COVID Vaccines: Moral, Ethical, and Spiritual Concerns
Dear Holy Cross Hellenic College,
The attached email states that Holy Cross is “requiring that all students, faculty, and staff receive their vaccinations [for COVID] prior to August 17, 2021.” Although I am not a member of any of those categories, I pray that your email was sent in ignorance of the inherent evils associated with most of the COVID vaccines. In the spirit of Jesus Christ’s commandment to “be wise as serpents and innocent as doves,” please allow me to share information about the vaccines.
In the United States, all of the major available vaccines – both mRNA and viral vector – use aborted fetal cell lines in their research, development, design, production, and/or on-going testing. For example:
- Pfizer-BioNTech uses the aborted fetal cell line HEK-293 in the research, development, and on-going testing of its vaccine.
- Moderna uses the aborted fetal cell line HEK-293 in the design, development, protein production, and on-going testing of its vaccine.
- Johnson & Johnson uses the aborted fetal cell line PER C6 in the research, development, and on-going manufacture of its vaccine.
Abortion is a grave evil and is akin to child sacrifice. Women sacrifice their children for earthly reasons, flesh merchants sell children’s dismembered bodies for money, and medical scientists promise temporal health for those who consume aborted fetal cells and their products. In modern America, children are sacrificed at the altar of Moloch in exchange for pleasure, money, and physical health.
Those Christians who recognize the great evils of abortion, who understand that the COVID vaccines are products of the abortion industry, who know the teachings of the Church and Her Saints, who follow “the Law written in their hearts,” and who struggle to live the faith and “enter through the narrow gate” will avoid vaccines that utilize aborted fetal cell lines. However, the only COVID vaccines that are available are ones that have utilized aborted fetal cell lines.
Will Holy Cross demand its seminarians be co-participants in child sacrifice before they can become priests who are co-participants in the Bloodless Sacrifice?
I pray that Holy Cross will have a change of heart and not force her seminarians to either give up their education or abandon their conscience. I pray that Holy Cross will respond to our culture’s fear of death with the joyous proclamation “Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and on those in the tombs bestowing life!” I also pray for all of you.
CHRIST IS RISEN!
TRULY HE IS RISEN!
–Arsenios
May 8, 2021
HCHC Letter below:
Please note: In addition to the ethical concerns about the use of aborted fetal cells, this move by HCHC violates the principle of voluntary, informed consent for medical procedures. The Russian Orthodox Church, among other Orthodox jurisdictions, has stated that vaccine coercion is morally unacceptable. To prepare for ministry in the Church, young men, at almost no risk for COVID, will be forced to take an experimental treatment with uncertain short-term and long-term side effects. This situation is all the more troubling as many Orthodox Christians have already relied on religious exemptions to avoid taking vaccines which are not FDA approved. These treatments are available only under an “emergency use” authorization. Secular institutions have honored the freedom of conscience of Orthodox Christians, but an Orthodoxy seminary apparently will not. The situation borders on the surreal.
For more information, please view our Vaccine Informed Consent articles. HCHC relies on donations as well as tuition. Please contact the HCHC staff at this link to let them know your concerns about this policy.
—Orthodox Reflections Staff
JUST SENT THIS EMAIL, USING THE ABOVE LINK. ORTHODOX REFLECTIONS, YOU’RE DOING A GREAT JOB. KEEP IT UP!
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Dear Mr. Cantonis and Staff:
RE: “Required” experimental COVID injections for students and staff.
Attorney Robert Kennedy, Jr., of Children’s Health Defense would say you are on shaky ethical ground:
“The number of reports of injuries and deaths following COVID vaccines continues to rise, according to data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The data comes directly from reports submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaers-vaccine-injuries-climb-pfizer-seeks-full-approval/
Attorney Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel would say you are on shaky legal ground:
“‘These vaccines have never been licensed by the Food and Drug Administration [FDA], they only have EUA, so federal law requires for all EUA treatments that you need full informed consent to administer them to anybody, you cannot coerce anyone to have the drug or shot,’ Staver said.”
https://leohohmann.com/2021/04/22/digital-vaccine-passports-how-to-fight-back-and-win/
Many Orthodox Christians, including the man who wrote this open letter, would say you are on shaky spiritual ground:
https://orthodoxreflections.com/open-letter-to-holy-cross-hellenic-college-on-covid-vaccine-requirement/
Why don’t you step off the shaky ground and withdraw this unnecessary and draconian mandate?
Those who need medicine, if and when necessary, may seek safe, effective COVID-19 treatments, such as the longstanding antiviral, antimicrobial drug ivermectin, at a doctor’s office.
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!
XB!! Covid has become Vatican 2 for the Orthodox Church.
For GOarch, pitiful Americanized Greek Culture trumps Orthodox Christianity. Remember, their ordinations are hollow and not real. Christ does not and has not dwelt in them for the better part of the last 100 years.
We should address the errors of GOARCH without being schismatic. It is out of line to say “their ordinations are hollow and not real. Christ does not and has not dwelt in them for the better part of the last 100 years.” You are not helping.
We have to second Aresenios on that. We have a non-censorship policy that we adhere to, except when it is outright blasphemy. There are many holy priests in GOARCH. They do excellent work. There are also some Metropolitans that have done impressive work, even if they operate in a system that (charitably speaking) could use a lot of reform. But their sacraments are valid and all of us who are canonical in the US are in communion with Greek Archdiocese.
ROCOR is canonical and currently NOT in communion with the Greek Archdiocese. Neither are the few parishes of the Moscow Patriarchate here in the US. I don’t see any scenario in the near future when this communion will be restored.
Not being in communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate and saying that the Ecumenical Patriarchate does not have Divine Grace are two different things. There are canonical jurisdictions that have legitimately broken communion with and stopped commemorating the EP, but none have proclaimed that the EP does not have Divine Grace.
Actually, that isn’t quite true. The last I heard, The Russian Orthodox Church is canonical
and, for reasons we’ve all heard about by this time, we are not in communion with the Phanar.
Bravo!Arsenios.. May GOD grant you much grace and holy protection in your life and in the life most important to come . Amin.
The Church can condemn abortion while still accepting God’s gift of modern science to alleviate suffering in the world. All vaccines from the 1960s and onwards have used replicated fetal cells in vaccine development.
Just as the Church celebrates Christ’s descent into Hades without approving of crucifixion, we also worship Christ the Lamb of God while praying for the souls of the aborted children whose cells were used for development of vaccines across history.
Just as we eat Jesus’ flesh and blood in the eucharist, its ok to eat the flesh and blood of someone who was murdered by cannibals as long as they were already murdered. — your vile logic
Is this a seminary? Churches have been taken over by seminary requirments. First they require you go to seminary to become a priest. Then they teach the seminarians evolution and psychology and so on to pervert them. Now they weed out good candidates by requiring things that violate faith so only the faithless may enter seminary. And thus the takeover of rhe church by Satan is complete unless the seminary requirements are removed. This is how the Romans fell. This is why they have a priest shortage, and why the priests they have are no good. This is how they ended ip with Francis as Pope.
The worst I see in this movement is that our”GOD
GIVEN GIFT OF FREE WILL” is being taken away from us by HIS “SO CALLED” followers.
During this “pandemic” what is, what has been for a long time, is being revealed. That many “Orthodox” authorities cannot penetrate and assess what the “vaccine” really is shows them to be out of touch with the phronema–Mind of Christ–inherent within the Church. We are in a season of sorting. By that I mean, many call themselves “Orthodox” but they have drifted from the True Faith in heart.