Sorrowful Joy - African Americans and the Orthodox Church with Fr. Paul Abernathy
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2023
- Fr. Paul Abernathy, Pastor of St. Moses the Black Orthodox Christian Church in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania speaks to us about how African American spirituality, rooted in the suffering of slavery, is fulfilled in the Orthodox Church.
I think every Orthodox Christian on the earth and every African-American needs to see this video
I agree my dad told me Ethiopia was great but Greeks pushed it because the New Testament was written in Greek and it flourished till we fell. under the turks the ottomans. We are white and yet the western whites who were Catholic allowed the invasion. Like they fed us to the wolves. Why because we came in shades and were not as white as them ?
So often now discussions involving race and Christianity focus on the problems (accurately or not, real or political), but I haven't often heard such a clear proclamation of the power of the Gospel to address racial suffering and discontent. So encouraging.
Very powerful. CHRIST BE WITH YOU FATHER. Your blessings. From a Greek Orthodox Christian whose people were under subjugation for 400 years.
Thank you Fr. Paul for posting. My tears would not stop throughout the entire video. Praise the Lord Jesus Christ.
I am a Orthodox from Asia, from Kazakhstan to be presise. I see that there's no obstacle to be christian - only fear.
This was fascinating. I'm an African-American man(ex-Catholic) now atheist. But, really enjoyed the understanding of why so many Blacks are so religious. Of course, some of it I knew. But, this was very interesting. Thanks, Fr. Abernathy
Christ is the path forward to freedom for every single one of us. Christianity and Orthodoxy, specifically, is the only way.
How? Institutionalism is the problem! Did you not hear the testimonial of African American underground. Straight from the underground? What of the African who has no access to that institution?
@@theimplacableauthoritarian2938 Yeah, I think you're getting hung up here. Orthodoxy is the fullest expression of the faith but coming to the faith is first and foremost.
Second, don't confuse Orthodoxy for Catholicism. Orthodoxy isn't an institution, but a way. It's the original way, and not an edifice in a city claiming dominion over all the earth.
What I heard in this video was that Orthodoxy resolves the struggles of the African-American experience and places those struggles in their fullest context. Maybe I'm missing something here, but it seemed like that's what I heard- an affirmation of the power within Orthodoxy to reconcile the African American experience within Christ most fully.
Amen… preach it
All who suffer thus know this truth
Thank God!
Beautiful. This message is sorely needed.
all America needs to hear this lost message
Beautiful and so articulate ❤
Amen father! 🙏
Well done and much needed!
Love this! Sharing this far and wide. Thank you! ☦️💙🙏🏾
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This is excellent!
thank you for this needed!!!
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At the 19:15 mark what sign of the cross is that? Looks mad cold
So our ancestors were Orthodox? I’m mean I’m confused.
Orthodoxy is the closest to the first Christians, your ancestors depending where you live , followed some form of Christianity. No, slaves were not Christians, they started to be christians after they reached between colonials and they were not orthodox as their masters were not having anyhting to do with orthodoxy.
@@costealucia5357 Orthodoxy is the faith of the first Christians not the closest thing. I’m Orthodox and African American and I’m aware that my slave ancestors were not Christians nor Orthodox, and while I truly understand the suffering they incurred (many people suffered Africans in African under colonialism, Jews in the Holocaust, Native American were almost wiped out in North and South America) I fail to make the correlation between their spiritual hymn etc and Orthodoxy? Many people suffered in this world that doesn’t necessarily qualify them as “Christians per se or Orthodox. Hence the confusion
Yep Im with you in that and the fact identity politics is and has been coming to the Orthodox Churches is very concerning. Som of these priest are making everything about skin color now which makes a being deceptive. Union with Christ has nothing to do with skin b color. I’m would not accept communion with any priest that believes in that
Christianity is every body’s religion, every human’s religion, there is no white or black all the same with God.
Agreed tired of it and tired of all these priest making skin color their focus. So sicking
Only one thing is true, orthodoxy is the one true way in Christianity BUT, slaves and slavery had nothing to do with orthodoxy, that you find a way in orthodoxy? is something else, but, the roots of their ancesors were not Christians
We are children of God, and our spiritual ancestors were Christians.
Orthodoxy, Orthodox Christianity, has to do with everyone because Christ Almighty Himself suffered. He Himself suffered. And on the third day He Rose from the dead giving all of us eternal life. That is the message. No matter what you, I or any one of us suffers, we look to His example, THE ALMIGHTY, and we shall overcome all of it. (And dont forget what the first Christians suffered in the COLOSEUM and everywhere else for bread and circuses, and became Saints. And in the ages to come indeed being sold off as slaves to those who were not Christian and not Orthodox. It's easily researchable. Now I'm going to leave this here for you, not for a nationalist identity, for you to research as a historical purpose: Hiram Powers the Greek Slave Statue and it's use. And it didn't only happen to the Greeks... This is and above all, faith is the reason those of us who are Orthodox Christians are and will be Orthodox Christians. We survived all the 'isms'. There is no leaving now, there is only joining.) one last thing: you don't hear Orthodox Christians talking about slavery, subjugation, the extremes of political ideology they were forced under not to attend church or even light a candle in their own home (literally) because the focus is on Christ Almighty. @costealucia5357