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It was the normal practice in England for most people to wait to get married until they could support a family. This had been the practice for 1000 years. Of course there were always those who married young, and even in foolish circumstances. But…
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epchois, I appreciate the honesty with which you have shared your own thoughts on this issue, but if I have not misunderstood you I have to say that I think that you make several grave mistakes which are entirely culturally conditioned and have noth…
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Pray every day carefully and with attention for each of your Sunday School students. Consider them your responsibility, and that you have a duty to know them and pray for them. Put effort into the lessons, and make sure that you yourself are learni…
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Also, carefully pray the Hour of Compline from the Agpeya. It is all about laziness. But as St John Cassian explains, the solution to laziness is the habit of activity. Build a routine. Commit yourself to serving others. Put yourself under the pres…
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Ilovesaintmark, I think you write great. The Armenian tradition you describe sounds wonderful. I think this is one reason that it is important that we have warm fellowship with the other communities in the Orthodox communion so that we see how thin…
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CHAPTER 8 That he is sure to be restless who will not be content with the work of his own hands “BECAUSE we were not restless among you.” When he wants to prove by the practice of work that he was not restless among them, he fully shows that thos…
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The Fathers teach us that laziness is one of the spiritual giants that assault us on the spiritual way. Our Father among the saints, St John Cassian, especially provides us with useful instructions which he learned from the Fathers in the Desert. T…
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It is hard for me to pick out one instance. When my wife was pregnant with our twins she started bleeding and they could only detect one heartbeat. A friend of mine in the US was attending a Church consecration by His Holiness that day and asked him…
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I must say that I am concerned to read that any Orthodox Christian thinks that the Church should change to suit the culture. We are not talking about enculturation in regard to some of the things that are being said, but the subversion of the Church…
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A Coptic Orthodox can marry any Orthodox person. This is another good reason for Orthodox living together where there are multiple communities and not staying in a mono-cultural enclave.
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Just one point, I think there are a very great many scholars who are Christian and know ancient languages. Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek are very commonly known. Father Peter
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Priests certainly do not need to be made celebrities, but priests are people too. And they also need encouragement. They need to be told that what they doing, often at great cost, is making a difference to others. They need to hear that a sermon or …
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Here is what St Cyril teaches us in his commentary on this topic.. The law spoken by Moses to them in ancient times enacted like for like: and while it forbade doing any wrong, it by no means commanded those who had already been injured to bear pat…
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Zoxasi, Lol! I don't think that you are crazy about celebrities, but it seems the whole world is. TITL, I would gladly make my Skype name widely known, but I have so little time. I am certainly not a star in any sense. But I have to work hard most …
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I am not sure what you mean by 'they are stars'? They are nobody important. They are famous for being famous for being on TV. The real stars are unknown, are engaged in humble service. The current craze for celebrity, which even infects the Churc…
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If the law forbade you to worship would you break it, or not worship and lobby for it to be changed? Why should bad law not be rejected? The example of parking outside your house is not a reasonable comparison. It is not against our Christian fait…
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It was decided by the judge that it was less important that the Christians be warned that their principles had no place in modern Britain, than that two homosexual activists, who had planned this visit purely to cause trouble for the Christians in q…
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Dear dzheremi, When I first started to take an interest in Orthodoxy it was perhaps 25 years ago. At that time there wasn't a great deal of material in English about Orthodoxy itself. In terms of specific books, I read at some point... The Orthod…
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This is not an answer to your particular question, but if I was renting a property I would probably seek to rent it to Christians. I would probably not run a Hotel except for an explicitly Christian one which was more like a retreat centre. If I …
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You are responsible for whatever troubles your conscience. No one can take that responsibility away from you. If you have already decided it is ok then why ask?
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Why can't we break the law if tramples on our consciences and principles? Recently a Christian couple were fined in the UK for refusing to let a room to a homosexual couple. I am entirely in agreement with them and I would have done the same. Out…
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It is late here. But I will PM you tomorrow and we can arrange a Skype conversation. I am not sure I am a spiritual father, but I am willing to try and be a friend. Father Peter
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We are human beings. Not spiritual beings stuck in a body. Everything that happens to our body happens to US. So when we have a toothache it makes it hard to concentrate on anything else. This does not mean that we lose our relationship with God, b…
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All the Eastern Orthodox Churches use the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom. There was great variety in the past, but in the Medieaval period all the local liturgies were forbidden in the Eastern Orthodox communion and only the rite of Constantinople …
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Lol! I do know quite a few people who have come to Orthodoxy who have been associated with the Brethren at one time or another. You are quite correct that we never called ourselves Plymouth Brethren, but I thought I'd use the term that others used …
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I will share some aspects of my life story, especially those relating to my becoming Orthodox. I was born to parents who had converted to Christianity in their early teenage years, partially through the preaching of Billy Graham. Eventually they at…
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Posts with links are likely to be flagged as spam because this is what bots do. Unfortunately with so many bots (I have 1633 requests to join Tasbeha to check over the last couple of days, of which 2 will be real people) we have to do all we can to…
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First, we must abandon all plans to God. If we are not able to pray from the heart, 'I offer this dream to you, and if it is not your will for me then I will gladly abandon it for your sake and my salvation', then it is something that WE want to do…
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A gloss on the ancient commentaries says.. Joseph was not disobedient to the angelic warning, but he arose, and took the young Child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. The Angel had not fixed the particular place, so that while Josep…
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Why do you think that what we want is not what God wants? Father Peter