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Great to see other Orthodox Christians at HN! Already posted quite similar reply to this thread. Especially the "healed my family" -part is something I can rea

Great to see other Orthodox Christians at HN! Already posted quite similar reply to this thread. Especially the "healed my family" -part is something I can really relate to. We've been part of the church for 11 years now but were again quite "deep in the world" before I did a pilgrimage to mt. Athos at 2019. That trip really changed everything for us. It was there that I realized that what Church teaches is the Truth and reality, not just some beautiful and consolating stories, but something to live and die for. After that we've been tied tight to the Church and have been blessed with a good spiritual father who has helped us set our path straight again. God bless you and your family!

prometheus76 5y ago
Glory to God! I agree with you about the reality of Christianity. It took a long time (and I'm still working on it) for me to see the broken nature of my materialist viewpoints. By "broken" I mean there were SO many facets of my life as a human that I could not account for materialistically without invoking magic words like "emergence". Reading the Life of Moses by St. Gregory of Nyssa is what really started helping me understand the traditional worldview, and thereby understand scripture as well. I would like to go to Mt Athos soon, but international travel is getting more and more tricky.