00:00 Introduction
00:57 Being sick in the hospital is not hypocrisy
07:16 Apostolic Christianity is not religious philosophy or psychology
19:06 Creation is an invitation to spiritual experience, not the experience itself
23:44 Why this spiritual life requires The Church in the formal sense
32:01 Making worship an obligation is like making romance an obligation
37:32 God taught us what the best way for us to worship Him is
39:40 Orthodox worship is the fulfillment of all things which are Good
43:46 Theology & practicality are united in our understanding of persons
50:27 The divine persons do not change, so becoming like them does not change
53:28 This season will be a lot of defining terms to avoid ambiguity
58:51 The ecumenical councils preserve the effective therapy for spiritual healing
61:20 Closing
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The Orthodox View of Spiritual Therapy & Healing
Orthodox Ecclesiology
S8E2
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In this episode of the Christian Saints Podcast, Fr. Simeon Keyes & James John Marks discuss the Orthodox view of salvation, spiritual healing, the sacramental life of the Church, & more.
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Scripture citations for this episode:

Luke 15:11-32 - The prodigal son
John 9:1-38 - The healing of the man born blind
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00:00 Introduction
02:10 Post-modernism in literature
03:40 What to expect from season eight
08:48 Be The Body of Christ, be The Church
12:48 Bad Ecclesiology causes parish problems & soul problems
16:17 Spirituality is deeply practical, the purpose is to be changed
20:04 Obedience is central to humility & repentance
22:20 Loving compassion is helping people cease to sin
28:28 It makes no sense to be in The Church & make our sin our Identity
31:04 We live in a culture which doesn’t believe in forgiveness (or repentance)
33:43 What we believe is real, physically, mentally & spiritually
37:58 The Church is where we encounter reality most fully
42:00 We need to accept our diagnosis & the effective therapy to heal it
44:11 A welcoming, loving church is one who expects daily repentance
49:23 Closing

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Who, What & Where Is The Church & Why Is It Necessary?
Orthodox Ecclesiology
S8E1

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In this episode of the Christian Saints Podcast, we explore one of the biggest questions in Christian life: What actually is the Church? Is it an organization, a community, a building—or something deeper?

We discuss why the Church is practical without being banal and spiritual without being abstract. Through a conversation on repentance, identity, spiritual healing, and modern culture, we examine how the Church understands itself as the Body of Christ—not merely as a place people attend, but as a life people enter.

If Christianity is more than ideas—if it’s meant to heal, transform, and bring us into reality—then understanding the Church changes everything.

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Scripture citations for this episode:

Luke 15:11-32 - The prodigal son
John 9:1-38 - The healing of the man born blind

The Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion. Our hosts are Father Symeon Kees of Iowa City & James John Marks of Chicago.

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00:00 Introduction
02:20 The structure of the vesperal portion
09:21 Why The Bible should have more than 66 books
11:22 The structure of the Divine Liturgy of St Basil for Holy Saturday
17:31 This service describes salvation in detailed images
31:55 Closing

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Vesperal Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great - What is Salvation?

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Reference materials for this episode:

Reference materials for this episode:

The rubrics of the services, in English translation, of The Vesperal Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great


Scripture citations for this episode:

The fifteen Old Testament readings
- Genesis 1:1-13
- Isaiah 60:1-16
- Exodus 12:1-12
- The Book of Jonah
- Jesus of Navi (Joshua) 5:10 - 15
- Exodus 13:20 - 15:19
- Sophronios (Zephaniah) 3:8 - 15
- 3rd Kingdoms (1st Kings) 17:8 - 24
- Isaiah 61:10 - 62:5
- Genesis 22:1 - 18
- Isaiah 61:1 - 10
- 4th Kingdoms (2nd Kings) 4:8 - 37
- Isaiah 63:11 - 64:5
- Jeremiah 38:31 - 34 (31:31 - 34)
- Daniel 3 (including the song of the 3 youths from the Greek manuscript tradition)

Epistle reading
- Romans 6:3 - 11

Gospel reading
- Matthew 28:1 - 20

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In our series of reflections on the Lenten Triodion we have reached the service of Holy Unction, which, strictly speaking, is after Lent is over, but we're going to carry all the way through Holy Week here.

The morning of Holy Saturday finds us at the very brink of the celebration of Pascha, Passover, The Resurrection of Jesus The Messiah. All vespers services mark the beginning of the new day (there was evening, there was morning, the first day) & so in this service we transition from Sabbath to The Lord's Day. However, we're still in this accelerated timeline of Holy Week & so we cannot yet fully proclaim Christ is Risen. Yet, in the middle of this service we do transition from the darkness of Holy Week into the white of purity & resurrection & we proclaim who The Messiah is & what it is He saves us from & what it is He saves us for.

The Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion. Our hosts are Father Symeon Kees of Iowa City & James John Marks of Chicago.

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