Stephen

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Rent has never, ever gone down in the history of rent.

[David Kurten @davidkurten]

This is like shooting someone in the leg, giving them a stick and expecting them to be grateful.
House prices are out of reach because successive governments have hamstrung the economy with net zero and high taxes and brought 10 million immigrants to the UK so there are not enough homes for native people.
🟢Scrap net zero
🟢Reduce taxes
🟢Reverse mass immigration
Then the housing market will sort itself out.
https://t.co/5qexeAyC4m

[Gabriel J. Benton ☦️🇺🇸 @OrthoAnglo81]

The year A.D. 1054 marks the traditional date of the Great Schism.

From 1054 to the founding of Jamestown Colony in Virginia (1607): 553 years later.

From 1054 to the founding of Plymouth Plantation (1620): 566 years later.

Many people will comment on how the settlers of both Colonies were Protestant and will say that America was formed by Protestantism, which is true, but there's a failure point here, in my opinion and Orthodox Christians cede ground where they shouldn't.

Blessed Father Roman Braga has talked about how Americans coming into the Orthodox Church brings their people, their country into the Orthodox Church as well.

America has an ethnogenesis. America doesn't just start with Jamestown or Plymouth. She starts out with Saints Joseph of Arimathea and Apostle Saint Aristibule of the 70 at Glastonbury and with the mission of Saint Augustine of Canterbury to the Anglo-Saxons.

Both the Britons and Anglo-Saxons were part of the Western Orthodox Church before the Great Schism. So when Americans come into the Orthodox Church, we're not just bringing our people into Orthodox Church, America, we're restoring ourselves to the ethnogenesis of the Western Orthodox faith of our Britonic and Anglo-Saxon forefathers.

Americans are simply a people who are waiting to be restored to the faith of their forefathers: Orthodoxy.

[Gabriel J. Benton ☦️🇺🇸 @OrthoAnglo81]

This is from a man who was tortured by Communists in Romania:

"Orthodoxy is to find Christ in ourselves. You became Orthodox. You didn't find Orthodoxy individually. If you think that you came just by yourself to Orthodoxy, you are still Protestant. Orthodoxy is the experience of peoples in God, not of individuals.

First of all, you came back to Church, and don't think that you're saved without thinking about others. In an organism, as St. Paul says, if you cut off your little finger, the whole organism is suffering. The same thing, salvation is communal; it's not individual.

And you come to the Orthodox Church in America, not to become Syrians, not to become Romanians, not to become Russians or Bulgarians. Be yourself, American. Otherwise, God doesn't accept your experience, because you have a tradition, you have a background that is given by God. God made me to be born in the Carpathian Mountains; I cannot be other. For me, Orthodoxy is the experience of the Romanian peoples in the Church. We come into the church, not as isolated individuals; we come with our families, with our nation, with our culture. Sanctify and transfigure your culture. There are many good things in this country. Be good patriots."
-- Blessed Father Roman Braga, transcribed excerpt from Fr. Roman Braga speaking in 1995 at St. Ignatius Antiochian Orthodox Church, Franklin, TN

[Tanya @tanyaelisabethh]

Childcare is work. Teaching children is work. Cooking is work. Cleaning is work. Driving people around is work. Managing schedules is work. Taking care of babies is work. Managing a household is work.

But somehow, and for some reason if we combine all of these things into just one woman, if we combine all of these jobs to one woman, to just one house, with children who live there and call her Mom, then people suddenly start asking, “What does she even do all day?”

You’d never ask this of any of those professions. It is only mothers at home that have this extra burden of proof, that somehow we need to justify extra hard that we indeed are productive members of society, that we indeed work hard, that we indeed do things all day long.

The only difference in all of this is that women at home do this work for the people they love, instead of for people who pay her, and that should make the work more valuable, not less.

[Stephen @StephenOfRep]

@Cassandra2796 I can't be there in the flesh, so every little bit helps

[Nick Hinton @NickHintonn]

Father Zacharias was a monastic priest who suffered from alcoholism. He lived in Asia Minor during the 1800s, when the region was ruled by Muslims. And one time, he got so drunk, he renounced his faith and accepted Islam in order to avoid being tortured. However, when he finally sobered up and realized what he’d done, he wept bitterly and repented. Then, he returned to the authorities who threatened him and said:

“I am an unbeliever in regards to your faith, and I disdain your disgusting religion. But I am not an unbeliever to my faith, but I believe in the true God who created the universe, my Lord Jesus Christ. And here, the sign of your delusion I trample and I am ready to die the most cruel death for my faith.”

As he said this, he took off the Turkish fez on his head, threw it on the ground, and stomped on it. But the Muslims figured Father Zacharias was just drunk again. So, they put him in prison and gave him time to rethink his decisions. When the priest-monk still hasn’t changed his mind, they tried to flatter him with gifts and a wife. But Father Zacharias still wouldn’t change his mind.

Finally, the Muslims began to torture him. And when he still wouldn’t change his mind, they told him they were going to behead him. But to their surprise, Father Zacharias ran to his death happily. So, at the public execution, they tried to scare him into changing his mind one last time. They bluffed the execution again and again.

But the flawed but faithful Christian kept his neck stuck out and remained patient. Eventually, they killed Father Zacharias. His body hung in the streets as a warning to other believers. Ironically, it actually became a sign of hope. The corpse would glow at night and heal the people who came to pray at it. Because of this, the body was soon removed. Nevertheless, today we remember this drunk priest-monk as a saint!

Saint Zacharias of Prousa pray for us addicts!

[Мелхиседек @CarSalimski]

„Бог никада не допушта борбу која превазилази твоје снаге. Ако је борба велика, значи да је и поверење које Бог има у тебе велико. Он ти даје крст према твом расту, а не према твојој жељи.“

Свети владика Николај

[Cassandra St John @Cassandra2796]

Orthodox from around the USA & the world:

You are NOT off the hook. If you can't attend, please pray all week.

Also, call these:

Office of Archbishop: 212-570-3511

Archons of the Ecu. Patriarchate: 212-570-3550

St. Nicholas Church & National Shrine: 212-227-0773

[Orthodox Reflections @OrthodoxReflec1]

On Saturday, September 26, 2026, Orthodox Christians will gather in New York City to protest the granting of the “Beacon of Hope” award to Volodymyr Zelensky.

If you are attending—or organizing an Orthodox protest anywhere—read this guide beforehand.
https://t.co/zhDacwWRpy

[Cassandra St John @Cassandra2796]

Is everyone praying fervently, as the bishops have exhorted?
https://t.co/Vr31XjF74l

[Cassandra St John @Cassandra2796]

Note: This video, which I & others posted yesterday, is not recent. It is from Netanyahu's U.N. General Assembly speech last year. He speaks today at the U.N. There is still time for a repeat.

[Orthodox Reflections @OrthodoxReflec1]

A protest can disappear from the news—but videos and photographs can live online indefinitely. Document what happens. Photograph the signs. Record the crowd. Capture the message. Make sure the public can see that Orthodox Christians objected to Zelensky. https://t.co/zhDacwWjA0

[Julien Benda @canthavepudding]

The People don't war against Russia.

The End

[Martin A. Armstrong @ArmstrongEcon]

My discussions with members of Congress know that Zelensky is the problem and that Putin has agreed to peace.

[Cassandra St John @Cassandra2796]

"American Orthodox Christians must protect religious freedom now — starting by opposing the Zelensky dinner."
https://t.co/zRrh0Pevpn

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Protesters are blocking the road in front of the United Nations to protest the arrival of wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu:

“Netanyahu you can’t hide. You are wanted for genocide.”

[Orthodox Reflections @OrthodoxReflec1]

Don't let one bad sign, one angry confrontation, or one reckless person become the story. If someone tries to provoke you, walk away. The purpose is to bring attention to religious persecution in Ukraine—not to create a spectacle about the protesters. https://t.co/zhDacwWjA0

[UOJ - America @UOJ_America]

By Subdeacon Gregory Levitsky:
It is no secret that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) is being persecuted by the Zelenskyy government. Even its most virulent detractors admit that this is the case. But what does “persecution” mean on the ground? It is not just seized churches and slander by church officials. The reality is much darker and more painful.

The UOC is the only major religious organization in Ukraine whose clerics are denied exemption from military conscription. The Ukrainian government refuses to classify it as a “critical infrastructure” and accuses the Church of collusion with Russia. The UOC denies these accusations. It has repeatedly condemned the Russian invasion, and continues to provide significant patriotic support both to the frontline and to civilian victims of the war.

[Cassandra St John @Cassandra2796]

All protesters: Please read. Thank you.
https://t.co/FmgYjriqEu