The Orthodox Church on Climate Change

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The Face of God is a film about God and nature, faith and climate change, the experience of Orthodox communities around the world facing and experiencing changes in their lives now; this is a film about beauty, ecology, theology, sanctity, our relationship to the natural world, love, asceticism, and always it is about the radiant living icon of the face of God in creation.

The Face of God:


Coming from hunter-gatherer mentality/spirituality, this video is why ancestors respected the old Orthodox Church.

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Cross-cultural communication:

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Tsasouna (Prayer Room) @ Haukiniemi, Finland:



It’s Patron Saint Seraphim of Sarov:
https://orthodoxwiki.org/Seraphim_of_Sarov

St. Seraphim then began to withdraw into his "farther hermitage"—the forest wilderness about five km from Sarov Monastery. He achieved great perfection at this time. Wild animals—bears, rabbits, wolves, foxes and others—came to the hut of the ascetic. The staritsa, i.e., eldress, of the Diveevo monastery, Matrona Plescheeva, witnessed how St. Seraphim fed a bear that had come to him out of his hand"

Does Seraphim of Sarov in Russia now mean the Patron Saint of nuclear weapons?
https://www.oca.org/reflections/fr.-...-saint-of-what