With His Eminence Archbishop Gregory we presenting a video polemic on the history of Greek Old Calendarists, In we will show how they rose and fallen away with numerous bad decisions of their hierarchs which deemed to be heretical

This video will not only criticize them for their actions but will give you account of some great fathers who also remain steadfast to the tradition of the Church but unfortunately their successors messed up their works and made the faithful congregations communion with the heretics.

This was a hard work by His Eminence by reviving all the historical documents and reviewing all to present this video so that Orthodox followers must understand at what cost they are living. Please pray for His Eminence for his well being.

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In honor of St. Thomas Sunday, I would like to share my own special appreciation for him. There is the fact that he was the apostle who brought the Gospel to India. But even more than that, it was his doubting of the bodily resurrection of Christ that enabled me to leave the Bahá’í Faith and become a Christian.

First, I think it should be pointed out that all of the remaining 11 apostles seem to have doubted the bodily resurrection until they encountered Christ themselves. St. Thomas was not alone in doubting…but the way in which he framed his doubts, expressing the need to place his hands into Christ’s wounds before believing in His bodily resurrection, laid one more brick of evidence that the Gospels truly do tell the story of Christ’s bodily resurrection.
You might ask how anyone could question this – isn’t it obvious that the Gospels tell the story of Christ’s resurrection, whether we choose to believe in it or not? In fact, we usually can refer to Christ’s resurrection without having to spell out that it refers to a bodily resurrection, and not some other form of resurrection. Even when I was a Hindu growing up, with very little knowledge of the Christian faith, I knew that Christ was said to have risen from the dead – in His body. I really had no idea why that was relevant, so I didn’t consider it further – but that’s a topic for a different post.

https://blogs.ancientfaith.com/orthodoxyandheterodoxy/2013/07/19/believing-thomas-how-i-left-the-bahai-faith/

There's no linguistic connection between "Prussia" and "Russia". They sound similiar because of coincidence. In German, it is Preußen (Preussen) and Russland.

Herman Melville devoted an entire chapter of Moby Dick to the substance. The Chinese believed it to be dragon spittle hardened by the sea. Ambergris (that’s French for gray amber) is an opaque, hardened orb that floats for months or years at sea, until its waxy mass washes up ashore. It has have sometimes been described, inaccurately, as sperm whale vomit. Ambergris comes out the other end—the cetacean approximation of a human gallbladders stone, formed in a whale stomach as a protective barrier around sharp, indigestible squid beaks, and then excreted.

Of all the world’s feces, ambergris may be the only one prized as an ingredient in fragrances, cocktails and medicines. It’s eaten, too. Persian sherbets once included ambergris along with water and lemon. Casanova apparently added it to his chocolate mousse as an aphrodisiac. French gastronome Brillat-Savarin recommended a shilling’s worth of ambergris in a tonic of chocolate and sugar, which he claimed would render life more easy, like coffee without the restless sleeplessness.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-taste-of-edible-feces-111178660/