Showing posts with label Eastern Orthodox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eastern Orthodox. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

The St. Elisabeth Monastery Scandal

As the coronavirus pandemic was sweeping through Belarus, The St. Elisabeth Monastery tried to hide the outbreak in their church. Even as hundreds of nuns, priests, and members became sick, they continued to hold packed services with no social distancing and discouraged people from wearing masks. Father Andrew Lemeshonok told the nuns to lie about the spread of the infection and told his congregation that churches were places of healing and that you can't get sick from holy communion even when you share a spoon with sick people and kiss the same icons. To keep the scandal under wraps, the leadership of the monastery resorted to cult-like tactics, discouraging nuns from even reaching out to friends and family.
https://youtu.be/zfyDuVL2jxQ

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Great Schism: The Bitter Rivalry Between Greek and Latin Christianity

Why did Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches split in 1054 A.D.? This video explores the political, cultural and theological issues between Eastern and Catholic faiths. For example, what is filioque and why was it important? What caused the Eastern Patriarch and the pope to fight? All of this is covered in this video in the Great Schism of 1054.....
https://youtu.be/a6rWf0k8d78







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