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Well you certainly have the beard for it.. im converting from nihilism.

You still in Scotland? Am scottish

Hi Austin. This is beautiful! I am Catholic and am wanting to do an icon corner. Yours is beautiful! Would you put the Etsy links for the items in the description? Also, I would love to see more videos especially since I am learning: 1. I’d definitely like to see how to properly light everything! Those wicks, the oil lamp, the incense. 2. Also, how do you use your corner? You mention you pray in the morning and night. Could you do a morning and night routine? 3. Also, it be interesting to see how you do things differently in an orthodox home versus before because of your faith. 4. What do the holidays look like in an orthodox home? Do you do a Christmas tree? Do you celebrate on the 25th? Do you fast or feast during Advent? I have many more ideas of things I’d love to know! I pray Our Lord will bless you and make your channel very fruitful for Him. It is not often you see a man leading his family in the faith.

Congrats, You choose the right way

Very well done. Love your prayer corner. Your testimony was one I watched when I was first looking into Orthodoxy. You were one of the people that inspired me. Now I have become a catechumen at St Hermans. The journey continues..👍🏽❤️‍🩹

Hello brother I was Protestant Evangelical and now I'm Orthodox ☦️ God bless you brother 🙏🙌🕊️☦️❤️

Thanks for showing us! Glory to god! What is the name of the song in the video in the beginning.

I really love this. I'm considering converting into the local Greek orthodox church myself. Thanks for making a video!

My family is Eastern Byzantine Catholic, but i want to create an icon corner like this. But im Catholic so i dont think i can make one like this

Alright! You look ready.

Another one fell for the rhetorical trick of the word “Orthodox” in the word. Where in the Bible do you see Jesus commanding us to pray to saints, asking them to pray for us? Does he not teach us that we can pray to our Father, who art in heaven? I know, some EO’s explain this with “when we sin, we yet again break our relationship with God, and so we need a saint to reopen the line”. No. When the prayer says “forgive us our trespasses” - it implies that we can come to him even when we have sinned. Sure there are issues in Protestant circles, and I hope you focus on Christ even in the EO church. But our God is a jealous God, and he wants your prayer and worship… not you praying to someone, in the hopes they might call him for you.

I hope you gibe up tobacco brother, I quit almost 8 years ago after many years of smoking through repentance. I had the help of some practical things like patches and an inhaler which helped get me off smoking. I'm so happy I quit. Be aware that even after you get clean there may comes times to give in.

This has been really inspiring! Thank you for sharing, I hope to see more content from you!

This was a really good reflection, brother. It’s incredible to see how Holy Orthodoxy opens our souls and minds to the reality of this world, our existence, of history, the current reality, and ultimately to the Triune God. Christ is Truth. IC XC NIKA ☦️☦️☦️

Glory to God!

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Consider moving to Russia

I’m from Scotland, one of my friends in church that is also a convert his Baptismal name is Columba but he goes by Callum, our church is named St Kessog’s after the first Scottish martyr. Are you still here? ☦️

Me too I’m a Catechumen

What a lovely, peaceful prayer corner.

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Great video 😀 Loved the ending.

I used to be a pentacostal legally still am but im actually now converting to Catholicism cause i was convinced it was the truth really hope orthodox and Catholicism can reunite

Acts17:11 Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Though the Orthodox Church looks similar to the Roman Church, at least the Orthodox Church does not have purgatory, indulgences, required presence at Mass under pain of hell, and all kinds of legalistic beliefs that bind the freedom of a believer.

Thank you my brother in Christ. Im looking deeply into the Orthodox Church. You explained things very well.

We also just left protestant for Holy Orthodoxy. Praise God for His keeping His word and upholding His church! I pray all are drawn to the true church. God be with you. ❤

Welcome my brother, I’m too in the process to convert into Orthodoxy God Bless

Thank you for sharing your entry to the true church. I was baptized Orthodox this past Pascha and my journey aligned a lot with your realizations and understandings.

The Viking attack was probably a retaliation because they saw what Charlemagne was doing to the Saxons ala Verdunn/Irminsul.

Congratulations proud of you brother

All praise and glory to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ of Nazareth good Lord protect the Orthodox Church in your name Lord Jesus son of god have mercy on us sinners 🙌☦️

My gosh, the brainwashed Orthodox regarding history is near unforgivable

Glory to God my Orthodox brother, and may the Holy Spirit guide us.

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This is awesome ! Thank you brother for sharing ☦️

One schismatic group to another. Changing places, but not solving your problem.

Glory to God! ☦️❤️

A good story, and one I hear repeated so often by those outside the church. Among the agnostics and atheists, the top critique on their very long list is that christians can't even make up their own minds, pointing to the many denominations as proof of this. And the situation is worsened by the churches themselves always changing. I remember as a kid when the catholic nuns worked hand-in-glove with the feminists outside the church to demand they be allowed to not wear their traditional habits all the time. I remember how that struck me hard, seeing the nuns betray their oaths, taking the side of outsiders against their very own, just to get out of doing something that they had agreed to when they signed up for the job. While a lot of people will say that "the lord works in mysterious ways", I think folks are quick to ignore the fact that the devil also works in mysterious ways. When the nuns sided with the outsiders, aligning with feminism over their vows to the catholic church, that drove away thousands of people who were on the fence, almost ready to join the church. Those people, myself amongst them, saw the betrayal for just that. And, as said in Mathew 12:25, "a house divided cannot stand," The devil got his way that day, to the detriment of all. As a blacksmith and student of the traditional trades, I have noticed this pattern repeating itself in countless iterations. Culture is the collection of a thousand little things that you do every day. It's the traditions you pass down, even if you don't understand them. It's the language and the foods. It's the works of your hands. And there's nothing the devil loves more than getting people to give up their Culture because he understands that those old ways, the reverence people show for their ancestors, also anchor the people and give them a sense of solidity that is contrary to the devil's purposes. If you are always changing, being "progressive" and open to new ideas, new ways, who even are you? If you are ever open to change, how can you grow closer to God who is unchanging? When you think about it, which side appears to benefit the most from constant change, where things are always unsure and fluctuating? Why that is so hard, though, is because it means you have to make very tough calls that aren't going to be fun or popular. We have to remember that there's truth to the saying that "the road to hell is paved with good intentions." This saying was created as a warning to people. It was to caution you to go slowly and really think about what you were proposing. It might seem like a good idea in the moment, but if you look down the road a bit and see where it's leading you, it might be wise to reconsider things no matter how much that appears harsh in the moment. Look around you and ask yourself how you can tell the average christian apart from the average communist atheist. They look the same, wear the same clothes, shop at the same stores, eat the same foods, read the same books, watch the same movies.... Aside from the Amish who work hard to set themselves apart and fight to maintain their culture, christians are indistinguishable from the very worst of their detractors. Until you talk to one and hear them espouse christian views, you'd have no idea that they were at all different from their devoted opposition. That's where culture, tradition, and heritage come into play, and why they are so important. Here, we can learn lessons from the Amish, jews and muslims. They might go about things differently, but they are holding to their ways and don't apologize for it. They might fight amongst themselves, but they don't hesitate to circle the wagons when there's even a hint of an attack from outsiders. In most of what was once Christendom, it is now illegal to even hint at criticizing jews, and there are people currently in prison for just that. That's how hard that tribe works to advance their agenda. But what have christians done? Where once Europe and America was a bulwark of christian ethics and thought, which many would credit for raising Europe up to the very apex of culture, now the lands are overrun by outsiders and non-believers. Christianity has collapsed, and the state of Christendom is not in a good place. How did this happen? Look through the history books and you'll see how time and time again, christians proved to be too tolerant, too quick to give up some small part of their local culture and heritage. They allowed outsiders inside their walls in the name of "being nice". They practiced Telescopic Philanthropy, engendering anger and resentment in the very people they were supposed to be helping. On and on it goes. It seems that at every turn, christianity succumbed to the Spirit of Judas rather than uphold the Spirit of Christ. When the Great Schism happened, I have no doubt that the devil's hand was at work there. Even the likes of Martin Luther seem to show this - his innate dissatisfaction with the catholic church causing him to seek out something new, some understanding that evaded him. Where he went wrong was in not returning to the original church. Rather, he compounded the problem, likely because he didn't even know of what happened with the Orthodox church, that it was still there and working, so he tried to come up with some way of making things make sense. And in so doing, he created more problems that would ripple out over the centuries to come. I think that's why so many have turned their backs on the church and christianity as a whole. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves, but it can't be christianity because people hunger for solidity and order, not "progress" and rules that seem to be always changing. I know that's been my experience. I can forge the iron and it will remain for a thousand years so long as it's cared for. And that same ironwork will be rotted to dust in a decade just as soon as you stop caring for it.

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Welcome to the church and God bless you and all of our Orthodox brothers and sisters

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The filioque controversy is simply something orthodox reject however they have really no reason to reject its historical consensus among the early church especially in second council of nicea the patriarch of Constantinople tarasios stated "I believe in one God the Father almighty, and in one Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God and our God, born of the Father timelessly and eternally, and in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and giver of Life, who proceeds from the Father through the Son and is acknowledged to be himself God, a consubstantial Trinity, sharing the same honor and throne, eternal, uncreated, the maker of all creatures, one rule, one Godhead and lordship, one kingship and power and authority in three hypostases. ⁃ The Acts Of The Second Council Of Nicaea, Sess. 3, Tarasios' Profession Of Faith (Richard Price, p. 211) tarasios obviously supports the filioque and the filioque model is *the holy spirit proceeds from the Father through the Son* or I prefe *the holy spirit proceeds from the Father Nad the son* now both are filioque and valid I'm happy for byzantine catholics using the first model but back to the topic tarasios obviously states a filioque model he supports and it's evident that even Eastern father's like Gregory of nyssa spoke about this exact modal now the problem is the orthodox church refuses to recognize this modal and states "To the same, who say that the Father is, through the Son, the cause of the Spirit, and who cannot conceive the Father as the cause of the hypostasis of the Spirit ⁃ giving it existence and being - except through the Son...we cut them off from the membership of the Orthodox, and we banish them from the flock of the Church of God." ⁃ Second Synod of Blachernae, Tomus, #3, 1285; Aristeides Papadakis, Crisis in Byzantium. now orthodox certainly can interpret the letter tarasios made as the announcement was only a relationship but regardless the relationship is still theological understanding and saying the procession that's unrecognizable to the model the orthodox use is honestly contradicting and self refuting they used accept the filioque model as tarasios

All Glory be to God+++ Welcome home+

7th ecumenical Council.

Brilliant. Just became catechumen. God Bless your journey!

Russia… the center of Orthodoxy? Meh… not sure I would have said that.

Prophesy tells us that many of the faithful will return to Israel during the end times... Israel means people of God, so when Christ perfected the Old Covenant and created the new, the Church became the New Israel... and everyone is returning to Israel... I don't know anyone moving to the country... but they are flying to Orthodoxy. Glory to God for all things.