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For a thousand years, the Orthodox Church has used a single spoon that has safeguarded the Eucharist, the faithful, and the clergy. According to the Archbishop in Canada, we are now supposed to bake wine into the bread so we can be safe from a virus.


https://orthodoxreflections.com/wine-bread-multiple-spoons-attack-on-the-faith-continues-in-canada/
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Teenage daughter having issues because even though she is back in school in-person, the environment is awful. No one talks, everyone is afraid, the teachers spend all their time yelling at kids online. Where are our leaders?
https://orthodoxreflections.com/lockdowns-kill-why-do-orthodox-bishops-ignore-the-victims/
“Communism would have worked if we had just killed more of the right people.” The man who says things like that, entirely too frequently, is a relative of mine. A close one. A former high-ranking Eastern European police official, he ran a huge region at the height of the Cold War. Millions of people had been under his control. Given the chance, and some vodka, he will lecture you for hours about how he could have built an actual workers’ paradise if he had been allowed to really deal with those no-good dissenters and trade unionists. His commitment to Marxism is just as great today as it was in 1963 when he first got his party card. The collapse of the system has dimmed none of his enthusiasm. Neither did the 20 years he spent running a bank for a notorious oligarch. Somehow, Marxism and Capitalism seem to blend together quite harmoniously at a certain level.
COVID, Climate Change, income redistribution, anti-populism, the need to “build back better,” the need to “reimagine” the economy, the need to erase borders and national sovereignty (particularly American), the need to manage things globally – the same “coded words” permeate our political, social, and even religious discourse now. As we have noted in multiple articles, Orthodox bishops associated with the Ecumenical Patriarchate (though most of the others have not done much better) have been particularly reluctant to push back against COVID closings of churches and other restrictions. The Greek Orthodox organizations have also, among all the Orthodox, made the most prodigious use of the “coded words” of The Great Reset.

https://orthodoxreflections.com/does-greek-orthodoxy-support-the-great-reset/