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Thanks for all the comments. It was good to see mabsoota and aidan again. I am sure we will iron out all the kinks by the time of the next Education Day, which will probably be in January. I think that we will re-record the video for the three talk…
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We do not know.
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Today I am busy. I am on a train heading to London for the Orthodox Education Day. You will need to sort yourselves out. God bless us all
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The event will be recorded, and Father Vahan has just emailed me and said that it will be streamed from... http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oriental-orthodox-education-day I hope the technology works OK. Do pray for all those speaking and all those …
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My son, search the internet and you will find wisdom if you look in the right place. Try books.google.com. The Fathers do not generally think that we can say who the anti-Christ is. Oecumenius, the first great commentator on the Revelation and a …
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You need to read the Orthodox commentators and see what they say. You will find that there is a proper reserve in being dogmatic about any of these things. Father Peter
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I have to say that I am very grateful for the deacons who serve with me. We are small in number, but they are very devoted and committed. All of the metalwork in the altar is gleaming. We have more work to do though and I am convicted by ilovestmark…
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I have just finished my presentation for tomorrow. I have tried to prepare it with much prayer and fasting, so I hope that it will be useful to some people. The presentations are not long because we want to make the event accessible to many people, …
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This is a VERY interesting a scholarly work on the subject, and one of the texts I studied. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hHmi8SoZ_9MC&pg=PA206&dq=stoning+old+testament&hl=en&ei=L9yqTL2pG4yN4gadkK3KCA&sa…
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I think that as we grow closer to God and our heart becomes more and more the temple of the Lord it becomes unbearable for Satan and his demons who can only assault us from without. If our heart is not becoming pure, and if we have not made an alta…
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What in particular doesn't make sense? Father Peter
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These are just some thoughts and reflections. They are not any sort of definitive answer. It seems to me that we must not seek to excuse the Old Testament because we do not think that it is compatible with the New Testament. Rather we must surely u…
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May the Lord have mercy on you. I do think you should get some medical advice because many of our problems are not only spiritual because we are not only spiritual but physical and so we are also influenced by our physical condition. There could w…
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There are many Churches around the world where EO are communed by OO and OO are communed by EO. If we have already agreed that the EO are Orthodox then it seems problematic to priests I know around the world to refuse communion to someone that our …
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When we sin intentionally it is proper for us to have an increasing sense of having grieved our Heavenly Father and lost some sense of the closeness of the Holy Spirit. This is the aim of the Christian life, to acquire the Holy Spirit. When we sin …
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I will post about this later.
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None of the Fathers of the Church refer to his teachings until very late - 14th century and later. He has become popular in very modern times in the Coptic Orthodox Church. Father Peter
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I sent this text to someone once, and I haven't changed my understanding.... Thank you for your interesting question. It would not surprise me to find that some Coptic clergy, even bishops, might consider this passage to be original and canonical, …
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I think that many of the priests do know, and Bishop Angaelos and Metropolitan Seraphim are those organising it. If people won't come when Orthodox clergy organise something then I don't know what else could be done to make it attractive to Copts? …
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No Copts at all, except for converts, appear to have registered for this Orthodox Education Day. I do hope that it can be mentioned again in church notices again and people encouraged to attend. Father Peter
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Lord have mercy on you both.
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Please do not rely on ANYTHING on that website. The people sponsoring it are truly wicked. There is a great deal you can learn about the Comma Johanneum but please, please use reputable sources for your own sanity as well as spiritual safety. If …
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Thanks for that info. I have never knowingly eaten kosher meat in any case. And there is no issue with unknowingly eating any meat in any case. But I would not choose to eat kosher meat knowing that is has been slaughtered according to Jewish ritu…
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I shall not be posting about this subject over the weekend, and probably not much else either. I have a most blessed duty of baptising a catechumen this weekend and all of my thoughts and attention will be on this event. Do join with me in praying…
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Is any prayer said over the animal in the kosher process, or does it merely provide the methodology for slaughter? As far as I can see, there is no prayer said over the animal. It also seems to be the case that all kosher meat IS labelled. I am no…
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There is no need to say sorry. But since everyone had been coming up with good advice I didn't know what better things I could say. God bless you
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There are prayers online such as ... Prayer Before Communion O Lord, I am not worthy that Thou should come under the roof of my house, for I am sinful, but say Thou first a word and my soul shall be healed. Say unto my soul: "Your sins are forgive…
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Aidan There are large amounts of meat being sold in our supermarkets which have been blessed in the name of another god. You would not eat that offered to Satan, I don't see why anyone would eat that offered to the Muslim god, Allah. I would not ea…
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The problem I have with such a view Aidan is that you are suggesting that we must either adopt everything that the Ethiopian people do or nothing. It is a fact of history that halal meat was not consumed by Roman Catholics, Copts or Ethiopians, and…
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Dear Aidan I am afraid I do not believe that Muslims have a false conception of God, I believe that they worship a different god altogether. I have been studying a number of serious Islamic sites which have lots of details about judgements over th…