What is Orthodoxy?
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- Опубліковано 16 лют 2024
- What is Orthodoxy?
Orthodoxy, i.e. right (correct) belief, is the truth itself. According to the confession of Christ Himself, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” (John 14:6)
He is the truth incarnate. We can find and can know the truth only in the person of Christ; therefore we can be saved only in Christ.
According to the afore-said, Orthodoxy - Truth - is identified with Christ, Who is the Eternal Truth. And due to the fact that God the Trinity is the source of truth, His mode of existence is also truth, the fundamental and eternal Orthodoxy, which men have been called to follow in their own lives.
Orthodoxy is the holy tradition of our Church, the truth about God, man, and the world that was delivered to us by God Incarnate Himself. Orthodoxy is the right faith and right worship of God. Orthodoxy is the pure Christianity, the real Church established and preserved by Christ for the salvation of mankind.
Man comes to truth, i.e. to Christ (incarnate Orthodoxy) only in His body, the Church.
The Church was founded in the world because only in it can man find again his real existence and communion with God and the rest of the world.
The salvation that Christ granted to us through His Crucifixion and Resurrection, is continued in the Church.
That means that the Church is Christ, Who, even after His Resurrection and Ascension, continues saving the world in the Holy Spirit. Humanity continuously finds God in the body of Christ, in the Church.
That is why we cannot separate Christ from the Church. There can be no Church without Christ and there can be no Christ outside the Church, i.e. there can be no truth and consequently no salvation.
Christ as entire truth - Orthodoxy - leads us to our salvation through His Church.
Doctrines, however, as rules of faith do not destroy the unity of the Truth. They create the boundaries of Orthodoxy, of the Church, so that the Church, as Orthodoxy, can be distinguished from heresy…. For the Church, the foundation of faith is one: the fullness of truth in Christ.”
“Orthodoxy is what Christ taught, the Apostles preached, and the Fathers kept.”
(St. Athanasios the Great)
“Orthodoxy is a true conception about God and creation.”
(St. Anastasios the Sinaite)
“Orthodoxy is not merely another of the many ‘Christian confessions’ now in existence, or as it is expressed here in America ‘denominations.’ Orthodoxy is the true, undistorted, unperverted by any human sophistry or invention, genuine teaching of Christ in all its purity and fullness-the teaching of faith and piety which is life according to the Faith.
Orthodoxy is not only the sum total of dogmas accepted as true in a purely formal manner. It is not only theory, but practice; it is not only right Faith, but a life which agrees in everything with this Faith. The true Orthodox Christian is not only he who thinks in an Orthodox manner, but who feels according to Orthodoxy and lives Orthodoxy, who strives to embody the true Orthodox teaching of Christ in his life.
Orthodoxy is the one and only Truth, the pure Truth, without any admixture (mixing) or the least shadow of falsehood, lie, evil or fraud.
This then is what is Orthodoxy, or True Christianity!”
(+Archbishop Averky of Syracuse & Holy Trinity Monastery)
“All truths of Orthodoxy emerge from the one Truth and converge on one Truth, infinite and eternal. That Truth is the God-man Christ. If you experience any truth of Orthodoxy to its limit, you will inevitably discover that its kernel is the God-man Christ. In fact, all truths of Orthodoxy are nothing other than different aspects of the one Truth - the God-man Jesus Christ.”
“To be Orthodox means to have the God-man Christ constantly in your soul, to live in Him, think in Him, feel in Him, act in Him. In other words, to be Orthodox means to be a Christ-bearer and a Spirit-bearer.”
(St. Justin Popovich)
“What is Orthodoxy? Orthodoxy is the truth. It is the correct dogma of God, man, and the world, as it was handed to us by the incarnate God himself through His extraordinary teaching, His holy life, and His redeeming sacrifice; as it was detailed, in the following, by the divinely inspired mind and heart of the Apostle Paul; as it was brought to life by the disciple of love, St. John the Evangelist, and the other Evangelists and Apostles with heavenly light of the Holy Spirit; as it was handed to us by the spirit-moved fathers of Alexandria, Constantinople, Cappadocia, Syria, Palestine, and, later Mount Athos. All these individuals, from the venerable St. Polycarp… up until St. Nicodemos the Hagiorite…through their wisdom, holiness, sacrifices, and struggles entrusted us with the inheritance of proper faith and life: the treasure of Orthodox tradition.”
(+Geronda Ephraim of Arizona) - Фільми й анімація
Благословен ГОСПОДЬ БОГ наш, всегда ныне и присно и во веки веков! Аминь. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
This is wonderful, thank you. Arranged with beautiful music and a brilliant explanation of the Orthodox faith.
Thank you-as a former Roman Catholic, this video is excellent and I will be exploring Orthodoxy this year. I will attend a divine liturgy in the near future. Keep the videos coming !
@joepavone3586; That’s wonderful, may God bless you and your family. Thank you for your kind words as well. Glory be to God for all things! ☦️🙏
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Please be so kind as to activate the subtitles on all the videos you have and those you will make in the future so that many who do not know the English language can benefit from such edifying videos! Thank you very much and may God and the Blessed Virgin Mary bless you!
@ortodoxiainvencible; Thank you for your comments. Forgive me for my ignorance, but I don’t know if there is a subtitle feature that can be activated from UA-cam so it can be translated into other languages… If I find it, I will most happily activate it. May God and Panagia be with you and your family! 🙏☦️
Above the finger where users "like" your video is the option to activate the subtitles, if you look at it, it is deactivated. It is not difficult to activate. I hope God allows you to do so. Thank you very much and happy Easter!
@@ortodoxiainvencible9556 Ok I will try and do that then, most likely after our Orthodox Easter, so after Sunday. Thank you and likewise!
@ortodoxiainvencible9556; I have some bad news, I tried to do that but most of my videos have no audio voice which is needed for the subtitles to work and then to add the option for translation. I’m disappointed as I was looking forward to doing this. I have a few audio videos (podcast) that I can try to do this in the near future but I unfortunately can’t do this with the rest of my videos.
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Orthodox is catholic, not Christian
Orthodox is the One, Holy, Catholic (Universal) Church which unfortunately the Roman Catholics are not part of it since the Schism in 1054 A.D. and of course is Christian.
@HolyOrthodoxy Catholicism has never been Christian. They were not back then , nor todate, and never will be. Catholicism works hand and hand with Talmud others is the problem. Aka not of Yesus the Lord thy God at all... Yesus the lord thy God never agreed with anything Talmud nor " any" of their idols they worship. Schism or not, they still teach the same false Teachings. Can that be corrected, sure it can. Ppl are too used to worshiping idols to change...until ppls from within realize it and change their own house... that goes for all , clean their own houses..
They were Christian before the schism but they have changed a lot of things and dogmatically speaking alone are not Christian. This is unfortunately the truth.
@@HolyOrthodoxy catholics are all the same, not Christians
.No están con el Papá....no es católico.....es simplemente...Ortodoxos.💪🙏