my dad passed away suddenly this weekend; and i crave your prayers for his soul and for my family.
probably shouldnโt post about it like this so soon but i amโฆhowling grief doesnโt even come close
One of the horrors of dying as a trans person is that for many of us, our families will not remember us for who we are; but rather that of an idea they have of us that died long before our bodies actually did.
I saw some priest posting about how depression is a spiritual cross. Iโm so tired of mental illnesses being spiritualised. Itโs not helpful. So if youโre religious and need to hear it: therapy is healthy and helpful; and confession is not a substitute for therapy.
sounds fake but some guy catcalled me and then tried following it up with โsmile, jesus loves youโ and iโm in a mood so i told him jesus also said leering men should gouge their eyes out.
pope francis visiting mongolia is a real retvrn moment tbh heโs being feted like royalty. instead of the condottiere itโs these guys looking like theyโre auditioning to be in the new papal armies. youโve got cardinals in tents being offered local delicacies. phenomenal vibes.
Itโs that time of year to remind you all that the Virgin Mary had full agency and that it was through her perfect โyesโ that our salvation came down to earth.
AXIA AXIA AXIA
Mother Deaconess Angelic Molen, ordained by His Eminence, Metropolitan Serafim of Zimbabwe; Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa
Glory to God in the Highest.
After surviving two thousand years, Palestinian Christians now number less than 800 in Gaza.
These families date back to the time of Christ.
If you are still a Christian Zionist you have spat upon your brother and betrayed him and your Lord.
nothing makes me despise catholics more than seeing hordes of them attack nice young women getting ordained in a completely different denomination. yeah, my church doesnโt ordain women priests either; but iโm not out here headhunting like little demons and showing my ass online
I think that if youโre a Christian and you visit any holy site in Jerusalem you should find a tasteful way to acknowledge that itโs a privilege denied to Palestinian Christians and make amends by donating to a Palestinian liberation organisation.
Okay I had a glass of wine here and am feeling BOLD but hear me out: the babushka whoโs probably never read a single patristic text or canon but faithfully attends services and lights candles has more faith in her little finger than any Orthobro could have in a lifetime.
imagine being a parishioner at this church, scraping as much together with your fellow parishioners to make as nice a place as possible to worship god in, only from some weird anon account to make fun of it from his momโs basement.
reminder to catholics and orthodox: if it comes down to protestant style christian nationalism, we will not be spared. the kind of protestants they are deeply hate catholics and orthodox. be principled and donโt make strange bedfellows.
Catholics and Orthodox: hey this is a sacrament that is only given to members of our respective churches and itโs been that way for 1,000+ years. Please donโt wilfully partake of it without first becoming a member.
Protestants: how can I make this about my feelings?
the reason orthodox convert men have a hard time finding wives most of the time is that most normal women donโt like that someone spends 99% of the time talking about how much they hate women online i hope that helps
i, personally, would not humiliate a woman this much by talking about my dating life with her like this. or, you know, be a 53 year old man in the clergy dating freshly baptised 21 year old converts seemingly at his parish.
TIL that the local evangelical college deems Orthodoxy a different religion and students are told they can visit an Orthodox service for their world religions class and it counts toward experiencing a โdifferent religionโ. Iโm about to go thermonuclear.
Saint Valentine was a man who defied empire until his last (being beheaded). Love that so many Christian feast days have been utterly corrupted by capitalism.
canโt believe i have to keep saying this: stop sexualising nuns you absolute degenerate freaks. i donโt care if you have trauma, just donโt fucking do it.
Jesus wasnโt socialist. He wasnโt communist. He wasnโt any number of your pet political programmes. Jesus is God, Ruler of the Universe. Hope that helps clear things up.
During Holy Week of 1945, Dachau was freed by the Allies. Among the prisoners were many Orthodox monks & clergy from Mt Athos, who performed services from memory. Vestments were made from former SS guardsโ belongings.
The gates of Hell will never prevail.
my best advice for orthodox inquirers/catechumens: every time youโre tempted to buy another icon to turn one of your bedroom walls into essentially an iconostasis, use that money for the poor. if you cannot see christ in the poor & homeless you wonโt see him on your wall.
Hey in case anyone needs to hear this: the Nicene Creed literally states that baptism is for the remission of sins and if someone is telling you youโre not good enough for baptism they are lying to you and spiritually abusing you.
All these churches have suffered more for the cross and Christ and the people of these churches will be accounted worthy of Godโs everlasting kingdom.
What has the person who runs this account done for the cross?
AXIA AXIA AXIA
After the considerable hullabaloo around Mother Deaconess Angelic, it seems the response was to elevate her to Archdeaconess. Even after a little spiteful writing campaign from ignorant American orthobros.
God is good all the time.
the only thing i have to say publicly about aaron bushnell is that i hope he is embraced by the loving arms of the theotokos and that his cries for a free palestine in his most agonising moments were heard by god.
once again finding it strange how a certain subset of white progressive lib exvies love to dunk on LGBTQIA+ and/or neurodivergent catholics and orthodox for having a strong opinion on things related to "what is a christian?"
If I could ask for some prayers for many things, among them upcoming multiple days with family members where I will be repeatedly deadnamed, my gender identity will be mocked, and all around putting myself through misery. Just feeling infinitely tired.
THINGS CATHOLICS CAN DO DURING PRIDE MONTH A WHOLE ASS TWEET MUMBLE RUMBLE.
Love your neighbour as much as you love yourself.
Judge not, lest you be judged.
Thatโs it.
Just hearing now that Metropolitan Kallistos is on deathโs door (or may have already passed through). Devastating, devastating year. May God and His Mother keep him and bring his soul into everlasting peace. Lord have mercy.
female diaconate discourse is circulating again so just remember that the tehran prelacy of the armenian orthodox church ordained mtr. dn. ani-kristi manvelian, a laywoman, in 2018.
High church cis gay men celebrating the very, very potential Roe v Wade overturn like their comfy rights arenโt going to be stripped away next. Clownish, selfish behaviour. Theyโre not going to stop at abortion. They will come for you next. Weโve all been saying this for years.
in all seriousness:
maryโs helped me every time, in every mood iโve gone to her. iโve been angry, absolutely catatonic, in the pit of despair. in all times & in every season the mother of god has worked wonders. glory to the mother of god, who has never forsaken us.
Gonna add another hot take to the TL but if a religious site asks you to dress a certain way, you dress that way. Mosque, synagogue, church, temple, what have youโฆhonour the wishes of the caretakers of that site and dress how they want you to.
Today, we remember St Maria of Paris. She was a socialist, a nun, twice married woman, anti-fascist defender & protector of Jews against Nazis. She was martyred on Holy Saturday, 1945.
โThey will not understandโฆto die for the Revolution means to feel a rope around one's neck.โ
One of the most glaring instances of homophobia in the church that Iโve experienced is how a priest went from always greeting me with a hug and two cheek kisses to never speaking to me again and privately calling me a hateful lesbian.
Anyway, to all you Westerns beginning Lent:
May God give you the strength to endure the fast, may He lift your thoughts to heaven, may He make His yoke easy for you. Ash to ash, dust to dust. And when you reach His Resurrection may you be filled with wonder at His works.
If thereโs one person who can band a majority of Christian LGBTQIA+ together, itโs the Virgin Mary. And I think thatโs beautiful. She loves us so much and wants us to love each other.
Memory Eternal to the servant of God, Frank Atwood, executed by the state. Convicted of a horrible crime, he spent the latter part of his life on death row. While there, the monks of St Anthony Monastery rehabilitated him and tonsured him a monk in the last few days of his life.
Revolt against the modern world. Stay tenderhearted, compassionate, giving, charitable, and loving in a world that demands cruelty, carelessness, selfishness, hoarding, and hatred.
When Pulse happened I was still deeply in the closet. A large part of my grief was private.
And now this tragedy has occurred again.
We cannot shrink in the face of this horror. Trans liberation now and forever on this Transgender Day of Remembrance. We must fight back.
she/her btw. they/them no longer feels right for me, hasnโt for a good while. was going to do a whole thing; donโt actually want to elaborate, but wanted to be honest.
few know this but actual eastern orthodoxy is just vibes. no reading, no thoughts, just vibing w the babushkas and lighting candles and saying your little prayers
Seconding what a locked account has said: even if the Virgin Mary is revered by over a billion people in the world, womenโs liberation has light years to go. You cannot love Mary if you spend your days on the TL trashing โregular womenโ.
For all sins committed against any one of you in this past year, known and unknown, voluntary or involuntary, thought, word, deed; forgive me, a sinner.
In hope against all absence of hope, may the year 2022 be one of resurrection.
god you people always have to try to sexualise mary magdalene in the weirdest ways possible. she was not jesusโ wife. she was not your girlboss sex worker. but to some people every little thing has to be tied to sex and your perverse obsession with god fucking women. sick!
Jesus wasnโt a socialist. Jesus is God, and thus exists outside of human political/economic forms. His teachings, however, & the way the early church carried them out, were strongly proto-socialist & tell us Xtians that socialism is the correct path.
As a Christian, I can and should pray for the soul of Elizabeth Windsor; but I cannot overlook the fact that the dynasty she comes from is one made up of sovereigns who oversaw some of the worst exploitation and abuse of humanity in the modern age.
itโs so funny when orthodox and catholics act horny for the confederacy like the confederacy wouldnโt have eventually strung them up for being too popish or foreign. get a better hobby.
No nuance November letโs go:
Donโt be a sexy nun for Halloween.
Donโt be a sexy priest for Halloween.
The sexuality of nuns & priests isnโt yours to โreclaimโ or however the hell youโre justifying your costume. Itโs distasteful & exploitative on many fronts.
okay hot take time: if you canโt agree to the nicene creed as a baseline (filioque as a variant permissible) donโt call yourself christian. go and figure out your own religion.
May the 21 Holy Martyrs of Libya pray to God for us. Memory eternal, may they have found eternal rest in the bosom of Abraham.
On this day, in 2015, these Coptic Orthodox were martyred by ISIS.
โTheir God is my Godโ
like y'all need to stop viewing the whole of the church through your reactionary lense of growing up in a pole barn congregation called "first baptist america heck yeah" or whatever weird thing it was. that's the global minority here.
Part of being a universalist is solemnly accepting that even those you hate will be your siblings in heaven and itโs a sobering reminder that Godโs universal love and salvation extends to even the chief of sinners, even Judas, even others reviled by history.
Please pray for the Archbishop of the Diocese of the Midwest (OCA), +Paul, who is nearing death. He is one of the best bishops Orthodox Christians in America have seen. Truly, a great loss is coming to that diocese. Lord, have mercy on His Eminence.
Canโt believe an Old Believer is in my DMs telling me about how heโs got a lesbian couple at his parish and how their kids are baptised and everything. An Old Believer!!!!
we do actually do burials for suicide victims and this person is wrong. iโve been to an orthodox funeral for an old man who was very dear to me, who took his own life. we buried him.
for the son of man, the god of the universe, king of kings, lord of lords, deigned to come down to earth as a servant of all, a helpless baby, who lived as a lowly worker and teacher and was crucified so that we might all be united with him forever.
thereโs no point in being part of the orthodox or catholic churches if you act like the worst caricatures of calvinists and puritans and have no desire to let yourselves be transformed into pure grace and love.