Ask An Orthodox Priest #10 - Baptizing Infants, Pagan Holidays, PURGATORY? Apparitions of Mary?

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  @danielbeardsley7846 · 2 years ago

  Regarding habitual sins, I love what St Porphyrios says. Don't fight evil, let evil be. Open the window of your heart and let the light come in, and that will drive out the darkness.

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• MA

  @MaximuzTheConfessor · 2 years ago

  Listening to these kind of videos from orthodox priests/bishops is my absolute favorite thing today.<br>It feels like i&apos;v been robbed of orthodoxy from birth to like 5months ago.

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• HA

  @Hamilton8949 · 10 months ago

  Spent my entire life as Protestant Pentecostal, I turned my back on God for 6 years when I turned 18. Ever since I came back to God, I’ve felt lacking. Like something is missing. I’ve recently came across Orthodoxy, and I’m excited! I’m cautious, but it’s so refreshing studying and investigating the way I am with Orthodoxy. Pray for guidance for me, that I may lead my household in the right direction.

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• EL

  @eleniminas7742 · 2 years ago (edited)

  In 🇬🇷 Greece we kiss others when we see them. We like hugs too. It&apos;s in our culture. Since we are an orthodox Christian nation we find it normal to embrace our brothers and sisters in Christ or any child of God even if it&apos;s not orthodox Christian or even Christian. It&apos;s a gesture of love for everyone. And as for icons ask your parents don&apos;t they have pictures of loved ones? It&apos;s the same, you don&apos;t worship the wood but the images that are depicted on them . Love from Greece 🇬🇷 and may God Jesus Christ of Nazareth bless you all ❤🎉❤(And we pray to Theotokos the Holy Mother for intersection to her Holy SON. We love our Holy Mother ❤)

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• MO

  @morningstoke · 10 months ago

  As a former Mormon who has been stumped by this, this video helped answer this &apos;mystery&apos; verse.<br><br>Thank you brother ☦️

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• HU

  @huntermunro5003 · 2 years ago

  Mountain of Silence really blew my mind. A young Father at a Greek parish gave me a copy and it truly opened up the door to a whole new Christianity I thought died a long time ago. Fr Paul’s critique of it is spot on! <br><br>Also, Fr Paul did a video with an inquisitive Protestant several years ago which helped introduce me to the faith. Very good video to watch! Now am an Orthodox Christian, recently received this January! <br><br>Glory to Jesus Christ! ☦️

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• TH

  @TheGodSchema · 2 years ago

  I just looked at this book, it&apos;s exactly what I need. The road from Baptist to Orthodoxy has been exhausting to say the least.

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• SL

  @slane_design · 3 months ago

  This is so helpful. Thank you

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• TH

  @thaddeusthought · 2 years ago

  Another phenomenal video from Fr Paul! He&apos;s been extremely influential in my Orthodox Coaching/Therapy practice and my own YouTube channel.

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  @Anonymoose-2750 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I say this as a crypto-protestant who has attended various Orthodox churches regularly for decades, and raised my children as true members of the Orthodox Church, people, including some clergy, get entirely to hung up on the holiday thing and I think Father Truebenbach is a voice of moderation on this. &nbsp;<br><br>I find a lot of people, both secular and not, have an extremely hard time separating secular terms from religious terms and overly focus on labels. &nbsp;You can have two effective different holidays on the same day with the same name. &nbsp;It&apos;s also an advantage I find in the ROCOR church in that because of the Julian calendar you can get two Christmases, two Easters, etc. and I&apos;ve always made it clear to my children &quot;this is secular Easter&quot; for example and this is &quot;religious Easter&quot; and it&apos;s not a big deal in the same way children of divorced parents can have two dads and two moms or children raised by homosexuals can have &quot;two moms&quot; or &quot;two dads&quot;; I don&apos;t say that as a commentary on homosexuality or step parents but more on the ability of children to &nbsp;have no problem accepting the same term for two different things, they can honor both while understanding they are different. &nbsp;<br><br>Something a friar said once to me I think people have a hard time internalizing is &quot;Satan has no power over God hence nothing holy can be made unholy&quot;. &nbsp;Your children participating in secular Christmas doesn&apos;t impinge upon the miracle of Jesus&apos;s birth and to assume otherwise is hubris on your part likewise the sin of pride in rejecting secular holidays.

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• TH

  @thekhan517 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Thank you for this video. I believe there is wisdom and truth in his words. God bless.

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• NA

  @NavelOrangeGazer · 2 years ago

  &quot;Know the Faith&quot; is excellent my priest pretty much hands out copies to inqurers/catechumen if they would like one.

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