Tradition 💐🪻☦️🌷🌿

'Now I praise thy brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the traditions as I have delivered them unto thee.'
🎶 "Doon Da Rooth" by John Fleagle

[@FoundSheep-AN]

Your icon wall is beautiful! How come you are Christian orthodox? Are you of Slavic origin?

[@Joshualbatross]

I'm American. To my shame, I actually know almost nothing about my ethnicity or lineage, which maybe just cements me even more as truly American- at least in the modern sense. As far as I know, my ethnicity is English/Irish/French/German. The Orthodox Church is the original Church founded in the 1st Century by Christ Himself- "The Way". The phenomenon of heresies and schisms being anathematized and clergy who err from The Way being excommunicated is found right in the Bible's Book of Acts and is as old as the Church itself. The word "Orthodoxy" was used as early as the 4th Century by Greek Church fathers and, to this day, delineates what the Church is and what it isn't: "Ortho-" meaning right/correct, "-Doxy" meaning teaching/understanding. As we say: Orthodoxy is what Christ taught, the disciples preached, and the fathers kept. The Church is Orthodox, but not Jewish. It is Catholic, but not Roman. It is evangelical, but not Protestant. It is Eastern, but for the whole world. It is the fulfillment of the Old Testament. It is the deposit of the New Testament. The Roman Catholic church and all the Protestant churches that now exist because of Rome have no Apostolic succession with the Orthodox Church, and they are continuing to bend with the spirit of the Age, while Orthodoxy remains unchanged. A long way of saying: the Orthodox Church is the true Church. Ironically the English, Irish, French, and even the Germans were Orthodox at some point or another in the 1st millennium.