Due to anger and emotions, people have extreme reactions both to Covid-19 and how the Church should and has had responded. In this video, I offer what I hope is a reasonable response to the whole situation by reviewing the OCA-South’s letters on the topic and where I believe the content was unnecessarily divisive and misleading.
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Really? An hour and a half criticizing a venerable and much beloved OCA bishop, who is actually doing a great job in difficult times, from someone who “recently” converted to the faith (according to your bio). Lord have mercy.
I defended the OCA and then you use an ad hominem against me, father deacon. Is that appropriate?
Teodor, I don’t know how much you know about the OCA. Ironically, the whole jurisdiction is almost entirely converts. They are either outirght converts from Roman Catholicism or Protestantism or the descendents of Ruthenians (affectionately called “Lemkos”) who themselves were Uniates/Roman Catholics until the early 1900s where they were converted en masse by Saint Alexis Toth.
Now, I don’t find any of the preceding to be a slur because my own background is not ethinically Orthodox (until you go 500-1000 years ago because my father is Southern Italian and our DNA test showed significant Serbian and Greek blood, which is fairly typical of southern Italy.) However, I write this to point out the irony in Father Deacon’s ad hominem critique, as it is self-eviscerating.
It should be pointed out there are some ethnic Ukrainans, Russians, and other cradle Orthodox people in the OCA. My Godfather, himself a Deacon and from a lineage of 10 priests in a row, are Russian. I only point this out so they cannot accuse me of being inaccurate or misrepresenting anything.
P.S. My spiritual father has blessed my writing.