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[Ilia Topuria @Topuriailia]

Usman has reportedly been detained, along with the cowards who were with him.

And these are the same people who dare to preach about humility and respect? What a disgrace. A bunch of absolute cowards.

I always thought you were a bunch of mediocre individuals. Now you’ve removed every last doubt.

Honor, respect, and humility aren’t words you preach. They’re values you live by. And you’ve shown none of them.

[Dmitry Holly @blessedmikko]

‘..by offering their life as a sacrifice to the Fatherland, [soldiers] offer it as a sacrifice to God and are numbered with the holy company of Christ’s martyrs.’
–St. Ignatius (Bryanchaninov), Letters to N. N. Muravyov-Karsky (Letter 2).

[Gregório. @HagiosGregorio]

"But He Himself, highly established above mind, and above essence, by the very fact of His being wholly unknown, and not being, both is superessentially, and is known above mind."

— St. Dionysius the Areopagite, Letter to Gaius Therapeutes

[übe @satisfyjustice]

St. Nektarios on PSA

[Scriptorium Press @ScriptoriumP]

From Archbishop Macarius of Jerusalem's Letter to the Armenians (AD 335):

Q: And how shall the table of the sacrament be positioned, and the partitions also?

A: The table of expiation is behind the veil, where the Holy Spirit descends; and the font is next to it in the same compartment, and out of honour set up on the right hand. And the clergy in their several ranks shall worship (there), and the congregation outside the veil, and the catechumens at the door, listening. Lest these partitions be effaced by encroachments, let each remain in his own station irreproachable.

[Scriptorium Press @ScriptoriumP]

I actually think this thread is extremely useful. It shows what the Byzantine theologians actually meant by the essence-energy distinction. It was not a real distinction in the sense that the essence and energies differed ontologically from one another, but neither was it a mere conceptual distinction (apparently this is close to what the Scotists believed, but I am not an expert on scholasticism, so I'll leave it to others to judge that):

https://t.co/ypLAltktWh

[Strive @strivetobekind]

I am so tired of these EO slopogetic merchants.

Yes, priests offer absolution in Orthodoxy. No, they don’t simply represent the congregation.

This is common knowledge.

Consider the following text from ROCOR: “And I, his unworthy priest, by the authority he has given me, forgive and absolve you from all your sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.”

[severinus @adversvs]

@strivetobekind @OrthoAugustine The same exact words, the same exact order, I have heard and will continue to hear in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church as well. May the tradition shut the mouths of innovators

[severinus @adversvs]

@flidflid My heart is crying, what is this 😭 yo he doesn’t represent us at all gang

[severinus @adversvs]

@ErickYbarra3 @filip_radosa Erick unfortunately you misunderstand St. Gregory Palamas, for he does not teach real distinction between the essence and the energies. He teaches formal-actual and St. Gennadius Scholarius says it as well.

[A Fool for Christ ☦ @AFoolforChrist]

Happy Mussolini Monday, my blackshirts

[ᛉMisanthrope Humanistᛉ | ᛗᚻ @MZ_humanist]

"Fascism is when your leaders have aura"

[severinus @adversvs]

@C2Antiquity D tier? You’re very charitable

[übe @satisfyjustice]

St. Gennadios Scholarios on temporal punishments after death, correcting the Latins on Purgatory:

καὶ ἀντὶ τῆς ἐντεῦθεν ὀφειλομένης ποινῆς, ἣν οὐκ ἔφθασαν ἀποτίσαι καλῶς καὶ ἱκανοποιῆσαι, τὴν ἀναβολὴν ὑπέχειν τῆς ἀποκειμένης ἀμοιβῆς καὶ τῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ δόξης τὴν πρόσκαιρον στέρησιν ἐκ τῶν δαιμονικῶν κωλυμάτων, ἕως ἂν τῇ ἐπιγνώσει τῶν ἀφεσίμων ἁμαρτημάτων, δι’ ἃ τοῖς δαιμονίοις ἐνίσχονται, καὶ τῇ ἐπὶ τούτοις ὀδύνῃ καὶ λύπῃ τὸν θεῖον ἔλεον ἐκκαλεσάμεναι…

“And instead of the punishment owed here, which they did not have time to pay adequately and make satisfaction for, they undergo the postponement of the reward appointed for them and the temporary deprivation of the glory of God, through the impediments of the demons, until, through the recognition of the venial sins by which they are held by the demons, and through the pain and sorrow on account of these things, they call forth the divine mercy…”

St. Gennadios Scholarios, Oeuvres complètes, I, 533–534

[severinus @adversvs]

@papadaddy96 @JesusandWhatnot It has some mistranslations which I’ve encountered btw so be cautious. But having the latin is very useful so if smth sounds kinda strange just look on your left

[severinus @adversvs]

@papadaddy96 @JesusandWhatnot I have the same edition of St. Augustine’s de Trinitate

[severinus @adversvs]

@GaryColeman5640 @papism101 Cringe.

[severinus @adversvs]

@actistonfos Never diss Plato like this ever again.

[severinus @adversvs]

@papism101 @GaryColeman5640 What in my statement was wrong to start insulting me? Plus I already commented on another of your posts (if you have dementia) that I own a copy of dwong +I’ve watched this video almost 2 years ago already as well. I’ve spoken with him in private, I know his quotes + arguments

[severinus @adversvs]

@GaryColeman5640 @papism101 Also do you consider the fact he presided over Ephesus? That he took the place of St Celestine? That the countless saints there agreed on everything with him? How do you not see the danger of saying St. Cyril holds different view from your church??