@SaintJaneDoe
I sincerely would like to understand what bigotry you are referring to. If the Orthodox Church in Australia is having a problem, I would like to pray for the Church to stop its wrongdoing, for the indigeneous people to not be discourag…
@SaintJaneDoe
While I do recognize there is an issue in the Orthodox Churches with ethnocentrism. It so happens that all of our churches have some sort of ethnic identity. Many of our parishioners often put too much value in the ethnic identity of t…
@Daniel_Kyrillos
4) Oh my goodness, yes! I agree 100%. We should in no way be split from each other. We describe the indescribable a little differently ... big deal! Ultimately we believe the exact same thing.
1) This is a very interesting way of l…
@LivenotoneviL
(very cool tag btw)
I agree 100% with everything you are saying. On a rather personal level, this is why I like contemplating Gethsemane as much as I do. To me, Gethsemane is the jewel of Christ's sacrifice on the cross and what it me…
@ShareTheLord & @mabsoota
Thank you for your responses and sources.
I mean to learn more about the agreed statements in Geneva 1990. I hope we see the day when the EO and OO Churches are in communion again.
Hi, This is a topic I'm highly interested in so I look for as many opportunities to learn more about it as I can ...
@minasoliman
I suggest no error or fault in your response, but this whole matter is monstrously confusing.
1. The EO say that Chris…
Hi SaintJaneDoe,
My thoughts on this are based purely on personal opinion, experience, and observation. This knowledge is only as broad as my own experience, but I have been a few places. I think it overly simplifies things to say that ethnocentrism…
Hi,
Congratulations on your baptism.
You are in the right place to find hymns and songs. I'm not familiar with "Night of the Last Supper" but "The Burning Bush" is one of my favorites:
https://tasbeha.org/mp3/Hymns/Fasts/Nativity/Kiahk_Midnight_Prai…
@Bashandy
Thank you for adding such well thought out information to the topic.
I've always thought the explanation for the pronunciation was much simpler than that, i.e. the orthodox church does its best to preserve every jot and tittle of it's trad…
I listened to something really good this morning. The story is not perfectly on the point of the forum, but it does make a really good point.
There was an elderly man, not quite used to using his new telephone, who got a call one day. The phone rang…
@Amoussa01
I agree with you.
This is just such a tricky and essential topic. I feel a lot of sympathy for anyone who has trouble with prayer because I've been there too... In some ways I still am there.
It's especially troubling when someone thinks …
@CopticApostate
Once again, thank you. Even if we don't end up agreeing, this is a very imortant and healthy topic for me (and I imagine any christian) to look at from every angle possible.
If you look closely, you'll see that Orthodox practice is a…
@CopticApostate,
I think I understand skepticism pretty well. For whatever reason, God made this universe in such a way that reaching for him requires faith. God gave us reason and senses, which are tremendously useful faculties for us humans, and y…
Hi All,
This is a wonderful and extremely important topic for any Christian. It seems even more so in this group as it seems we have a couple of skeptics among us.
We don't pray because God needs something from us. Even though God is active in our l…
Hi,
Sorry, I know this is an old topic, but I'm just reading it and it is something that is important to me.
I have an unusual story in that I was baptized Greek Orthodox very young, I attended a Coptic Orthodox church for all of my youth, and now i…