Brother Augustine

This will be my final Telegram post. Thank you for everything 🙏🏻 https://youtu.be/NDRw4I10sO0?si=qYJ6k-iVNAQReq-z

"Where the experience of the Spirit in the Church and in the faithful grows weak, there appears a Church which is predominantly juridical and institutional, or a religious life characterized by an exaggerated individualism. It is not because the presence of Christ apart from the Spirit produces these phenomena - as some Western theologians and even some Orthodox authors hold - for Christ does not in fact abide in the Church and in the faithful apart from the Spirit. Rather it is because He is conceived either as a remote figure Who has left behind a vicar to guide the Church (Catholicism), or else as the One Who allows each believer to guide himself according to the reasonings of his own conscience (Protestantism)." Fr. Dumitru Staniloae

I repent for any and all instances of my using the phrase “Pseudo-Dionysius” in previous posts and videos. This book by @ScriptoriumP completely exposes the sham of modern academia’s take on the authenticity of the Dionysian corpus. Holy St. Dionysius, forgive me and pray for us sinners.

This channel will be deleted when Lent begins. Thank you all for the participation and conversations. I will still be reachable on Telegram and via email 🙏🏻

When Lent begins I will delete this Telegram channel. I appreciate everyone's presence, contributions, and discussion in the Chat. I will still be reachable on Telegram and on other platforms. Have a blessed weekend.

"The heretics mutually lacerate each other by turns, when they lead one another into their own proper sects; nevertheless, each of them bands together with each other, so that they might contend against the Church by the same spirit of error, and those who are divided among themselves are united at the same time in opposition to the Church." + St. Isidore of Seville (Sententiae, 1.16.10a)

“Nobody has ever expressed himself well enough to be understood by everybody on everything.” + St. Augustine

“To the extent that one is able to understand the things of above that he ought to desire, to that extent he ought to mourn more intensely because of the lower things he clings to." + St. Isidore of Seville (Sentences, 3.20.2)

Gnosticism never recovered from this. https://www.youtube.com/live/mVZT_t6SpuI?si=VHQPQzSLLAcjVx_A

I will be live on Ancient Faith Radio in 30 minutes. See you there 🙏🏻

Tomorrow evening, at 7pm Eastern, I will be on the Ancient Faith show “Everyday Orthodox” to discuss my journey through Judaism and Freemasonry before finding the Orthodox Church.

The “Bedfordshire Freemasons” site tells the following story: “On July 20, 1969, two American Astronauts landed on the moon in an area known as the “Sea of Tranquility”. One of those brave men was Brother Edwin Eugene (Buzz) Aldrin, Jr., a member of Clear Lake Lodge No. 1417,  Texas. Brother Buzz was authorised by the Grand Master of Texas to claim Masonic Territorial Jurisdiction for Grand Lodge of Texas on The Moon. Buzz Aldrin conducted the consecration of the first Masonic Lodge on the Moon, thus securing the right to open a branch – the Grand Provincial Moon Lodge. The landing of the lunar module had been made in the sea of Tranquility, therefore the new lodge had received the name Tranquility Lodge and got the number 2000. The astronauts did not doubt that by 2000 there would be a permanent lunar base and it would be no harder to get there than to fly from San Francisco to Boston. It would only be a transfer point on the way to Mars or the rings of Saturn. Given how many Freemasons there were in NASA’s astronaut squad, it was quite logical to open a special lodge for them.” Does this make you more or less likely to believe we went there?

St. Isidore on friendship 🙏🏻

One argument Ancient Faith failed to make - but I think would have been powerful and effective - is that if the motivation of those pushing for a female diaconate were truly to “restore” something traditional, then we should see them pushing this same impulse in other ways. For example, if someone were genuinely upset about the way things have changed - and wanted to “restore” a female diaconate as part of a correction - then we should likewise see them promoting concepts like monarchy, traditional roles in the workplace, sex segregation in every area of life, and other notions which were present for the entire period from which they claim to want to “restore” something. Instead, Carrie Frost - the spearhead of the push for the female diaconate - wants us to remove “antisemitic language” from our Paschal services. This alone should be a clue that “restoring” traditional Orthodoxy is not their true goal, as they aren’t lifting a finger to maintain or “restore” any other “tradition.” It’s a naked power grab disguised as the precise opposite of what it is: a feminist agenda to undermine traditional Orthodox roles.