tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post3229264758043352223..comments2024-03-22T11:37:52.668-05:00Comments on Byzantine, Texas: Protodeacon Theodore Feldman boldly spouts nonsenseByzantine, TXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845681957622343484noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-28139098102427820802019-07-29T15:14:28.811-05:002019-07-29T15:14:28.811-05:00Archbishop Nikon is incapacitated with illness and...Archbishop Nikon is incapacitated with illness and is perhaps drawing near to the end of his life. He has spent little time at his New England Diocese Cathedral in Boston where Fr. Arida and Deacon Theodore serve. Rather, he prefers to be present at his Albanian Boston Cathedral when he is not travelling. That does not absolve him from responsibility for tolerating this corruption of the Faith,however. The Protodeacon appears to publish as an opportunist in the face of his bishop's incapacity. His public betrayal of the Faith and his ordination vows requires a public, official reprimand at the very least.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-60846658219792255542019-06-26T17:02:45.074-05:002019-06-26T17:02:45.074-05:00Don't forget, St John Chrysostom died on his j...Don't forget, St John Chrysostom died on his journey into exile.<br /><br />Oftentimes the humblest and greatest priests and bishops of the church were exiled or martyred, because their steadfast faith did not conform to the prevailing opinions of the time. Yet, Holy Orthodoxy lived on, and bright is the stories of these saints. The Church is sustained by the prayers and witness of the faithful clergy and laity.Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11412179014685515361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-6828629313853678402019-06-25T23:49:03.149-05:002019-06-25T23:49:03.149-05:00Is it permissible to answer the question "How...Is it permissible to answer the question "How can we make our church more welcoming to [favored outgroup]" with the more difficult question "How can we welcome [unfavored outgroup]"? We should be building bridges to the outcasts the "inclusive" believers won't touch.JGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04422108804336072856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-86491536286155602542019-06-25T22:24:40.251-05:002019-06-25T22:24:40.251-05:00I would also add Fr. Zechariah Lynch to the list, ...I would also add Fr. Zechariah Lynch to the list, who regularly has articles published on Russian Faith. He also has his own blog. As well as Fr. Joseph Gleason who runs Russian Faith. Though he no longer resides in America.An Orthodox Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04143594641757186862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-89583334347350618042019-06-25T21:51:29.692-05:002019-06-25T21:51:29.692-05:00I think you have it indeed.I think you have it indeed.Byzantine, TXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17845681957622343484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-37836225490888909592019-06-25T21:36:44.555-05:002019-06-25T21:36:44.555-05:00From the response post on Orthodoxy in Dialogue, i...From the response post on Orthodoxy in Dialogue, it sounds like they didn't understand you were making a biblical reference and not actually implying harm be done by millstones. I understood your point! I have had the same thought in my mind about all of the inaction in the church. An Orthodox Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04143594641757186862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-80334342988412316972019-06-25T19:43:15.049-05:002019-06-25T19:43:15.049-05:00SanFilippo et al have most of the Western world on...SanFilippo et al have most of the Western world on their side;especially here in North America. That is why they can be so brazen.BorisJojicjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02796218761394313699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-15582239243401311142019-06-25T12:47:48.522-05:002019-06-25T12:47:48.522-05:00Jake, do you mean Metropolitan Anthony of the Ukra...Jake, do you mean Metropolitan Anthony of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA? If so, I'm sorry to hear it.BorisJojicjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02796218761394313699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-4681353147088956372019-06-25T12:45:50.478-05:002019-06-25T12:45:50.478-05:00For your information: This is the statement endor...For your information: This is the statement endorsed by the Bulgarian Patriarchate to help in witnessing to Gospel and serving the needs of a very fractured modern world.<br />Homosexuality <br /> <br />The practice of homosexuality is unacceptable according to the teachings of the Orthodox Church. Nevertheless, those who express hatred, ridicule or animosity towards people with a homosexual orientation act contrary to the central Christian ethos of love and compassion for all people. <br /><br />A person with homosexual inclinations can live a God-pleasing life if he or she wars against this passion. The Church offers support, prayer and assistance for those who repent and seek healing.<br />The Diocese in accordance with the view of the Orthodox Church does not recognize same-sex marriage and declares that marriage is possible only between a man and a woman. Archimandrite Gregoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09894842027467584759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-4677436548777417022019-06-25T12:30:52.240-05:002019-06-25T12:30:52.240-05:00We have no current Chrysostoms or any other courag...We have no current Chrysostoms or any other courageous bishops. <br /><br />However, we do have many faithful, courageous, and outspoken priests who are challenging and fighting against these heretical impostors and LGBTQ corrupt militants.<br /><br />Fr. Josiah Trenham<br />Fr. Johannes Jacobse <br />Fr. Alexander Webster <br />Fr. Joseph Birthisel<br />Fr. Ioannes Apiarius<br />Fr. John Whiteford<br />Fr. Lawrence FarleyUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17274747354604502665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-89515884263077280512019-06-25T11:56:43.486-05:002019-06-25T11:56:43.486-05:00Did you forget the Moscow Patriarchate, or are the...Did you forget the Moscow Patriarchate, or are there issues there too? As a potential convert, this is all rather distressing. I don't understand the hierarchy. One enters monastic life, a bishop is chosen, or should be chosen, based on his character and holiness of life, but when confronted with situations like this, they either do nothing, or pour gasoline on the fire. I fully expected such things (sadly) within American Catholicism. I am less prepared to expect such things in Orthodoxy. Where are the Chrysostoms of today? Are they even being given the opportunity to govern the Orthodox Church, or is it simply a case of episcopal appointments being made by those who will go along with the modernist secular or ecclesiastical agenda of the day?Lug Dukhovnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16734012869313582104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-53967718739437141262019-06-25T11:47:33.385-05:002019-06-25T11:47:33.385-05:00And the Bulgarian Patriarchate.And the Bulgarian Patriarchate.Archimandrite Gregoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09894842027467584759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-57611697931719549552019-06-25T11:45:04.259-05:002019-06-25T11:45:04.259-05:00Fr. Ioannes Apiarius has penned a few articles/reb...Fr. Ioannes Apiarius has penned a few articles/rebuttals easily found, but I can't find anything about him or where he serves. Is "Fr. Ioannes Apiarius" a pen name?Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152024447008244670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-48233433263949903212019-06-25T11:28:03.749-05:002019-06-25T11:28:03.749-05:00Fr. Joseph, being attacked and defamed by the defr...Fr. Joseph, being attacked and defamed by the defrocked priest and delusional homosexualist and LGBT activist Peter J. (Giacomo) SanFilippo is a great honor. It confirms the truth of your words and rights discernment of your public witness.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17274747354604502665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-24428115523420434862019-06-25T11:23:34.108-05:002019-06-25T11:23:34.108-05:00The "dialogue" folks are easily upset, t...The "dialogue" folks are easily upset, the last thing they expect is dialogue! They are quick to be offended by a pseudonym, but only by "the editors" for authorship? I don't really want to know who they are, their site speaks loudly enough, it's outside what I take to be the Church. Dialogue with someone who thinks there's something in common, guys. Hint: The Episcopal Church Welcomes You. Look for the sign, they mean it and so do I.bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14039146105983736459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-87961746784435294952019-06-25T11:22:13.497-05:002019-06-25T11:22:13.497-05:00Absolutely right! Thankfully Fr. Ioannes Apiarius...Absolutely right! Thankfully Fr. Ioannes Apiarius said this in his latest essay exposing the unopposed rebellion inside the OCA.<br /><br />"One wonders if the bishops’ continued silence and refusal to publicly denounce, discipline, and/or depose these false prophets have emboldened these LGBTQ activists, enabled their revolt to grow inside the Orthodox Church, and encouraged them to spread their poison and deception to other Orthodox Christian countries and Churches via the Internet, academic conferences, and various LGBTQ venues, organizations, and events." - Fr. Ioannes ApiariusUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17274747354604502665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-21571790224465387672019-06-25T11:19:48.927-05:002019-06-25T11:19:48.927-05:00"This is outright rebellion against God and n..."This is outright rebellion against God and nature, a betrayal of Christ, and open defiance of the authority and teaching of Scriptures and the Orthodox Church." ~ Fr. Ioannes Apiarius<br /><br />https://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2019/06/theodore-feldman-scriptures-orthodox-church-and-holy-tradition-are-wrong-on-homosexuality-and-lgbtq-issues/Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17274747354604502665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-71619773861728205972019-06-25T11:15:57.971-05:002019-06-25T11:15:57.971-05:00Keeping score: the only two Orthodox synods/"...Keeping score: the only two Orthodox synods/"jurisdictions" in North America who have not been fools (or more accurately, theological and moral idiots) for the sexual/anthropological revolution are the Antiochians and ROCOR, at least as far as I am aware...Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152024447008244670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-40023118984621582172019-06-25T11:09:50.677-05:002019-06-25T11:09:50.677-05:00"what of episcopal inaction when hierarchs kn..."what of episcopal inaction when hierarchs know full well what their clergy are getting up to?..."<br /><br />Do you Fr. Joseph or anyone else remember the response of Met. Tikhon when the rather strong clerical and lay response of Fr. Arida's homosexualist essay (which is still on his cathedral's website by the way) being posted on the OCA's youth "Wonder" blog/ministry? <br /><br />He did not get it. He went on about his relative's (nephew if memory serves) life threatening surgery (which was occurring at the same time as the blowback) and then *defended* Fr. Arida, saying that Fr. Arida did not say what he said, that all the clergy/laypersons who responded were reading too much into it, and that we should listen to Fr. Arida's point. Over the next few days this response was revised at least once (I think I noticed two revisions), and then eventually it and the whole essay/response was pulled from the Wonder site altogether.<br /><br />There is your response Fr. Joseph. This is not "inaction", it is rather action IN SUPPORT OF Arida's and Feldman's secularized anthropology and morality. Met. Tikhon, Archbishop Nikhon, and in all probability others in the OCA synod SUPPORT this view that the normative moral Tradition is too harsh, "science" (as if they understand what that actually is) has discovered a homosexualism of human *nature* and thus something "new" that the theology of the Tradition and Fathers simply did not know even existed and thus men like Arida are to be listened to. You see Fr. Joseph, you are a simple man and men like Met. Tikhon and Feldman are actually in tune with the Spirit...<br /><br />You good clerics and lay folks in the OCA can ask for moral and anthropological clarity/truth until the cows come home but your not going to get it because your synod is not in *communion* with the truth.<br /><br />My own Metropolitan came home form the Crete synaxis approving of the ordination of women (which the Pat. of Alexandria subsequently did...sort of...), so don't think the OCA is special or anything...<br /><br />Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152024447008244670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-38844197933945769282019-06-25T06:50:18.012-05:002019-06-25T06:50:18.012-05:00It is like Stalin's Soviet Union. You are free...It is like Stalin's Soviet Union. You are free to agree with the Party Line. God help you if you dont.BorisJojicjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02796218761394313699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-31028519820158290722019-06-25T06:27:47.955-05:002019-06-25T06:27:47.955-05:00I am regularly reminded of Fr. Lawrence Farley'...I am regularly reminded of Fr. Lawrence Farley's words that "dialogue" is so rarely about actual dialogue.Matvey Casshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14121365910878071505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-60518028642924316442019-06-25T05:47:44.942-05:002019-06-25T05:47:44.942-05:00Doxing people is their response. It's an odd r...Doxing people is their response. It's an odd response that doesn't address the issue and not very dialogue-y, but there you go.Byzantine, TXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17845681957622343484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-42945270931512350872019-06-25T05:37:15.434-05:002019-06-25T05:37:15.434-05:00My bad, I see that you are a priest and not a deac...My bad, I see that you are a priest and not a deacon, Father Joseph.BorisJojicjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02796218761394313699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-27198819196935416102019-06-25T05:34:31.013-05:002019-06-25T05:34:31.013-05:00I see Orthodoxy in Dialogue wasted no time in blas...I see Orthodoxy in Dialogue wasted no time in blasting our host. I was actually under the impression that Fr. Joseph was a priest, in the Antiochian church, and actually in Texas. In any event, I know at least one priest of his jurisdiction who feels the same way he does. I'm sure there are more. Fr. Joseph, I believe, was at the recent Ancient Faith Conference at Antiochian village. I'm sorry I didn't make his acquaintance then.BorisJojicjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02796218761394313699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-9590504707497175482019-06-24T23:30:17.702-05:002019-06-24T23:30:17.702-05:00I see that Protodeacon Theodore Feldman is at the ...I see that Protodeacon Theodore Feldman is at the same cathedral as the priest Robert Arida, who brings the same sentimental (and modern) moralism and anthropological confusion to the faithful in his ministry. <br /><br />Is there any real doubt that Archbishop Nikon is not of the same mind?<br /><br />What do we do with the secularists (ordained or lay) in our midst? How does this Imperial Church of the East and its "Orthodox culture" cure this disease within its own body? As near as I can tell, it doesn't...or if it does, it does so very slowly and willingly sustains the damage this disease does on the rest of the body.Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152024447008244670noreply@blogger.com