is described in a letter of St. Boniface to Pope Zacharias (natione Graecus) in 741. The Franks had rid the Church in Francia of all Roman bishops by 661 and had made themselves its bishops and
clerical administrators. They had divided up the Church's property into fiefs which had been doled out as benefices according to rank within the pyramid of military vassalage. These Frankish bishops had no Archbishop and had not met in Synod for eighty years. They had been
Jan 21, 2024 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Vision of the Lord St Seraphim of Sarov had at the beginning of his monastic life:
“One day during the Liturgy on Great Thursday, he was vouchsafed to see a vision, the likes of which very few of even the greatest saints have ever been worthy of seeing....
‘Once it so
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happened,’ said the Saint, ‘that I was serving Vespers on Holy and Great Thursday. Divine Liturgy began at 2:00 p.m., as usual, with Vespers. After the lesser entrance and reading, I, the lowly one, pronounced at the royal doors, 'Lord save the pious and
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Aug 21, 2023 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
St Justinian the great, Concerning Cyril's Formula, "One Nature of God the Word Incarnate.
“Nevertheless, these enemies of the truth, by going beyond all the teachings of the fathers, but particularly those teachings ratified at the Council [of Ephesus] and set forth by St Cyril
in his condemnation of the blasphemy of Nestorius, interpret the formula found ni St Cyril's letter to Succensus, "One nature of God the Word incarnate." out of contest and inaccordance with their own opinions; and not only this, but, like all heretics, they also explain the
Jul 17, 2023 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
If you make excuses for intercommunion you’re complicit in the heresy of it.
“Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread”
St Justin popovic:
“Intercommunion, that is to say participating with heretics in the Holy Sacraments,
and especially in the Holy Eucharist, is the most shameless betrayal of our Lord Jesus Christ, Judas’ betrayal. It is especially the betrayal of the whole of the one and unique Church of Christ, of the Holy Tradition of the Church. One would have to rid oneself of one’s
Apr 17, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Can the non orthodox be called Christians? Let’s have a look:
Apr 16, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
What is the gospel: St Justin popovic explains
“The Gospel is everything which Christ, descending from heaven to earth, brought with him as God, and everything which he did graciously for us as God-Man, and everything which he gave to us…
as Saviour in his divine-human body – in the Church. These things constitute the Gospel. In other words: The Gospel is the whole God, all the Truth of God, all the Justice of God, all the love of God, all the Life of God, all the perfections of…