What to do for salvation if living too far from a Church to attend regularly or even at all
First of all, pray constantly to St. Barbara to you communion in the True Church, should you ever find yourself in danger of dying without a priest being able to give you communion.
Find your nearest TRUE Orthodox Church (not simply "Orthodox Church"). If too far away you can simply follow the services of St. Joseph of Petrograd Church, Oregon, USA online via this private link to an unlisted playlist of recent and upcoming services is: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYGou-bsDjUNmrJ3gyvtgPIlb6OFtfzJ2
A priest wrote on Monday, 10/07/2023 at 04:27:
Greetings. We stream our services on youtube since most people can access it without issue. All of the streams of our services are unlisted, which means they don't show up in a search or directly on the youtube channel (so as to not advertise them) but they are available to anyone with the link.
The link to an unlisted playlist of recent and upcoming services is: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYGou-bsDjUNmrJ3gyvtgPIlb6OFtfzJ2
I generally keep a few weeks of recent services in the playlist and all the currently scheduled services in it. I will remove old streams after a few weeks to make it easier to navigate to the more recent services.
For a theological exposition as to why it's only the True Orthodox Church (not the Orthodox Church) which is the true church, see below:
It's True Orthodox Christianity not "Protestantism" nor "Romanism" (misnomered Catholicism very commonly including here), which is the True Church.
The only TRUE Church is the TRUE Orthodox Church, not the "Orthodox Church" of the "World Council of Churches" (regardless of what calendar they are celebrating on in a given place (Patristic aka Old aka Julian Calendar; New aka Revised Julian Calendar; Gregorian Calendar; or any one of a myriad of calendars of the Heterodox or other religions when they co-worship with them in accordance with their rights) .
Furthermore, the "World Orthodox" and their fellow member Churches of the World Council of Churches (WCC) refused, in 1983, Bishop Gabriel of the Cyclades Islands the opportunity to even speak at the WCC Assembly, meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, about the largest ever #ReligiousGenocide and #Persecution of #Christians in history, the #TrueOrthodoxChristianGenocide of over One hundred million (100,000,000) born people and over 1 billion unborn people in the Soviet Union alone, as well as co-worshipping with non-Christian and even openly anti-Christian members and supporters of the World Congress of Religions, such as "Jews", Moslems, Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, Sikhs, Indigenous Aboriginal Pagan Shamans, as at the Vancouver WCC Assembly and in New Delhi, India, in 1961, and as we're to come later in Assisi, Tuscany, Italy in 1986 and Canberra, Australia, in 1993, inter alia, some of whom, along with the atheists of humanism they consort with and fail to oppose, have been open supporters and perpetrators of the #TrueOrthodoxChristianGenocide.
Within this #TrueOrthodoxChristianGenocide we find #ProtomartyrForTheDefenceOfTheHolyTraditions #StCatherineOfMandra, who died at the instigation of the Greek Police, as the result blows by their rifle butts in 1927. She was physically shielding her priest from their attacks. They had been summoned by the New Calendarist Archbishop of Athens to stop the True Orthodox Christians celebrating according to the Traditional Patristic, aka Old, Calendar they had always used.
Consequently the only unquestionably canonical remaining Synod, the True Orthodox Christian Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), meeting at their monastic skete in Mansonville, Québec, Canada issued the 1983 Anathema Against Ecumenism, condemning this co-worshipping with heretics and non-Christians, including the branch theory of the Church, and even the idea that the church was yet to be created, in clear contradiction of the Biblical statement: "This is my Church, and the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it."
CS Lewis in his "Mere Christianity" pointed out that Christ is either a madman or a God. There's no middle ground.
Prior to this he points out that the existence of universal morals, the Natural Law, is proof of an external creator more powerful than them. The majority of the World's population has always accepted this and rejected atheism and agnosticism.
A reluctant convert from Atheism to Anglicanism, which is generally considered a form of Protestantism, he was concerned to lay out the general consensus of all those who call themselves (mainstream) "Christians", of the knowledge and beliefs they have in common.
He said that it was after accepting this that one should explore who's right between the different "types" of "Christianity", e.g. between "Methodism" and "Greek Orthodoxy".
Miracles are proof of the supernatural.
However, this can be benign or malign (as detailed impartial investigations of Fátima, for example, and especially the miracle of the Sun, going back to original reports, which clearly demonstrate malign UFO phenomena with injuries (see the excellent ProphecyWatchers documentary on this).
However there are also benign miracles which repeat up to the present (such as the miracle of the Holy Light at Orthodox Easter which continues to be corroborated), and other distinguishing miracles which distinguish between Truth and falsehood, such as the miracle of the splitting of the Holy Pillar of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre of 1579 (confirmed by the carbon dating and other scientific analysis (e.g. of the burn and splitting marks of the pillar confirming a massive electrical charge for which the technology doesn't exist even now (University of Athens scientist in 2008 corroborated by a University of Moscow scientist (in published work in scientific journals). This shows that the Monophysite Armenian "Patriarch"'s bribe of the Turkish authorities to replace the Orthodox Patriarch at the ceremony of the Holy Light, and from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre did not work, as the Hoy Light, aka Holy 🔥 Fire then descended where the Orthodox Patriarch and the faithful were waiting just outside the entrance by the pillar. This was also witnessed by the Muslim Emir Tunom who jumped down from a local mosque and was martyred for his pains. This supports the Orthodox case against the Monophysites.
Another miracle was the flowering of the Glastonbury thorn and its cuttings, originally miraculously planted when the stave of Joseph of Arimathea, Sanhedrin member and Jesus's rich uncle who owned the tomb he was laid in, which flowered as the Glastonbury thorn, in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, at traditional Orthodox Christmas and Orthodox Easter until destroyed by vandals in 2018. This supports the traditional Patristic or Old Calendar against calendar change innovations by the "Roman Catholics" and others, including the so-called New Calendarists with their calendar change dating from the 1920s.
This is further supported by the 1920s Miracle of the Third Appearance of the Holy Cross at Mount Hymettus, Athens, Greece, in defence of those celebrating that feast, against police attempts, in support of the modernist New Calendarist heresy which had taken control of the official state religion of Greece, the "Orthodox Church of Greece" at the instigation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople led by the Ecumenical Patriarch Meletios Metaxas, an open Freemason, and the Greek state authorities, to stop them, during the Vespers and all-night celebration of the feast of the Appearance of the Holy Cross (the first appearance was to the saint and Emperor Constantine the Great just before the battle of the Milvian Bridge (in this sign, Conquer) in 312AD. Those who have continued to defend this traditional calendar since the 1920s are known as the Old Calendarists. And those who also defend these traditions, evidenced in the miraculous preservation of the bodies of contemporary saints such as Philaret of New York who reposed in 1985, are known as True Orthodox Christians.
Then there's the Shroud of Turin. As the overwhelming consensus of the leading experts agrees, Jesus's crucifixion and Resurrection in a burst of radiation and light, fits the known scientific facts about the Shroud. Likewise the Sudarion (and the Holy Tunic, the crucifixion). The carbon dating on it has now been admitted to be unreliable by those who did it. lt concentrated on areas where there were medieval repairs done on its supporting edges.
All sincere doubting Thomases reach the point where they have enough, sufficiently hard evidence for them to believe. When they reach that point varies between individuals.
Those who are not yet sincere enough in their search for the Truth won't accept any amount of evidence.
lt's to be hoped that they become sincere before they die, as otherwise it's far from certain that the prayers of the faithful, which are conditional on it not being a sin to offer such prayers, for their salvation, will be answered.
Those who are sincere can study the catechical and other materials referenced here: www.trueorthodox.eu and follow these Twitter/X accounts: @NewsNFTU and @adrianwhyatt, and advance on the sure path to salvation
With love in Christ,
Adrian.
Postscript:
Lists of persecutors of (World) "Orthodox Christians" who persecute True Orthodox Christians, must include the Facebook Ask An Orthodox Priest Group which tries to limit its definition of "Orthodox Christianity" to the "Canonical Eastern Orthodox Churches" which have been aiding, abetting and perpetrating the #TrueOrthodoxChristianGenocide abuse and murder for over a century.
For directing an enquirer who wanted to attend a traditional, not "liberal" "Orthodox Church" to True Orthodoxy, I have been threatened by a ban by this administrator.
https://www.facebook.com/joselauro.strapasson
There have been other administrators who have also accused me of breaking their rules. When we True Orthodox are the ones who have defended the canons from the World Orthodox Ecumenists who defile them.
As Father Joseph Suaiden has pointed out, from 1924 until the Germans occupied Greece in 1941, the World Orthodox New Calendarist Government of Greece persecuted and murdered True Orthodox Christians.
Under German occupation True Orthodox Christians were able to open churches and worship freely.
Masonic abuse was also curtailed, as, for all its many faults, freemasonry, which had so riddled the leaders of the New Calendarist Greek state church and Government, was correctly seen as satanic.
When they left with the aid of the UK Government led by freemason Winston Churchill, restored the status quo ante and the persecution resumed.
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