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3 years

St. John Chrysostom on looking at your spouse for pleasure (in context of recent OrthoTwitter debates): «If you desire to look and find pleasure, look at your own wife, and love (ἔρα) her continually; no law forbids that».

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Btw, have you ever seen Soviet illustrations for "The Hobbit"? Take a look. Bilbo and Gandalf on the first picture, Gollum on the second.

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St. Gregory Palamas also venerated the Western Fathers. He writes about St. Benedict of Nursia's vision of Divine Light as an example of contemplation of the Uncreated energies and calls St. Benedict “one of the most perfect Saints” (Triads I 3.22)

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St Augustine and the Eastern Fathers The Orthodox Church is Catholic - her heritage includes both Eastern and Western tradition. Still many Orthodox venerate Western Fathers less, so I'd like to show, how St. Augustine was accepted by the Eastern Fathers.

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Icon corners at home.

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Christ is risen! (18th century icon from Kostroma)

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Russian translation of St. Augustine's "Confessions" is a great literary masterwork. Russian historian and philologist Maria E. Sergeenko translated "Confessions" in Leningrad, during its blockade, in 1941-1944. She worked in a dying city, surrounded by cold and hunger...

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Note, that St. John uses the word «ἔρα» from «ἐράω» — the word describing «erotic» love. So, according to St. John, looking at your wife with certain passion and pleasure is completely alright.

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Why is the Union of Florence canonically null and void? My previous thread was misunderstood by some people as favourable towards the Council of Florence. Now I'll try to show, why the Council of Florence could never be accepted as Ecumenical.

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Kind reminder. Augustine of Hippo is an Orthodox Saint, Father and Doctor of the Church, accepted by the Fifth Ecumenical Council.

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Christ is risen!

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Everything in the Church looks grim? Remember, during “the Golden Age” St. Basil wrote: “I am confined to bed, and every hour is all but looking for the end of life; the Churches are in the same condition, no good hope shining on them, their state always changing for the worse”.

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Today is the Feast day of the New Martyrs of Russia. And this is St. Tikhon's omophorion in my University's main church, located in the Chamber of the Council, where the Local Council of 1917-18 took place.

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Why the Western Rite is theologically possible in the Orthodox Church: Councils and Church Fathers. A 🧵. 1. The Great Council of Constantinople 879-880 a. D. declared: «Each Throne has some successively accepted ancient customs. There should be no hostility...

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Dear brothers, my little daughter (Kassia) is very ill, has a strong fever. It's night here, tomorrow we'll call a doctor, but for now — please, pray for her.

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If you want to have a based Orthodox beard and still don't have one — let's pray to St. Maximos the Greek together.

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Carved wooden icons and sculpture in the Church of the Deposition of the Robe in Moscow Kremlin. Holy Trinity and St. Jonas of Moscow.

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Original sin in hymnography “In iniquity I, wretched, was conceived and born completely full of sins (ὅλος γεγένημαι ἁμαρτιῶν πληρής), knowing nothing else. I alone was such a useless product of my Creator. But help me, Queen of the world!”

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I find people who desperately want a schism, desire a schism to get rid off "those treacherous Greeks" or "those Russian barbarians" very unpleasant. They are motivated by hatred. I love Ecumenical Patriarchate and I love my (Moscow) Patriarchate. Love my one and only Church.

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Btw, the West had also theologians who explicitly denied Filioque as later defined by Ferrara-Florence. Anastasius the Librarian (†878) wrote, citing St. Maximus, that correct interpretation of Filioquist formulas is that Spirit has its mission, not its being, from the Son:

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Elves in Rivendell and the Battle of the Five Armies.

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In general being Orthodox requires you to accept both St. Gregory Palamas and St. Peter Mogila, Council of Jerusalem and Palamite Councils, transubstantiation and essence-energies distinction, baroque Passion services and Jesus Prayer. Orthodoxy is Catholic and universal.

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Tollhouses are first explicitly mentioned in the Alexandrine tradition - "Sentences of Sextus" (probably 3rd century), Origenes, St. Anthony the Great, Theophilus and St. Cyril of Alexandria. Every time I visit Twitter I see some RC apologetics getting worse.

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Most Eastern Orthodox teachings are just semantic changes and rewording of Catholic doctrine that has already been taught for centuries now.

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Thorin captured by the goblins and death of Smaug.

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Consensus of the Russian Church and the Eastern Patriarchates on the issue of the reception of Roman Catholics, based on the writings of St. Mark of Epesus. Roman Catholics should not be rebaptized on their reception to the Orthodox Church. They should only be chrismated. A 🧵.

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Kindly reminding: according to St. Augustine to be a Catholic one has to be in communion not with Rome, but with Jerusalem. «If you be Catholic Christians, communicate with that Church from which the Gospel is spread abroad over the whole earth: communicate with Jerusalem...

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Not long ago I've seen a discussion about calling Blessed Virgin "St. Mary". Some people said that it's "protestant" and the Orthodox should call Her only "Theotokos". Here's a photo of a VI century mosaic from Cyprus. You can see readible inscription: «ΑΓΙΑ ΜΑΡΙΑ» — St. Mary.

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Veneration of the Sacred Images in the 3rd-4th centuries. The Martyrdom of the the 7 Martyrs of Samosata († 307-308), written by immediate witness of the events, describes the practice of adoration of Christ by making prostrations before the image of Crucifixion.

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St. Gregory Palamas on original sin as «ancestral curse and condemnation»: «Before Christ we all shared the same ancestral curse and condemnation poured out on all of us from our forefather, as it sprung from the root of the human race and was the common lot of our nature...

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St. Gennadius Scholarius: «But if in prayer someday we will ask for complete deliverance for those who are in hell, we will do this, out of pity for them, daring and the impossible and trusting in God's mercy to them.

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From my point of view, Cretan school of iconography is the visual equivalent of the great theological synthesis created by our theologians like St. Gennadius Scholarius and Patriarch Dositheus.

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I wish a merry and blessed Christmas to everyone celebrating Nativity of the Lord tonight!

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Well, I'm a candidate of theology (it makes me more or less a PhD in theology for those in anglosphere).

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Christ is born! Glorify Him! Merry and blessed Christmas! I think the best, most insightful, inspired and beautiful explanation of theological meaning of the Nativity is St. Gregory Palamas' homily.

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I've been called a latinizer. I've literally dedicated my life to translating and studying Byzantine anti-Latin polemical writing and documents of the greatest Greek-Latin dispute in all the history (Florence). How on earth can I be a latinizer?..

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Today is the feast day of New Martyrs of Russia. They are sharing the glory of ancient Martyrs and New Martyrs, who suffered during Turkocracy. I think we can pray for the restoration of the Orthodox unity today. That we on earth may be as one as our Saints in heaven.

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Let's say it: rejecting the Western tradition is not Palamite. Approaching it with discretion and making it a part of the Orthodox theological synthesis is.

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Blessed Patriarch Paul of Serbia on loving one's country and nation: “It is not human and not Christian to defend a crime, and it would be an unforgivable sin to justify someone's crime because the one who committed it comes from a people to which we ourselves belong.

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He had his errors, but he was not the only saint who had them. So his authority must be as undisputable as that of St. Gregory of Nyssa or any other great Teacher of the Church.

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Why do I think that Florentine definition on the Filioque is incompatible with the Greek patristic tradition. A thread.

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4. The Fifth Ecumenical Council declared Augustine one of the 12 Church Fathers who are to be followed in the matters of faith, among the Cappadocians, Cyril and Athanasius of Alexandria and Chrysostom. (ACO. T. 4. Vol. 1. P. 37)

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The Great Council of Constantinople 879-880 (also called “The Eighth Ecumenical”) about non-dogmatic differences between local customs in the Church: “Each See has some inherited ancient customs. It is not befitting to be at enmity and argue about them among ourselves...

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Concerning ongoing debate about fairy tales, Tolkien etc. I think we should take into account, that all classical literature read in schools in the Late Roman and Byzantine period was pagan in its origin. Homer, Euripides, Sophocles — stories about heroes, magic and gods.

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Penal substitutionary atonement is Palamite. St. Gregory Palamas, Homily on Great Saturday: «The Lord patiently endured for our sake a death He was not obliged to undergo, to redeem us, who were obliged to suffer death, from servitude to the devil and death...

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2. Therefore Augustine was personally invited to the Third Ecumenical Council, but died shortly before it, causing deep sorrow for everyone. (ACO. T. 1. Vol. 1 (2). P. 52-54).

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1. St. Augustine was on friendly terms with St. Cyril of Alexandria. They exchanged letters and St. Cyril probably commissioned a translation of Augustine's "De gestis Pelagii". (Malavasi G. The Greek Version(s) of Augustine’s De gestis Pelagii)

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Happy Saints Cyril and Methodius' day to everyone celebrating today! Does everyone here remember, that St. Methodius was an uncompromising opponent of the Filioque? The earliest testimony comes from St. Clement of Ohrid, who composed the first lirtugical canon to Methodius.

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5. The Council of Trullo confirmed as dogmatically binding the anti-pelagian canons of the Council of Carthage, which contain summary of St. Augustine's teaching in Original sin and necessity of grace.

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Considering the recent debate about hanging out with friends or playing games being worldly or acceptable I remembered a story about St. Anthony the Great from Apophthegmata Patrum. «A hunter in the desert saw Abba Anthony enjoying himself with the brethren and he was shocked...

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Metropolitan Onufriy of Kiev (UOC MP): “The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) has consistently supported and continues to support the territorial integrity of Ukraine and calls on its faithful to pray for peace in our Ukrainian state and around the world...

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Old Calendar has the feast day of St. Mark Eugenicus of Ephesus today. Since he is the protagonist of my dissertation, I have the deepest possible veneration of him. Saint Hierarch Mark, pillar of the Orthodoxy, pray for us.

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My goodness, and I thought that "Stalin founded the Moscow Patriarchate" was a bad take.

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@langluigi_ Well, you consider the Byzantine Church of 1180 to be your Church. It's not though. Mehmed the Conqueror and Gennadius Scholarius started your church. Mehmed(the Muslims who converted Hagia Sophia into a mosque) appointed Scholarius as the Patriarch of Constantinople. Figure

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7. St. Gregory Palamas read the Greek translation of "De Trinitare" and adopted elements of Aug.'s theology (even the psychological concept of Trinity) in his writings. (Flogaus R. Der heimliche Blick nach Westen: Zur Rezeption von Augustin De trinitate durch Gregorios Palamas)

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Imagine how New Martyrs of Russia, who suffered under Soviets, and New Martyrs of Greece, who suffered under Turks, are facepalming together in the Kingdom of God, looking at petty quarrels of the modern Orthodox.

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«He, who makes a discrimination between a Greek and Russian is an antichrist». So Patriarch Dositheus Notaras (of thrice-blessed memory) wrote in his times. So it is now.

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3. St. Augustine was cited as an authority on Christology by St. Justinian in his decrees. (Justinianus. Epistula contra Tria Capilula, 5-8, 25-27 // Drei dogmatische Schriften Iustinians. München, 1939. S. 49, 54-55)

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“Another saint, one of the most perfect, saw the whole universe contained in a single ray of this intelligible sun – even though he himself did not see this light as it is in itself, in its full extent, but only to that extent that he was capable of receiving it”.

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Maria Sergeenko's own example of spiritual heroism of an Orthodox Christian scholar is almost as inspiring as St. Augustine's great book. I privately venerate her as a person close to sainthood. Wanted to tell you this story.

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Byzantines didn't believe in pagan gods or supernatural abilities of Heracles or Achilles. But they still read all these "fantasy" poems, dramas and novels. And St. Basil in his famous homily about reading pagan literature, addressed to the youth, says that it's good...

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St. Photius of Constantinople on Original sin and against Pelagianism Read an account of the proceedings of the synod held at Carthage in the great church, while Faustus Honorius was emperor of the West, against Pelagius and Coelestius...

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6. St. Photius the Great wrote an exposition of Augustine's theology and a history of Augustinian debates in the West (surprisingly endorsing also Prosper of Aquitaine). He wholeheartedly accepts his authority. (Photius. Myriobiblion, 53-54 // PG. 103. Col. 91-98)

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Conclusion. The Florentine Union was canonically void and the Council of Florence was a «Robber council», because «the presidents of the other Churches did not accept it and did not agree with it» and rejected it.

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Patriarch Dositheus, the author of the Confession of the Council of Jerusalem (1672), was a convinced Palamite. In the preface to his account of the Palamite controversy, he gives a list of 41 heresy of Barlaam and Akindynos the Orthodox reject.

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Three books I'd recommend everyone to read this year (if you haven't already read them, of course).

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In 1443 the three Eastern Patriarchs convened in Jerusalem and made a joint statement deposing Uniate bishops and calling the Union «abominable». It was not a solemn anathema, but it's a testimony to their refusal to accept the Union.

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10. St. Gennadius Scholarius was an admirer of St. Augustine, proposed an Orthodox interpretation of his Trinitarian theology. He also used his ideas about conciliar authority of the Church. (Gennadius Scholarius. De processione Spititus Sancti, 1.6 // OCGS. Vol. 2. P. 227-229)

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Saint Leo's christology is one of the most perfect. I've translated some of his texts on the subject, and his theology is excellent. Romanides was an ecumenist with anti-chalcedonian sympathies. Maybe it was the reason behind his evaluation of St. Leo's theology.

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Is this what they teach at AHOS, that Pope St Leo was just too stupid and caused the schism? I...I have no words

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Russian Christmas as it is.

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Well, guys, I'm back, it seems. And going to stay.

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So basically Augustine was used in the East as an authority in Christology, Ecclesiology, necessity of Grace and even a bit in Trinitarian theology. He was even proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by an Ecumenical Council.

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...finding consolation and strength in the book she was translating. It was edited only in 1978, anonymously, because she was a professor in Leningrad University and she'd get fired if her superiors knew that she translated religious texts.

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Why Florentine definition on Filioque is incompatible with the Greek Fathers. Part 2. So, including αἰτία in the definition was necessary for the Latin side of the Florentine Council, bc this term excluded ambiguity and compromise with Byzantine polemical tradition.

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I'm now a father of two kids, btw. Cassia was followed by Cyprian.

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What some call "Latin captivity" I'd call true Catholicity: being able to use other theological and language to express the same truth once delivered to Apostles. RC Church was never able to use Eastern theological "style" as freely as our Saints adapted the Western.

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I want to uphold the authority of the St. Augustine not because his own personal views are so important for me. The Orthodox follow consensus patrum, not one Father, be it Palamas, Issac the Syrian or Augustine. Even if some of my friends won't agree with me...

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If the Three Hierarchs were to rise from the dead right now, they would not even be surprised. They'd just ask how to use the computer and start doing the job they were doing 15 centuries ago: pacifying quarrels among Church primates and fighting heresies.

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If you think Penal substitution atonement is inseparably connected with Reformed theology, then we can just call what Palamas says an «Atonement consisting in substitution in punishment». It will still just mean that Christ accepted our punishment instead of us to save us.

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Orthodox polemicists (John Eugenicus, brother of St. Mark, St. Gennadius Scholarius) used exactly this argumentation to prove that Florentine Council wasn't Ecumenical.

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Btw I really think it's so. Yes, it sounds cartoonish, but changing the Creed was prohibited by the Ecumenical Councils and by making an addition the West expressed its readiness to break from the Tradition on a whim. And that's what caused Reformation and secularism.

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8. St. Nicholas Cabasilas' "Life in Christ" was partially inspired by "Soliloquia ad Deum" (Ps.-Augustine, imitating Confessiones) and is strongly Augustinian in its treatment of necessity of grace.

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Today being St. Mark of Ephesus' feast day on the OC, I'd like to share one of his treatises. It's on Atonement and the sin of Adam. Sadly it's only translated into Russian (by your humble servant), but you can try to read it in Google translate.

Свт. Марк Евгеник о первородном грехе и Искуплении

Источник: Τσελεγκίδης Κ. Γ. Ὁ Ἅγιος Μάρκος ὁ Εὐγενικὸς καὶ τὸ λειτουργικὸ τοῦ ἔργο. Θεσσαλονίκη, 2012. Σ. 206-209 (с уточнениями по рукоп..

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I'm currently translating the Acts of the Council of Ferrara-Florence (the Ferrarian part) into Russian, and I have to say it's not a pleasant reading. How Latin orators constantly interrupt St. Mark and don't let him to say a single word... Unfair and overall disgusting.

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"saint Origen"

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Saint Origen withstood torture for the sake of Christ and never renounced his faith in Him. Those who think universalism is a license to sin are carnal men

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Of late I've been studying the writings of the anonymous Cleric of Ostrog, Ruthenian Orthodox polemicist from late XVI – early XVII century. He wrote extensively against the Council of Florence. Allow me to share a quote from his reply to the Uniate apologist Hipacy Pociej.

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Personally I think that “Latin captivity” narrative is very west-centric and insulting in respect to the Orthodox Church. It views Orthodoxy as primitive and devoid of authority, wisdom and guidance from God to discern worthy from heretical.

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9. St. Mark Eugenicus used St. Augustine's authority in many cases during the council of Florence. He especially used Augustine's concept of the Magisterial authority of the Church in its relationship with authority of the individual Fathers. (Orations against Purgatory)

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Kind reminder: St. Mark Eugenikos, Metropolitan of Ephesus, explicitly affirmed validity of the Sacraments in the Roman Church. In his closing speech at the last of the counciliar sessions in Ferrara, St. Mark, addressing the pope and the cardinals, says:

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Once again in context of recent OrthoTwitter postings. Dear Orthodox brothers, if you want to post some extravagant idea, especially in the area of morality, no matter how based and redpilled it seems to you, please think twice about all the people you may lead into temptation.

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What I want to say is that all our Church Fathers who had any higher education read "fantasy" with "pagan" elements. In Byzantine culture it was normal. We should not try to introduce Puritanism to Orthodoxy, it's not traditional and not patristic at all.

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11. Later blessed Patriarch Dositheus, St. Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain and many Greek and Russian Saints appreciated and adopted Augustinian theology, but what's already described must be enough.

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The only Greek representative in Florence who openly doubted validity of the Latin Baptism was future Uniate, Gregory Mammas (Silv. Syrop. Memoires IX 9). This, btw, shows that Byzantines were not afraid of calling Latins unbaptized if they thought so. St. Mark just didn't.

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Btw, let's have a little game of guessing. Who was the only Greek representative in Ferrara and Florence who openly expressed doubts concerning validity of the Latin Baptism? Was he a defender of the Orthodoxy or a future Uniate? I'll post the right answer tomorrow.

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St. Nektarios of Aegina on Atonement: «The Savior, as the Great Archpriest, brought Himself to God and the Father in an immaculate propitious Sacrifice and thereby appeased and satisfied the Divine justice offended by sin of people in the transgression of the law of God».

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St. Gregory the Great describes this vision as the vision of the “Light which is in God” and it's not one of created things (i.e. it's uncreated according to St. Gregory the Great too). See Dialogues II 35: “All creatures are nothing to that soul that beholds the Creator...

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Our every sin is an anti-theodicy. «The sin committed by the creatures of God gives rise to blasphemy against their Creator: as if He is evil, since He gave life to such evil creatures». Source: Νικόδημος ὁ Ἁγιορεῖτης, ἅγιος. Ἀόρατος Πόλεμος. Ἀθῆναι, 1853. Σ. 3

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St. Mark Eugenicus' canon against the sorrow: «You know the despondency of my soul, You know my inconsolable pain. You created our hearts alone. Allow me, Lover of mankind, to rest a little before I go away and cease to be. I put all my hope on You, I am Your servant, save me».

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Metropolitan Athanasios of Lemesos on the "Ukranian question".

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Theodore, Pope of Rome (642), about immutability of the Creed: 1. «For the faith that the apostles preached is sufficient for us: the Councils confirmed it, the holy fathers sealed it; through it we have been regenerated and instructed...

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The counciliar decree,on the contrary, explicitly approved the Filioque. As we know, of all the representatives only St. Mark Eugenicus (he was representing Antioch; Silv. Syrop. Memoires IV 43) really followed the instructions and refused to subscribe the decree.

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The Seventh Ecumenical Council, refuting the Iconoclast Synod of Hieria, which called itself Ecumenical, formulates the formal external criteria of the Ecumenical Council. It is basically the acceptance by the whole Church -- then it was the five Patriarchs.

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...For though it sees but a glimpse of that light which is in the Creator, yet all things that are created seem very small. By means of that supernatural light, the capacity of the inward soul is enlarged, and is so extended in God, that it is far above the world”.

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