@Immaculata_City Plato, Aristotle, and Greece are the cradle of western civilization.
If you attend a Greek Orthodox church you hate the west, your race, and civilization!
The author of Hebrews writes that when Christ ascended into heaven, he purified the heavens with his blood in the same manner as Moses purified the tabernacle with the blood of animals.
The seven candlesticks and the twelve loaves of bread were images of the planets and zodiac.
Orthodox people trying to convince SSPX laymen to convert by advertising the Western Rite is of the same spirit that influenced the Papacy in history to convert Orthodox by promising them their own Byzantine rite.
You can’t be fully oriented towards Orthodoxy through the WR.
Unorthodox practices are making missionary and pastoral work more difficult for the missionary priest.
Imagine going through hills and mountains, crossing rivers, and going into farther regions and nations to spread the Gospel of Orthodoxy.
Spending time—weeks, months, and years—on catechism classes on how the Orthodox Church is the right Church and Faith.
Teaching how there is no salvation outside of the Church, triple immersion, how we shouldn’t pray with heretics and schismatics…. And only for these inquirers or catechumens to log onto the internet and see an Orthodox priest or bishop praying with a heretic or schismatic, calling the Quran a holy book, claiming a mosque is the ideal place to worship God, stating that all religion leads to God and that we all worship the same God, female deacon, female Altar servers, female preacher….
These are really confusing. Either we are Orthodox or we are not!
The thousands and millions of Orthodox martyrs and saints did not sacrifice their lives for a politically correct Orthodoxy.