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I thought that official instructions had been released to cover the references to His Holiness Pope Shenouda? We are certainly using texts that our bishop has issued, based on those which seem to be official.
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I no longer eat lamb because it is all contaminated by being offered to Allah. Almost all New Zealand lamb is now slaughtered by Muslim companies who have come in and taken over the whole industry. If I find a local English butcher then I will buy…
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May the Lord have mercy on you.
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May the Lord have mercy on you, and all those patients you will come into contact with!
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I don't have any input on the site design and I am very rarely in contact with the site owner.
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But accepting Jesus as personal lord and saviour is not the subject of a very short prayer, nor is it scriptural or patristic.
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I agree Jerry, and I do think that those communicating with Protestants need to be better informed and more nuanced. But it does seem reasonable to me, as an ex-Protestant still dealing with Protestants, to say that many or most Protestants do beli…
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As an ex-protestant I have to day that there are a lot of groups who do teach explicitly that saving faith just means believing things ABOUT Jesus. I recently produced a podcast and randomly chose a serious protestant website and it taught exactly t…
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Why was Jesus Christ baptised? Dear Jerry Please forgive the delay in responding to your interesting question. I thought that the period after Pascha would be quieter for me, but it has turned out to be even busier. You asked what the Orthodox sa…
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Why would you think a bird flying in a large building is a miracle?
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Yes they are wrong. We are not mere animals and our soul is not simply animal life. For one thing how would mere animal life persist after animal death to enjoy life as spirit un paradise.
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The animal soul is not the same as the higher soul in man which is related to God. We are not simply animals. When we are conceived God also creates our human soul which is united to our flesh. This is a particular creation of God. Without it we a…
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Its not my intent to judge anyone, and it is also the case that when a group of people know prayers well they also tend to say them more quickly but with attention. I think I was especially confused by the post which suggested that monks can immedi…
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I am not sure that anyone is being judged, rather it is being honestly asked how completing prayers in 3 minutes achieves the proper end? If the Psalms were being chanted quickly, but not too quickly, during prayers that lasted 1 hour then what yo…
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I am not sure that I buy that. To enter into the presence of God surely leads us to pray more slowly and more carefully, not more quickly. We can read of the Fathers who become so transported in prayer that they lose sense of time even while prayin…
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I agree with PeterA. It is too easy to be subject to a love of the world ourselves, and yet point out others who are subject to that same love of the world in different ways as if they will be lost and we alone will be saved. The words we read at …
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Satan has many demons. But a great deal of our sin is caused by the sinful habits we have allowed to develop. We don't need to be tempted externally, we just abandon ourselves to sin by our own will. There are a very few books by non-Orthodox I c…
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Why is it said so quickly? How is there a blessing in saying it as fast as possible? I don't understand.
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It is not a simple matter to say that no souls in Hades and Paradise are helped by our prayers. On the contrary the constant and universal witness of the Orthodox Church has been that we should pray for those who have departed. St Severus is most e…
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Of course it is not borrowed from Greek philosophy as something corrupting and wrong. The idea of the continuing and conscious existence of the soul is true. That it is true is shown by the fact that it is the universal teaching of the Orthodox Chur…
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With equal respect you clearly haven't. There is something which you are not offering to God and which prevents you discovering him. This is known only by God but he will reveal it to you if you desire him above all else.
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Clearly you have not sought God with all your heart. There is nothing and no-one more real than God. I am more sure of His presence and care than any other fact or reality. This is so for all others who have the gift of faith. God will give this …
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God created Adam and Eve with free will so that His love, being freely given, might be freely received.
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The two priests in this picture are wearing the shamla.
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No. It is the head covering used by celibate non-monastic priests. The BOC uses it because we are quite conservative in such matters. Ill try to find some photos.
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But what else does Jerome say about salvation, outside of this one bare phrase so that his views are understood in context. We don't have a problem saying that faith alone saves us, but we clearly understand that for faith to be real it must be act…
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The removal of the prayers for those in Hades from the Sagda prayers is also a recent development, after these prayers have been considered part of the Tradition for 1500 years perhaps. This is not a cultural development due to either the 21st centu…
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JG, the trouble is that as far as I can see the Tradition has remained fairly static for at least 700 years, and in the last decades a great many changes have suddenly taken place. This is not normal for Orthodoxy. And if the rate of change accelera…
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I agree with the fact that we are living out our Orthodoxy in a cultural matrix, but I don't agree with what I understand you to be saying (I may have misunderstood) None of the things I mentioned are positive aspects of enculturation, they are all…
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It's a bit busy this week, but there is lots of evidence for the change in headgear over the last decades. if no-one else has produced material I will do so after the Feast of the Resurrection.