Orthodoxy101-1: Becoming a Catechumen & The Church and Orthodoxy

Orthodoxy 101, Lesson 1 focuses on becoming a catechumen in the Orthodox Church and a high-level overview of the divine services, developing a prayer rule, fasting, stewardship/tithing, reception into the church.
This 18 week catechetical course includes a lesson about the Orthodox Faith, and a more practical lesson totaling about 60 minutes.
Fr. John (‪@galor4‬ J.J. Kotalik) provides this recording for catechumens (with a blessing) who can not make it to the Sunday or Wednesday class.

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Serbian Theology Dep. "The Christian “reception” of Hellenism is the reason, important at least as much as it is neglected, of our essential interest for Hellenic culture, which (in distinction to other cultures"
monk Moses, Agioreitis (of Mt.Athos)= "Prayer to the Athonite and Greek Virgin Mary for modesty" & "Let the Greeks themselves become philhellenes". "Love of country is not about Christian chauvinism, nationalism, racism, bigotry and intolerance." "Greece and Orthodoxy are valuable forces". the Philhellenes".
"Orthodoxy is always in favor of study, knowledge, choice, progress, freedom and respect for others... So is Hellenism... It is a fact that the alloy, the mixture and the synthesis of Orthodoxy and Hellenism gave birth to a culturally high feat, whose brilliance shines throughout the civilized world."
Whoever does not agree then
"Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol: "Religious people are the most dangerous species in the church.","saint said when I once held a mass and we said "Lord save the pious" he jokingly says "Lord save us from the pious" meaning God protect you from religious people, because a religious person means a perverted personality who has never had a personal relationship with God." since one cannot talk rationally to them."
Fr George Metallenos Of the school of Athens: "That Christianity is a spiritual continuation of Hellenism, in almost everything (terminology, symbols, ritual, etc.) ","The ancient Greeks were not pagans. They did not worship idols, but personified ideas and values, to which, in fact, they had given a high spiritual and ideological content."
Russian Orthodox Fr. Florovsky "Everything in early Christianity is Greek. We are all Greeks in our thinking as Christians." & "Hellenism has placed its eternal character upon the Church. It has become an inseparable part of her very being and as such every Christian is, to some extent, a Hellene. Hellenism is not simply a phase in the history of Christianity but a cornerstone in its life"