This is a fun one. The Lord of Spirits: Yesterday, Today & Forever Starting from: 00:00:00 Episode webpage:

Yesterday, Today & Forever | Ancient Faith Ministries

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Incredible listen Counterflow with Buck Johnson: Ep. 396 - Powers & Principalities: The Unseen War Against the Church, with Fr Turbo Starting from: 00:00:00 Episode webpage:

Counterflow with Buck Johnson: Ep. 396 - Powers & Principalities: The Unseen War Against the Church, with Fr Turbo

In this episode, Buck sits down with Father Turbo Qualls for a wide-ranging and sobering conversation about spiritual warfare, ecumenism, and the m...

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Theophany in Romania ☦️

Saint Paisios used to say: “If psychological books did not exist, we would have fewer suicides.” Be careful—psychological books have caused great harm; do not read them. People read these books and fall into despair, because behind Freud, Jung, and all of them are hidden evil spirits (demons), since they were occultists and cooperated with magicians. And the evil spirit is a murderer of humans. It wants to push a person toward suicide. Many who read them condemn themselves. *Hieromonk Savvas Agioritis (Homily, 9–03–2016)*

“I am firmly convinced that the Reformation of the sixteenth century was as near as any mortal thing can come to unmixed evil. Even the parts of it that might appear plausible and enlightened from a purely secular standpoint have turned out rotten and reactionary, also from a purely secular standpoint. By substituting the Bible for the sacrament, it created a pedantic caste of those who could read, superstitiously identified with those who could think. By destroying the monks, it took social work from the poor philanthropists who chose to deny themselves, and gave it to the rich philanthropists who chose to assert themselves. By preaching individualism while preserving inequality, it produced modern capitalism. It destroyed the only league of nations that ever had a chance. It produced the worst wars of nations that ever existed. It produced the most efficient form of Protestantism, which is Prussia. And it is producing the worst part of paganism, which is slavery.” - G.K. Chesterton

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Blessed feast of The Theophany of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! When Thou, O Lord, wast baptized in the Jordan, worship of the Trinity wast made manifest; for the voice of the Father bore witness to Thee, calling Thee His beloved Son. And the Spirit in the likeness of a dove confirmed the truth of His word. O Christ our God, Who hast appeared and enlightened the world, glory to Thee. ☦️

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"Why did the Protestant Reformers abandon the Greek Septuagint for a rabbinic textual tradition?"

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Friendly reminder: 12 days of Christmas starts now. Next stop, Theophany!

From the perspective of the Theotokos, the Nativity shines as the mystery in which she offers her full and fearless obedience to God, not as a rival to Christ but as the one who freely receives Him in her flesh and becomes the living gateway of our salvation. In her womb, the Creator fashions for Himself a human nature taken wholly from her, and she bears Him in love while confessing, with deep humility, that the child she nurses is the One through whom all things came to be. Saint Gregory Palamas speaks of her as the boundary between the created and the uncreated, because in her person the human will responds without reserve to divine grace and makes possible the coming of the Word in the flesh (Gregory Palamas, Homily on the Entry of the Theotokos). Her motherhood never diminishes Christ but proclaims His full divinity and full humanity, since He receives from her what He does not possess eternally — our mortal life — while bestowing upon her, and through her upon us, the pledge of glorification. In the Feast of the Nativity, the Church honours her not as the source of salvation, but as the one who consents to become its vessel, and whose joyful assent echoes in every heart that dares to say yes to God.