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2 years

“It is of more importance to the Lord that a man acknowledge and confess his sickness and cry for help in his heart than with this tongue, for the tongue is capable of deception, but the heart is not.” — St. Nikolai Velimirovich

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Racism is not Christian. That’s it, that’s the tweet.

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Please pray for the repentance and return of Cyril and Noah,2 Orthodox Christians who have apostatized to the RCC.

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Reminder: Roman and Eastern Catholic celebrate the feast of St. Sergius of Radonezh today, someone who died outside of communion with and who taught against Rome.

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“They answered and said to him, “You are a convertodox, and are you teaching us?” And they cast him out from among them”

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@realjosephb They built a temple to Pagan gods on top of the Christ’s tomb; this is how St. Helen was able to find it. She tore down the pagan facade, much like her son St. Constantine did in the Roman Empire, and found the treasure buried so that she might increase it in our lives.

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Protestants: “The Doctrine of the Trinity only being articulated in a precise manner in the 4th century is consistent with the belief of earlier centuries” Also Protestants: “Iconodulia began to be widespread in the 4th century? Definitely need something earlier to accept them”

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LGBT? More like LGGTI: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. God, be merciful to me a sinner. God, cleanse me of my sins and have mercy on me. Thou hast created me; Lord, have mercy on me. I have sinned immeasurably; Lord, forgive me.

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1. Vow of Poverty 2. Vow of Celibacy 3. Vow of Service to The Church 4. Various “rights” given to others, including the “right” to put one’s own vestments on. Just because we treat our bishops well only illustrates they live according to the Gospel in ways many can only imagine.

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@rwpopefrancis - Arianism persisted in Spain for centuries - West maintained communion through communion with those in communion with those in schism - Popes Vigilius & Honorius - Synod of Frankfurt

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@BrotherAugusti2 God bless your priest

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St. Nektarios, pray to God for us!

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@maksimologija At best, this is gossip. At worst, a false accusation.

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@exanxc Christ did not speak out of both sides of his mouth.

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I think the absolute worst thing to come from Uniatism is the idea that aesthetics can be separated from faith. Aesthetics form, and are formed by, the faith we hold in a physical way. It is impossible to separate them. Stick to your own church’s aesthetics, stop stealing ours.

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@Ancient_Masc @Staggeringwood It’s a famous statement from the emissaries that St. Vladimir sent out to various religious centers when he wanted to unify Rus under one ruler & one faith.

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@byzantinetx Mrs. Molen is a married woman under the age of 40, was dressed according to the norms for Male Deacons & functioned in a manner that is not proper to the Office of Deaconess but to Deacon. As many baptisms as I’ve seen from Africa, they are clothed, which calls into question-

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@EricRSammons This just screams desperation. Are you really concerned with an almost non-existant overlap between the people leaving the RCC because of sex scandals & those leaving for Orthodoxy? I have yet to meet someone who chose to become ☦️ because of anything other than seeking Christ.

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1:23:59, @MilitantThomist cites a forgery (proof below) in a central argument to his rejection of the Orthodox Position. 1:20:52, he doubles down and accuses the Orthodox of smoking crack. See for yourselves:

DEBATE REVIEW - Christian B. Wagner vs Ubi Petrus (ft. Christian...

I'm joined by Christian Wagner (Scholastic Answers) in a review of his recent major debate with Ubi Petrus on the filioque. Many insightful discussions and f...

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From Bishop Neofitos Kong’ai of Kenya, in the Patriarchate of Alexandria. Please pray for His Grace, and the Synod of Alexandria, that they rectify this 🙏🏻

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@Tawadros15 @realjosephb Well said, forgive me if this wasn’t clear in my original statement

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No, I am not denying the Apostles believed in the Trinity. This is merely to illustrate the double standard. Iconodulia being present in the 4th century, along with every other major precisely-articulated Christian Doctrine/Practice, makes perfect sense and is completely-

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@catholicpat 1. You’re ignoring 1000 years of Apostolic Tradition in favor of a position that arose only after the schism &, even still, isn’t required for Eastern Catholics. 2. Celibacy, like Marriage, is a means to attain the virtue of Chastity, neither are virtues in and of themselves.

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@jackmat100 “Shredding”? You appeal to an emotional attachment & then set up a strawman, acting as if Orthodoxy would REQUIRE you to become a hermit out in the desert (intellectually & physically). If this is the best you’ve got “against Orthodoxy”, you need to revisit the drawing board.

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2 years

Simply a matter of time at this point.

Nick Donnelly

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Unsurprising bad news Bishop Bätzing employs trick Bergoglio used at 2014 Synod when adulterous communion was rejected -- ignore the vote Bätzing will present rejected heretical text on sexual ethics at German bishops’ November ad limina meeting & Vatican III synod in 2023

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@josemaria4ever You literally venerate an Iconoclast, Nestorians are on your calendar, y’all latinized the Divine Liturgy and suppressed Vernacular prior to V2, and the 3-Bar Cross was not widespread until the 11th century.

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@Mastrzobistone It’s, in fact, subhuman because it’s demonic.

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First, it was “He’ll come on after he becomes Catholic”. Now it’s “Y’all are uncharidable, he won’t come on”. This is tantamount to getting catfished and then excusing the catfish’s failure to meet in person by saying your friend group was mean to them by calling them out.

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@KefKonstantinos Anathema to the Godless Communists, Anathema to Stalin the Apostate and Anathema to those who support them

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Incredibly insensitive comments by Abp. Elpidophoros. The problem with the Greek Diaspora is the Greek Language being lost? You “don’t care about the personal lives” of your parishioners?What use is baptism that is immediately squandered by habituated sin?

Orthodox Christianity

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-consistent with the historical record. Persecution of Christians destroyed an untold number of texts and churches, to expect an exact exposition of anything in this period is disingenuous.

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@Rowdylifetv @MarjonQ17isBACK @ronin19217435 There are fragments which have been fake, as reported back in 2020, but they do not infringe upon the authenticity of the original collection.

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@FrBarnabas One can only imagine what he has avoided by the prayers offered on his behalf by faithful Orthodox Christians, and what he could have been kept from if we prayed more fervently. May God have mercy on us and upon His Hierarchs.

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@Paisios_braden @MilitantThomist @pontificatormax As I said to Dr. Stine, even if it weren’t true that the grass is greener in the Orthodox Church, the entire appeal that it isn’t just comes across as desperate. “They have problems too!”, they shout, as if we denied having such problems in the first place. At least we have-

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@C_O_M_M_O_D_U_S Also true.

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@Paisios_braden @MilitantThomist @pontificatormax -a way to deal with the problem, rather than having to swallow whatever gets decided in a city by an, allegedly, infallible autocrat far removed from our life as Christians (both physically and spiritually).

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This article, and the treatment of UOC by the UGCC, illustrates the dubious nature of the Uniates. They don’t exist for any other reason than to spurn Orthodoxy and to try and convert us.

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@KalebOfAtlanta How was sodomy not the sin of Sodom? It’s literally in the name. 🤦🏼‍♂️

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@food_inquisitor The Great Schema, unlike the very much ‘do this & be rewarded’ structure of many RC devotions, is not a reward for any endeavors undertaken by a monk. It’s not even something they can expect to be given, as being given the Schema is entirely their spiritual father’s decision.

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@Nektarios01_ Everyone in Heaven is Orthodox, that’s all we’re saying with such a statement.

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@Ancient_Masc War & Pilgrimage are irreconciliable, and the clergy that participated should have been defrocked in accordance with the Canons. They were opportunists who sought to establish their own hold in the Holy Land, very little changed for the Christians who lived in the Holy Land.

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Ever feel like you need to respond to someone but you are judging them by doing so? Our Lord Jesus Christ will either respond Himself (as He is ‘Antiphontis’ [He Who responds]) or guide you to humility in your response, you need only to pray to Him.

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@TheRealLogosT Couldn’t be worse than interrupting Mass, like Cardinal Humbert did when he instigated schism with Patr. Michael Cerularius & left the Catholic Church.

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@ThaddeusPapist The man died in abject schism, disobeying his lawful hierarch & receiving ordination from another bishop. You’re the very same “carnal man” by virtue of using your belief in universalism as a license to reject what the Church has consistently taught for centuries.

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@byzantinetx -any necessity thereof. This was uncanonical, not needed, and betrays the original vocation of Deaconesses by unwarrantedly foisting the responsibilities of a Deacon on to them, not those proper to their Office.

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@TheRealLogosT Going for the old 2-in-1 Papist combo, eh? Circular argument & deflection! But let’s deal with one thing at a time, okay? Is it or is it not sacrilege to interrupt Mass?

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@metathomist Putting aside the stupid ‘muh aesthetics’, neither could you given the sorry state Catholicism has been in outside of Europe

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@KalebOfAtlanta St. Photios of Kiev’s Sakkos:

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@OrthodoxHistory Bishop Sebastianos, seated far right, is still the auxiliary Bishop of Atlanta!

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@Kaleb_Atlanta @AngloVarangian A prominent WR blog just made a post claiming Aquinas can be, and should be, reconciled with St. Gregory Palamas

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@bonesoflasalle Is that what those passages say? Or is it a recognition that they worship demons & not God? The clean/unclean distinction is, primarily, a judgement of the taint of sin, not race; that is, unless you want to contend the Israelites needed to make atonement every year because they-

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Christ is risen, trampling down death by death, and to those in the tombs He has granted life!

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@Kaleb_Atlanta @tw3Lv3l3tt3r “And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was… And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one…” John 17: 5;22

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@TheRealLogosT @superxtianmario Mary isn’t who Satan rebelled against in the Garden, nor is she who strikes at His head. Satan hates God, and by extension the Theotokos & us; not the other way around.

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St. Basil understands the terms ‘begotten’ & ‘unbegotten’ NOT to signify substance, as Aquinas claims in Prima Pars, Q.28.2, but describe only the unique subject Who have revealed themselves as being such. It is, therefore, an Activity (Energy) proper to the Divine Persons which-

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@Kaleb_Atlanta Daily anti-greek (language) posting 😞

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@WalmartThomist 1. You’re creating a strawman: no Orthodox Christian, unless they are completely uncatechized (and thus probably shouldn’t be speaking) denies that God always intended to create. We’re pointing to the fact that this potential existed in God, before He chose to create, is a-

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@Real_Rye_Bread Not to mention the “Catholic” music was the Trisagion, something really only maintained by the Eastern Liturgical Tradition.

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@KalebOfAtlanta Pack it in boys, we don’t even know our own theology according to the people outside of our communion 😔

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@OriginalDdawg “100% Orthodox” don’t say “rest in piss” about someone.

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@fortysevent Grace is not a “condition of desire for the Divine”, in any strain of Christianity, try again. You’re reading way too much into a very simple quote explaining that God is the one who establishes the desire for Him in the souls of Christians.

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@GenealogyOfAdam None of these saints defended such a doctrine, high mariology =/= immaculate conception.

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@Crlu7aK @superxtianmario I hope you’re joking

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@SecretFire79 Who lied & told you that we aren’t in communion with each other? Also, no need to project; the analogy you crafted is a lot closer to your own position. Rome was 1 local church, in a part of the world that hadn’t really been relevant since the 500s, that seceded from the rest.

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Doctrinal Development, and its consequences, have been a disaster for the Christian Race.

Leader of Hundreds 🇻🇦

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The Council of Jerusalem in Acts is the first instance of doctrinal development. If you disagree, show me where prior to this moment it can be known that Gentiles were not required to adhere to Jewish law.

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@_smert_miru_ Shameful!

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@IliaOrthodox I’ve said it before: if you do not worship God as He has revealed Himself to us then you do not worship God, you worship your own idea(s) about God.

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From “The Filioque: History of a Doctrinal Controversy” by Dr. Edward Siecienski

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@Kaleb_Atlanta I met one, when he was first coming in, and the priest of the parish I was visiting at the time told him that wasn’t a good reason to convert. He told him he’d help him realize Orthodoxy is true, and told him that it’d be best to completely ignore politics while he inquired.

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@PatriarchPrimus Do you have one with a better resolution?

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@saintathanasia There is no adequate answer, as you can replace “paedocommunion” with “baptism” and have the same argument Credo-Baptists make.

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@coreyfsthomas @cherilyntx @BorjomiDrinker 1. Council of 1667 has been repudiated by both the Moscow Patriarchate and ROCOR. 2. To claim that Icons of the Father are heretical is to say Icons like the Kursk Root Icon are heretical yet work miracles.

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Important thread:

Fr. Michael Lillie

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From Fr George Maximov “Many times I have been asked about the ordination of a woman as a deacon recently performed by Metropolitan Seraphim of Zimbabwe from the Alexandrian Orthodox Church. Many African fathers have written to me, embarrassed by this news. Their confusion is

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@AngloVarangian @Ancient_Masc It should also be noted that not everyone accepted the Council. - Every major Patriarchate but Constantinople were appointed representatives, they were not chosen - The Georgian Bishops fled Florence under the cover of night for reasons not limited to: not receiving stipends in-

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@frevagoras And so you are meant to be an example of what “real Orthodoxy” is? You’re doing the same thing you’re accusing Mr. Robinson of doing, placing yourself (by virtue of the critique and defence of Abp. Elpidophoros) as a “voice of the people”. Last I checked, an echo-chamber is only-

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@PatriarchPrimus Gotta go to Mt. Athos or to Cyprus in order to venerate the relics of St. Photios. God-willing, we will make it some day.

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@WalmartThomist -contradiction of your doctrine of Actus Purus. 2. His construction is much closer to identifying His Existence as an Activity which He possesses, not His Essence. We believe God is His Divine Energies, we simply recognize a distinction between them & His Essence.

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@banterwithb A very similar experience in my own life with a friend of mine who initially identified as Trans &, because of my attempts to treat them like a human being whilst being open about my religious conviction, he realized he didn’t feel the need to transition any more.

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Quote in question, with relevant footnote, from “St. Basil of Caesarea ‘Against Eunomius’” translated by Mark Delcogliano and Andrew Radde-Gallwitz, published by The Catholic University of America.

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@AudioScribeOW @BrotherAugusti2

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@__Paisios @Jay_D007 First encounter I ever had with Hill and his cronies on here was him trying to correct me on something. I told him to block me because I had no interest in discussing the matter further with someone who has such poor reading comprehension and haven’t spoken to him since

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@theotokosdove You’ve clearly never seen a Myrrh Streaming Icon

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@theotokosdove It was the heart & soul of other Japanese Christians, such a shame.

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The whole Original Sin debate is beyond annoying; if you’d like to actually understand what our Saints teach, read “Christ: Fallen?” by Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis. He quotes them throughout with a particular aim of answering (which is a resounding “No”) the question in the title.

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@theotokosdove This deer didn’t “wander in”, it’s a trained deer. You can see the making of the short film being shot here:

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@SifiReturned @food_inquisitor Disproportionate? She’s handling the Chalice, something no Deaconess was ever allowed to do. She’s saying the Litany during Divine Services, again something their Office is not called or permitted to do. If anything, more people should be upset & decrying this.

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@jacfalcon A recent convert from Eastern Catholicism to Orthodoxy described ECism as a bridge. You either live under it or cross over it.

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@orthodox_kid Glory to God! Welcome to the Godly struggle to continuously make the same decision for the rest of your life ☦️🙏🏻

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@KalebOfAtlanta Forgive me, brother, for all the ways I have sinned against you and offended you

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@Kaleb_Atlanta Please try to visit Xenophontos & meet with Fr. Hierotheus. Tell him Photios from the boat sends his warm regards & asks for his continued prayers for the conversion of his parents 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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@pontificatormax No one is pretending the grass is greener on either side: the question is whether it is systemic, as is the case with the RCC and the Pope, or the wrong opinion of a few. This “one-up” mentality just comes across as desperate, Dr. Stine.

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@StJude_OPN The Apostles are literally appealing to Deuteronomy which stipulates the whole Law for the Jews, and only parts of the Law for the resident alien (Gentile) amongst them. Greeks were not told they couldn’t eat pork while they lived in Israel, because that’s not what the Law says.

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@Ancient_Masc It’d be Byzantine Chant then. Greek Churches use Byzantine, and Slavic Churches use a style that is local to their respective Church. Generally the difference is whether the music is Mono-melodic or Poly-melodic. Thanks be to God that you were able to attend brother 🙏🏻

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@_smert_miru_ Anaxia!

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@SifiReturned @food_inquisitor An Orarion under a Maphorion, as is prescribed by every canon mentioning them. And certainly not a Sticharion.

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@NotSicilianus The only ones larping are the Catholics who constantly post our churches as if they were theirs. You can’t eat your cake & have it too; either you adopt the faith & theology which forms, & is formed by, our iconography or you don’t.

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@OriginalDdawg God help you

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