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It has been two weeks since Turkish immigrant and first without equals wannabe, Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, flung a handful of horse manure in the face of the Most-Pure Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary on the eve of the feast of her Annunciation. (See our report with video here.) This came to our attention at Orthodoxy in Dialogue on April 5. Over the past three days, the horror gripping my body and soul has only intensified.
In remarks to President Trump on that sacred day, the archbishop began,
Through your leadership. you embody the values of our Christian faith and love for the Gospel. You remind me of the great Roman emperor, Constantine the Great.
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Katherine Kelaidis’ head-scratcher, Xenophobia in the Cloak of Progress: How English Liturgies Hurt the American Orthodox Church, appeared on Public Orthodoxy on March 12. Her readers have registered their overwhelming dissatisfaction over the past nine days by assigning it 1.7 stars out of 5. This is one of the lowest I’ve seen since Public Orthodoxy started including Readers’ rating at the top of each article. Kelaidis’ rating elicits a response as much as the article itself. I write as one who, as both layman and priest, has spent most of my long Orthodox life in parishes that worshipped exclusively or primarily in the English language, but who also has extensive experience attending parishes that worship in Slavonic, Ukrainian, and Greek. Read More