This article was originally posted on L’ADN by Marc Bonomelli.
Andrew Brodsky appears in his modest room in West Virginia. Behind him, an Orthodox liturgical banner decorated with a cross and inscriptions in Greek. This 21-year-old man shows his personal space, lingering on a small altar surmounted by Orthodox icons. “The senses play an essential role in orthodoxy,” he explains. You see the icon, you smell the incense, you listen to the ancient songs. “
It was during a sleepless night that Andrew discovered the Orthodox faith. “One night when I couldn’t sleep, I was listening to a playlist, and suddenly orthodox songs began. I had never heard anything like that, he says. When I entered the church for my first liturgy, I felt exactly the same. It was as if I was exactly where I had to be. “
Andrew illustrates a trend that has emerged in recent years in the United States. A student in psychology and theology, conservative, single, he shares several characteristics with the new converts to orthodoxy: young men in search of a more traditional and more “masculine” form of Christianity. Baptized Catholic and then Protestant, he found his way in orthodoxy after a spiritual search started on YouTube.
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