@langluigi_
Hi Luigi. I'm wondering if you were aware of the details of this story, about the fact that this young woman is an active sex worker with a history of soliciting dirty old men, and that she has been busy attempting to ply her trade recently with a much older Orthodox clergyman?
@langluigi_
She is a reasonably attractive 21 year old girl with a history of sex work specifically targeting much older men, who is currently keeping romantic company with a not-so-young-looking 53 yr old man. Plus the adverts for her "enterprise" are still posted online.
Res ipsa loquitur
Something has to happen here. They kicked Archbishop Spyridon out back in the late 90's over some minor internal diocesan conflict, yet no one can get this demon removed? Elpidophoros has got to go now.
Archbishop Elpidophoros compares Greek bishops against gay marriage law to antisemites and Nazis
Over the weekend, the outlet published an interview with Archbishop Elpidophoros of the Patriarchate of Constantinople’s Greek Orth...
@SifiReturned
If she is sincere in her profession of faith, then why is her first act to solicit a 53 year old clergyman who serves at her church as a "pay piggy"? Just posing the question, since it's obvious to anyone with a brain that she could not possibly be romantically interested in him
@StriderPlsK
@langluigi_
I have no problem with her being forgiven. Meanwhile, this kind of behavior is inexcusable & we shouldn't turn a blind eye to it. Would you take this tack if it we were talking about an Orthodox Christian church attending man who had a problem with being attracted to little kids?
Baptists larping as Orthodox.
I guess they really liked the priestly dress and the aesthetics, and someone thought "we could just add this to our own service..."🤔
The Orthodox church that was used in Michael Cimino's film, The Deer Hunter, St. Theodosius Orthodox Cathedral in Cleveland, has tragically caught fire.
Orthodoxy does not need "life coach" grifters, whether they ply their trade online or otherwise. This is not "being mean". Acting as a guide to believers in the conduct of their spiritual life is the exclusive province of a priest or spiritual father, not unordained new converts.
@frevagoras
Better "far-right" conservatives who look back longingly to the glory of the Byzantine Empire & Orthodox autocrats than far-left "woke" lunatics who espouse neo-Bolshevik sympathies.
I am far less troubled by conservatives in the priesthood than by NA FO & L G B T Q + supporters
So now apparently I'm being hunted by a nationwide criminal biker gang syndicate as a result of criticizing an Orthodox subdeacon on Twitter who is dating a findomme he met at church, who is using him as a paypiggy. 🐖
But how was your day?
"Orthodox psychiatrist", "Orthodox therapist", "Orthodox counselor", "Orthodox life coach"-- all kooks, frauds, charlatans, quacks, and con-artists.
No exceptions.
So the hammer is finally coming down on the TLM, and the "reverent Novus Ordo" celebrated ad orientem and in Latin is going to be prohibited as well.
What then?
Will trad Roman Catholics fall in line with the Vatican, form a schism, go Eastern, or become Orthodox Christians?
@FYD1990x
Imagine if she saw this & realized that other Orthodox ppl are turned off by her shady antics, and by the fact that she is a practiced thot leading on a creepy pathetic 53 yr old man. She might even decide to actually repent and take down her cashapp & insta $picykola accounts!
"Zionists want to rule the earth. To achieve their ends they use black magic on the populace utilizing mass media. They regard satan- worship as a means to gain their plans. They want to rule the earth using spectacles for power"
+St. Paisios of Mount Athos (1924-1994)
The Latins consider that a theologian could also be a glutton because they conceive of theology as an act of the speculative intellect. Whereas for the Orthodox, the true theologian is one granted a noetic-experiential Vision of God through purification by the Divine Energies.
Just received the news that my godfather died this afternoon.
Please pray for the soul of the newly reposed servant of God, John (pictured on the left in both photos). May his memory be eternal. ☦️
If anyone merits censure or excommunication, it is Sarah Riccardi-Swartz & her blasphemous cohorts at Fordham OCSC. 2000 years of Holy Tradition, the unequivocal witness of the Scriptures and the Holy Fathers, militates against her garbage radical left-wing & pro-sodomy views.
@frevagoras
The Orthodox faith has been "once and for all delivered to the saints". It is based on Holy Tradition, which is not subject to any external dialectic or notion of "progress". Change occurs organically, based on the needs of the Church, not the encroachment of secular ideologies.
@Dryl82300568
He got hit with theft, arson as a hate crime, which is a felony, and aggravated harassment. They threw the kitchen sink at him. No plea deal. These prosecutors are pure evil.
I guess the Muslims setting fire to these churches in France never got the message from the Vatican about how Catholics and Muslims worship the same God.
Liberal "Orthodox" academics and journalists be like
"Muh authoritarian far-right heteronormative racist misogynist forced birth extremists are ruining the Orthodox Church! Read this article! Arghhhh!"
@Rach4Patriarchy
I don't understand this obsession with equally apportioning dishwashing duties. How difficult is it to do the dishes in the age of automatic dishwashers? If any woman ever demanded I wash dishes, I would naturally assume she was trying to antagonize me.
Does anyone remember this peach of a lady? She punked a bunch of babushkas and young converts by infiltrating a ROCOR church and pretending to be a parishioner to surreptitiously gather intel for a Fordham-backed hit piece on traditional Russian Orthodoxy. So brave, so brilliant
How ironic in light of the scathing critiques by Riccardi-Swartz & company, that they themselves are converts who are actually engaged in the very subversion of the Orthodox faith which they identify in their work with the alleged nefarious activity of converts. Projection much?
Dear Taylor Marshall,
Pope Francis hates you and all trad Catholics and wants you gone. The malicious targeting of Archbishop Vigano for excommunication was just the beginning.
You can still embrace the fullness of Holy Tradition by becoming Orthodox Christian.
Thank you.
Commenting in early 1982, Fr. Seraphim Rose characterized the culture of his time as "demonic" and "weird".
Just imagine what he would have thought of today's popular culture, compared to which the music, TV shows, and entertainment of 40 yrs ago might be considered wholesome.
Attention everyone: My convictions no longer align with being a Greek from Queens. I now identify as an 18th century French aristocrat. I am not going to go into details but I want to be clear going forward regarding my use of a powdered wig and snuff box. Thanks and God Bless.
I want to make something clear. My convictions no longer align with Orthodoxy. I identify now with Anglicanism. I am not going to go into details but I want to clear up any uncertainties. I won’t be offended if some of you unfollow me or block me. God bless. ✝️
@frevagoras
Yes, they are "a good thing." And not just according to D Dawg. A number of of them have been glorified as saints in the Orthodox Church. Unlike the current leadership we have in the West, these Emperor-saints were not pansies, pedophiles, venal opportunists, and corrupt crooks.
According to the Holy Fathers and many saints, Judaism is a satanic false religion which will pave the way for the religion of the Antichrist.
Orthodox Christians who attempt to suppress these crucial facts are the real problem, not "anti-Judaism in Orthodox Hymnography."
@MichaelGirdon
You're clearly not aware of some important details pertaining to this story. This isn't about demonizing someone's past. But how charitable of you to assume that my motives are purely malicious. Your precious, prolific display of piety on Twitter dot com melts my stony heart.
Your goal is clearly to create a dialogue to facilitate the rise of female deacons and priests in the Orthodox Church. But that is never going to happen. So it would probably be best for those who think like you to betake their woke selves back to their former Protestant sects.
@jenadams90
I honestly don't think we'll see female deacons anytime soon, but the misogyny is why I keep studying and talking about this. Our tradition is better than right vs left. It is rich and whole. If your theology isn't big enough for the whole history, it's not big enough.
Climate Change" is a fake, left-wing secular pseudo-religion and John Podesta is a pedophile.
Elpidophoros, you are a traitor to your people and to the Holy Orthodox Church.
@frevagoras
@Elpidophoros
This violates the canon against praying with heretics. I only bring it up since I know you are such a stickler for strict conformity to the canons.
So apparently, this fanatical left-wing pro-LGBTQ Joe Biden supporter is the person behind the GOARCH accounts on X which have been aggressively blocking everyone, including the notorious Elpidophoros account. His X feed is a case study in the mental disorder that is liberalism.
If you have a problem with Br. Nathaniel, then take it up with his bishop. Whether you agree or disagree, stop with the malicious scuttlebutt. You all adored the foot prostitute running game in a church, but Br. Nathaniel is this huge menace who needs to be dealt with? Hypocrites
Things Orthodox Christians should not worry about:
*Donald Trump being president
*Spreading Democracy around the world
*The national identity of Ukrainians
*Fighting for "woke" social justice causes
*Supporting the demographic decline of white people.
*Promoting gun control.
@OrthodoxHistory
I wipe my butt with with this ideologically inspired statement full of neo-Marxist shibboleths.
These bishops need to repent for allowing themselves to be made instruments of secular leftists who despise the Church, and who slyly peddle their antichrist agenda as "anti-hate".
@frevagoras
It's some special view of history you have where our norms as a Church are defined by the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the rise of Liberalism over the past 200 years. Orthodoxy is 2000+ years old. It's life is not circumscribed by the imperatives of the "dernier cri"
Remember kids: Arguing that Orthodox Christianity is "eastern" and therefore "not my culture" is essentially the first step in the process of becoming an apostate, and possibly even cringe pagan larper.
No. The origin story of Orthodoxy is Holy Pentecost, the rise of Roman-Hellenic Christianity, and the Imperial Ecumenical Councils. Whereas the origin story of papism is the fall of Old Rome, the absorption of the Papacy by the Frankish Kingdom, & the invention of papal autocracy
@realpeteyb123
One of the most prominent members of the Fordham cabal, George Demacopoulos, recently created a controversy at St. Paraskevi in Greenlawn, NY by starting an LGBTQ+ ministry at the Church. He's also head of the Sunday School there.
As someone who spent five years as a Vedantin, was initiated in India in a traditional ashram, had a guru and a consistent mantra & meditation practice, I have one thing to say: Indian gods are demons.
I am inherently suspicious of anyone who is grotesquely obese. If a person can't manage to cultivate sufficient temperance to prevent themself from becoming a formless unkempt blob, what are the chances that they have resisted all their other passions?
@Jay_D007
The Orthodox teaching that the God of the Old Testament is the Holy Trinity is evident in one of the most common icons found in Orthodox Churches everywhere, The Hospitality of Abraham.
@Jay_D007
"Thaddeus" is an utter fraud who should be avoided by all those inquiring into the Orthodox faith.
And for the piety parade on here attacking you for saying this: It's never immoral to point out and warn believers against a source of deception and spiritual harm.
@stphoebecenter
"St. Phoebe Center" has nothing whatsoever to do with St. Phoebe and is an instrument of Satan being used to attack and subvert the Orthodox Church. Anathema.
The demon called George Demacopoulos, with the cooperation of Fr. John Vlahos, is now using St. Paraskevi GOC in Greenlawn, NY as a springboard to push the LGBTQ agenda in GOARCH parishes.
Make your voice heard:
Rev. Fr. John Vlahos – frjohn
@stparaskevi
.org
(631) 261-7272
It needs to be pointed out that 99.9% of actual Greeks (as opposed to snotty 3rd generation American Greeks, half-breeds, and non-Greek spouses of half breeds who converted to get married) have ZERO problems with the liturgical passages mentioning Jews in the Holy Week Services.
We don't have "development of doctrine" in the Orthodox Church. That is a papist conception. The Orthodox follow Apostolic Tradition. We should strive to grow in faith and in the likeness of Christ, not conformity with the ideological imperatives of cultural Marxism.