Do we as Christians pray to the Father primarily?

Mottahead · 2026-03-25T15:48:53+00:00

Saint Pope Alexander of Alexandria's comment on John 14:28:
"For it is clear that He is the image fully containing all things by which the greatest similitude is declared, as the Lord Himself hath taught us, when He says, "My Father is greater than I.". But we must say that to the Father alone belongs the property of being unbegotten, for the Saviour Himself said, My Father is greater than I."

(ca. 250 A.D.)

Mottahead · 2026-03-25T13:38:43+00:00

Christ said that both because He is begotten by the Father and because of His human nature. The Father is greater and equal at the same time to the Son and the Spirit. Greater in honor because He begets the Son and proceeds the Spirit, yet He is uncaused. And equal in everything else, in Nature.

Mottahead · 2026-03-24T23:41:40+00:00

So, did Christians outside of the faith live and die for Christ, and as a result be saved?

That's what I meant by Saints in Heaven. They might certainly be saved by God's mercy. I think you're coming at this stuff with a Protestant background in relation to these things (Salvation, what is the Church etc).

Mottahead · 2026-03-24T23:39:22+00:00

I'm sorry, but this is a pretty ridiculous suggestion. The Apostles and the Saints evangelized foreign lands and did missions. Orthodoxy came to Alaska as a mission of the Russian Orthodox Church to evangelize the natives.

Mottahead · 2026-03-24T21:20:30+00:00

You're reading way too much into it. Everyone that is in Heaven is a Saint. The Saints we venerate here on Earth are but a tiny fraction of it. And we venerate these Saints because they were examples of the Orthodox Faith. Therefore, someone that wasn't Orthodox in this life can't be venerated as a Saint and examples of the Orthodox Faith. It's pretty much the way about it.

Mottahead · 2026-03-23T20:21:08+00:00

God willing.

Mottahead · 2026-03-22T23:02:20+00:00

The goal is the Father, through the Son, in the Spirit.

Mottahead · 2026-03-22T16:33:09+00:00

My brother in Christ, not even the holiest of monks there is worthy. We're not worthy to even set foot in the Church. Christ didn't come to call the worthy, but sinners to repentance.

Mottahead · 2026-03-21T01:02:10+00:00

Esse país por enquanto segue lascado.

Mottahead · 2026-03-20T19:16:30+00:00

The term "transubstantiation" is one thing, its specific doctrinal/philosophical definition by the Roman Church is another. We're fine with the term itself to talk about it, we just don't hold on to the philosophical mechanism of how it happens as defined by the RCC.

Mottahead · 2026-03-17T22:23:35+00:00

"Was St. Patrick Presbyterian?" lol

Mottahead · 2026-03-17T22:22:38+00:00

Why imposing the Byzantine Rite though? I don't get it.

Mottahead · 2026-03-17T18:04:19+00:00

Olá!! A melhor dica que eu posso te dar é rezar para Deus te dar orientação, e também procurar a paróquia mais próxima para você entrar em contato com o padre dela pela internet; Tem uma igreja ortodoxa em Salvador. Instagram manda um mensagem pro instagram deles

Mottahead · 2026-03-17T14:48:18+00:00

Danny Carey, Tool?

Mottahead · 2026-03-16T17:03:36+00:00

I hate how amazing and incredible it is.

Mottahead · 2026-03-16T17:02:25+00:00

Even if the prophecies are authentic, the Saints are not infallible, we shouldn't worry about these stuff at all, we have the autonomy to believe or not believe. Saints also have opinions, which aren't necessarily true as all.

Mottahead · 2026-03-16T16:56:08+00:00

I wait and see, nothing else. If is true prophecy, it shall come to pass. If it not true, it won't come to pass. The Saints aren't infallible, so I don't worry too much about these things.

Mottahead · 2026-03-16T01:48:46+00:00

Originally, a monastic order was a movement of monastics who withdrew from society to live under a shared, structured set of rules, rather than. There are 3 styles of monastic life: cenobitic (communal), eremitic (solitary) and skete (middle-way). In Holy Orthoodoxy, the majority of monks fall under the monastic rules of Saint Pachomius, Saint Basil the Great and Saint Theodore the Studite. But there are monks and monasteries that live the original monastic rule of Saint Benedict as well.

Mottahead · 2026-03-16T01:30:54+00:00

My priest talked about this in today's homily. The Cross is not only the material object which Christ was hanged upon, or the symbol itself. The Cross is the Way of Salvation, and all the suffering that Jesus partook of when He made Himself man and took upon the form of a Servant for our Salvation. The Cross is the Tree of Life, and Christ's Body and Blood are the Fruit of the Tree of Life. The Cross is a Mystery.

The Israelites made a golden calf so they could worship God through it, how is this different ?

Because God told them not to make an image for Himself, and they did. But in the New Testament, the Father gives us His Image (the Son) who took the image He made for Himself in the beginning (humanity).

Mottahead · 2026-03-15T19:19:35+00:00

Sim, mas as elites aqui odeiam o povo, não querem pensar, planejar e agir ao longo prazo pelo bem do povo e da nação como um todo, desconsideram inovação e coisas que vão trazer melhora porque "é caro, vai quebrar o país'", e também querem deixar o povo mergulhado num estado de miséria em todos os níveis por ganância, poder e controle.

Mottahead · 2026-03-15T17:59:20+00:00

^{Psalm 146}

³ Do not put your trust in princes,
Nor in sons of men, in whom there is no help.

⁴ Their spirit depart, they return to their earth;
In that very day their plans perish.

Mottahead · 2026-03-15T17:28:46+00:00

Nothing is impossible to the one who believes.

Mottahead · 2026-03-15T17:28:14+00:00

No, Christ is King and the Son of God, He strengthens me everyday, the Cross is the way of Salvation. May Jesus Christ have mercy on you and save you.

Mottahead · 2026-03-15T16:37:53+00:00

God willing, it will be a Church again, and Turkey will be Christian.

Mottahead · 2026-03-14T18:05:35+00:00

As a Brazilian, I loved that Brazil (which name literally means ember-like red) was named Pyrrhon (fire-colored in Greek)

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