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December 29th, 2021

The Spiritual Reality Concerning the Vaccine

-- From the Editor
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I. Introduction

II. Two Truths

A. God Inspires Doctors in Their Practice of Medicine

B. Contemporary Science is from the Occult Tradition

III. Samples from our Sacred Tradition

A. From the Lives of...

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July 14th, 2021

A Letter to an Abbess Concerning the Vaccines (English Translation)

By Elder Efthymios of Kapsala, Mt. Athos
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Too long has our people been plagued with this painful coronavirus affair. Let them at last leave every one free to act according to his judgement, without pressure.

Elder Efthymios of the Cell of the Resurrection in Kapsala on Mt. Athos, a disciple of Saint Paisios of Mt. Athos, more than a year after his first letter, now writes a second letter concerning mandatory vaccination in response to questions from an abbess (dated 20 June 2021).

Venerable...

Tagged In: Coronavirus, vaccines, Antichrist, pandemics, deception, medicine, eschatology, illness, Repentance, Saint Paisios of Mt. Athos, St. Paisios of Mt. Athos, Virus and Disease, elder efthymios, elder efthymios
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July 12th, 2021

St. Paisios the Athonite on Ecumenism, Common Prayer with the Heterodox, and the Erroneous Ecumenist Phronema concerning the Monophysites
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Introductory remarks:

Certain Orthodox Christian clergy and laymen infected with the demonically-influenced super heresy of Ecumenism [1] attempt to discredit and slander the Holy Fathers by saying the Monophysites (non-Chalcedonians) had taught the exact Christology the Orthodox Christians taught at the Fourth Ecumenical Council. Consequently, such...

Tagged In: St. Paisios of Mt. Athos, Saint Paisios of Mt. Athos, Ecumenism, heresy-of-ecumenism, Oecumenical Councils, Non-Chalcedonians, The Eucharist, prayer, common prayer
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July 5th, 2021

Proper Orthodox Priestly Attire and Appearance According to the Saints

"Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain..." (Prov. 31:30). "Do not be conformed to this world..." (Rom.12:2).
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(The following is a conversation between St. Iakavos of Evia and his spiritual child[ren]):

St. Iakavos: "“When we put on the cassock, we begin with the goal of sanctifying our soul. Care is necessary, however. For love of the world’s honor and glory, our egotism can make us lose our soul, rather than sanctify it... Priests shouldn’t cut their hair....

"The priest's cassock is the flag of the Church of our Christ: for this reason we must try hard to honor it, we who wear it, with a holy life, so that those who don't wear it will honor and respect it." - St. Amphilochios of Patmos

Source: H. Middleton, Precious Vessels of the Holy Spirit: The Lives and Counsels of Contemporary Elders of...

Tagged In: St. Paisios of Mt. Athos, tradition, church-life, Asceticism, bishops, Catholicism, Church History, Ecumenism, Grace of the Holy Spirit, priesthood, cassock, Secularism, modernism, Saint Paisios of Mt. Athos, Lives of the Saints, clergy, beard, holy tradition, holy fathers
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June 30th, 2021

A MUST READ! St. Paisios of Mt. Athos on the Blasphemous Treatment of Holy Things, God's Wrath, and Trusting God

"Even if one has some phobia about getting sick, Christ will help if one makes the sign of the Cross with faith." - St. Paisios
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“Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.” - Ezekiel...

Tagged In: Asceticism, Coronavirus, church-life, Grace of the Holy Spirit, Liturgical abuse, Lives of the Saints, martyria, monasticism, Mt. Athos, Saint Paisios of Mt. Athos, Secularism, spiritual-life, St. Paisios of Mt. Athos, tradition, Virus and Disease
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April 25th, 2021

The Stance of Saint Paisios the Athonite on the Reception of Converts in the Baptism of the Heterodox

An excerpt from Apostle to Zaire: The Life and Legacy of Blessed Father Cosmas of Grigoriou
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— A follow up to a recent post “The Stance of St Iakovos of Euboea on the Reception of Converts and the Baptism of the Heterodox”.

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“Many have commented: “How is it that the Africans, being only recently baptized, can maintain such an intensity and exactness in their Orthodoxy, while many of us in parishes in Greece, America and elsewhere are much more lax?” The answer, I believe,...

Tagged In: Baptism, Catholicism, church-life, Ecclesiology, Ecumenism, Grace of the Holy Spirit, Mission, monasticism, Mt. Athos, oikonomiaakriveia, Saint Paisios of Mt. Athos, St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite, St. Paisios of Mt. Athos
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April 9th, 2020

The Coronavirus: A Sign of the Times

The Orthodox Ethos Podcast
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In this episode we examine the Coronavirus Crisis as a crisis of both soul and body, the reaction of many Christians as a sign of the times, and the faithfulness of the Prophet Daniel as an example for the Last Christians.

Sections:

  • Questions we must answer.
  • Not Of this World?
  • As in the Days of Noah
  • Carrying out Both of the Great Commandments
  • A...
Tagged In: The Orthodox Ethos Podcast, Virus and Disease, church-life, spiritual-life, Grace of the Holy Spirit, Prophet Daniel, Fr. Athanasius Mitilinaios, St. Paisios of Mt. Athos
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April 8th, 2020

The First of Feasts, The Beginning of Redemption, and The Fear of Death

The Orthodox Ethos Podcast (Ep. 2)
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AUDIO: https://orthodoxethos.com/podcast/the-first-of-feasts-the-beginning-of-redemption-and-the-fear-of-death

Today's podcast focuses on the First of Feasts, the Annunciation:

* The power of the Great Mystery of the Incarnation destroys the fear of death.

* St....

Tagged In: The Orthodox Ethos Podcast, The Apostle Paul, St. Maximos the Confessor, St. Paisios of Mt. Athos
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