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🌟 Welcome to PNP! For those of you who are new to our ministry check out our new site and app. Prayerfully consider becoming a monthly donor for any amount you are able to commit to our ministry so that the sweet teachings of the Holy Fathers can be shared across the globe.
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Are We Born Guilty of Sin? via @YouTube
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In the early church, to be Catholic was to be Orthodox..
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Fr. Josiah's new lecture series about transgenderism is available for free for one month! Listen here:
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St. John Chrysostom:
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Radical New Changes Happening! - NEW & FREE Mobile App for Apple and Android - All Theological Lectures for FREE to everyone! - Huge leap of faith for us to offer more content for free. Please prayerfully consider making a monthly donation. #patristicnectarpublications
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"Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!" - St. John Chrysostom
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🎉 We’ve reached 100k subscribers on YouTube! Thanks to every one of you for joining us on this journey to spread the teachings of the Holy Fathers. Your support helps us nourish souls around the world. Let’s continue growing together! (Continued)
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St. Barsanuphius the Great:
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“When the Church is persecuted, she becomes herself…” The Hope of the Church. Father Josiah Trenham. #patristicnectarpublications #orthodoxy #christianpersecution #martyrs #jesuschrist #truth #orthodoxchurch
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As the sands of culture are rapidly shifting and spiritual stability is increasingly elusive, Christians must build their life on the rock of Christ and the faith once for all delivered to the saints. Rock and Sand:
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St. John Chrysostom:
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"Humility is so powerful that even the all-conquering God did not conquer without it." - St. Ephraim the Syrian.
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NEW LECTURE SERIES : War and Peace: An Orthodox Perspective on Violence FREE if you download by 6/13 on (Cont.)
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Hypocrisy in America 🇺🇸. This is a short clip from a longer interview with @theblazetv . Don’t forget to support our non-profit organization by texting 53-555 and make a donation today. #patristicnectarpublications #frjosiahtrenham #orthodoxyinamerica #christianity #orthodoxy
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May you have a blessed and profitable Nativity fast!
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"[Heretics] mean one thing in their heart; they promise another with their lips. They speak with piety and conceal impiety. They speak Christ and hide the Antichrist, for they know that they will never succeed with their seduction if they disclose the Antichrist." - St. Jerome
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"Why did not the Almighty create the world at once, but in six days? In order to teach man, by deeds, to perform his work gradually, not hurriedly, but with consideration." - St. John of Kronstadt
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Patristic Nectar is a non-profit organization, your donations are reinvested into our ministry to nourish the spiritually thirsty with the sweet teachings of the holy fathers. Text “PNP” to 53-555 to be part of our ministry as a supporter. #patristicnectarpublications #orthodoxy
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Volume II of the Philokalia in audio format is now available for free at !
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Humility Month via @YouTube
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Volume 1 of the Philokalia is here! On the PNP app you'll see a new Philokalia tab where you can listen for free! The other volumes will be progressively rolled out later.
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America, Russia, and The State of The World | Father Josiah Trenham via @YouTube
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Why Icons are NOT idols. ☝🏽❌ Full video interview with @PageauJonathan on our YouTube channel “Venerating Sacred Images” available now. #patristicnectarpublications #frjosiahtrenham #jonathanpageau #venerate #idolatry #icons #worship #art #sacredart #iconography #oldtestament
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Now Available on the App Store for Apple and Android. Download now and consider donating a small monthly offering to continue supporting Patristic Nectar Publications. #patristicnectarpublications #frjosiahtrenham #orthodoxy #christianapp #synaxarion #philokalia #pray #theology
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“In no way will I say anything of my own, but what I have learned from the Fathers, altering nothing of their teaching.” — St. Maximus the Confessor.
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St. Justin the Philosopher & Martyr.
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Father Josiah participating in a Symposium in Iasi, Romania.
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"Man sentenced God to death; by his Resurrection, God sentenced man to immortality." - St. Justin Popovich (Paschal homily).
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"For earth and grave and death did not hold forever her life-originating and God-receiving body--the dwelling more favored than Heaven and the Heaven of heavens." - St. Gregory Palamas on the Dormition.
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“Do you want to become a theologian worthy of the Deity?—Keep the commandments, go through life observing God’s ordinances; for action is the foundation for contemplation [of spiritual mysteries].” - St Gregory the Theologian.
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Are you getting married, already married, or want to be married one day? PNP is pleased to present, "Enduring Love: Laying the Christian Foundations for Marriage" by Fr. Josiah. A new resource for couples, singles, and priests preparing them. #Wedding #marriageprep #engaged #IDo
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"When we abandon faith to take the power of reason as our shield & use philosophical enquiry to destroy the credibility of the Spirit, then reason gives way in the face of the vastness of the realities.Give way it must,set going as it is by the frail organ of human understanding"
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Registration is now open for live stream and in-person tickets!
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Blessed Palm Sunday from Patristic Nectar Publications! Shanini Mbarki!
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Stop TORTURING Yourself via @YouTube
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"Our mind is lifted up, and our courage unshaken, amongst those disasters of an age in decline." - St. Cyprian of Carthage.
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Bishop Irenei of London & Western Europe. This is a short clip from a longer video entitled "Does God Answer Prayer?" and can be found on our YouTube Channel. Text "PNP" to 53-555 to make a donation and support our ministry. #christianity #orthodoxy #patristicnectarpublications
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Patristic Nectar Publications is pleased to present our first book publication: 'Sermons on the Spiritual Life' by St. Philaret of Moscow! Translation by Dn. Nicholas Kotar.
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Free for one week, until 11/17/23. Patristic Nectar Publications is pleased to present a new 8 lecture series entitled: "The Original Church: Lectures on the Acts of the Apostles" by Father Josiah Trenham. Download them at .
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Fr. Josiah discusses the miserable failure of Woodstock and its legacy of sexual and drug use liberation, on its 50th anniversary.
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Worship is commanded by God and his word can not be abrogated by men. Fr. Josiah discusses 'dangerous and illegal worship'.
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"Our heart often sleeps during prayer; the outer man prays, but not the inner man. We often only flatter ourselves with our tongue during prayer." - St. John of Kronstadt.
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The foolish are afraid of death as the greatest of evils, but wise men seek it as a rest after their toils & as the end of evils-St. Ambrose
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This week Fr. Josiah discusses the folly of adding to the faith, as exemplified during the confessional age of the 16th-17th centuries, and the dangers of arrogant academics redefining the faith once delivered to the saints.
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"Today is suspended on a tree He who suspended the earth upon the waters. The King of the angels is decked with a crown of thorns. He who wraps the heavens in clouds is wrapped in the purple of mockery. He who freed Adam in the Jordan is slapped on the face."
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Are you or someone you know becoming Orthodox? Check out one of our most popular items ever: a 16 part catechism series by Fr. Josiah, with the first 8 lectures focusing on God, Man and the Church, and the last 8 focusing on the Holy Mysteries:
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Why Do We Say "Anathema"? via @YouTube If you like our free content, please consider donating. Text “PNP” to 53-555 for an easy way to give. #patristicnectarpublications #orthodoxy #christianity #theology #church #truth #ministry
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In this week's reflection, Fr. Josiah examines the recent large increases in 'deaths of despair' (suicide, drug abuse etc.) in the United States, and how it relates to the biblical book of Tobit.
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Registration is open now! Visit for more information on the schedule, the guest speakers, and how to reserve your spot! #orthodox #christianconference #mindset #orthodoxy #theology #conference #patristicnectar
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'Let the gates be opened wide that the Gate of God may enter into abundant joy.' Dormition of the Theotokos.
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Christ is risen! Wishing a most blessed Pascha to all of you, from us at PNP. Here is an encouraging word from Fr. Josiah about the certainty of the resurrection and Christ's reign in uncertain times.
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St. Basil the Great.
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Fr. Josiah speaks about the atrocious, radical sexual agenda of the public school curriculum in California:
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"What I see around me would drive me insane, if I did not know that no matter what happens, God will have the last word." - St. Paisios
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NEW! Fr. Josiah examines the general religious history of America along with the lives of her Orthodox saints:
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"He who knows his own sin is higher than the man who resurrects the dead by his prayer." - St. Isaac the Syrian
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In the latest installment of his podcast series, Bishop Irenei examines St. John Chrysostom's counsel on how Christians should approach Scripture:
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"In the same way in which the Old Covenant was received by Moses on Sinai, after a revelation of God in tablets of stone inscribed by His hand, so [Cyril], this 2nd Moses, received the revelation of a new alphabet." - Synaxarion reading for Sts. Cyril & Methodius
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"Such a thing is Christianity: in slavery it bestows freedom." - St. John Chrysotom.
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Fr. Josiah's reflection this week discusses the newly announced glorifications of saints, such as Joseph the Hesychast and Elder Sophrony of Essex, as well as what a saint is and how saints are made.
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