Vladyka, would you say more about what it meant to the faithful during the totalitarian Communist rule of Soviet-block nations to protect holy relics from seizure and destruction?
Agreed, those debates are not important to a living faith in Christ and being an example of an true Orthodox . I had just always wondered how we know what Jesus looked like.
If you study the face of Christ Panocrator on the Ikon from St. Catherines, and the Face of the shroud, it is identical. Even down to the dark under the eyes and the eyebrows. They have used computers with the two images and they match perfectly. Sombody copied somebody. I heard this Ikon came from Constantinople to the monks.
Just realized things were missing from my earlier comments, I apologize for my incoherence on the comments section. My internet connection and daily activity caused me to be careless, sorry.
@40chrisk Interestingly, at our last Meleti, someone asked me about artificial intelligence and whether we could have robot priests. Artificial inteligence exists already, in Parliament, where most of the intelligence is artificial. Robot priests could be just as warm, loving and caring as some of our present priests are.
@40chrisk If one follows Orthodox Church history and tradition, then it would have to be a fake. Regardless of the efforts to try to obfuscate the matter, the scientific tests that took place also regard it as a fake. At one time, there were more than a dozen "burial shrouds of Jesus." In fact, he was wrapped in a winding sheet, wrapped around the body, not a "shroud." The winding sheet would have shown a very distorted image.
@allsaintsmonastery Who ever faked it was a real genius! Nails through the wrists hitting the radial nerve making the thumbs snap in. That is a real somatic reaction to injury. And that would be the best place to have put the nails, unless you were also going to tie the hand with rope. Nails would have riped through a man's hands when bodyweight is there. How could a western man of that time frame(12-13 cent) have know this, unless they did it to some one? There are questions??
@40chrisk Correct. The nails would also not have been through the middle of the feet either. It would have been interesting to have seen the dozen or so shrouds of Jesus that were on display in the mediaeval era.
@allsaintsmonastery Read all of Christ's belonging were kept at Constanople including his "shourd" which western knights reported seeing venerated at constantinope. What happened to this stuff? Templers steal it, Seracens destroy it?
@40chrisk I could be that, or a miracle. The relics of St. Spyridon are open to the air in a place that is not a dry climate, so mummification is doubtful.
Vladyka, what was the reference about the element being fused with energy? Just interested, I heard there is supposed to be a big announcement about the Higgs field.
11 + min.."when we get mad at our bodies"...it was a great help to me to read that it is the passion(s) that are connected to the image or thought that are destructive. This the spiritual wrestling that we go through not to cave in to these passions. A good sermon but this part particularily impressed me.
May the LORD bless you.
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Vladyka, would you say more about what it meant to the faithful during the totalitarian Communist rule of Soviet-block nations to protect holy relics from seizure and destruction?
ioannismiami 2 months ago
Agreed, those debates are not important to a living faith in Christ and being an example of an true Orthodox . I had just always wondered how we know what Jesus looked like.
40chrisk 2 months ago
If you study the face of Christ Panocrator on the Ikon from St. Catherines, and the Face of the shroud, it is identical. Even down to the dark under the eyes and the eyebrows. They have used computers with the two images and they match perfectly. Sombody copied somebody. I heard this Ikon came from Constantinople to the monks.
40chrisk 3 months ago
@40chrisk In fact, I don't really care about the details of the debates on the Shroud. If it helps to prop up some people's faith, good for it.
allsaintsmonastery 2 months ago
Just realized things were missing from my earlier comments, I apologize for my incoherence on the comments section. My internet connection and daily activity caused me to be careless, sorry.
neildingman 3 months ago
"is he fit for Bishop?" Well, he believes in God." Lol, wait, doesn't El Diablo believe too!
40chrisk 3 months ago
@40chrisk Hopefully in a different manner. At least the devil believes, fears and trembles.
allsaintsmonastery 3 months ago
Robots, you know what Frank Herbert of "Dune" did
40chrisk 3 months ago
@40chrisk Interestingly, at our last Meleti, someone asked me about artificial intelligence and whether we could have robot priests. Artificial inteligence exists already, in Parliament, where most of the intelligence is artificial. Robot priests could be just as warm, loving and caring as some of our present priests are.
allsaintsmonastery 2 months ago
What is your thoughts on the Shroud of Turin? The real deal or a master fake?
40chrisk 3 months ago
@40chrisk If one follows Orthodox Church history and tradition, then it would have to be a fake. Regardless of the efforts to try to obfuscate the matter, the scientific tests that took place also regard it as a fake. At one time, there were more than a dozen "burial shrouds of Jesus." In fact, he was wrapped in a winding sheet, wrapped around the body, not a "shroud." The winding sheet would have shown a very distorted image.
allsaintsmonastery 3 months ago
@allsaintsmonastery Who ever faked it was a real genius! Nails through the wrists hitting the radial nerve making the thumbs snap in. That is a real somatic reaction to injury. And that would be the best place to have put the nails, unless you were also going to tie the hand with rope. Nails would have riped through a man's hands when bodyweight is there. How could a western man of that time frame(12-13 cent) have know this, unless they did it to some one? There are questions??
40chrisk 3 months ago
@40chrisk Correct. The nails would also not have been through the middle of the feet either. It would have been interesting to have seen the dozen or so shrouds of Jesus that were on display in the mediaeval era.
allsaintsmonastery 2 months ago
@allsaintsmonastery Read all of Christ's belonging were kept at Constanople including his "shourd" which western knights reported seeing venerated at constantinope. What happened to this stuff? Templers steal it, Seracens destroy it?
40chrisk 3 months ago
Is St. Spyridon's body mummified? skeptics often say this is what is happening and that it can happen naturally.
40chrisk 3 months ago
@40chrisk I could be that, or a miracle. The relics of St. Spyridon are open to the air in a place that is not a dry climate, so mummification is doubtful.
allsaintsmonastery 3 months ago
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neildingman 3 months ago
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neildingman 3 months ago
Vladyka, what was the reference about the element being fused with energy? Just interested, I heard there is supposed to be a big announcement about the Higgs field.
neildingman 3 months ago
Thanks for the follow up video on Holy Relics. Really interesting.
neildingman 3 months ago
11 + min.."when we get mad at our bodies"...it was a great help to me to read that it is the passion(s) that are connected to the image or thought that are destructive. This the spiritual wrestling that we go through not to cave in to these passions. A good sermon but this part particularily impressed me.
davidperi 3 months ago