JBeyond ☦️

In Thy Light shall we see Light | College Student of Latin and Greek

[JBeyond ☦️ @BeyondAstro1771]

As a Orthodox Christian who is Black, you will get a lot of surprise about how you came to the faith. But this is not bad as it’s an opportunity to share your faith. Your otherness in the space will also make you aware of outsiders / inquirers in the parish too.

[Kenechi 🇺🇸 @phronemenal]

@black_ortho Hey man, I just wanted to ask you a quick question about being Orthodox Christian who happens to be Black. What’s it like for you? Is it weird? Like, any more strange than the general public?

I’ve been researching a lot and am convinced it’s the right church to join but I’m concerned that me and my wife would be the only black people there.

Any information you can share is greatly appreciated!

[Patriarch Prime, PhD ☦️ 🇺🇸 🇦🇶 @KalebAtlanta]

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WHAT THE HECK IS A KILOMETER
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[Gravantus @Gravantus]

This one is my favorite gnostic text.

[Jekabadels ✙ @IacobRuthenicus]

If you believe God created a world where human nature, by necessity, entails sin, then you have a deeper problem.

[American Solidarity Party 🧡 @AmSolidarity]

For much of its life, Juneteenth has been primarily a regional holiday to celebrate the end of slavery with the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas on June 19, 1865 by Major General Granger. While it slowly grew in recognition at the state level starting with Texas in 1938, it was finally recognized at the federal level in 2021. As wonderful as it is to have a holiday that celebrates the end of slavery it is imperative for us to remember how slow and uneven these changes were and how many new laws and systems were implemented to further oppress former slaves.

This holiday is not only one for descendants of former slaves, but also a holiday for all Americans because of our shared history. The clarion call to abolish obvious evil by paying in blood in our Civil War was seemingly easier than the long arduous journey to combat more insidious forms of injustice. The history of our great nation is one full of hard lessons, compromised justice, and a failure to uphold our ideals.

But we still have these ideals and the hope to fulfill these ideals to the standard we are called to by Almighty God. For all our national tragedies we have national achievements, for all our stumbling an equal striving towards that goal. Juneteenth is a part of our American journey to build that City on a Hill. May God bless America and help us to live up to the high standards that we strive for.

[Jekabadels ✙ @IacobRuthenicus]

Have you prayed to St. Augustine today for divine enlightenment and wisdom?

[Soulful 7 6 @Soulful76_Leaf]

He who rejects the hamartiology and soteriology of St. Augustine, also rejects the theology of St. Gregory Palamas.

When we claim that the West was Orthodox, this is not to say that the West was Orthodox through mere technicality (communion with the Eastern churches), rather we are affirming that the Latin Fathers taught the same faith with equal dignity to their Greek counterparts.

The Orthodox West was not inferior to the East, and any narrative arguing as much forfeits any claim to the Orthodox Church being the true Catholic Church of Christ. For the promoters of such narratives are not merely explaining how the great schism occurred, they are blaming Saints - the friends of God - for the fall of Rome, and the errors of the Reformation.

One can accuse many emperors, bishops, abbots, heretics, muslims, and the devil of having contributed towards and ultimately creating the great schism, but to blame the friends of God is wholly unacceptable!

[Jekabadels ✙ @IacobRuthenicus]

A consistently joyful temperament is an underrated indicator of spiritual growth

[Metropolitan Saba Isper @SabaIsper]

There are two dangerous ways of approaching the Church Fathers. One turns them into rigid monuments of the past. The other dismisses them as outdated voices irrelevant to modern life. Both misunderstand them...

[Michael Garten @Michael__Garten]

Hello @needGod_net , you alleged that "since there wasn’t even a church building in Thessalonica during Paul’s brief stay, there’s no “seat” from Paul’s day that he supposedly sat on while teaching."

However, the evidence indicates that the Apostles and their successors the early Bishops continued a Jewish tradition and did have thrones (honored teaching positions, including a physical seat) which they passed down in the Church. This again vindicates Orthodoxy as the continuation of the early Church. A THREAD (1/9)

[vaude @aploseinai]

🧵 St. Maximos the Confessor On The Procession Of The Holy Spirit

Ad Domnum Marinum Cypri:

“With regard to the first matter, they (the Romans) have produced the unanimous documentary evidence of the Latin fathers, and also of Cyril of Alexandria, from the sacred commentary he composed on the gospel of St. John. On the basis of these texts, they have shown that they have not made the Son the cause of the Spirit — they know in fact that the Father is the only cause of the Son and the Spirit, the one by begetting and the other by procession; but [they use this expression] in order to manifest the Spirit’s coming-forth (προϊέναι) through him and, in this way, to make clear the unity and identity of the essence. For the Spirit’s very coming-forth from the Father through the Son is indivisibly accomplished in an ineffable way, and is known and believed to be indivisible. The expression [that the Latins use] is intended to safeguard the indivisible unity of the Trinity and the true faith.“

[JBeyond ☦️ @BeyondAstro1771]

@IamJonte_ @ruckusofantioch Αληθώς ανέστη!!

[َ @Melpomnes]

John Martin

[JBeyond ☦️ @BeyondAstro1771]

@apophatic_ Nah Florovsky cool tho, and Schmemann I’ve never actually read anything bad by him as of yet just seen him talked badly by some. The other two maybe a little off on some places and yeah Romanides is Romanides lol

[Metropolitan Saba Isper @SabaIsper]

Many people read, but not everyone truly understands what they read.

Reading has its own discipline. Without patience, attentiveness, and honesty, a reader can lose his way—and burden a text with meanings it never intended...

[JBeyond ☦️ @BeyondAstro1771]

@latinizedlogos Currently reading through volume 1 right now! Hope to finish the whole set in a decent timeframe lol

[Καλός @realKalos]

The first book printed in the New World was The Ladder of Divine Ascent by St. John Climacus, under the Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza in the 1530’s.

[Tarcisius ☮️ (END THIS EVIL WAR) @anorthodoxpope]

“To suffer God’s splendor until it lives within you. That’s what it means to be Orthodox.” - Fr. John Bethancourt. 🤯

[mithrandir 🦬 @___mithrandir_]

Protestants realizing Orthodoxy is the one true church after being called the n word by orthobros for the 40th time

[Chrysoloras @Alyunan00]

My reaction when I hear "filioque"