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:

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424 - Universal History: The American Religion - with Dcn Seraphim Rohlin

"Americans who think they are Christians, truly are something else; intensely religious, but devout in the American Religion." In this episode of U...

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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:

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"Desired To Make One Wise" (The Royal Path Ep 111) by The Royal Path

In this episode, Father Turbo Qualls, Andrew, and Cyprian explore the temptation toward knowledge over praxis.Synaxis of SophiaOur Lady Of The Lost...

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

Blessed Lord's day to all of you☦️ Divine Liturgy is incredibly difficult with a 17 month old 😌

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 👇

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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:

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Lecture | The Sexual Revolution Has Failed

In this lecture by Father Josiah from the Patristic Nectar Marriage Conference, he explains the crisis facing modern marriage, the impact of the se...

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Its that time of year. ☦️

"When you find Christ [in the heart], you are satisfied, you desire nothing else, you find peace. You become a different person. You live everywhere, wherever Christ is. You live in the stars, in infinity, in heaven with the angels, with the saints, on earth with people, with plants, with animals, with everyone and everything. When there is love for Christ, loneliness disappears. You are peaceable, joyous, full. Neither melancholy, not illness, nor pressure, nor anxiety, nor depression nor hell." ☦️ St Porpyhrios of Kavsokalyvia

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A clip from Ek Nekron podcast on transhumanism.