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Aristotle Papanikolaou

@atpapanik

8 years

How I teach theology to undergrads via @ChristianCent

How I teach theology to undergrads

Being religious is not about following rules. It's more like...

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

@atpapanik

5 years

Just saying.

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She was a great mom. I’m grateful. May her memory be eternal.

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I have to say-“Western" academic silence on Hagia Sophia decision, especially from theologians & scholars of religion, is deafening. Unfortunately, not surprising, given the (mostly) absence of desire to learn about any other form of Xianity other than Protestant & Catholic kind.

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Just FYI.

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What people should never forget is how much the Greek community vilified Iakovos when he marched at Selma. History proved him right, as it will for @Elpidophoros

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Today is St Mary Magdalene day. In the Byzantine hymns, she is referred to as η Απόστολος (in addition to Ισαπόστολος). If ordination is grounded in apostolic succession, how is it that we deny ordination to women?

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Waking up to the beautiful sounds of the sisters and brothers of Bose Monastery

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This is so spot on.

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Today is the feastday of St Phoebe THE DEACONESS, for those who have eyes and still don’t see.

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Dear secular media, IR people, politicians, western theologians, etc.: PLEASE pay attention to the role religion is playing in Russian geopolitics. Stop pretending religion has nothing to do with it. Please. Stop. Pay Attention.

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St Maximus the Confessor day today. Just reminder that January is intellectual saints month in the Orthodox Church. They loved ‘reason.’

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Translation: We really need more dictators who kill journalists, oppress the opposition, rig the courts, outlaw homosexuality, etc. All in the name of a “Christian” culture. That’s really living not by lies.

Rod Dreher

@roddreher

1 year

Still can’t get over how the Hungarians ended their annual national holiday celebrating the Feast of St Stephen, Hungary’s first Christian monarch, with drones making cross above Parliament. You’d never see that over US Capitol on July 4. I know why, but still. Go Hungary!

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Christian overreaction is not a good missionary strategy for preaching the Gospel. By their words and example, the great ascetical mothers and fathers challenge us to move beyond being so easily offended.

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

@atpapanik

8 years

How I teach theology to undergrads via @ChristianCent

How I teach theology to undergrads

Being religious is not about following rules. It's more like...

www.christiancentury.org

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

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“If any of you have arrived only at the eleventh hour, do not be dismayed for being late. The Master is gracious: He accepts the last even as the first.” Χριστός Ανέστη!

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Orthodox celebrate Job the Prophet today. Everyone should read that book. Christians got this wrong—Job was not “patient,” even if he persevered. Written 3,000 years ago, it offers a better take on “theodicy” than any analytic philosophy, because it’s the anti-theodicy.

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Today is St. Gregory of Nyssa day in Orthodox “new calendar” (i.e., the astronomically correct calendar). Beginning with St. Basil on 1/1, January is intellectual-saints month, a reminder that anti-intellectualism has no place in the Orthodox Church, or in Christianity.

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

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In my opinion, this sums up an Orthodox political theology that supports democratic structures committed to a civic society that protects freedom and equality.

Elpidophoros

@Elpidophoros

2 years

Every person, no matter who they are, or what they have done – for better or for worse – is worthy of God’s love. And if they are worthy of God’s love, then they are worthy of our love, too.

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God does not stop loving us because of sin; sin only makes it difficult for the human to experience the love of God that is always being offered.

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

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To all my Catholic and Protestant friends:

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

@atpapanik

4 years

Today we lost Bishop Atanasije Jevtic-a kind, generous, passionate, compassionate pastor of the church. I’ll never forget how the children in Trebinje flocked just to be near him, & the genuine love he showed them. He was a great theologian and a man who lived his theology. ME!

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

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Such a different message & tone than Kirill’s nationalistic screed given today. That’s why church needs transnational leaders who aren’t obligated to particular state or cultural interests & to remind that Christian identity transcends such localities even as it includes them.

Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate

@OrderStAndrew

3 years

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: "Arms are not the solution. On the contrary, they can only promise war and violence, sorrow and death. As our beloved brother Francis, the Pope of Rome, recently said: 'Let us not forget: war is madness.'"

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

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“All people seek God and long for Him, regardless of whether they are believers or unbelievers...For when someone yearns for justice, love, and truth, they are really yearning after God.” (Elder Thaddeus of Serbia)

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

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Orthodox bishops should do the same.

James Martin, SJ

@JamesMartinSJ

2 years

BREAKING: An immense step forward. Pope Francis calls for the decriminalization of homosexuality worldwide: "Declaring such laws 'unjust,' Francis said the Catholic Church can and should work to put an end to them. 'It must do this. It must do this.'"

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

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Good to have my pal @FrJohnBehr back in US, where he belongs.

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

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In my son’s dorm room. So proud.

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Great to be in Constantinople to speak on , representing @FordhamOrthodox and @OrderStAndrew

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St. Mary Magdalene day! Some hymns refer to her as “η απόστολος.” Look at the icon below. I don’t think mansplaining is part of the apostolic tradition.

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More from the sisters/brothers of Bose Monastery, because I needed to hear this today. Anti-ecumenists don’t know what they’re missing. #antiecumenism

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

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Good father. Good person. Good priest. I miss him.

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He’s the Archbishop of the GOA—not the ‘Greek archbishop’. You should know better. To question his integrity is a cop out. He’s a PhD in theology, full professor at University of Thessaloniki. Where did you train in theology? @roddreher

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Bless his heart, the Greek archbishop condemns the Benedict Option, but I'd bet you my yearly tithe that he hasn't read it. They never have, these people.

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Today in Orthodox (astronomically correct) calendar is St. Xenia, DEACONESS of Rome. Just a friendly reminder.

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So, I haven’t threaded in a while, and this one is on recent OCA Synod statement forbidding all discussion on issues of gender and sexuality. 1/

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

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On this date, 25 years ago, I married this stunningly beautiful and way-smarter-than-me woman. She has been and will forever be my best friend. Truly, madly, deeply.

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Expect Catholic and Orthodox to finally to unite! Ecumenism to trend in Greece. Apology for Crusades and theological dialogue deemed unnecessary.

Pope Francis orders Parthenon marbles held by Vatican be returned to Greece

Three 2,500-year-old pieces will be ‘donated’ to Greece’s Archbishop Ieronymos II amid wider conversation about future of Parthenon marbles held by Britain

www.theguardian.com

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

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2 years

Among other things, Putin said: “They [the West] have abandoned religion & embraced Satanism.” Religion plays an important role in his ideological rhetoric, but we need to remind ourselves and convince others that religion can & should also play a role to counter this rhetoric.

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It’s time for women deacons. Zero theological or historical reason against it. Just good old-fashion self-identification vis-a-vis the proximate other. I.e., idolatry.

Aristotle Papanikolaou

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Catholic Objections to Women’s Altar Service: Barred from the Sacred

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Please, please read this and disseminate as widely as possible. Not surprisingly, “Western” media is not giving this the attention it deserves and getting it very wrong. This story needs to be told. Please.

Fordham OCSC

@FordhamOrthodox

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Eliminating Armenians from Artsakh: Azerbaijan’s and Turkey’s Perpetual War against Armenia

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

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We are created neither to be ‘saved’ nor ‘to reign’ nor ‘to become like angels,’ (hymns tell us humans gifted w/ what angels don’t possess), but simply to be deified, to be like God, to love as God loves. Any other interpretation reads “Scripture” w/out studying fathers/councils.

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70 years ago, on this date, my father, Fr Byron, arrived to US from Greece. Check out bottom-right stamp. Memory eternal to a remarkable man who helped so many people.

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

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Happy bday to my beautiful boy. Very proud of him. Χρόνια πολλά!

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And someone else has to say why theological & historical literacy matters. This kind of diametrical opposition is simply not helpful. Insofar as the Nicene Creed is about Incarnation, which is about theosis, it is foundational for the liberation of the poor and the oppressed.

Theo Huxtable - Maverick Minded

@letgreglive_

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Somebody had to say it.

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2 years

At 50% off, I think we went a bit overboard. One good thing about using an astronomically incorrect calendar.

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1 year

“populist parties are increasingly employing religious symbolism and rhetoric in an identitarian rather than a religious way. What appears to be an embrace of Christianity is more a celebration of cultural markers—Christendom without Christianity.”

The Right Has Become Post-Religious

Trump—and more broadly, the style of politics he represents—did not rise to power on the shoulders of the religious right, but rather the post-religious right. Indeed, his presidency was made...

www.thepublicdiscourse.com

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

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6 years

With all due respect to Michelangelo, this Last Judgment is better. More hopeful. Voronet Monastery.

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3 years

About to give a lecture on religion and politics in Orthodoxy. Hoping I won’t have to do the walk of shame.

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1 year

I noticed many Orthodox and Orthodox-like experts dumping on earth day (no pun intended), hinting that it’s idolatrous; and, yet, the “sacramentality of creation” is Orthodoxy 101. Read Schmemann (the real one). The Orthodox police should really read more at @FordhamOrthodox

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

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5 years

Proud Papa

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4 years

Happy St. Kassiani day. She wrote one of the most famous hymns in history of Byzantine hymnography , that in order to be true to her memory and truly Orthodox, should take no less than 25 minutes to chant. @GDemacopoulos

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Greek koulouria are way better than Italian biscotti.

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5 years

I like what she’s doing here. About time a Democrat use explicitly theological language.

Jim Wallis

@jimwallis

5 years

“...if Christ Himself walked through these doors, [teaching] that we should love our neighbor and our enemy, that we should welcome the stranger, that we should fight for the least of us…He would be maligned as a radical and rejected…” Amen.

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Once again, @Elpidophoros is rising to the occasion in a way that is simply absent in most Orthodox leaders. Compare this prophetic declaration with Patriarch Kirill’s justifying war and violence for the sake of so-called “traditional values.”

Elpidophoros

@Elpidophoros

3 years

The invasion of Ukraine must be squarely set upon the shoulders of Vladimir Putin. We are witnessing an immense tragedy of human suffering: the targeting of civilians, assassination and terror, and the deaths of innocents, especially children. #Encyclical

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Appeal to Krill by Synod of Ukrainian Orthodox Church—Moscow Patriarchate(UOC-MP): “Realizing our special spiritual responsibility, today we address His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.1/3

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I saw this live. I admired it at the time. Very brave to call out institutional churches for their many failings. Just look at the institutional Russian Orthodox Church and its theology of violence and war. Remember: God is ironic. Scripture tells us so.

The Night Sinead O’Connor Took on the Pope on ‘S.N.L.’ (Published 2023)

Tearing up a photo was the moment nobody forgot. The performance that preceded it was just as powerful.

www.nytimes.com

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1 year

Im sorry but this theologically inaccurate.

Fr Matthew P. Schneider, LC

@FrMatthewLC

1 year

Gnosticism, the belief that the spiritual is what's really good & the physical doesn't really matter, is one of the larger ideas behind stuff like "gay marriage" & "female priests." We need a sacramental worldview that sees the body as good to counteract it.

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There are Orthodox ‘theologians’ who write that desire is opposite of love. That point of view is not reflected in the patristic Tradition, but was actually articulated by the Lutheran theologian, Anders Nygren, in is now (in)famous book, “Agape and Eros” (1930) 1/10

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Today is the Sunday of Last Judgment in the Orthodox Church (MT 25). 2 Sundays before Lent begins. Most miss the irony that we will be judged by how we treat those who break the rules. (Dostoyevsky got it). Enjoy icon below.

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2 years

Intellectual-saints month continues with SS Ephrem and Isaac the Syrians. And, of course, don’t forget it’s also St Thomas Aquinas day!

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I know I should just ignore this & shouldn’t give it attention, but-wow. So, Orthodoxy, the true faith, should be about a hyper-masculine and patriarchal clericalism? I have read every book Schmemann wrote 1/2 I can confidently conclude that he would never say anything like this.

Rod Dreher

@roddreher

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Oh wow, so a church that already has a heavily gay clergy is going to get even more effeminate, at the pontiff’s order. Pope Francis is doing more to evangelize indirectly for Orthodoxy than any of us actual Orthodox.

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4 years

There can be reasonable Liberal-Conservative debate on how to structure liberal democracy, but this election was not about liberal v. conservative. It was about getting rid of someone who threatened our hope to live into a democratic promise. He needed to go.

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5 years

I’m not Catholic, so sorry for weighing in, but @USCCB , this is a really bad witness for all Christians. Please do something.

Fr. Nicholas Gregoris

@GregorisFr

5 years

Black-Hispanic pop culture is for the lowest of the low. Repetitive, primitive sounds & dance moves right out of the jungle. Man is regressing not progressing. Devolution not Evolution. Women dress, act like whores to entertain low-life fans. #SuperBowlLIV

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The most spectacular icon of Last Judgement, ever (sorry Michelangelo). Voronet Monastery. Today is Sunday of Last Judgement in Orthodox Church. 2 Sundays before start of Lent. (Next week is Forgiveness Sunday).

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The Orthodox Church isn’t usually ahead of the curve, but this time it is.

Orthodox Observer

@OrthoObserver

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His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has sent a letter of congratulations to the new President-Elect of the United States, @JoeBiden .

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I love this line, from Xmas matins: καὶ γέγονεν ὁ Ὢν ὃ οὐκ ἦν δι' ἡμᾶς (And He Who Is became what He was not, for us)

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If this is confirmed, this is exactly what the Orthodox Church should be doing. Exactly. The pope is separating the political and the ecclesial space. 2 distinct debates. Should not be elided. In relation to the political space, this should exactly be the ecclesial response.

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

4 years

Pope Francis calls for civil union laws for same-sex couples

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Today is the last day for “Christos Anesti.” “Let us embrace one another, even those who hate us. Let us forgive all things in the Resurrection” (hymn from Resurrection matins).

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For those taking Orthodox cues from @jordanbpeterson (and @roddreher ), I just read in last night’s Orthodox (Lenten) vespers:“While fasting in the body…let us also fast in spirit…let us undo the knots of every contract made by violence; let us tear up all unjust agreements;1/2

Dr Jordan B Peterson

@jordanbpeterson

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There is nothing Christian about #SocialJustice . Redemptive salvation is a matter of the individual soul.

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It just seems to be getting worse snd worse.

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I know people often get upset with David Bentley Hart’s approach, but I honestly sympathize with his theological impatience. It’s amazing to me how what counts as ‘Orthodoxy’ often has no theological or historical support, but is some imaginary construction fueled by opposition.

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Jürgen Moltmann: “there is no such thing as an un-political theology.” He is right, especially since how we engage politically implies a theology, whatever one’s beliefs. “Why does everything have to be political?”, because everything is theological & theology is about everything

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On this day, the day of the Annunciation of Christ’s Incarnation, you can eat Oreos.

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Never gets old

Keith Andrew Massey, PhD

@keithamassey

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A Happy and Blessed Easter to all who are celebrating it tomorrow!

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@EcuPatriarch has given a clear message, and now all the leaders of the autocephalous churches need to categorically condemn Russian aggression and the use of the Orthodox faith to justify this unprovoked attack on fellow Orthodox Christians. One way the ROC can unite Orthodoxy.

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I think something should be said about the fact Russia continues attacks during Holy Week. However religion is used in this war, this confirms even more that Putin and the Regime believe in nothing other than their own non-religious twisted ideology. 1/2

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And today (to the day) is 5-year memorial of my father’s passing. Memory eternal to Fr. Byron. I’m sure not too many have seen this pre-priest picture.

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Most in West, including academic West, are clueless about this story of ethnic cleansing, looting, destruction, rape and murder in Constantinople orchestrated by the Turkish government in 1955. Read this thread. The pictures are jarring.

Thread Reader App

@threadreaderapp

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@MrnRjwski Hola, the unroll you asked for: @PGPavlos : Have a good day. 🤖

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An appeal to Patriarch Kirill by laity of the Russian Orthodox Church from around the world, signed by no less than Avro Pärt:

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We cap off intellectual-saints months with Three Hierarchs day: SS Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom. This feast day was constructed to end the debate on who was the greatest; and, of course, to emphasize the importance of education & ‘reason.’

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Happy St Basil day. A great intellectual!

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From Fr. Schmemann’s journals. A real prophet of our era: “Instead of understanding change, and therefore dealing with it, Orthodoxy found itself crushed by it. Actually, it is defined, colored, and suppressed precisely by those ‘changes’ which it denies.”

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From the Synaxarion: “On this day we also commemorate the devout and blessed Olympias the Deaconess.” Those who deny the order of deaconess selectively choose from the tradition to support their secular ideology.

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4 years

Today is the feast day of St. Benedict in the Orthodox Church, the patron saint of pluralism and many options.

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2 years

Looking good!

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4 years

Happy Last Judgment Day. For best icon/depiction ever of Last Judgment, see below from Bucovina.

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5 years

Let me try from different angle: The core of the Christian faith is “God became human so that humans may become gods”-Trinity, Xology, Anthropology, Ecclesiology, Eschatology in 1 sentence-how does a woman at the altar preclude our growth in theosis? I can’t connect the dots. ..

Aristotle Papanikolaou

@atpapanik

5 years

Today is St Mary Magdalene day. In the Byzantine hymns, she is referred to as η Απόστολος (in addition to Ισαπόστολος). If ordination is grounded in apostolic succession, how is it that we deny ordination to women?

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Out for breakfast with the boys (father in-law and uncle) after liturgy. Exactly how the Feast of the Transfiguration should be celebrated. (Followed by a little siesta).

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Not all, but increasingly many.

Freedom for Ukraine 🌐🎗️

@fortifiedneolib

1 year

This sums up Western ortho-converts in a way nothing else could.

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

@atpapanik

4 years

Wonderful feast today of the Meeting of the Lord (Υπαπαντής)

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

@atpapanik

4 years

Today Orthodox Christian Lent begins, and the 40 days ends on the Friday before Palm Sunday because a) we count Sundays and b) Holy Week developed into its own liturgical cycle. May this be a blessed and fruitful Lent for all of us. Καλή Σαρακοστή!

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

@atpapanik

4 years

I just wish he would stop embarrassing himself.

Richard Dawkins

@RichardDawkins

4 years

Roman Catholics are required to believe that communion wine actually is literally the blood of Christ, and the wafer literally is his body. Not symbolically but literally. Not a metaphor but literally. That way madness lies. At very least it’s a pernicious abuse of language.

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

@atpapanik

4 years

St. Xanthippi day! Happy nameday to my mom! I owe her everything. (And I always loved her name!).

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

@atpapanik

4 years

January is intellectual saints month in the Orthodox Church. Today it’s St Maximus the Confessor day.

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

@atpapanik

1 year

Happy St. Mother Maria Skobtsova day! A truly inspiring saint! ⁦ @goarch ⁩ why is she not in today’s synaxarion at the Digital Chant Stand?

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

@atpapanik

4 years

Today is feastday of St. Kallistos II Xanthopoulos. Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) nameday. Χρόνια πολλά to a man who’s contribution to Orthodoxy is immeasurable. Like with so many, his are the first books that really guided me to see the beauty of the Orthodox faith.

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

@atpapanik

2 years

Today is last day of 40-day Orthodox Lent. Tomorrow is Saturday of Lazarus (a separate feastday) and then Palm Sunday (also a separate feastday). Holy Week begins Sunday night and the fast ends after the Anastase service. One of the very last hymns sung this morning says: (1/2):

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Aristotle Papanikolaou

@atpapanik

4 years

Now the whole world learns of this unnecessary proclamation, as the world deals with racial injustice, COVID-19. Very embarrasing.