For the Orthodox Faithful who are Confused
About COVID Vaccines
by Father Kosmas
14 September 2021
PART ONE: Pro Mass Vaccination Clergy and Others of Like Mind
Is the topic of vaccines a medical issue only or is it also a spiritual issue?
In the last 18 months, I have received several emails from Orthodox Christians who are confused and disturbed over the COVID situation and the restrictions in the churches. Lately, these emails have especially been about COVID-19 vaccines. Apart from putting together, with God’s help, an archive of various videos and articles relating spiritually and medically to all this, I have also started to upload my notes for Talk 82, which was going to cover these issues. What follows is a selection of these notes, as well as what I have learnt over the last year when dealing with the difficult topic of COVID-19 vaccinations.
However, before we examine what the saints and elders say about this topic and the spiritual significance of receiving the COVID-19 vaccination, it is very important to provide some medical information. The topic of vaccinations needs to be looked at from both angles, as they are related. We will see that even the contemporary grace-filled elders speak about, not only the spiritual effects, but also the physical effects of this particular vaccine.
Do the COVID-19 vaccines meet the criteria for traditional vaccines?
It should be noted that even though the terms vaccination or vaccines will be used throughout this article, we are referring rather to a novel experimental gene therapy (mRNA /DNA therapy technology) which has not been used on humans ever before, and this technically is not actually a vaccine at all, in the traditional sense. Furthermore, the effects of this mRNA technology, according to many renowned scientists, are potentially very harmful and therefore it should be tested in humans only with caution over a long period of time. Many scientists are concerned about the potential for immune system problems, which indeed form perhaps the majority of the side effects and deaths reported from these new COVID vaccines.
