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Western rite church in Omaha burglarized and vandalized
orthochristian.com/181399.ht…
“Many things were taken, such as chalices, candlesticks, and other metal items,” the statement says, adding that the copper water pipes were cut out and the HVAC system was damaged.
The priests don’t forgive us??? They just stand in the stead of the whole parish which also has no power to forgive sins?
"If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld."
Stop the apologetics. Just go to Church.
Both traditions hold confession as sacred, but the approach is completely different:
Catholic:
• Setting: Private booth behind a screen
• Priest’s Role: Spiritual judge acting in persona Christi
• View of Sin: Breaking divine law (Courtroom)
Orthodox:
• Setting: Standing openly before an icon of Christ & the Gospel
• Priest’s Role: A witness standing beside you
• View of Sin: A spiritual illness to be healed (Hospital)
#OrthodoxChristianity #CatholicChurch #EasternOrthodox #Catholicism #Confession #Sacraments #Theology #ChurchHistory #ChristianTheology #OrthodoxVsCatholic #AncientChristianity #FaithAndTradition
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Sorry to ask. Any Orthodox mutuals can you please pray for my deceased mother. I worry about her, auto immune disease took her in 2019. I genuinely miss her everyday and she'd be Orthodox instead of Lutheran, she loved me that much to convert or at the very least look into it.
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For this who just found my page I was diagnosed with head and neck cancer in May. When they took the CT and suspected it was cancer I refused an initial biopsy until I could begin the Makis Protocol and saturate my blood with medicines and supplements so that it could not spread easily once the biopsy or surgery was conducted.
They removed the tumor, did the pathology and confirmed metastatic head and neck cancer.
One doctor wanted to remove part of my tongue at the base as 30-50 lymph nodes/
One said radiation was the path and I would have to accept that the rest of my life would be spent managing the symptoms of the radiation damage and come to terms with it.
The chemo doc I wouldn’t even talk to because they were rude when I called, demeaning and demanding but they kept trying to get me to schedule a chemo appointment.
Instead I pulled every every study I could on my type of cancer, read how it was treated and travels through the body, then I ran it through AI to crunch the data about non traditional treatments and made a plan.
I took the Makis Protocol with a number of supplements, certain mushroom extracts, fasting, cutting sugar out of my diet, exercise, sauna, dandelion root, rebuilding my gut biome, methylene blue and more.
Then I went to Mt Athos Greece to seek the intercessions of the Theotokos, pray, weep, meditate on my potential death, and seek out very specific wonder working icons to lay my face on.
The cancer docs were blowing up my phone because I refused a PET scan right after my surgery (which was the right choice if you know about PET scans and why) and I told them until I sought Christ on Athos I was suspending anymore doc visits or talk of treatments.
I should be in my 5th week of radiation starting to feel the heavy effects, unable to swallow, permanently altering my DNA by its brutality potentially guaranteeing future cancers just from that.
Instead, yesterday I got my results back from my new PET scan. No evidence of malignancy anywhere. Can you imagine if I would have done the radiation?
Lord have mercy. Now I want to show people how I did it.
Stay tuned. Most Holy Theotokos Save Us, glory to God in all things.
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3 years ago, I lost my best friend to a fentanyl overdose. Pray for his soul. 🙏🏻☦️
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pray for my mother if you guys can, nothing bad has happened, but she has verbalized the difficulty of living with the pain that she has (doctors think it may be fibromyalgia, but we don’t know yet). pray for her conversion too if you can, she believes in God and in Jesus Christ, but she hasn’t been a member of any church faithfully for a lot of years nor truly lived as a christian.
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THANK YOU JESUS
“PET/CT Scan Interpretation
The findings are favorable: No suspicious FDG-avid cancer is identified anywhere in the areas examined.”
I have no cancer!
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(Matthew 23:4) For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
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"𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐰𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐭𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐟𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬. 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦, 𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞.
"𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐨𝐝… 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐥𝐲, 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭, 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬; 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐢𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬; 𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐬, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡'𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐞. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐫."
— 𝑆𝘢𝑖𝘯𝑡 𝑆𝘦𝑟𝘢𝑝𝘩𝑖𝘮 𝘰𝑓 𝑉𝘺𝑟𝘪𝑡𝘴𝑎
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Agreed that Met. Hilarion is not reliable, but if recognition of sacramental reality outside the canonical boundaries of the Church is “ecumenism” than we got major problems:
“For in coming to faith they [those who were baptized by Donatists, i.e. heretical schismatics] thought the true Church to be their own and there they believed in Christ, and received the sacraments of the Trinity. And that all these sacraments are altogether true and holy and divine is most certain…” - Council of Carthage 419
“It has already been said that the grace of baptism can be conferred outside the Catholic communion, just as it can be also there retained…” - St Augustine
“Anyone who receives the sacrament of Baptism, whether in the Catholic Church or in a heretical or schismatic one, receives the whole Sacrament…” - St Fulgentius
“Anyone baptized in the name of the Trinity is a Christian, no matter what confession he belongs to.” - St. Philaret of Moscow
“It seems that our Church is condescending to Catholics and recognizes the power of not only the baptism of the Catholics and other sacraments, but also the priesthood, which is very significant.” - St. Theophan the Recluse
“The sacrament of the episcopate is mutually recognized by us [with Catholics] and respected.” - St. Nicholas of Japan
“Catholicism should be called a schism with heretical confession, due to which, although there is apostolic succession with the sacraments here, but the inner regenerating grace of the Holy Spirit is not effective for Catholics…” - St Seraphim Bogucharsky
“If the sacraments were not performed outside the canonical boundaries of the church, then there would always be one rite – Baptism. The opinion of St. Hilarion (Troitsky) that all the sacraments [of heretics are invalid] is not based on the Tradition.” - Hieromartyr Daniel Sysoev
I recommend reading this article arche-athanatos.com/2021/11/…
This is like citing cardinal Marx to claim the Catholic Church officially teaches being LGBT is not a sin.
A few things though since I know you’ve done zero research on the subject. He’s not discussing anything but his thoughts on how the MP receives priests. It should also be noted, Met Hilarion (though he has his pockets of supporters) after numerous scandals, statements, and alleged moral failures (they found c*caine in his car) was exiled to Brazil in disgrace.
In addition: You certainly can find modern bishops who are ecumenists (Lord have mercy) but we have no ecumenist saints.
“Those who make fun of the physical defects of the mind, or of the voice, or of the face, or the other members of the body of their neighbor [break the Ninth Commandment], for he is not the cause of those defects.”
St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite, Exomologetarion, Pt. 1, Ch. 4
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THREE BABIES WERE SPARED AT THE ABORTION CLINIC IN RALEIGH YESTERDAY!!!
To God be the glory!!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Thank You, Jesus....
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"..Our Saviour, who was sacrificed in order to appease the righteous wrath of the Infinite God for the sins of all mankind, beginning with the disobedience of Adam."
-- St. Sebastian Dabovich, Preaching in the Russian Church, Sermon Preached on the Third Sunday of Great Lent p. 121
