The Meaning of the Grail: Glastonbury and the Origins of Christianity

[@СофьяПолянкина-ъ1я]

Father Jacob, I have found this treasure of your series today and gave watched the first two episodes with such a delight that our brothers and sisters in Christ are discovering and exploring their ancient Orthodox roots and heritage! May God bless all British and Irish brothers and sisters. Lots of love from Russia!

[@matthewstokes1608]

Right back at you - to beautiful Russia - God Bless!

[@Upperroad4480]

Call no one father on earth as there is only one father and that is God.thats in the New testament and the words of Jesus himself.matthew chapter 23 verse 9.stop playing religion,and find Christ.

[@seasem]

I very much enjoy your presentations from here in our monastery in New Zealand. Well done, father.

[@somersetpgrim]

Glastonbury is 9 miles from where I live and I visit often, I was confirmed at the Catholic Church opposite the abbey in the town. I hope you enjoyed your time in Glastonbury Father, God bless 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@garywilkinson4560]

Lots of witchcraft and satanists there,strange place

[@DCo-g6q]

Found this series today and had to go find my copy of Bede for a reread❤️St. Bede and St. Cuthbert, pray for us🙏✝️☦️

[@orthodoxexchange]

Just knowing that someone has picked up St Bede because of this video brings me great joy!

[@jacksonswain390]

It's hard to express how I feel when I'm watching this. Thank you so much for this series. Learning about these connections to Christians who are both my physical and spiritual ancestors means so much to me.

[@christineburnett5354]

Mother Earth is alive with energy, and Glastonbury and her great hill or Tor is a focal point for this flowing living pulsating energy, or Light . It’s what attracts so many hearts and minds to visit and dwell there . Very very beautiful 🙏🌿🌳🌿

[@matthewstokes1608]

A beautiful film - thank you for sharing this!

[@IIZCHAOS]

The song Jerusalem is about Joseph of arimithea binging christianity to the UK.

[@markeedeep]

This is a really refreshing presentation. Needless to say, news or snippets I came across of the recent annual festival at Glastonbury, left me thankful I was nowhere near it. And I still listen to some rock and metal too.

[@my-name-is-Roxanne]

That was wonderful! Thank you 🙏

[@Christ_Is_King34]

Thank you for sharing this series with us all, it is a blessing to have media containing history of the faith and saints of this green and pleasant land.

[@mattfallguy]

Ragwort thou humble flower with tattered leaves I love to see thee come and litter gold... Thy waste of shining blossoms richly shields The sun tanned sward in splendid hues that burn So bright and glaring that the very light Of the rich sunshine doth to paleness turn And seems but very shadows in thy sight. John Clare 1831

[@johnbeckett51]

Thank you, looking forward to the next episode.

[@thereccereport1172]

Great video.

[@dafyddthomas6897]

Mostly acurate, BUT Arthur was conceied at Tintagel. His last battle was at Camlann, probably in Somerset or Dorset, but nobody is sure

[@julianchase95]

One original evangelist to Britain was St Aristobulus, who came around 55AD. He actually knew Jesus and was one of the 70 disciples, and was an associate of St Paul. What a distinguished figure to have standing at the very headwaters of Christianity in Britain, yet he is hardly ever mentioned. He should be celebrated far and wide.

[@orthodoxexchange]

I will follow this up. Thank you for the pointer!

[@julianchase95]

@@orthodoxexchange Thank you, Father. His feast day is 16 March, and he has a brief write-up in the Prologue of Ohrid. Sabine Baring-Gould’s 16-volume Lives of the Saints only has a brief account, and he puts the date on 15 March. My online version of Butler’s Lives doesn’t mention him apparently, and I don’t have the print version here with me to be able to check properly.

[@orthodoxexchange]

@@julianchase95 If you find any material, do let me know, but I will certainly do research myself as well.

[@julianchase95]

@@orthodoxexchange the Wikipedia entry is quite good: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristobulus_of_Britannia

[@julianchase95]

@@orthodoxexchange and this: orthochristian.com/101909.html

[@chief_tobias_]

British history is American history. This video should be deeply important to all Americans as it is to Brits. St. Brendan brought the Holy Grail to America!

[@julianchase95]

Patent nonsense, Sir ;) The Grail is and always has been in the great land of Britain ;)

[@gerrimilner9448]

the Druids converted really early (not Romans idea of faith though) as they were waiting for the son of a virgin. there are many areas with early writings, about the early church coming here Mary the tower, the first to see Christ risen, was supposed to have gone to a small settlement on the Hampshire coast. there she built a wooden church which was replaced with a stone one in 500, it was re-dedicated to Mary the mother of Christ at some point

[@megangoldsney8214]

It is interesting to consider why, of all the New Testament characters, it is Joseph of Arimithea that is associated with the British Isles. There were many possibilities to choose from, so one wonders why he specifically is referenced. While I highly doubt he made his way to England, I have to wonder what prompted this story to be first told and passed around.

[@hannahpratt8708]

If I remember correctly it might have something to do with some suggestion he could have been trading in tin (vital for bronze) and Cornwall is one of the few places it can be found - where the suggestion he was a tin merchant comes from however I can't recall - though perhaps you were looking for a less scholarly and mundane explanation? (Not that my two pence is particularly scholarly in the literal sense - mere hearsay again really!)

[@chief_tobias_]

Go raibh míle maith agat do seo!

[@jeffreyhoward6319]

Just waiting to be rediscovered by a new generation

[@davidbarrett590]

Speaking as a historian, I do not think that it is possibility that Jesus came to Britain as a teenager or even older with Joseph. Certainly, South Western England was one of the few major sources of tin at that time and we know that merchants from the Levant came to trade for tin. So it is perfectly possible that Joseph was one of them and that he brought Jesus. Of course we have no proof but we do have a very strong folk memory and, more and more, we find that folk memories have some validity.

[@orthodoxexchange]

I think it's the fact that folk memory has been proving more and more valid, in my experience, is one of the things that I am finding most surprising about the production of these videos. In any case, I sincerely appreciate your comment(s)!

[@TywysogCraig]

British in this context means what is now called the welsh. Nothing to do with what we now know of as England. The gospel came straight to the Cymry Avalon = Enlli

[@matthewstokes1608]

That supposes that ALL the indigenous people of England (before there was a word "England") except for those who retreated into Wales were somehow annihilated or driven out by Romans and Danes and Jutes and Vikings, Angles and Saxons - and this is ridiculous - as DNA surveys of the British people prove. No, the Celtic blood ancestry in Kent, for example, where I am from - let alone all the other counties such as Cornwall, Somerset and Devon - remains extremely strong. The island people ancestrally (until the past 50 years or so) have kept a powerful amount of DNA to prove precisely whom they remained - throughout all the invasions and occupations of the past 2 millennia... Remarkably so. 'Avalon' is obviously the true name - and much of the legacy of that time continues in the Welsh - but it stands in English ground for a reason - for such is HIStory... even if 'Glastonbury' is a later Saxon name given to the place, sadly. The Saxons were a phenomenally interesting people as well - as were the Normans who built the cathedrals of course. So were the Vikings - and so were the Romans. Every land, culture and Empire has its day... But the Christians are part of Eternity beyond all else - because of the way of Jesus Christ - the one and only victorious Truth of God.

[@shaundavies5779]

It's very good but the Abbey,Parish church and otherw were in communion with the Pope and the catholic church until the Abbot and others were Martyred for not giving up their Cahtolic Faith and attachment to the Mass and to Rome.

[@Kitiwake]

This was a Catholic monastery. Henry VIII had the Abott of Glastonbury Abbey and 80 of his monks brutally executed and the Abbey ransacked during the great protestant "reformation". Main historical facts silently passed by..

[@shaundavies5779]

Catholic until the period of glorious and unhappy persecution for being Catholic NOT Orthodox.

[@petersumner2229]

Josephus was a trader, Christ is said to have come to Briton in his youth. Why to further his role of returningvyhe lost tribes. Why? Because there were two light, the one of the old testament via Isaiah, and Druid's who changed to Christianity over night, because their philosophy was the same, and so came about " the way " later Culdee's. KEILDAE. I believe Christ spent his missing years in Briton completing 3 triads of 6 years before returning to yhe middle East. Time will proffer the truth, for the history books of England in Glastonbury were burned as they were in Aleandria. We need to know who we are, we Hebrews and of the lost tribes and entitled to our share of the true state of Israel. Cone gather yea all. God Bless.

[@armyguyspc]

Is orthodoxy in the isles, Western rite?

[@orthodoxexchange]

There are some WR communities, but most are Byzantine.

[@chief_tobias_]

I heard they just opened up a WR cathedral somewhere up in Scotland.

[@sharenerobertson5574]

In the Aincent times there was absolutely no Britain, During the times of the Roman empire no Britain, During the times of the Pict celts and Druids Britain did not exist! it was a number of independent kingdoms

[@andrewcarr2657]

The Romans named the place Britannia, it was previously known as Albion