Everything you've ever wanted to know about Ecumenism but were afraid to ask your priest
"EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT ECUMENISM BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK YOUR PRIEST." An in-depth round-table discussion about this controversial subject. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYyUWTPpMXU
Fr. Pavlos Stratigeas offers a few words on the Holy and Salvific Mystery of Theophany, and an exegesis of the meaning and importance of preserving Orthodox Christian ethnic culture and tradition, and the purpose of a man's life.
This program is in GREEK and was cablecast in NYC on January 21 (n.s.), 1992.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-XtUH1yDkQ
Lyrics:
My mother told me
Someday I would buy
Galleys with good oars
Sails to distant shores
Stand up on the prow
Noble barque I steer
Steady course to the haven
Hew many foe-men
Hew many foe-men
We are all familiar with the fierce pagan warriors that burst out of Scandinavia during the eighth century, the fierce pagan warriors, worshippers of northern gods such as Odin and Thor, burners of coastal settlements, taking men and women as slaves, trashing Christian monasteries, and sacrificing victims in the terrible rite of the ‘Blood Eagle’. However, lesser-known fact about these infamous pillagers is that the majority converted to Christianity in the centuries that followed.
The raids of these pagan warriors spread terror from Ireland to Russia, from France to North Africa, in the ninth and tenth centuries. They were the first Europeans to settle, albeit unsuccessfully, in North America. In most of these places their northern beliefs were noted by those who suffered their attacks. Christian contemporaries of the Viking raids in the British Isles often simply referred to them as “the pagans” and “the heathens”. Islamic writers, who recorded their attacks on Muslim Spain, described them as “fire-worshippers and pagans” and stated, “may Allah curse them”. So, the image of Vikings as marauding pagans was well established – then as now.
So we examine their settlements in Britain, Ireland, Normandy, Russia, the Northern and Western Isles, Iceland, Greenland and even North America. In most of these places, conversion to Christianity occurred within one generation. In England, the children of Vikings who had martyred King Edmund of East Anglia minted coins celebrating Saint Edmund; in Ireland, Christian Scandinavians fought on both sides at the battle of Clontarf in 1014; in the East, they rapidly converted to Orthodox Christianity and founded the first Russian state, based in Kiev; in Normandy, they became enthusiastic supporters of the heretical Frankish 'Papist' Church. It took longer to happen in Iceland, but even there it had occurred by the year 1000.
In conclusion, Before the Vikings left the world stage, they had a great influence on Orthodox Christianity. The first prince of what would become the Russian civilization, was Saint Vladimir of Kievan-Rus. At the center of Christendom, the Imperial City of Constantinople-New Rome, the elite Varangian Guard (the personal security of the Roman Emperor) was always composed of Vikings. The most famous captain of the Varangian Guard was King Harold Hardrada who died in 1066 in England.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS8COIcJP6E
Metropolitan Pavlos presides at Theophany services at the harbor of NYC. Dozens of men dive into the icy waters to retrieve the Holy Cross. This is PART 1.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iogGm91WM8k
Fr. Pavlos Stratigeas and Athanasios Sakarellos discuss the issue of the Greek War of Independence and what its legacy in Post-Revolution Hellenic Orthodox identity. This program is in Greek with English subtitles.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z-HIO0cVng
Metropolitan Pavlos of the Holy Metropolis of America leads the people in the blessing of the great city's harbor.
The temperature was so frigid that day that the river froze over. The ice floe kept our men from diving in to retrieve the Holy Cross.
It was a blessed day, never-the-less.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyNM2DALh-A
The video in this program was recorded on the Feast Day
of St Markella of Chios in 1992 as it was celebrated at
the Cathedral named in her honor in Astoria, NY. The footage is raw camera original,
and is completely unedited. It includes both Vespers and Divine Liturgy.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6FFpZbPT6g
An in-depth round-table discussion about the theological essay titled, "The Cure of the Neurobiological Sickness of Religion.". Although we acknowledge the Orthodoxy of this excellent essay and other of his great contributions we do not endorse the author John Romanides - a clergyman who officially represented Ecumenist jurisdictions at the syncretistic World Council of Churches, and even signed the infamous “Chambésy Statement”. He authored articles openly calling 'Orthodox' those whom the Church has anathematized as heretics. We reject any un-Orthodox actions and statements of his, and while a certain essay of his is examined in this program, we do not endorse all his writings, ideals, or actions in toto.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3oLTNZSWnc
A multi-part history of Chios, the holiest island on Earth, drenched in the blood of martyrs. This is a series produced by GOCTV. This is the seventh of nine in the series. This is Part Seven (7).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPagB8oltVY