Lutheran Pastor Becomes Orthodox (Fr. John Fenton) | FULL INTERVIEW

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Fr. John Fenton is the pastor of St. Michael's Orthodox Church in Whittier California.
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[@patrick9876]

I’m pleased with what was laid out. Just takes some reading and research. I’ve enjoyed these videos on the WR. God be with you all!☦️

[@michaeldye7783]

Been too St Michael's in Whittier and love the western rite of Orthodoxy.I which there were more of them.Fr Fenton is an awesome priest.

[@nuggetoftruth-ericking7489]

Thank you for this message.

[@coachChristpill]

This is fantastic. Please wake up people! Wake from your biases!

[@obomathepresident1372]

this makes me want to move to California

[@johnstamos5948]

News on is still governor

[@embracingthetruth]

Thank you for this channel. God bless you and guide you on your way brother. I’m in the same boat honestly. My username is a play on joke as I’m sure you see everyday online how orthobros are lol Edit: just noticed I can change my username

[@SlimeySlimeball]

Time will tell…

[@ryrocks9487]

This. I agree.

[@makarion-cf5nv]

Have orthodox greek Monks/Priests etc refused your interviews or are you restricting from interviewing them? Blessings.

[@KnoxEmDown]

Check his channel. He has interviews with multiple priests, some of whom are Greek Orthodox. Surprisingly, I don't think he has any monastic interviews.

[@papisoros1506]

a Christian, is a living Blessing among us. let us ask God the Creator that our generation of false Christians be decimated, and that true Christians may be born from us, thanks to the blessed Conversion. having Christians, we will not lack Priests, consecrated persons, good husbands and better Families, we will not lack Peace. In the Holy Rosary is our Victory, over eternal death: the proud fall. a decision is within reach: start praying it. let us make this brief test a much better place to travel, so that we remember that we can still deserve to be with the Good Shepherd, God Christ, for eternity.

[@suzannephillips6236]

Purgatory is an act of mercy for people unprepared to enter heaven. It is really what made me after reading the Catechism published during the John Paul II papacy, enter the Catholic church. I had loved ones, my son and his father, who both died of suicide who I know were not prepared for heaven as well as my mother who did not have faith for a variety of reasons, so yes I pray for them. Protestantism did not have anything for them, because unless you are Christian, you go to hell. I did consider strongly the Orthodox church but it felt so foreign and reading about tollhouses just sounded silly. I did like it was so true to it's early church in liturgy, but again too narrow a path to give hope to the hopeless. Also, btw, there is a difference between worship of God and the hyperdulia, special respect and love given to Mary. I am not one to deify Mary, and the truth is I neither want to make her equal to God, but I also know she is special and do not want to denigrate in any way her active participation in the plan of God to bring salvation to the world through a human being. She was made perfect ie Immaculate (born without original sin) so that our Savior would maintain His perfection when He became Man, fully God and fully Man and dwelt among us

[@fren648]

i think we should cut things off to we should not be venerating post schism "saints" nor reading their teachings. allowing their teachings to be in book stores at your churches and the like could be a recipe for repeating history or just disaster. i don't believe that this is the orthodox way. scholasitic "rationalists" are against the phronema of the church.

[@EpistemicAnthony]

Every time I listen to a Western Rite priest, no matter how well intentioned they are, it reaffirms my skepticism of the Western Rite.

[@ryrocks9487]

I like this one, he seems like he truly believes in Orthodoxy and also that he isn't merely Western Rite for the aesthetic.

[@EpistemicAnthony]

@@ryrocks9487 He seems genuine, I wouldn't doubt that. But so much of his attitude seems like he hasn't fully embraced Orthodoxy. So much of what he says makes me suspicious that he is still attached to western ideas and the western churches. Encouraging parishioners to venerate St Thomas Aquinas if they think it "aids their salvation?" Uuuh... What? Sounds like something you'd hear from a Progressive Protestant.

[@OrthoScottishSlav7]

@EpistemicAnthony that's called hardness of heart and is sinful.

[@mrtubbsful]

Having known Father John for 14 years and having been one of his students in the high school that he mentions…..I can guarantee you he is. Looking back it was his world’s religion course that slowly put me down on the path of the orthodox faith.

[@justusbryce3392]

Are you as skeptical of Greek or Russian or Romanian churches that practice their own rites? Are you skeptical of ancient Orthodox churches that celebrated using the liturgies of St Gregory or St James or St Basil?

[@user-tg3tj2nq6v]

What is a Western rite? does he belong to a recognised Orthodox patriarchate? eg Russian, Alexandria, Constantinople, Antiochean, Jerusalem...? if not then then I can't see why he calls himself Orthodox. Is he in communion with these Patriarchates?

[@AscendingViet]

He’s under the Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate which is under the Antiochian Patriarchate

[@DositheiteChungus]

They are under the Antiochian Patriarch

[@acekoala457]

Father is part of the Antiochian Archdiocese in America Western Rite Vicarate.

[@rize_as2ault_bb644]

This is an antiochian church

[@paisios2541]

It's quite interesting that both western rite priests interviewed expressed many opinions that are in total opposition to Orthodox dogmatic teaching.

[@ryrocks9487]

When did he do this?

[@Mailb0y]

Literally doesn't happen but okay.

[@scottirey2507]

Please illuminate those of us who are ignorant. Which voiced opinions are in direct opposition to Orthodox dogmatic teaching?

[@OrthoScottishSlav7]

@@paisios2541 Aren't you a student in his classes in AHOS (Antiochian House of Studies) or am I mistakingly thinking for someone else?

[@truthdefenders-]

All that studying and he ended up in a cult, wow.

[@occultislux]

This channel should be called Roots of No Orthodoxy

[@NFS0038]

The man who owns this channel is honest and doing good work presenting information to all to hear and aid in their own investigations. So many wonderful videos of real Orthodox priests such as Fr Josiah and Fr Zechariah have touched many hearts. Information can only help people, and the light of the truth burns away all falsehoods anyway. Have grace for the channel owner, brother! And don't let this harm your soul.

[@OrthoScottishSlav7]

@occultislux Coalpost.

[@occultislux]

@NFS0038 It's just strange to me that he came out as Catholic not long ago and now he is doing a lot of videos on the WR. I wonder why he didn't tell us he was actually Catholic right off the bat.

[@fernandotemiquel4677]

​@@occultisluxHes done a great work in exporting Orthodoxy to many. Catholic or no, dude is curious. Many orthobros are just gatekeepers and not very orthodox in your approach to WR and good ecumenism which RoO is doing.

[@pitt1008]

This comment reeks of judgmentalism… which is far from Orthodox. Go back to the Desert Fathers.

[@JohnAndrewMacDonald]

So the Filioque and Papal Infallibility and the Immaculate Conception are not Heresies??

[@fernandotemiquel4677]

How about you watch the whole video and not presuppose positions that are not held.

[@JohnAndrewMacDonald]

@@fernandotemiquel4677 I did. I am referring to his comment that the Roman Catholic Church is in Schism but not heresy. He stated it, I have the right to ask a question.

[@EpistemicAnthony]

​@JohnAndrewMacDonald I share your skepticism. He also just basically affirmed purgatory, and affirmed the RCC view of the afterlife.

[@JohnAndrewMacDonald]

@EpistemicAnthony well, as for the name purgatory I have zero issues. The later post Schism definitions have issues. In fact, the teaching of purgatory has never been a major stumbling block.

[@JohnAndrewMacDonald]

@EpistemicAnthony I am 100% western rite, just not post Schism

[@Orthodoge]

I see no place for “western rite” besides as a stepping stone for former Trad Caths

[@DositheiteChungus]

Good thing you’re a layman with a loudmouth and not a bishop then 😃

[@dhirendas374]

Hey. You can never percive anything outside your consiousess. Nor had you ever . Because the only reason it exists is because you are consious of it

[@Webstertheology]

Stop trying to sound smart lol, "religion is a control mechanism" 😂

[@EpistemicAnthony]

"The only reason your consciousness exists is because you are conscious of it." Congratulations, you haven't answered the question. Why am I conscious of it?

[@Mr.C-you-later]

I don't trust this. Not one bit.

[@Mailb0y]

Womp womp. He's a validly ordained orthodox priest

[@Mr.C-you-later]

@Mailb0y and plenty have pushed heresy in the past.