The following conversation appeared on Facebook in response to our Open Letter: OCA Priest Participates in Trump Riot, Reported to FBI. See below for our brief editorial comments.
OPEN LETTER: OCA PRIEST PARTICIPATES IN TRUMP RIOT, REPORTED TO FBI
The following letter was sent to Archbishop Paul (Gassios), Orthodox Church in America (OCA), Diocese of Chicago and the Midwest, on January 9. This morning, the author shared it with Orthodoxy in Dialogue for dissemination to our readers around the planet. To keep him/her safe from the very real and present danger of death threats in today’s sociopolitical climate, we are publishing his/her letter anonymously.
ADDENDUM (1/11/21): An observant reader informs us that Father Hodges has scrubbed his Facebook page of most references to his participation in the Trump Riot since our publication of this open letter yesterday.
ADDENDUM (1/12/21): See Father Seraphim Holland and Father Mark Hodges Respond to Open Letter on Trump Riot.
Archpriest Mark Hodges
St. Paul the Apostle Church (OCA)
Dayton, Ohio
Greetings, Vladyka Paul,
A blessed Theophany to you.
Fellow Orthodox believers and I wanted to report that one of your clergy, the Very Rev. Mark Hodges, was present at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. during the siege attempt of the U.S. Capitol building.
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CHRIST IS BORN! GLORIFY HIM!
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Thy Nativity, O Christ our God, has shone on the world the Light of knowledge,
for by it, those who worshipped the stars were taught by a star to adore Thee, the Sun of righteousness,
and to know Thee, the Sunrise from on high!
O Lord, glory to Thee!
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Today the Virgin gives birth to the Transcendent One,
and the earth offers a cave to the Unapproachable One!
Angels with shepherds glorify Him!
Wise men journey with a star!
Since for our sake the Pre-Eternal God is born as a little Child!
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On this, the great feast of the Birth of Our Lord, God, and Saviour Jesus Christ in human flesh from the womb of His Most-Pure Mother, the Most-Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, we greet our brothers, sisters, and friends in Christ everywhere around the world, our readers and followers, our writers, those who love us and those who hate us, those who have sinned against us and those against whom we have sinned, those who consider us their friends and those who consider us their enemies. Christ is born! Glorify Him!
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