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Trivia question: Michael Jackson's song "They Don't Really Care about Us" is about who?

This is pt. 2 and a banger. The Symbolic World: 424 - Universal History: The American Religion - with Dcn Seraphim Rohlin Starting from: 00:00:00 Episode webpage: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/424-universal-history-the-american-religion-with-dcn-seraphim-rohlin--68885459 Media file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/68885459/uh_american_religion_audio_0_01.mp3#t=0

Some great stuff in here from Fr. Turbo ☦️ The Royal Path: "Desired To Make One Wise" (The Royal Path Ep 111) Starting from: 00:00:00 Episode webpage: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/royalpath/episodes/Desired-To-Make-One-Wise-The-Royal-Path-Ep-111-e3btnvr Media file: https://anchor.fm/s/811e5b3c/podcast/play/112172475/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-11-5%2F413795375-44100-2-bf33a61d44476.mp3#t=0

"When the government fears God, the people are free. When the people fear government, God is forgotten." — St. Lavrentiy of Chernigov stole this from nostr:nprofile1qqstdp3mrrh5ttnvjjvx6psufgwjf5l8c6hxw7y5ej4r4sy2p8s4vmqpz3mhxw309akx7cmpd35x7um58gmnwdeh9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcgsm9zy

Blessed Lord's day to all of you☦️ Divine Liturgy is incredibly difficult with a 17 month old 😌 https://blossom.primal.net/24473b401fb1dc3fa4cb0c45dc2e608b0c62b8248f271ed1155aca4de9814057.mp4

From a book Frederica Matthews-Green (her husband is a priest) is working on: When the Temple was destroyed (AD 70), Christians didn’t need to make up a whole new kind of prayer service. They already knew how God wanted to be worshiped, because he’d told Moses in great detail. Those instructions, in Exodus 25-30, are certainly demanding. Even though the Hebrew people were still refugees, wandering in the desert and living in tents, God required them to offer worship that was lavishly beautiful. He told Moses to craft a portable temple, and to furnish it with incense, oil lamps, bells, gold, silver, precious stones, blue and purple cloth, vestments, embroidery, anointing oil, images of angels, and an altar. You’ll find all those things in an Orthodox church today.

The book of Genesis is the greatest work of literature in all of history and it isn't even close.

The Promise Foretold — The Proto-Evangelium Advent begins in the dark. Before shepherds and angels, before the child in the manger, there is the stillness of a garden. Humanity falls — and yet, even in judgment, God speaks a promise: > “I will put enmity between you and the woman, > between your seed and her seed; > he shall bruise your head, > and you shall bruise his heel.” The Fathers called this *the Proto-evangelium* — the *first Gospel*. In that single verse, light breaks through the ruin. The seed of the woman will crush the serpent’s head. Evil will not have the last word. From Eden to Abraham, from David to Mary, the story unfolds as the slow fulfilment of this first promise. The “seed” passes through barren wombs and broken hearts until the Word Himself takes flesh. The woman’s “yes” becomes the world’s salvation. The Cross bruises the heel — but there the serpent’s power is shattered. As St Ephrem wrote, *“Death swallowed what it thought was earthly and met God; it was undone.”* The manger and the Cross are carved from the same wood: divine love entering the dust to redeem it from within. Advent begins here — in longing, in the holy darkness before dawn. It is not nostalgia but promise, not escape but renewal. We wait, as creation once waited, for the Word to be born anew among us. The garden is not forgotten. The seed still grows. The light still shines in the darkness — and the darkness cannot overcome it.

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A quick read on the "Essence-Energies" distinction 👇 https://open.substack.com/pub/mindofthefathers/p/is-orthodoxy-neoplatonist

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The Antichrist is not to be (primarily) found among the great deniers, but among the small affirmers—among the ‘Christians’ whose ‘Christ’ is only on the lips, among the ‘religious’ whose ‘religion’ easily accommodates itself to the world, among the prophets of a ‘new’ age of ‘spiritual renewal’ who seek this renewal in the ‘Kingdom of this world’ and not above. Fr. Seraphim 💀➕☦️

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An absolute banger from Fr. Josiah on Christian marriage. The Arena: Lecture | The Sexual Revolution Has Failed Starting from: 00:00:00 Episode webpage: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/lecture-the-sexual-revolution-has-failed--68629686 Media file: https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/68629686/father_josiah_speech_marrriage_conference.mp3#t=0

Its that time of year. ☦️ https://blossom.primal.net/35f1157b8061f6598cb279637b15e5f60feb09a96d3700a1232444135c96f0f1.mp4