MEGA 🧵: A compilation of my personal favorite threads and quotes I shared in 2023 (chronological order).

"Therefore, O shepherds, be an example to your flock, for if you walk in the path of the good, your disciples will follow you. But if you overstep the mark and neglect what is right, they will walk the same path as you. Know that every transgression committed by your congregation is like a scratch on the hand or somewhere else on a man where it can be covered and hidden, but a transgression that appears in you is like a great wound upon the face, immediately apparent to all onlookers. You are the captain of the boat: take care not to sink her in the ocean by your poor leadership. You are the shepherd of the flock: watch over the sheep, lest they wander away from you into the wilderness.... O shepherds, first love your flock with a sincere love that you might be able to do everything for their benefit, and be able to fulfill all that you have purposed. You will find no other key to open hearts unto you except love, for this is the foundation of everything: it is the eloquence that will teach all things, the power which will make you capable of all things and open what is closed before you. The degree of the impact of your words upon your congregation and your drawing them in depends on the degree of your love for them. Without this love, you do not have the power to draw a single soul to Christ." Pope St. Kyrillos (Cyril) V, Patriarch of Alexandria 1874-♰1927

@semiticwarlord @FathersStudent @Choco_man7 @TickSAC @hypatiusbrontes You must be very new to this

@chrisusclueless Either subversion or maybe just maybe he’s a total weirdo

@semiticwarlord @Choco_man7 @TickSAC @hypatiusbrontes The only people “fueling conflict” are the heterodox denominations trying to claim our saints. David is actually doing a great job of defending the faith.

AJ & Big Justice

RT @artasovor_: Artsakh is a land of churches. A cradle of Christianity. Every village, every hill and every valley is dotted with Armenian…

RT @DArmenicus: «The Spirit of War and the Spirit of Peace. The spirit of resistance or martyrdom is essential to the ecclesiastical offi…

RT @MaryHogins: 🇦🇲 Our Faith, Strength and Mountains in one picture.

@semiticwarlord @hypatiusbrontes He's indeed a saint for us Oriental Orthodox.

Mahomes was definitely trying to salvage his playoff statline and reputation with those garbage-time TDs lol

COOPER DEJEAN PICK SIX ON MAHOMES HE’S OUR JACKIE ROBINSON. HE’S OUR MUHAMMAD ALI. IT’S WHITE HISTORY MONTH NOW.

@chrisusclueless The latter.

The "practice" of his veneration in the Georgian tradition cannot have ended "centuries ago" when there are Georgian publications that have proclaimed his sainthood as recently as 2014. So unless he was de-canonized specifically within the past decade, he's still venerated by them. The Georgians are the odd ones out within the EO communion on this matter.

There aren't many. Furthermore, I'm not making the argument that if a person's theology is A, but as long as he doesn't condemn B, then he can be shared among varying traditions. I'm very against syncretism, as anybody who has followed me for a decent amount of time is probably very aware of. But it's a simple historical truth that Chalcedon created a very shattered Christian world in its aftermath, and so this is why there might've still been some examples of liturgical inconsistencies and other matters throughout the era immediately following it. There are examples of this on the Chalcedonian side as well, as we can see plainly with St. Peter and St. Kaleb.

When I say the Papists are "co-opting" it, I mean exactly what you say when you say it's "shortsighted" for one exclusive church to claim it. Because Papists are trying to use it as further evidence for THEIR church (as you can see in their discussions about it), which is comical.

@AUGUSTINUSMAXIM @hypatiusbrontes

@hypatiusbrontes @AUGUSTINUSMAXIM We rejected Chalcedon in 506. His veneration in the Armenian tradition is solely due to his hymnography. It's nowhere near as big of an oversight as the Georgian EOs who venerate St. Peter the Iberian, who was indisputably non-Chalcedonian.

RT @hypatiusbrontes: Was St. Kaleb of Axum a Miaphysite? Yes. A thread 🧵