“Essentially, Protestantism is nothing other than a generally applied papism. For in Protestantism, the fundamental principle of papism is brought to life by each man individually. After the example of the infallible man in Rome, each Protestant is a cloned infallible man, because he pretends to personal infallibility in matters of faith. It can be said: Protestantism is a vulgarized papism, only stripped of mystery (i.e., sacramentality), authority and power.”
St. Justin Popović
Drink your coffee black (no additives) if you want the full health benefits.
2-3 cups per day has been associated with a 25% reduction in all-cause mortality. That benefit goes away when cream and/or sugar are added.
I think this happens for a few reasons:
• Dairy proteins can bind to coffee’s antioxidants and polyphenols and slow their absorption.
• Heavy cream, butter, and MCT-heavy coffee don’t necessarily block coffee polyphenols, but they can add substantial saturated fat and calories. For someone watching ApoB or LDL-C, this can work against the very cardiovascular benefits they’re hoping to get from coffee.
“Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.”
☦️James 2:18
“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”
☦️James 2:26
“Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle.”
☦️2 Thessalonians 2:15
"Time does not weaken the unwritten traditions. Nor does length of years diminish their authority. For they were not things written down casually or left to human invention. Rather, they are the practices the Apostles themselves delivered to the Church. Practices confirmed by long-standing usage and the shared consensus of those who came before us. To oppose such traditions, under the pretense of honoring Scripture alone; is to undermine the very faith handed down to us!”
“Of the doctrines preserved in the Church, some come to us in writing, and others come from the Tradition of the apostles, mystically preserved. Both of these have the same authority.”
☦️Saint Basil the Great
Elder Justin Parvu taught on the end times:
“The time will come, and it has already come, when the Christian will no longer be persecuted for prayer, but for his refusal to deny himself. Do not be deceived: the apocalypse does not arrive with frightful thunder, but with a cunning silence. Men will be enslaved unchained, controlled unknowingly and instructed to love convenience more than Truth. Peace will be demanded at any cost, but the price will be the soul. Blind obedience will be required, but not to God, but to spirits foreign to Christ. So, anyone who remains firm in their faith in Christ will be considered crazy, extremist, dangerous. Know this: it is not technology that makes the world lose, but the denial of God. It is not the mark on the hand that is more frightening, but the mark in the heart, when man stops fearing sin. When you stop confessing, when you stop crying about your mistakes, when you get accustomed to evil as something natural, that's where the end begins. Churches can stand, but if conscience collapses, nothing remains. There won’t be time for halves or quarters. It will be: either with Christ or without Him. Either cross or rejection. Whoever wants to preserve this life at any cost will lose it, and whoever will suffer for the Truth at risk of losing earthly life, this will be written in Heaven. Don't be afraid of what people are going to do with your body; be afraid of the moment when you will be tempted to keep quiet when you have to confess the Truth. That's where the great battle will take place.”
“Do not despair if your loved ones do not understand your path. Truth has always been a stranger to the world before it became its light.”
Saint Nektarios of Aegina
"If a grave sin is prevalent in a family, such as abortion, then no happiness can be built on such a foundation. Such a family is doomed because, as we know from the Bible, the blood of the slain cries out to God for vengeance."
- Patriarch Shio III | May 17, 2026
The Old Republic is dead: it was an enlightenment masonic fiction. The future is a Byzantine model imperium of ethnos in unison under a common Faith: not fractured, divided propositional revolutionary “nations.”
Protestants are making a nothingburger out of a minimal fee many Greek Churches have because baptisms are usually large celebrations, not empty “symbols.” This covers baptismal robe, candles, perhaps icons, and the celebration feast after. Many churches simply ask for a donation. This is nothing, btw, compared to most fundie churches which demand 10% tithe whereas most orthodox churches leave it all voluntary. This is just more ignorant moral gotchas because they have no intellectual arguments for their sects.