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I agree entirely with ILSM. The grave danger continuing to face the Church is the widespread desire to be like others, and copy the practices and spirituality of Protestants and others, rather than finding our life in the ancient and authentic Trad…
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You are looking at Nicaea 15, but the same rules were repeated at Antioch just a few decades later. And the epitomes of the canons show how they were understood. The same rules are mentioned in the Apostolic Canons. Canon XXI of Antioch says.. A …
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If you have repented then destroy everything to do with these errors which you own, and then confess to your spiritual father.
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I'm also interested in the 19th century. I am writing a paper for the next edition of the Glastonbury Review on the Protestant influence on the Church in the 19th century and their plans to subvert the Church through education of the young.
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I think that the meaning of Canon 15 is clear and has been understood clearly in the Apostolic Churches. It is commendable that the Coptic Orthodox Church has been conservative in retaining the most ancient understanding of the canon - but this stil…
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Of course you can pray without facebook. Lol! I am creating a website as well. But you can join facebook and only have serious people as friends. I don't play any games or respond to any requests to play games, and I don't post irrelevant notices a…
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I am afraid I still do not agree with your interpretation and I believe it is mistaken.
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Both these fathers had large churches in the major cities of the empire. It is also the case that the wednesday lecture of his holiness is not a liturgy. I am not convinced that technology has a place in our liturgy indeed it seems always to debase…
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I guess I am more thinking of the situation in the west where there are microphones but few mosques.
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I have to admit to not understanding why a microphone is necessary. I have never used one. Our fathers never used them. If a building is so big that the voice of the priest cannot be heard then perhaps the congregation is too large and several cong…
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I don't mean that any other possibility should be considered, but that there are always ways around canons if that is what people are trying to do. The title Bishop of Alexandria is already rather traditional rather than real. The Patriarchate is a…
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The application of canons is never absolute but is a matter always of an appropriate conciliar interpretation and application. The source of authority in the Church is always the Holy Spirit, not canons or councils or bishops. The intent of the can…
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I have also created a Facebook page here... http://www.facebook.com/pages/Orthodox-London-mission/120962741353666 I am trying to gather 100 people who will commit to pray for this mission, and at least 10 local people who will commit to attending …
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I have created a Facebook Group called Orthodox London.. http://www.facebook.com/groups/259654414094395/ and I am trying to gather a network of friends who will pray for this mission, and will encourage those who are in the London area to be invol…
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I am not a fan of seminary education. It is not traditional at all, and takes the one who might be a worthy priest out of the congregational context where he has shown himself a servant. But I do absolutely believe in solid and continuing education…
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I don't think that you are appreciating the spirit of the canons, unless you also think it is problematic that an exceptional circumstance, the transfer of a bishop, has happened very frequently indeed in recent times. This is not to make any comm…
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Then I think that Stavro would ask how he becomes bishop of Alexandria? I have my own understanding, but it is clear to me that such transfers should be exceptional and have been exceptional. I do not believe that they are entirely forbidden as Sta…
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imikhail, Stavro's posts are entirely consistent with Orthodox tradition. It is entirely the case that normally no bishop should be moved to another see, and usually when this has happened it has created negative consequences. BUT.... there are qui…
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I was a Deacon for three weeks before my ordination to the priesthood after having been a Reader and then a Subdeacon for about seven years.
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God is not mocked. We should not consider whether other people will be given a longer time and more opportunities to repent. We should be concerned with ourselves. There is a point when we have so driven grace from our hearts by continual sin tha…
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Why not? I do and always have done.
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Are there no other Orthodox Churches in the country?
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As mabsoota says, it is a national event to allow the bishops and priests of the Orthodox Churches in the UK to celebrate the liturgy together as a witness of our unity, and also to allow the faithful to meet together and experience worship as one C…
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In that phrase begotten is a verb. We say in the creed, ... And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God, begotten of the Father before all ages. The phrase needs a subject. I've never come across 'The begotten of the Father before all ages' in…
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Dear ILSM Father Vahan remains Bishop Vahan. Father Shnork said that it was the practice that the name changes only on ordination to the priesthood and not on consecration to the episcopate. LiD, the priests were Father Antonious Shenouda and Fath…
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The Coptic Language Summer School organised by the British Orthodox Church and held at King’s College, London over the 5th-8th September was a complete success and even exceeded the expectations of those who participated, and myself who organised it…
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How do you think mission can properly take place without properly consistent and comprehensive support? Is it possible for God to desire some ministry and for it to be thwarted by a lack of support?
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The Ethiopian singing has never taken place during any of the Ethiopian and Eritrean liturgies I have attended.
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What support do you think any missionaries need?
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I was there at that event. The singing did not take place in the Liturgy. My main point is not the more minor issues of culture. It is the issue of who should be doing mission if the Coptic tradition is threatened by mission? If it is the BOC/FOC/…