The first Q & A in this video should be essential listening for any inquirer, catechumen, bro, or ex-Prot convert to Orthodoxy. Fr Stephen nails it with aplomb.
It would shut down much the nonsense that goes on here in this app.
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@Lemelson The quote in the post is rage bait. If you listen to the entire Fr SDY clip, it makes complete sense. Ive listened to enough of Fr SDY answering questions about scripture to know that language and intent is everything with regard to understanding scripture..
The greatest danger of secularism is not that it openly rejects God. Its greater danger is that it allows us to keep religion while quietly removing God from daily life.
@AngloVarangian Official GOARCH resources (liturgical texts, service schedules, Holy Week books) continue to use traditional Byzantine hymnography from the Triodion without systematic revisions for this issue. Holy Week services follow longstanding patterns with no announced mandate for changes
Woke is dead. That political agenda, whose only purpose is to spiritually and mentally destroy our societies, has no reason to exist. It is the political ideology of people filled with hatred. They hate everything and everyone because they hate themselves. Woke agenda is dead.