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June 15th, 2022

St. Theophan the Recluse Adopted an Ecumenistic Ecclesiology?

According to some, St. Theophan the Recluse is sympathetic toward, if not outright endorsing, an ecumenistic ecclesiology. They suppose that he recognizes the validity of mysteries outside the Orthodox Church and that the boundaries of the Body of Christ extend past the Orthodox Church. The first two quotes may appear to support this, even if indirectly, but the third quote outright contradicts any such...


May 18th, 2022

'Touch me not': Holy Baptism as a Presupposition for Participation in the Divine Fire of the Eucharist

By St. Cyril of Alexandria

INTRODUCTORY NOTE: As we come to the mid-point between Pascha and Pentecost, the Church begins to warm us up in anticipation of the gift of the Holy Spirit we will recieve by beginning the celebration today of what is known as the Feast of Mid-Pentecost, where a mighty river of divine grace flows down to us, which has these two great Feasts - Pascha and Pentecost - as its...


April 8th, 2022

Four Contemporary Saints on the Heresy of Ecumenism!

"It is impossible to come to know the truth or to grasp theology in any other way but by following the Saints.” - Joseph Bryennios (1350-1438), learned Byzantine monk of Stoudios Monastery


April 7th, 2022

The Holy Fathers Forbid Prayer with the Heterodox

Excerpted from ECUMENISM: AN ORTHODOX EXAMINATION, by Fr. Peter Heers


March 17th, 2022

Development of Ecumenism leading up to COVID

-- Interview with Jay Dyer

From the Editor: Below is the transcript of an interview Jay Dyer hosted with Fr. Peter [original video here]. It took place in 2019, before COVID began, but is all the more relevant today. Notice at the end, the concern Fr. Peter has for the talks, at the time, that were occurring which anticipated an upcoming ecumenical...


February 18th, 2022

Becoming a member of the Body before communing of the Body

+ St. Theophylact of Bulgaria

In agreement with the Patristic Patrum, St. Theophylact of Bulgaria offers us a brightly shinning spiritual gem in his sacred Commentary on the Gospel of St. John that easily refutes the modern-day innovative heresy that claims the Heterodox are members of the One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church and therefore can commune of the Divine and Life-giving Eucharist in the Orthodox Church.

St....


February 13th, 2022

NEW EXTENDED PODCAST: CACODOXY WITHIN: 10 HERETICAL & INNOVATIVE IDEAS PROMOTED TODAY

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CACODOXY WITHIN: 10 HERETICAL & INNOVATIVE IDEAS PROMOTED TODAY

10 Heretical & Innovative Ideas Promoted Today, from least to most egregious:

10. Relevance to pop culture trumps faithfulness to Holy Tradition, and thus clergy should shed the traditional cassock for the Latin collar.

9. The Holy...


January 7th, 2022

New Lecture Series: The Revelation of Jesus Christ to the Apostle John

Begins January 17th, 8 pm EST (5 pm PST) - Sign up today!

November 27th, 2021

​Η ΠΑΤΕΡΙΚΗ ΣΤΑΣΗ ΓΙΑ ΤΑ ΕΜΒΟΛΙΟ (2/3) - Συνέντευξη με τον π. Σάββα Αγιορειτη

(Απο τον π. Πέτρο Χιρς) Για το Ορθόδοξο Ήθος Podcast

In this second part of our new three-part discussion (2/3) with Archimandrite Savas Agioreitis, which took place on October, 18th, 2021, we discuss:

1. How does one explain that the same consequences [spiritual] do not appear to be happening to everyone who takes the inoculations? / Δεν φαίνεται να έχει επιπτώσεις το εμβόλιο σε όλους. Πως εξηγείται αυτό;

2. If the spiritual father is...


September 16th, 2021

St. Euphemia the Great Martyr and the Heresy of Monophysitism

Commemorated on September 16

In the third century of Christianity, when pagan rulers were putting Christians both young and old to torture and death for not bowing down to idols, there lived a young girl who was raised a Christian and who had true and steadfast faith. Hidden and praying to the True God in a house church with forty-eight other Christians, while pagans worshipped demons, was the maiden


September 2nd, 2021

Mount Sinai To AB Elpidophoros: The One and Only Ladder To Heaven…

Posted by Helleniscope

"By Nick Stamatakis

Helleniscope’s audience has been reacting for many weeks to the infamous statement by AB Elpidophoros at the “Religious Freedom Summit” in Washington DC on July 16, 2021: “When you elevate one religion above all others, it is as if you decide there is only one path leading to the top of the mountain. But the truth is you simply cannot see the myriads...


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