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’s inappropriate letters on the topic.
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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?
Your holiness, I am romanian and was born Orthodox, my father is an Orthodox priest and there is an old tradition in my family of priesthood and Church servants.
God forgive me, but your comment is not Orthodox. Craig is wright and the argument that he just “recently” converted, it is not a good argument. Ap. Paul was a “recently” converted christian and ended up doing the most apostolic work out of all the apostles.
On the other hand, historically we had bishops and patriarchs that were born Orthodox and ended up heretics, masons or schismatics.
He has the same wright to speak about Orthodoxy as any priest, deacon, bishop or patriarch as long as he has the blessing of his priest.
In Orthodoxy, we are told to obey and respect the clergy except for the cases when they teach un-orthodox theology and practices, and you are probably aware of this…
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.