John (Robert) Michael Connolly ☦️

By the grace of God, I am a Christian, and by my deeds, a great sinner. ☦️ // Powerlifting // Strength and Nutrition Coaching // Pursuing Theology 🫀

[John (Robert) Michael Connolly ☦️ @johncon4christ]

Please pray for me

[John (Robert) Michael Connolly ☦️ @johncon4christ]

@OrthodoxEthos @illustriousone5 Can you further explain how oikonomia can’t break akrivia, or where I could read about this in more depth?

[John (Robert) Michael Connolly ☦️ @johncon4christ]

@lukebelmar God became man so that man might become god - Saint Athanasius the Great

[John (Robert) Michael Connolly ☦️ @johncon4christ]

@LizzieMarbach If you don’t think the Eucharist is more important than the scriptures, you truly don’t understand Christianity.
“You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.⁠”

[John (Robert) Michael Connolly ☦️ @johncon4christ]

@AlexBerenson There’s a huge difference between DEPENDENCY and ADDICTION. Brain injury from withdrawal is real and kills people, and doesn’t mean they were ever ADDICTED

[Zealous Seraphim ☦️ @ZealousSeraphim]

Oh man. This part from St John of the Ladder.

And you wonder why I dropped being a religious page

[John (Robert) Michael Connolly ☦️ @johncon4christ]

@daltonisbatman @Basedtzarist James presides over the council. If papal supremacy were true, Peter would have presided over the council with supremacy over the whole church.

[John (Robert) Michael Connolly ☦️ @johncon4christ]

@HosannaHosannaa @SimonSchfe45703 What are the best sources for this? All I’ve ever heard from clergy and apologists is that we don’t inherit guilt? Are there specific fathers that say otherwise?

[John (Robert) Michael Connolly ☦️ @johncon4christ]

@maksimologija @SimonSchfe45703 What are legitimate sources for the proper orthodox view of original sin? It seems to be mainstream that we believe ancestral sin and not inherited guilt, that’s basically all I’ve ever heard. But I’m curious about sources that prove otherwise

[John (Robert) Michael Connolly ☦️ @johncon4christ]

@59SouthLee @OrthodoxChrist2 Any links to the 2025 stuff you mentioned

[John (Robert) Michael Connolly ☦️ @johncon4christ]

@Posthorne01 @JPLindsley No, God was with all of the innocent faithful who were ruthlessly martyred by the demonic communists. God’s presence is stronger in trials and suffering. You obviously don’t understand how God works

[John (Robert) Michael Connolly ☦️ @johncon4christ]

@priscillaxstark @AnaniasFather Can’t be a Saint outside the church

[John (Robert) Michael Connolly ☦️ @johncon4christ]

@buckrebel @EthanWayne2001 He’s just not smart enough to get paid for it

[John (Robert) Michael Connolly ☦️ @johncon4christ]

@JapWifeHaver @AngloVarangian So people with mental disorders don’t deserve love and support?

[Fr. Christian Siskos @NoeticSpring]

Reflections from Mt. Athos:

I have never been as sad for Protestants as when I was on Mt. Athos. My heart hurts for them now more than ever. There is so much depth in the Orthodox Church… so much holiness… so much sanctification.

Our group got a chance to experience SO MANY saints while on Athos and in Thessaloniki, their relics, stories, where they lived, etc. and not just saints of the early centuries, but also modern day saints. And so many stories of peope who personally knew and interacted with real saints.

Then also stories and experiences of modern day clairvoyant holy ones. Lord, have mercy!

Being a Protestant without the saints is like being in a family without brothers or sisters. It’s just “you and Jesus” and this is anti-gospel. As the early saying goes, “one Christian is no Christian.”

The saints perform miracles because they participate in Christ. And here the Protestants cannot fathom, they cannot understand truly. Even I, who have been orthodox for so many years, have gained a new appreciation for the holy ones of God.

Poor Protestants, forgive me for saying it like this, poor Protestants… May God have mercy on them and bring them into the Church. May we also grow a fire in our hearts so as to become holy for their sake, for their salvation, for their union in the body of Christ.

How lonely and shallow Christianity is without the saints… how sad… how truly sad.

The saints are why the hermits in remote deserts never feel alone, and why during the Divine Liturgy, holy men and women can see the church full of the angels and the saints. They are here, even now with us, we have only but to call on them, learn about them, interact with them, emulate them.

[John (Robert) Michael Connolly ☦️ @johncon4christ]

@rawmilkhoney Then become Orthodox

[John (Robert) Michael Connolly ☦️ @johncon4christ]

@fluffypawsz The cross is the life-giving weapon that defeated the demons. Next

[John (Robert) Michael Connolly ☦️ @johncon4christ]

I worship the one true God, Who is both Alpha and Omega, Creator and Savior. I worship the God-man Who was hung upon the life-giving cross, rose from the dead on the third day, and ascended into the heavens in the flesh. I worship our long-suffering, all-merciful, sweetest Jesus.

[John (Robert) Michael Connolly ☦️ @johncon4christ]

The purpose of life is love, but love is not some positive feel-good emotion. It’s continuing in a spirit of sacrifice as your heart is shredded into a million pieces. It’s emptying yourself of all passion to be filled with the grace of God. To understand love, look at the cross.

[John (Robert) Michael Connolly ☦️ @johncon4christ]

@bingybongy89601 @emmyemerald16 Calvinism is demonic