tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post8625505258430911604..comments2024-03-22T11:37:52.668-05:00Comments on Byzantine, Texas: "Who will follow Greece?"Byzantine, TXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845681957622343484noreply@blogger.comBlogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-13888099853626516642019-10-21T19:44:25.333-05:002019-10-21T19:44:25.333-05:00Troll, troll, troll your boat, gently down the str...Troll, troll, troll your boat, gently down the stream. 😁Mikailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06189539560391433081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-2366814934052118812019-10-21T16:09:25.283-05:002019-10-21T16:09:25.283-05:00Not as odd as an MP canon lawyer/propaganda bot 🤯...Not as odd as an MP canon lawyer/propaganda bot 🤯Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152024447008244670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-29849973047954429332019-10-21T14:56:59.100-05:002019-10-21T14:56:59.100-05:00Randy, is it not the oddest thing? Here we have a ...Randy, is it not the oddest thing? Here we have a layman by the name of Serhii Petrovych Dumenko who thinks he is the new Metropolitan of a newly created "Church" in Ukraine. He plays dress-up and is supported and applauded by Constantinople. You can't make this stuff up! We live in strange times!Mikailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06189539560391433081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-13149936733780654932019-10-21T13:15:24.061-05:002019-10-21T13:15:24.061-05:00This is a great article too:
https://katanixi.gr/2...This is a great article too:<br />https://katanixi.gr/2019/10/21/%cf%80%ce%b1%cf%81%ce%b1%cf%80%ce%bb%ce%b7%cf%81%ce%bf%cf%86%cf%8c%cf%81%ce%b7%cf%83%ce%b7-%ce%b3%ce%b9%ce%b1-%cf%84%ce%b7%ce%bd-%ce%b5%cf%80%ce%af%cf%83%ce%ba%ce%b5%cf%88%ce%b7-%cf%84%ce%bf%cf%85/Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06277889467316537183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-85073918305461183542019-10-21T11:39:53.502-05:002019-10-21T11:39:53.502-05:00Randy and Mikail still doing the MP's propagan...Randy and Mikail still doing the MP's propaganda work I see. Whose on first this morning? Mikail, are you chief of sinners right now?Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152024447008244670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-71721707614562787642019-10-21T05:38:38.154-05:002019-10-21T05:38:38.154-05:00How sad that Ieronymos has joined the schism and b...How sad that Ieronymos has joined the schism and become a schismatic himself. May the majority of holy fathers on Mount Athos resist this sad chapter in the Orthodox Church<br />Mikailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06189539560391433081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-9700325398921750232019-10-21T01:23:45.086-05:002019-10-21T01:23:45.086-05:00Dear brothers and sisters,
Let us not engage in s...Dear brothers and sisters,<br /><br />Let us not engage in sarcasm, backbiting or other ugly behaviors. The times are already difficult as it is. In time this will all pass.<br /><br />I will say that HAH's visit to the Holy Mountain has already brought great joy, in the announcement of the glorification of 4 great Elders of the Holy Mountain, among them Elder Joseph the Hesychast. Glory to God for all things!David B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12585542870280397211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-81859375424198067942019-10-20T21:46:28.068-05:002019-10-20T21:46:28.068-05:00Great article: https://orthodoxie.com/reflexions-d...Great article: https://orthodoxie.com/reflexions-de-leveque-irenee-de-backa-eglise-orthodoxe-serbe-au-sujet-de-la-reconnaissance-eventuelle-de-lautocephalie-ukrainienne-par-leglise-orthodoxe-de-grece/Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06277889467316537183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-80045257263495409532019-10-20T21:37:33.111-05:002019-10-20T21:37:33.111-05:00Poor Mikail on another blog:
“The coward and schi...Poor Mikail on another blog:<br /><br />“The coward and schismatic Ieronymos, has just commemorated the false hierarch Dumenko. Let the fireworks begin. Now Bartholomew will travel to Athos and continue his dissection of the Holy Mountain.”<br /><br />He considers it an insulting provocation to have his unChristian comments on here challenged but it’s ok for him to hurl online insults at an ever increasing list of hierarchs while thinking he’s doing the Lord’s work.<br />Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11459948335722904923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-61440201367587125302019-10-19T15:14:59.988-05:002019-10-19T15:14:59.988-05:00Don't waste your time, Randy. He's a troll...Don't waste your time, Randy. He's a troll.Mikailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06189539560391433081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-24131530856134845882019-10-19T13:55:16.712-05:002019-10-19T13:55:16.712-05:00Just give it up Jake it's been 2 days.Just give it up Jake it's been 2 days. Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06277889467316537183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-45408104775358791012019-10-19T13:41:11.277-05:002019-10-19T13:41:11.277-05:00"... I am not saying that those who disagree ..."... I am not saying that those who disagree with me are not Orthodox. I am saying that the OCU are a group of schismatic non-ordained Church seizing parishioner beating thugs..."<br /><br />Not not Orthodox he says. The MP propaganda algorithms must have received an update last night.<br /><br />I wonder what the MP will reap down the line from the sowing of it's Soviet style propaganda war. Will the legacy of their hard of heart legalism limit their voice in any future council? The ROC history with the Old Belivers suggest that they are all but incapable of rapprochement and "economia" within their own boundaries, let alone with other Churches. Could it be that EP's ecclesiological novelties will look moderate and even "necessary" in the face of ROC arrogance and failure(s) in any future council?Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152024447008244670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-63280348356028759352019-10-19T11:01:24.302-05:002019-10-19T11:01:24.302-05:00I said I would no longer respond to your insults a...I said I would no longer respond to your insults and provocations. But I will make one last response to you for the sake of clarity. I did not claim you are Catholic. I do not know you...I said perhaps you are? Secondly, I am not saying that those who disagree with me are not Orthodox. I am saying that the OCU are a group of schismatic non-ordained Church seizing parishioner beating thugs. I will not respond to you further.<br />Good day!Mikailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06189539560391433081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-40816655026831711892019-10-19T08:05:48.673-05:002019-10-19T08:05:48.673-05:00Mikail, so your parting words to me were to call m...Mikail, so your parting words to me were to call me a Catholic? Where is Christ in that?<br /><br />You pronounce those that disagree with you to be not Orthodox and yet when asked a simple question so that we may know that you respect Orthodox teaching, twice you refused to answer. Where is the honour in that? You’re so busy smearing and reducing millions of uncanonical Orthodox Christians to a group of thugs that you couldn’t be bothered to combat the heresy right front you in the form of your friend’s denial of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. <br /><br />You promote division among Orthodox Christians, which is what prompted our exchange, so listen well to what Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus has to say about that: “In conclusion, I declared that this administrative issue [Ukraine] to not concern the faith and so I will not undertake any individual move that would rupture the unity of of the body of the hierarchy of the Church of Greece as I would do if there were an issue of ecumenistic intercommunion according to the 15th canon of the Holy Council of 861, because that would constitute a foolish action.”<br /><br />The pious Metropolitan Nikolaos of Mesogaia, another one of the seven Greek bishops who recently voted to postpone the decision to recognize the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, penned almost exactly a year ago what I still find to be one the best comments on the issue. As was expected, the site orthochristian, would not touch it since it noted that all parties involved were not behaving in a Christian way. Objectivity is not permitted by those who seek to shape the minds of future amateur internet canonists and historians.<br /><br />To push back against schism inducing legalism is righteous and proper and the ploy that this makes us heretics and Fordhamites is misguided and outrageous. Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11459948335722904923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-88019458357239040762019-10-18T21:47:05.413-05:002019-10-18T21:47:05.413-05:00If the words of the saints are MP are MP propagand...If the words of the saints are MP are MP propaganda Jake I guess I'm an MP propagandist. Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06277889467316537183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-48956238665743356162019-10-18T21:33:36.057-05:002019-10-18T21:33:36.057-05:00Glory to God!Glory to God!Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06277889467316537183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-79545417029120477082019-10-18T19:23:48.073-05:002019-10-18T19:23:48.073-05:00By the way Randy...have you seen the latest news. ...By the way Randy...have you seen the latest news. There are many patristic-minded Greek bishops who are speaking out against the outrageous pseodo-decision from the Church of Greece. If/when the Archbishop of Greece commemorates the schismatics tomorrow...these courageous bishops will defend the Orthodox faith.<br /><br />Glory be to God!Mikailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06189539560391433081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-37741503639471635432019-10-18T18:01:19.718-05:002019-10-18T18:01:19.718-05:00Well cry me a river Randy & Mikail. You post ...Well cry me a river Randy & Mikail. You post (and post, and post) endless links to MP propaganda and anti-Church legalistic and monstrous propaganda, get a little push back, and then complain about "civility"?!? If this is truly your faith, then perhaps you should be prepared to suffer a little for it...if comment box disagreement can be said to be a suffering ;0)<br /><br />By the way, your piety (i.e. "Mikail, *I* am chief of sinners" "No no Randy, *I* am chief of sinners") does not justify or cover the inhumanity of your philosophy...Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152024447008244670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-55169310039220964622019-10-18T13:57:26.492-05:002019-10-18T13:57:26.492-05:00You are mistaken, Randy. I am the worst of sinners...You are mistaken, Randy. I am the worst of sinners. I am constantly going to confession, and yet my repentance is incomplete and my progress is at a snail's pace. Let us both work out our salvation with fear and trembling. Mikailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06189539560391433081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-31716538571396231002019-10-18T13:37:46.995-05:002019-10-18T13:37:46.995-05:00I'm sorry dear Father I get heated in discussi...I'm sorry dear Father I get heated in discussions like this. Forgive me for being such a divisive and argumentative thing. If anyone is at fault here it is me. God bless you for the work that you do Father. This blog is a great source of news from around the Orthodox world. Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06277889467316537183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-8733469900365186552019-10-18T13:27:59.790-05:002019-10-18T13:27:59.790-05:00Let's keep this civil.Let's keep this civil.Byzantine, TXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17845681957622343484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-12301956716648071162019-10-18T13:16:49.543-05:002019-10-18T13:16:49.543-05:00You have given me and Mikail no charity whatsoever...You have given me and Mikail no charity whatsoever Jake. You have continually mocked us and declared we are inhuman sycophants for not having the same view as you do on the Ukranian issue. Truly even the schismatics are greater and more holy than I could ever be, which I why I desire more than anything for their salvation. Not through false means, but through the salvific repentance our Lord commands us to engage in. If you truly desired their salvation, then you would yearn with all your heart for their repentance and return to canonical union with the fullness of the church. <br />St. Ignatius (Bryanchaninov): "A mortal sin that an Orthodox Christian hasn’t healed with proper repentance subjects the sinner to eternal torture… Mortal sins for a Christian are heresy, schism, blasphemy, apostasy… each of these sins mortifies one’s soul and makes it unfit for eternal bliss until it purifies itself with repentance."<br />You are correct that I am an inhuman wretch Jake. But Mikail is no such thing. Accuse me all you want, as a sinner like me deserves all the insults that come to him, but not Mikail, he does not deserve such things, and especially not our venerable right-believing bishops. Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06277889467316537183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-43361035701562579892019-10-18T13:03:56.816-05:002019-10-18T13:03:56.816-05:00Piety (Russian or any other kind) is no substitute...Piety (Russian or any other kind) is no substitute for Charity & Truth Randy...heck it's not even a substitute for humanism - you first have to be human if you want to be Christian.Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152024447008244670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-36211977782336781822019-10-18T12:40:23.948-05:002019-10-18T12:40:23.948-05:00God bless you Jake. I am the worst sinner and you ...God bless you Jake. I am the worst sinner and you are better than I could ever be. Forgive if I have offended you in any way. You are truly better than I could ever be, for I am a wretched sinner.Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06277889467316537183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-70711718486491147212019-10-18T12:33:08.809-05:002019-10-18T12:33:08.809-05:00SCCcissmattiiiicccsssssss'sssssessss.....Gollu...SCCcissmattiiiicccsssssss'sssssessss.....Gollum-Gollum-Gollum...caaannonn exxperrtiissse...Gollum-Gollum-Gollum....myyyy prreccioussss'sssJakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152024447008244670noreply@blogger.com