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00:00 Intro 03:09 Bagpipes and reeds 16:19 Flutes and clarinet 21:00 Bowed instruments 35:00 Lutes 47:20 Kanonaki and santouri 51:20 Percussions 55:10 Context of Greek music 58:55 Regional diversity 59:46 Rythmic patterns 1:02:10 It's always changing 1:03:21 Pitch in the modal traditions 1:06:20 Westernisation and revival
Op Lazarus zaterdag was een dag van vreugde en betekenis in de Orthodoxe Kathedraal van Sint-Nicolaas in Rotterdam, want vijf catechumenen werden gedoopt en verwelkomd als volledige leden van de Orthodoxe Kerk. De jonge catechumenen, variërend in de leeftijd van 18 tot 35 jaar, zijn geboren en getogen in Nederland en hebben de afgelopen acht maanden intensief deelgenomen aan een catechismus programma.
Het doopritueel, dat plaatsvond onder de eeuwenoude koepels van onze prachtige kathedraal, markeerde een belangrijk keerpunt in het spirituele leven van deze jonge mensen. Het was een moment van diepe verbondenheid met de rijke tradities en het erfgoed van de Orthodoxe Kerk, die teruggaan tot de vroegste dagen van het christendom.
Het proces van catechese, dat deze jongeren hebben doorlopen, heeft hen voorbereid op hun toetreding tot de kerkelijke gemeenschap. Gedurende acht maanden hebben ze zich verdiept in de fundamentele leerstellingen van het orthodoxe geloof, hebben ze de liturgieën en rituelen van de kerk bestudeerd en hebben ze een persoonlijke relatie ontwikkeld met God door gebed en contemplatie.
Nu, na een periode van intensieve voorbereiding en reflectie, zijn deze jonge catechumenen vol verwachting en hoop toegetreden tot de kudde van Christus. Hun doop symboliseert niet alleen een reiniging van zonden en een nieuw begin in Christus, maar ook een toewijding aan een leven van geloof, liefde en dienstbaarheid aan God en de medemens.
Deze vijf jonge mensen zijn een bron van inspiratie voor ons allen, en hun toewijding aan het orthodoxe geloof is een getuigenis van de levendigheid en vitaliteit van de kerk in Nederland. Laten we hen verwelkomen en ondersteunen in hun spirituele reis, en laten we samen bidden dat ze mogen groeien in genade en wijsheid als leden van de Orthodoxe Kerk.
Moge God hen zegenen en beschermen op hun weg van geloof, en moge de vreugde van hun doop ons allen inspireren om ons eigen geloof te verdiepen en te vernieuwen.
This is one of three long-form Interviews I conducted with Archbishop Makarios of Nairobi during a recent visit to the seminary in Nairobi in November of 2023. In this interview I ask his eminence about his journey as a young man wanting to be a famous musician to providential encounters he had with now Glorified Orthodox Saints. the highlights of this interview include his long relationship with his spiritual Father, the now famous Saint Sophorony of Essex and his guidance and prophetic knowledge he had for the young Andres now Archbishop Makarios of Kenya.
In this recording, Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou (Orthodox Church of Cyprus) gives us a few tips for living the Holy Week and the Resurrection period in the most profitable way for our souls.
In this interview, Fr. Peter and I discuss the state of the Orthodox Church both in America and abroad.
The opinions and information expressed in these articles may not necessarily be those of the Russian Orthodox Church or those of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.
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1. Wisdom from Athonite Fathers: Concerning Masks
2. Dreadful Warnings from Heaven (2020) - Concerning the Ecclesial Renovations of 2020 by Archimandrite Savvas Agioreitis
3. An Interview with Father Savvas
4. Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou (Church of Cyprus) Warns Against Masks
5. God Has A Plan - Metropolitan Neophytos of Morfou Regarding The End Times And Current Events
6. An Epidemic is Coming by Metropolitan Augoustinos of Florina, Greece
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7. An Athonite Elder Speaks Out About Covid and Vaccines - Elder Philotheos of Karakallou Monastery
8. Father Savvas the Athonite on vaccination and side effects
9. St. Cyril of Kazan and the "sanitized" holy water of 1909
10. Orthodox Church Teaching on Whether There is a Danger of Spreading Disease Through Holy Communion, Kissing the Hand of the Priest, or Our Presence in the Holy Temple of God - Metropolitan of Edessa, Joel
11. Athonite Elder Speaks About Prayer Against COVID - Elder Parthenius of St Paul's Monastery
12. This Could be the Last Mistake You Ever Make! - Please Don't! - Elder Gabriel of Mount Athos
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13. The Apocalyptic Times are About to Fall Hard Upon Us - Elder Justin Parvu
14. The Christian "Special Forces" fighting against antichrist - Prophetic words of Elder Ephraim
15. Against those who dare to forbid the kissing of the Holy Icons
16. The chemical injections and delusions of the Antichrist (Updated!) - from the teachings of Elder Athanasios Mitilinaios and Elder Savvas Achilleos - and followed by footage of a 2005 Pentagon briefing
17. Should we flee from Holiness to avoid sickness? - Archpriest Peter Alban Heers
18. A most dreadful prophecy - A revelation from Elder Savvas Achilleos - who reposed in 2016!
19. Can we be sent to hell for refusing to kiss the holy icons?
25. Saint Paisios the Athonite: On the Vaccine and the mark of the Beast!
26. St. Peter Zverev's Sermon on the 1910 Cholera Pandemic
27. St. John of Kronstadt and the 1903 Siberian Plague
28. St. Paisios of Mt. Athos on the Blasphemous Treatment of Holy Things, God's Wrath, and Trusting God
29. The Belt of the Theotokos and the Pandemic of 1910
30. Father Gabriel the Athonite answers questions - interview with Elder Gabriel
31. A Letter to an Abbess Concerning the Vaccines - By Elder Evthymios of Kapsala, Mt. Athos, a spiritual child of Saint Paisios the Athonite
32. Holy Communion and Germs - by Archbishop Michael of North and South America (Greek Archdiocese
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Vaccines, Early Treatment and COVID Misinformation
The opinions and information expressed in these videos and articles may not necessarily reflect the views of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia or Father Kosmas. Father Kosmas’ aim is to simply make available credible information that is different to the current worldwide narrative. With access to the other side of the medical argument, together with the Orthodox material in the section above, the faithful will be in a better position to make an informed decision.
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1. The McCullough Report - The renowned Dr. Peter A. McCullough's online website for up-to-date interviews and articles
2. Dr. Peter McCullough: Short Videos on All Things COVID
4. Dr. Peter McCullough tells us the truth about the Delta Variant and the way forward
5. Dr. Peter McCullough on Tucker Carlson: Not an Error of Omission!
6. Professor Dolores Cahill says mRNA Vaccines cause Injury and Death
7. Dr. Peter McCullough On Dose Of Dr, Drew And You! Drdrew.tv Is the Place To Be!
8. ‘Don’t Panic Over New Coronavirus Strain,’ Says Stanford’s John Ioannidis
9. Science Falls Victim of the Lockdowns: Prof. Ioannidis Was Always Correct
10. Evidence-Based Public Health - Professor John Ioannidis
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1. Fr. George Calciu: Should the Church Compromise with the Government?
2. Metropolitan Neophytos of Morfou: Onoufrios is the Canonical Metropolitan of Kiev
3. Metropolitan Neophytos on the Plans of the New World Order
4. Christ will Intervene! Metropolitan Neophytos of Morfou Discussing Saint Paisios' Prophecies
5. The Miracle of Holy Fire, Jerusalem, 2017
6. The Holy Fire & Pascha at the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem - with commentary
7. Easter Miracle of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem 2017!!! Commentary by Dr. Steve Turley
8. Science Investigates the Easter Miracle of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem!!! Follow up video by Dr. Steve Turley
9. Greek News article: The Holy Fire Miracle and the Scientific Research
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Επιστολή σε Ηγουμένη Σχετικά με τα Εμβόλια (Αγγλική Μετάφραση)
Too long has our people been plagued with this painful coronavirus affair. Let them at last leave every one free to act according to his judgement, without pressure.
Elder Evthymios of the Cell of the Resurrection in Kapsala on
Mt. Athos, disciple of Saint Paisios of Mt. Athos, more than a year
after his first letter, now writes a second letter concerning mandatory vaccination in response to questions from an abbess.
Venerable Abbess, your blessing.
I received your letter some time ago, and I beg your pardon for delaying to respond due to a lack of time. It is indeed difficult for me to respond to letters, but, because I saw your concern for all that has been happening in our days and your good disposition to act according to the will of God, I am responding to you.
I do not know you, and it is difficult for you to meet me as you desire. You ask whether you may share my response with others, to which I have no objection. Besides, my views on the coronavirus and the vaccine are well-known, and I say more or less the same things to pilgrims as well, when they ask me.
Every day, “like the waves of a billowy sea,” pilgrims come to Mount Athos and some of them even to our cell. All of them, as well as those who send letters, have but one anxiety and one question: “What will happen with the obligatory vaccine?” All of their other problems which used to inundate them have now been delegated to second place.
In his attempt to deal with the coronavirus epidemic, his Excellency the Prime Minister of our country has imposed a strict control, which seems to surpass the endurance of our people. He imposed the strictest limiting measures, the greatest fines, and the most extended lockdowns out of all the countries of Europe. He incompetently interfered in the matters of the worship of the Church by closing down the temples and depriving the faithful of the assistance of the sanctifying Mysteries with measures that are exceptionally strict and unfair toward Christians. His actions reveal his inclination to humiliate and weaken the Church.
In fact, in his excessive zeal to deal with the virus successfully, he has proposed a certificate of vaccination and announced that the vaccinated will enjoy privileges. This will not be a simple paper, a usual certificate. If (as we hope not) this is employed, then whoever will not be vaccinated and will not have this certificate will be excluded from everywhere. Τhe Council of Europe (2361/2021) has ruled that the vaccine is not compulsory and that there should be no discrimination between those vaccinated and those not vaccinated. Behaving despotically, the Prime Minister of Greece becomes, as we say, “kinglier than the king”, he divides the Greek people, and he enforces a dictatorship of the worst kind.
Some bishops have undertaken to apply this anticonstitutional and illegal attempt of the Prime Minister, threatening and blackmailing priests, monks, and the people of God to become vaccinated. Do they have such authority to force them to be vaccinated against their will?
Our Saviour Christ would heal only those that asked for healing. As for the rest, before healing them he would ask them, “Do you wish to be made well?” He neither heals nor saves us without our consent, although He greatly desires our salvation. God does not abolish our freedom. He respects our free will, which He Himself gave to us. According to the holy Chrysostom, “God does not force those that wish not” (PG 51, 143).
Our present-day “saviours” do not take us into account at all. Under the pretext of health they abolish our freedom. Then, from the fear of the virus we passed on to the terrorism caused by the compulsory vaccination. Unfortunately we are experiencing division, hatred, and the distinction of people into categories. The present-day situation is somewhat reminiscent of Greece at the time of the civil war. It prepares and prefigures the age of the Antichrist. Just as at that time whoever does not have the mark will be excluded from buying and selling, from public positions, and from travel, similarly, if this certificate of vaccination is put into practice, whoever is not vaccinated will be excluded from everywhere. Fear, coercion, surveillance are the common elements.
The topic of the coronavirus is of course, at first glance, a medical matter, but it has become more of political one (the politicians and the journalists speak more), it is also economic, and it has become a perfect means of enforcement and control. To be sure, it is also spiritual, since under its pretext our free will is abolished, while cells from an aborted fetus were used in the preparation of the vaccine.
Τhere are testimonies going around which are continually increasing, according to which at the airports there is a device that recognises who is vaccinated and also that on certain mobile phones with a certain application a twelve-digit number appears when a vaccinated man approaches. This evidence proves that the vaccinated can be tracked through the vaccine. On all these matters the experts will enlighten us and I believe that God will uncover the whole truth.
Much money has been employed and much advertisement has been done for this vaccine. Many have done it wishing to protect their health. They have every right to do so. We sincerely wish none of the vaccinated to come to any harm. Nevertheless, they should let the people be, let them free to choose. No one should nor has any right to coerce those that do not wish to do the vaccine to be vaccinated.
We are not against vaccines in general. The old, tried vaccines saved many. The newer ones have many unwanted effects. Regarding this specific vaccine people are justifiably fearful. This is a vaccine that became compulsory by law even before it was made, of which the producing companies were exempt from responsibilities and compensations, which was put into use so quickly before it was sufficiently tested, which does not fully protect the vaccinated, and every day we learn of serious side-effects and deaths of vaccinated individuals. We learn these facts not only from statistics but also from acquaintances and relatives of ours.
As we lamented for the death of acquaintances and relatives from the coronavirus, so now we lament for the sick and dead from the vaccine. To escape Scylla (the virus), is going to Charybdis (the problematic vaccine) the only solution? Is there no cure for the virus?
I am not a doctor to express an opinion. Nevertheless, I know doctors that have successfully treated patients with the coronoavirus using antibiotics, vitamins, and other medicine.A doctor that I know gave antibiotics and other medicine to hundreds of patients and no one died. There is a cure for the virus, but some people do not want it. They only promote the vaccine. I read the well-known statements of the French scientist Luc Antoine Montagnier, Nobel prize winner, who said, “There are effective cures which are also cheap, such as azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine. The vaccine is not a cure. Research must turn to the therapeutic approach.” If the vaccine was truly sufficiently tested and effectively protected without side-effects and deaths, people would be internally informed and all of this propaganda and pressure would be unnecessary. They would ask for the vaccine on their own. Too long has our people been plagued with this painful coronavirus affair. Let them at last leave every one free to act according to his judgement, without pressure.
In the difficult years that we are living, more than in any other age, our refuge and salvation is our Church. The Church is not simply the ark that saves us: she is for the difficulties. [I.e. she is particularly meant to help us especially in difficult situations.] Wherever science and human attempts are unable to help, the Church, when she uses her own spiritual means and her own salvific medicine, makes possible even the impossible and heals every disease. She is able to eliminate any epidemic, no matter how contagious and deadly it may be, as Church history teach us. Just as Noah’s ark, which prefigured the Church, contained both clean and unclean animals, so also our Church contains saints and sinners, righteous and unrighteous, masked and non-masked, vaccinated and non-vaccinated. There is room for everyone in the House of God. We must not separate people, nor should we consider the vaccinated as marked deniers of Christ. And again neither should the vaccinated reprove and unbearably pressure those that do not wish to take the vaccine, as is usually the case. In the future, when the truth concerning the vaccine will have been revealed, perhaps many will regret having done it, as some have already regretted it. It has already been announced that two well-known companies have withdrawn their vaccines as being dangerous. Is it with such vaccines that the Prime Minister is trying to build the much-promoted immunity wall? And does he have no responsibility for those who have suffered irreparable damage to their health and for those that have died? Are they playing with people’s health and life? How can we still believe that they are interested in our health?
Venerable Abbess! With these short lines I am expressing my pain of heart and replying to your question, which is similar to the anxiety and concern of a multitude of people. I worry over the division of our people. The political parties have always been partitioning and dividing the people. The Church unites us amongst ourselves into one body with Christ as the head. Even the name “Church” [Ecclesia – ‘congregation’] is a name of unity. History teaches us that whenever the people was divided, disaster followed. Whenever the enemies of our Nation were planning and “meditating evils” for us, they prepared the division of the people beforehand. Before the Fall [of Constantinople] they had divided us with false unions into unionists and anti-unionists, before the Asia-Minor Catastrophe into Royalists and Venizelians, before the civil war into communists and nationalists, and before the Turkish invasion of Cyprus into Macarianists and Antimacarianists. In similar situations the solution is not the submission of the Truth to falsehood for the sake of unity but the selfless struggle for the prevalence of the Truth which sets us free. We are in need of repentance and prayer that God may grant an end to this trial. The Holy Spirit, Whose descent we are celebrating, “calls all to unity”. Because He is also the Spirit of Truth, may He reveal to us the whole truth regarding the vaccines.
I pray the Trinitarian God grant His grace to all that act with pain of heart and sincerity for the health of men, to all that respect freedom, and to all that struggle for the unity of the people, giving hope and strengthening their faith.
With my love in Christ
And boundless wishes,
Priestmonk Euthymios
Cell of the Resurrection
Holy Mountain
7/20 June 2021
Translation of Homily into English by Christiana Fidirikkos
“May our works are blessed even though the authorities in this world make it difficult with these measures they enforced on our nation & more so The Resurrection of our Christ as they don’t want our nation to be strengthened by The Resurrection of Christ.
Why? One who lives The Resurrection may also Protest! The people of the New World Order are scared of this. As it seems these people want the Orthodox to celebrate Pascha not on the 3rd Day, the Day it should be, on the Sunday. This is why it’s called Holy Saturday in the Holy Gospel.
Sunday, is the Day of The Resurrection of Christ, it should be celebrated on this day. Like you heard today and every other times, in the Holy Gospel the Apolytikion of Lazarus and his Resurrection. This is our Certificate!
Just like Christ Resurrected Lazarus, He will also Resurrect us and nobody will remain in their graves.
Our soul is Eternal Life, this is our perspective, just as long as we want it, God wants it.
There are evil people, people from other religions and faiths, masons, satanists, fanatic zionists, only certain Jews, not all, want to bring confusion to the celebrations mainly of the Orthodox.
Why the Orthodox?
Because the Orthodox is the one and only true Church, the God/ Human Body of Christ.
Especially this year, the Jewish “Fasca” this is what they call Pascha, on the 1st May. Our Pascha whom 318 Holy Fathers of the 1st Ecumenical Synod appointed to be celebrated after the “Fasca” of the Jews.
This is why people all over the world are trying to change the Orthodox Pascha to a different day and time it supposed to be.
Unfortunately in Greece, the Bishops and Archbishop agreed for Pascha and the Liturgy to begin at 9pm. If it begins at 9pm it will finish by 11pm, so they’ll celebrate on the 2nd day whilst our Christ is still in Hades.
They want to change the law of our Orthodox Church. There is a plan, slowly slowly to have one Pascha with the Catholics and one with the Jews, to guide the Orthodox to One World Religion before the Global Dictatorship!
When we first said this, they called us conspirators. Now slowly slowly their plans are been exposed and they need to be exposed.
What’s their agenda?
They’re using this illness, which does exist and we’re all living it, it is the result of all our sins, all people and all nations. They’re scaring people with masks, double & triple masking maybe tomorrow, also with vaccines that haven’t been properly researched.
Many scientists are talking about Genetically modified vaccines, what does this mean? Children will be injected, girls injected will become sterile and babies been born will have many different abnormalities, physical disabilities, respiratory disorders, Down syndrome, anaemia and many more.
This is said by Great Doctors, in particular one well known doctor who won a noble prize for his findings of aids and he says what I convey to you.
They will not allow for our voices to be heard, whenever they hear these videos they take them down from YouTube. Understand we live in Totalitarian times, they’re introducing it politely.
They say your kids need to have the vaccine to attend school, what are the parents to do? Parents have a problem. To use the health services you need the vaccine with a certificate and a follow up every six months.
If these changes are occurring in fertilisation do you know what this means?
It means our grandkids and great grandkids they’ll be burdened with these illnesses. The older ones will have many side affects.
We have a duty to tell you our thoughts and the choices are yours. What I want Father Eleftherios is what we did every other year in regards to the Holy Week and the Liturgy. Our doors of our Churches will remain open for all. Men and Women, sick and healthy.
The Church is a Hospital, for our soul and body, how many people have come to Church unhealthy physically and spiritually and have become well. Healthy people have come to Church and died in Church. My Aunty Anna, died immediately after consuming Holy Communion and this was seen as a good sign.
We live and work towards Eternal Life, old and young, healthy and the sick, vaccinated and unvaccinated, masked and unmasked.
We commune The Body and Blood of Christ, we receive The Holy Spirit for the forgiveness of our sins and for our Eternal Life.
People ask me, don’t people get sick in Church?
Yes we do, just like when feel the cold but what does the Father say when it’s time to commune, “ With Fear of God with Faith and Love come Forward “
Whoever communes with Fear of God, with Faith and Love in Orthodoxy, the only thing they receive is The Holy Spirit and not any illnesses even if a person next to me has leprosy.
When we have fear of illnesses, fear of people what we’re afraid of will happen whether we’re inside or outside the Church.
Do you realise what the Fear of God is? We only need the Fear of God and whatever other fears we have about how and when we’ll live earth it’s up to God. God tells us during our funeral service.
I want the committee to be very polite and not be like police officers. Even if the state requires 50 people to enter the Church vaccinated with a certificate, for us The Holy Baptism is our Certificate.
Don’t request 40 or 50 people only. Our Holy Gospel says, as many or as little may enter.
What a beautiful service we’ve had today, as if we were the Patriarchate.
Please, with the good spirit tell all the people in the other parishes, The Litany of The Burial of Christ will be held around the Church and not on the streets so we don’t provoke. If anyone wants to come with masks can, it’s up to you but you need to kiss the Holy Icons without a mask and receive the Holy Bread without a mask, kissing the Father’s hand.
The Priest who gives the Holy Bread without fear of getting sick is a winner with Christ. My message is don’t be provocative or less Orthodox than in previous years.”
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