CZECH REPUBLIC: ORTHODOX CHURCH BECOMES SECOND LARGEST CONFESSION IN THE COUNTRY

[Victor]

Orthodox church is not a church that practices marketing and promotion unlike the universal church - case in point is Mt Athos having a symbolic cross facing the Aegean sea that symbolises keeping the modern world out as it considers degenerate.

Love man has taken a creepy twist in the modern world where love is replaced with lust. This sort of thing doesn't align with Orthodoxy... its extremely anti marketing and promotion.

Those that have deep spiritual feelings will find Orthodoxy not the other way around. Thats the way it has always been.

This thread is cringe and is against Orthodox ideals

Depends on what do you consider to be "promotion". I hope you don't think that mission between non-Orthodox (one of main goals of Church's eartlhy existance) is this "promotion". It would sound like only "chosen ones" "Orthodox nations" need salvation, while Muslims, pagans and heretics do not need the word of Truth.

[Aila]

Not a member of the Orthodox Church here, even though ancestors were.
May I ask, what do you think of Jordan Peterson’s take on Orthodox Christianity?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G3MsDh2ci8

Personally, I love Father Michael’s (a Russian Orthodox priest of German and Ukrainian origins) stories.
A rather long video, but leaving the link here in case somebody is interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivp5B1ky9Gg

[catgeorge]

Depends on what do you consider to be "promotion". I hope you don't think that mission between non-Orthodox (one of main goals of Church's eartlhy existance) is this "promotion". It would sound like only "chosen ones" "Orthodox nations" need salvation, while Muslims, pagans and heretics do not need the word of Truth.

If people seek the oldest, natural un edited and un prostituted scriptures from the apostles then Orthodoxy is the only answer without fulfilling an agenda typically material advantages in some looney sects. If people seek the ancient truth then there is only one path its not something that should be promoted. Let people believe what they want to believe. Blind has been leading the blind since 1054 and thats their choice.

[Victor]

If people seek the oldest, natural un edited and un prostituted scriptures from the apostles then Orthodoxy is the only answer without fulfilling an agenda typically material advantages in some looney sects. If people seek the ancient truth then there is only one path its not something that should be promoted. Let people believe what they want to believe. Blind has been leading the blind since 1054 and thats their choice.

Mission is just needed for it. To bring the word of Truth to those who don't know it, then they may choose to accept it or not. No matter, European atheists or African pagans.

[catgeorge]

Mission is just needed for it. To bring the word of Truth to those who don't know it, then they may choose to accept it or not. No matter, European atheists or African pagans.

Maybe - in Africa there are real Orthodox believers the people living in Alexandria pre Christian times influenced the area. Pretyy much how Orthodox Syrians are today they wouldnt change at gun point despite all the harshness they have faced. They are the influencers we have nothing to do with that jurisdiction - people with half decent IQ will see the truth

[Dušan]

We don't have separated saints veneration in Orthodox Church. For example, here in Russia we celebrate not just Russian, but Georgian, Serbian, Romanian, Greek saints and all possible saints of the past. Just like st.Patrick or "croatian" St.Duje (Domn) for example. Rejecting the saints for political or ethnic reason is a big sin for an Orthodox Christian. It means if there will be ever a canonical Croatian Church, it will normally honor all the saints from Serbian st.Sava to Russian tsar-martyr Nicholas. You don't have to celebrate Krsna Slava as a must to be a member of Church aswell. That's regional tradition, not more than it.

Why do you take effort to explain Orthodox Christianity to the Croat?
Don’t throw your pearls to a pig because a pig is too dumb to understand what a pearl is worth.

[Peterski]

Is it because of Ukrainian immigration?

[Aila]

Whilst talking about the Orthodox Saints ….

I was positively surprised and really taken by (the stories) of Alaskan Saints:
https://scontent-syd2-1.xx.fbcdn.net...ew&oe=62389F34

After all the first missionaries came from Valamo, a sacred site for us since time immemorial.
Sacred before and also after the Orthodox Church established there.

By the end of her reign, Catherine the Great concluded that action was needed to improve the religious situation in Russia's eastern colony. At her direction, in 1794, the Valaam monastery north of St. Petersburg sent ten monks and novices to Alaska to begin serious missionary work. The center of their efforts was Kodiak Island, the first capital of Russian America and the center of Grigorii Shelikhov's profitable fur-trading operations. The most famous of the Valaam missionaries, St. Herman, played an enormous role in establishing a presence for the church in both the local Russian and native societies.