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by ioannis
Fri 27 October 2006 9:18 pm
Forum: True Orthodox Christian Churches
Topic: Holiness...in graceless "World Orthodoxy" ?
Replies: 11
Views: 4640

Yes he should have joined the non-commemorators outside of the big monastries and I for one wouldnt venerate him just in case. For the record, I am pretty sure none of the monasteries on Mt. Athos commemorated the EP at this time. I don't think any of them did for until it was promised to them that...
by ioannis
Tue 24 October 2006 6:06 am
Forum: True Orthodox Christian Churches
Topic: Brother Nathaniel
Replies: 18
Views: 8518

Avoiding any comment on the subject, I just want to say that I have never understood the word "formation". If this word from the Latin lexicon means what I think it means, then I would just say our whole lives are our "formation". If "formation" is received like an inde...
by ioannis
Mon 23 October 2006 5:19 pm
Forum: Monasteries and the Monastic Life
Topic: Persecution of Mount Athos' Esphigmenou Monastery by the EP
Replies: 250
Views: 125750

Thank you Anastasios and Fr. Nicholai!

by ioannis
Fri 20 October 2006 7:14 pm
Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
Topic: New Innovations in Monophysite Icons!
Replies: 4
Views: 1788

I don't think I would disagree with you Anastasios, but I think you may have assumed to much about peoples reaction. This is kinda like those tacky electric votive candles. Certainly one can talk about this without having the words " "oh! heretic scandal!" attributed to them. There ar...
by ioannis
Thu 19 October 2006 3:27 pm
Forum: True Orthodox Christian Churches
Topic: New schism within the Florinites (Synod of Makarios )
Replies: 7
Views: 3900

Two metropolitans of this Synod, Niphon of Pireas and Arethas of Crete are separeted from this Synod. That is easy to say, but are we just expected to believe that, all of a sudden, their confession of faith changed?? Or could it be that their "synod" is just trying to give them stigmata ...
by ioannis
Wed 18 October 2006 7:15 pm
Forum: True Orthodox Christian Churches
Topic: Holiness...in graceless "World Orthodoxy" ?
Replies: 11
Views: 4640

What is your position regarding the "holy elders" of Roman Catholicism? Protestantism? Anglicanism? What do the Holy Fathers tell us of the holiness of schismatics and heretics? If your mother baked a wonderful chocolate cake and put frosting on it, and served it to you, and oh, by the way...
by ioannis
Tue 17 October 2006 8:56 pm
Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
Topic: Icons of Stalin- need urgent help.
Replies: 55
Views: 19693

...strangely I think George W. Bush would somehow appear more palatable than Anti-St. Stalin; on the other hand, I would prefer "St. Stalin" over an "icon" of Bartholomew: Stalin was just a murderer of the body and everyone (well, almost everyone) knows who he is, whereas Barthol...