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The second part of our four-part discussion (2/4) with Archimandrite Savas Agioreitis, given on May 8th, on the need to find, have and come under the direction of a spiritual father.

Archimandrite Fr. Savas Agioreitis began his monastic life in the Holy Kelli of the Entrance of the Theotokos in Kerasia on Mt. Athos. He is also a graduate of the School of Dentistry and the School of Theology, at the University of Thessaloníki, where he completed his Masters Degree with Professor Demetrios Tselengides. Today, Fr. Savas is the spiritual father of the Holy Monastery of the Holy Trinity in the Diocese of Edessa, in northern Greece. Fr. Savas works tirelessly teaching and guiding the faithful not only in his diocese or in Greece, but, indeed, through the online homilies and lectures, the world over, wherever the rational sheep of Christ are thirsting for the Word of God and the Gospel. 

In addition to nearly daily homilies during Divine Liturgy, which are uploaded to the internet, now numbering in the many hundreds if not thousands, Fr. Savas is also a prolific author, penning more than 11 books. 
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00:37 - Question 1: The Responsibilities of the Faithful  
02:39 - Criterion given by St. Symeon the New Theologian - The Apostolic Life
05:03 - The criterion is not that the priest, bishop or even Synod said it...
05:45 - Question 2: Should I choose a Spiritual Father even if he lives hours away...by plane?
07:28 - There will come a time when you will travel hundreds of miles to find a priest...
08:16 - The Spiritual Father is a priest who has been purified and reached illumination
10:33 - Question 3: What happens when a Spritual Father does not direct properly?
12:18 - Question 4: How can the faithful discern whether or not he is being guided properly?
14:13 - Illumination means the Noetic Prayer exists in the Spiritual Father
14:55 - Examples of Spiritual Malpractice by Quack Spiritual Fathers
17:10 - Examples of those coming to Confession without Repentance
18:09 - A Spiritual Father must reach the level of Noetic Prayer
21:50 - Question 5: What is Repentance?: To Move the Nous to the Heart
23:12 - "Death came in through the Gates"
24:34 - Question 6: Can one see noetic prayer, or its fruits, in the Spiritual Father?
26:43 - Clear Criteria: Dogma and Ethos, the Truth, Way and Life
27:12 - His Spiritual Children are also a Criterion
29:00 - Question 7: If a priest does not confess the holiness of the Temple and Holy Things, should one avoid taking him as a Spiritual Father?
30:24 - The Holy Canons say the opposite of what many Bishops and Priests are saying today (with Covid-19 measures)
32:57 - We have lost the criteria today: even Patriarchs are succumbing to the spirit of Antichrist
34:16 - ΧΞΣτ (666) = (X) Christian (Ξ) Stranger to the (Στ) Cross
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A Four-Part Interview: 

1. In the first segment we will address the Temple and whether or not the faithful need to fear becoming sick therein. 

2. In this second segment, we address the all-important matter of having a spiritual father during these times of trouble and persecution. 

3. In the third segment, we discuss a wide-range of matters pertaining to how we must live in a spiritual manner in face of this great challenge to our Faith. 

4. And, in the fourth segment, we look at the challenge to the Orthodox Faith from contemporary Ceasaropapism and innovative ideas about the Holy Things in the Holy Temple. 

We are sure that these interviews, with the ever-vigilant Fr. Savas, offered with much love and sacrifice to you, the pious, zealous faithful, will undoubtedly be profitable and enlightening!  
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Today on The Orthodox Ethos Podcast:

Part Three of our three part Interview with the Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the University of Thessaloniki, Demetrios Tselengides, in which he addresses: 

- The criterion of the heart and the enlightening guidance of the Holy Spirit, in the discernment of sprits, 

- The interpenetration of dogma and life, and the unity of the Way, the Truth and the Life

- And, the move from repentance to confession in practice - that Christ, that is, Divine Communion, is Life

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01:02: Question #1: How can the faithful be so bold as to follow the Holy Fathers?

03:07: They all had the criterion of the heart

03:35: An example of the simple faithful following the Holy Fathers

06:40: Live according to His will and He will inform you

07:43: Question #2: What is the Presupposition for standing aright?

08:00: The Example of the First Oecumenical Council

00:09:51: Truth lived existentially brings spiritual understanding

10:20: Question #3: Is this a dogmatic issue? Is disobedience justified?

10:50: Alliloperichoresis: Dogma and Life are Inseparable

11:58: No event in the Church is unrelated to the Life and Truth of Christ

13:37: The So-called "Home Church"

14:35: Question #4: Is there such a thing as "Private Worship"?

15:02: Choosing between Life or death?

23:33: Question #4: Repentance leads to Confession of Faith

25:48: Question #5: What is there is no leadership or guides?

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Biographical Details: 

Professor Tselengidis’ depth of knowledge, his education and studies, and his diligent research and labor have made him an internationally renowned academic theologian of Orthodox Dogmatic Theology. His most important offering and characteristic, however, is his work’s fidelity to the Holy Tradition and the Deposit of the Holy Fathers, a faithfulness he acquired by following experiential theologians of our day, such as Saints Paisios of Mt. Athos and Ephraim of Katounakia. He considers himself a humble minister, always emphasizing the absolute interrelation of right doctrine with the right way of life, distancing himself from the creation of a sterile and cold academic discourse.   

He is the author countless articles and seven books on Dogmatic Theology, covering a wide range of topics, including the theology of the icon, grace and freedom, critical studies of the doctrine of salvation in Luther and the satisfaction of divine justice in Anslem of Canterbury, the Soteriology of Western Christianity, and the presuppositions and criteria of Orthodox Theology. Through his many lectures, articles, and appeals to the hierarchy on pressing ecclesiastical matters such as the Orthodox-Roman Catholic, and Orthodox-Anti-Chalcedonian Dialogues, the documents of the Cretan council, and the Ukrainian schism Professor Tselingides has given much courage and consolation to the faithful. 
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The first part of our four-part discussion with Archimandrite Savas Agioreitis, on the question of whether the Holy Temple and Holy Things can be conduits for infection and sickness.

Archimandrite Fr. Savas Agioreitis began his monastic life in the Holy Kelli of the Entrance of the Theotokos in Kerasia on Mt. Athos. He is also a graduate of the School of Dentistry and the School of Theology, at the University of Thessaloníki, where he completed his Masters Degree with Professor Demetrios Tselengides. Today, Fr. Savas is the spiritual father of the Holy Monastery of the Holy Trinity in the Diocese of Edessa, in northern Greece. Fr. Savas works tirelessly teaching and guiding the faithful not only in his diocese or in Greece, but, indeed, through the online homilies and lectures, the world over, wherever the rational sheep of Christ are thirsting for the Word of God and the Gospel. 

In addition to nearly daily homilies during Divine Liturgy, which are uploaded to the internet, now numbering in the many hundreds if not thousands, Fr. Savas is also a prolific author, penning more than 11 books. 

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A Four-Part Interview: 

1. In this first segment we will address the Temple and whether or not the faithful need to fear becoming sick therein. 
2. In the second segment, we address the all-important matter of having a spiritual father during these times of trouble and persecution. 
3. In the third segment, we discuss a wide-range of matters pertaining to how we must live in a spiritual manner in face of this great challenge to our Faith. 

And, in the fourth segment, we look at the commentary of our Holy Venerable Father Saint Nikodemos the Hagiorite on the 28th canon of the Sixth Oecumenical Council, which is being cited by some to support a change in the method of communing the faithful. 

Due to pleas from the faithful, we will air the fourth segment next and then return to the second and third afterwards. 

We are sure that these interviews, with the ever-vigilant Fr. Savas, offered with much love and sacrifice to you, the pious, zealous faithful, will undoubtedly be quite profitable and enlightening!  

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Today on The Orthodox Ethos Podcast:

Part Two of our three part Interview with the Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the University of Thessaloniki, Demetrios Tselengides, in which he addresses: 

• The veneration of the Holy Icons and Holy Things in the Temple
• The fear of the Faithful and the faithlessness of fear
• When we must be disobedient to men in order to remain faithful to Christ
  
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  Biographical Details: 
  
  Professor Tselingidis’ depth of knowledge, his education and studies, and his diligent research and labor have made him an internationally renowned academic theologian of Orthodox Dogmatic Theology. His most important offering and characteristic, however, is his work’s fidelity to the Holy Tradition and the Deposit of the Holy Fathers, a faithfulness he acquired by following experiential theologians of our day, such as Saints Paisios of Mt. Athos and Ephraim of Katounakia. He considers himself a humble minister, always emphasizing the absolute interrelation of right doctrine with the right way of life, distancing himself from the creation of a sterile and cold academic discourse.   
  
  He is the author countless articles and seven books on Dogmatic Theology, covering a wide range of topics, including the theology of the icon, grace and freedom, critical studies of the doctrine of salvation in Luther and the satisfaction of divine justice in Anslem of Canterbury, the Soteriology of Western Christianity, and the presuppositions and criteria of Orthodox Theology. Through his many lectures, articles, and appeals to the hierarchy on pressing ecclesiastical matters such as the Orthodox-Roman Catholic, and Orthodox-Anti-Chalcedonian Dialogues, the documents of the Cretan council, and the Ukrainian schism Professor Tselingides has given much courage and consolation to the faithful. 
  
  We come to him once again, during this time of troubles that the Church of Christ is facing, troubles not on account of a virus or pandemic, but on account of the undermining of, and departure from, the Orthodox Identity, Dogma and Ethos. 
  
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The First of a Three-part series of interviews with Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the University of Thessaloniki, Demetrios Tselingides, on the Ecclesiastical and Spiritual Crisis We Now Face. 

We have a tremendous need in the Church today for the Patristic word, for answers to the faithful’s questions, and the challenges the Church is facing, based upon the teaching of the Holy Fathers. This is especially true for those outside of Greece, in the West, who are troubled and scandalized by the response which has been offered to date, and who are in search of consolation and clarity. Professor Tselengides comes to fill this need today. 

Professor Tselingidis’ depth of knowledge, education, studies, diligent research and labor have made him an internationally renowned academic theologian of Orthodox Dogmatic Theology. His most important characteristic, however, is his work’s fidelity to the Holy Tradition and the Deposit of the Holy Fathers, a faithfulness he acquired by following experiential theologians of our day, such as Saints Paisios of Mt. Athos and Ephraim of Katounakia. He considers himself a humble minister, always emphasizing the absolute interrelation of right doctrine with the right way of life, distancing himself from the creation of a sterile, cold academic discourse.   

He is the author countless articles and seven books on Dogmatic Theology, covering a wide range of topics, including the theology of the icon, grace and freedom, critical studies of the doctrine of salvation in Luther and the satisfaction of divine justice in Anslem of Canterbury, the Soteriology of Western Christianity, and the presuppositions and criteria of Orthodox Theology. Through his many lectures, articles, and appeals to the hierarchy on pressing ecclesiastical matters such as the Orthodox-Roman Catholic, and Orthodox-Anti-Chalcedonian Dialogues, the documents of the Cretan council, and the Ukrainian schism Professor Tselingides has given much courage and consolation to the faithful. 

We come to him once again, during this time of troubles that the Church of Christ is facing, troubles not on account of a virus or pandemic, but on account of the undermining of, and departure from, the Orthodox Identity, Dogma and Ethos. 

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In this episode of The Orthodox Ethos Podcast: 

Details: 

00:43 ~ On the Discernment of Spirits: A Chief Characteristic of Orthodoxy
01:40 ~ Acquired by the Spiritual Athletes
02:36 ~ Test the Spirits (Ideas, Teachings, Thoughts, Persons)
05:06 ~ The Critera to Recognize the Lying Spirits
07:21 ~ The Philosophy of Antichrist
08:42 ~ Discernment or Delusion: No Other Option
11:18 ~ Do Orthodox Christians Believe in Conspiracy Theories?
12:51 ~ Search the Scriptures  
14:38 ~ The Church's Experience
19:07 ~ Diabolus Simia Dei
20:35 ~ One Possible Assessment
24:51 ~ Study the Zeitgeist in order to Avoid it and Save Yourself and Others
28:19 ~ It is Always Both/And in Orthodoxy
30:21 ~ The Path to Repentance Passes Through Open Churches
33:21 ~ Important Announcements: Subscribing, Summer Seminar, Short Break

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In this episode of The Orthodox Ethos Podcast the idea of the "House Church" is discussed, as well as "participating" in the Divine Liturgy via Live Stream.

00:29 The House Church in the Ancient Church
02:23 What Makes the House a Church?
03:32 Is it ok to Stay Home for Church now?
04:43 Hell is Separation, Heaven Communion
07:33 Depart Catechumens & The Doors, The Doors
09:36 The Enemy Strives to Do Away with the Mystery
11:12 Egeria the Pilgrim and Her Message to Us
12:55 Keep in Mind the Endgame
15:13 Keep the Mystery Inviolate 

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In this episode, the following topics are covered 

1. What kind of crisis is this? 
2. Is this a pandemic?
3. The M.O. of the Enemy (the Devil)
4. His Three-Step Program
5. The Marxist Dialectic at Work
6. Examples of Terrorism: 
   1. Yuval Noah Harari’s Totalitarianism 
   2. Neil Ferguson’s Fear-Mongering
   3. The UN’s 30 times high story
   4. Death Counts Like Ubiquitous Advertisements
   5. Cultivating the Fear of Death
   6. The Final Solution
7. The enemy’s way and The Way

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In this episode of The Orthodox Ethos podcast: 

1. To be a "New Christian" or a True Christian
2. Insane in the Eyes of the World
3. Q&A, including:
   1. Healing the Spiritual Schism
   2. What to do when you are shut out
   3. Don't remain idle: take the fight to 'em
   4. St. Paisios Example and Us
4. Christian Realism and Worldly Idealism

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In this episode of The Orthodox Ethos Podcast: 

1. The Church is a Hospital, in which sicknesses are healed
2. The Story of the Life-Giving Church throughout the Ages
3. Answers to Your Questions

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