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  1. Arsenios

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    I was simply quoting the Risen Christ's words to Saul on the Road to Damascus... Act 9:5 And he said, "Who art thou, Lord?" And the Lord said, "I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks." So you see your words accuse Jesus, not me... Forgive me...
  2. Arsenios

    CRISIS IN ORTHODOXY - UKRANIAN AUTOCEPHALOY

    And it still does - One of the most ancient of the Christian Churches on earth, with a distinctive poly-phonic liturgical harmony that is very difficult to learn and hauntingly peaceful and beautiful... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xixViJaQjI A rural country, the village families welcome...
  3. Arsenios

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    "It is hard to kick against the pricks..." Arsenios
  4. Arsenios

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    Mat 25:28-30 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents. For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer...
  5. Arsenios

    CRISIS IN ORTHODOXY - UKRANIAN AUTOCEPHALOY

    The Christian Faith began in the Roman Empire that resulted from the conquests of Alexander the Great, taught by Aristotle himself, fighting on the back of his great war-horse, Bucephalos... These conquests produced the Greek Old Testment translated by Jewish Scribes and used extensively in the...
  6. Arsenios

    CRISIS IN ORTHODOXY - UKRANIAN AUTOCEPHALOY

    Exactly so... Arsenios
  7. Arsenios

    "Catholic Answers" Why Did Luther's Heresy Persist?

    I distinctly remember reading that brother saying he utterly and entirely agrees with you even more that a thousnad percent that Jesus Christ our God is Alone the Savior of mankind, and he even wrote that he, unlike you, can tell you WHY, and that he actually DID tell you WHY on several...
  8. Arsenios

    "Catholic Answers" Why Did Luther's Heresy Persist?

    !!!REBUKED FOR PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL!!! It does have a certain reverberation, I should think... Perehaps a tad into the far side of histrionicity... A good book title as a primer for martyrs, perhaps... You could do some more research for it in Saudi Arabia... Almost sounds like an...
  9. Arsenios

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    Of course not - Look what he DID with his God-Given Talent... Do that with YOUR God-Given Talent and you won't be saved either... Same for me and for anyone else... Arsenios
  10. Arsenios

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    He had the talent... He squandered it... It was taken from him... He now lives in outer darkness... Had he not buried it in the ground... Had he treasured it and multiplied it... Had he even put it in the bank... He would not be where he now is gnashing his teeth... Arsenios
  11. Arsenios

    "Catholic Answers" Why Did Luther's Heresy Persist?

    An argument that but repeatedly insists, again and again, that one has already answered all the questions many times, over and over, and again and again, is not an answer to the questions posed... It MIGHT qualify as an exercise in vanity, but for myself, I would need a lot more evidence! :)...
  12. Arsenios

    CRISIS IN ORTHODOXY - UKRANIAN AUTOCEPHALOY

    Here, finally, is an article that explains the matter with great clarity... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FNYDLxrm3s Arsenios
  13. Arsenios

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    Anyone can squander their inheritance... No mother's son is so high, exalted and mighty that he cannot fall... If he but hides his God-given talent in the dirt, he forsakes his inheritance... Because he has hidden away his Gift and made it of no account... And he thinks he still has what he...
  14. Arsenios

    CRISIS IN ORTHODOXY - UKRANIAN AUTOCEPHALOY

    Secular governments attack Christian Churches... Arsenios
  15. Arsenios

    CRISIS IN ORTHODOXY - UKRANIAN AUTOCEPHALOY

    Indeed so, and the Ukraine is outside the jurisdiction of Constantinople... And he apparently has the support of the US State Department... The Ukraine is the heart of the beginnings of the Russian Church - And it is under the Homophoron of the Moscow Patriarchate... The Ecumenical Patriarch...
  16. Arsenios

    CRISIS IN ORTHODOXY - UKRANIAN AUTOCEPHALOY

    Yes - In the US, most Churches are auto-cephalous under each one's local pastor and council... Communion and its withdrawal in the EOC is a very big deal... It is not yet a schism, but is more than a minor spat... Arsenios
  17. Arsenios

    CRISIS IN ORTHODOXY - UKRANIAN AUTOCEPHALOY

    Here is a TV news article interviewing Bishop Jonas... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo7P8WDDy5o Interesting times, one can say... So we pray... Arsenios
  18. Arsenios

    CRISIS IN ORTHODOXY - UKRANIAN AUTOCEPHALOY

    Yes - Self-headed... When the Russian Church in the Ukraine is under the Moscow Patriarchate... The pro-West government has been seeking a way to break the Russian hold over the Faith in the Ukraine, and the Ecumenical Patriarch has joined with the west to break it up by Ekklesiastical fiat...
  19. Arsenios

    CRISIS IN ORTHODOXY - UKRANIAN AUTOCEPHALOY

    This music seems appropriate for this historic mis-step on the part of the Ecumenical Patriarch... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOiycw4UQGA Arsenios
  20. Arsenios

    CRISIS IN ORTHODOXY - UKRANIAN AUTOCEPHALOY

    This is a major blow to the Orthodox Faith, where the Ecumenical Patriarch in Constantinople has granted autocephaly to a schizmatic group in the Ukraine and stepped into political activism... This is the Russian Church's Patriarch's response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGN3pz0oKuo The...
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