Go to a Church You Can’t Understand!

We start season seven off with by urging you to attend a [Orthodox] church you can't understand. Co-host Jim has realized he wasted 15 years of spiritual progress waiting for a local parish to be served in English. He traveled The Balkans enjoying all kinds of church services he couldn't understand a word of during early May & this dovetails with Fr Symeon's recent efforts to fulfill the wishes of Metropolitan Saba to teach Americans in the Antiochian tradition how to fully embrace & actualize this tradition without "becoming Middle Eastern".

Reference materials for this episode: 
 - The burning of the relics of St Sava
    - https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/04/27/100127-the-burning-of-saint-savas-relics
 - Episode we did on “change” on a different channel
    - https://youtu.be/-Z_6hXs_wMc?si=sTsUeGqcGKMLPGY1
 - Nikolai of Zica episode
    - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1443073/episodes/14740645

Scripture citations for this episode:
 - Swords into ploughshares
    - Isaiah 2:1-4
 - Let your enemies be scattered
    - Psalm 68

The Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion with oversight from Fr Symeon Kees

Paradosis Pavilion - https://youtube.com/@paradosispavilion9555

https://www.instagram.com/christiansaintspodcast
https://twitter.com/podcast_saints
https://www.facebook.com/christiansaintspodcast
https://www.threads.net/@christiansaintspodcast

Iconographic images used by kind permission of Nicholas Papas, who controls distribution rights of these images

Prints of all of Nick’s work can be found at Saint Demetrius Press - http://www.saintdemetriuspress.com

All music in these episodes is a production of Generative Sounds
https://generativesoundsjjm.bandcamp.com
Distribution rights of this episode & all music contained in it are controlled by Generative Sounds
Copyright 2021 - 2023