When clear matters of the faith are blatantly assaulted, every sober-minded Orthodox Christian is called to stand up and make a courageous answer. There exists a pseudo-humility. This false idea turns humility and meekness into spinelessness and cowardice, in which a person is unable to address anything at all. All such a one can do
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A special July 4th message from Father Hans about the USA and it's critics on the left and the right. Fr. Hans Jacobse has been a priest in the Orthodox Church for over thirty years. He is a senior contributor and a spiritual advisor to Patristic Faith's team. He has a BA in History from the
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Fr Hans’ sermon on July 3, 2022 teaches on the establishment & founding of the Church. He breaks down its parts and its purpose. He then moves on to what the life of the Christian is and must be. Why we are in the Church, our purpose in it, and what we gain from it.
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How Big Foundation Money Is Subverting Traditional Christianity - There is a struggle within Christianity right now between those who want to retain its traditional moral and social teachings and those who seek to modernize and conform Christianity to the modern liberal democratic social order of the west. We saw this in Protestant churches immediately
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Clearly, True Christianity has doctrine, it has canons, it has good order, and so forth as the Scripture and Tradition instruct. Canons and doctrines are in place to protect and make evident the true revelation and encounter with Christ God. They, in and of themselves, do not guarantee that a true encounter with Christ is
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Recently, we received a text message from a woman, telling us that she had been getting telephone calls concerning Abbot Tryphon. She claimed there are people who saw the photo of me standing with a group of young men in the speakeasy museum in Butte, Montana, holding a rifle, while surrounded by “white supremacists”. She
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The Roman Catholic devotion of the Sacred Heart worship which was popularized in the 17th century has become one of the most popular devotions in the west, documents from the Vatican describing the theology behind the sacred heart worship such as Haurietis Aquas currently exist but have not received much of an analysis from the
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The goal of modern Ecumenism is global religious pseudo-unity; it is Anti-Church (Ecclesia), that is, it seeks to create a new “body” which will be perfectly disposed to receive a new “head.” (Note: I am using Ecumenism in its modern sense of blending, through a common system, all groups which claim to be Christian, and
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Upon entering an Orthodox Christian church one is immediately taken by the icons and frescoes that adorn the walls. These are not displays of Christian art but reminders that when we enter into our temples for worship, we are surrounded by “the unseen hosts of heaven” described in the holy scriptures. Icons act as windows
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It’s no secret that I like to visit monasteries. It took only three months from the time I accepted Lord Jesus Christ in my life to step foot in one. These visits have been so spiritually profitable to me that I recommend all those who believe in Christ to visit a monastery as soon as they
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How are we saved? What is the process by which God is saving us? Is it enough to agree with the historical reality of Christ's death and resurrection? To say, I believe this? Is it enough to say a certain formula of words or say a certain prayer? And that is it, we are saved.
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In an age when many people think truth is relative, the knowledge that there is such a thing as absolute truth, is comforting. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that we are able to embrace teachings that are a continuation of an unbroken line dating back to Apostolic times, is liberating. As Orthodox Christians,
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In times past, humanity was mindful of God. Sovereignty belongs to Him alone. Western civilization of olde was indisputably Christian. Inevitably it — civilization — was imperfect, there are no perfect institutions on earth. But it was governed by the mindset that there exist immutable realities, principles, that have their origin in God. And humanity is answerable
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We must guard against noticing when another parishioner seems careless in the making of the sign of the cross, while we go about demonstrating for all around us, the proper way. Making sweeping signs of the cross that are done in such a way as to be almost a caricature, following up with profound bows,
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The saints show us what a glorious destiny we have in God, and through the example of their lives, point the way to our becoming “partakers of divine nature.” The saints, as the cloud of witnesses in heaven, are present in the divine services, worshiping the Holy Trinity with us. They, as our friends, intercede
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