How God makes Contagious Objects Harmless

By: St. John of Kronstadt 

The following divinely-inspired words of wisdom from St. John of Kronstadt bear witness to the devout stance of pious and God-loving Christians who have remained steadfast in defending the Holy Things that have been slandered by the ecclesiastical rationalists of our day for the past two years. As we see from these teachings, it would be utterly inconceivable in the mind of St. John to imagine the possibility that Holy Things can be conduits of dangerous contagions (i.e., Covid-19).

Fr. Ioannis Drongitis on Covidism

  

Interview in Four Parts

If you are in Fr. Demetrios Carellas’ email group, you will have noticed a four-part presentation of interviews by Fr. Ioannis Drongitis from October 3^rd to October 7^th. These reveal, to the English-speaking world, this priest who was not known before but we now hear boldly and “as one having authority” (cf. Matthew 7:29) confessing the truth of the spiritual matters on which many bishops and priests remain absent, even though this is the definitive spiritual battle of these days. Below you will read comments from those emails from Papa Demetri that introduces each part of the interview and then the transcript from the interview. At the end of the article, we offer you a small biography about Fr. Ioannis. To receive the spiritual nourishment of Papa Demetri’s daily emails, subscribe here.

BIOGRAPHY: Fr. John Drongitis draws his descent from the village of Banato on Zakynthos Island, Greece. As of 2010, he is the rector of the small chapel of St. Demetrius in Plaka, Athens (near the Acropolis), where he serves the Divine Liturgy every morning at dawn. He is the spiritual father of the women’s monastery of Sts. Theodores, Aroania, Greece. He was one of eight priests who, in 2014, sent a letter to the archbishop of Athens regarding the “pride parades” and proposed an Orthodox response including special vigils, prayer, catechism, and the preaching of repentance. Fr. Ioannis is a married priest.

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The Orthodox Ethos Podcast

Letter from An Orthodox Mom

Regarding the Response of the Hierarchy and Clergy to the Coronavirus Crisis 
I am an Orthodox mother. I have been Orthodox for the last 30 years and my husband is cradle Orthodox, born and raised in the OCA. We have four children here, and one in Heaven.

In the last three months, I have not heard one bishop, or directive from a bishop, speak about our children. Not one. The ONLY reference to children has been that if they cannot distance themselves properly, they will need to remain home.

To our beloved Hierarchs and Clergy of the Orthodox Churches of America and everywhere

From Your Parishioners

May 31, 2020 – Sunday of the Holy Fathers

To our beloved Hierarchs and Clergy of the Orthodox Churches of America and everywhere:

In May of 1848, The Eastern Patriarchs wrote a profound encyclical to the Pope in response to his flawed papal primacy claims. Toward the end of this most significant and profound work, the holy Patriarchs relayed to the Pope that, unlike the totalitarian mode of governance in his church, in Orthodoxy “neither Patriarchs nor Councils could then have introduced novelties amongst us, because the protector of religion is the very body of the Church, even the people themselves, who desire their religious worship to be ever unchanged and of the same kind as that of their fathers.”