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My wife often criticises me because I start adopting an accent whenever speaking to foreign people. On Wednesday I had to train some people to use a new website I had developed for their company, and many of those present were Dutch, so I noticed t…
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You see you are twisting things, though I am sure unwittingly. No-one has said that people should be ignorant of Scripture. The Jews were the people of God, and were in a similar relation to God as the members of the Church today. The members of t…
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In a Jewish and the Christian context ekklesia does not mean 'any old gathering of people'. It is a word used often in the Old Testament to describe the intentional gathering together to worship God, and it means in Greek the organised and structure…
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What is Father Lazarus' full postal name? Would it be best to address it in Arabic? Who will do the address for me in Arabic when I need it?
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I know that there are Byzantine Rite Catholic Churches in Eastern Europe, but it seems to me that Russia acts as if people belong to them forever. They seem to have the attitude that 'these people were Orthodox in 1627 so they still belong to us!'. …
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Can you link me to those clips? And does anyone have a postal address that would get to Father Lazarus? Father Peter
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One problem with the 'read the Bible and see where it leads approach is that this is not the apporach modelled at all in the early Church. When the early Church was growing, as described in the Acts, there were no New Testaments. People came to the…
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I agree it is odd that a local Catholic congregation should facilitate a mosque, but I am not sure how the Vatican is aggressively fighting against Russia? Father Peter
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You must persevere. Our feelings don't matter very much. And what we can feel in our relationship with God is too much influenced by our physiology. An Olympic athlete may well get up in the morning and not feel like going for a 10km run in the …
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Sometimes a really busy Church where there is always lots going on can be a distraction for a person in actually growing in Christ. If there are always enjoyable activities and a good, fun crowd of people to hang around with then we can end up being…
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Christ is the only Mediator with a capital M because He is God become man, without ceasing to be what He is. So he stands both with God and with us, and has destroyed the power of all that separated us from God. He is truly the mediatory between God…
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This is a fantastic and important ministry and I hope that all of the US Churches will organise to watch the conference online together if they cannot make it to the event. A Church that is not engaged in evangelism is not an Orthodox Church! Fath…
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When Christians first crossed themselves it was only on the forehead and not as we do it now. Father Peter
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We do know that the Apostles taught us to make the sign of the cross. It is in black and white in the record of what they taught.
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pets10, I am both. The diocese I belong to is the British Orthodox Church, and it is a diocese of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate. There is a French Orthodox Church which is also a diocese of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate. I expect that as God…
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These are good questions. I think that my view would be that Lourdes was not a true apparition of the Virgin Mary, and nor were the other Catholic Marian apparitions. I do think that the Church has a human component, and that it is possible for a …
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Do not doubt for a moment that every post I have made today has convicted me of some weakness or failing in my own life.
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Dear Hezekiel I do not doubt the image, not at all. But it would be helpful if you could find the background out for us so that if we share this with others we will not be later accused of passing on some information which is not true. I hope you …
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I find it hard, impossible, to give a yes/no answer. It seems to me that as a priest, and in my small congregation where I don't have so many problems of people to deal with, but as a priest, I should have a comprehensive and holistic approach the …
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It would seem that you are a Seventh Day Adventist of some sort, can you identify which group you do belong to. If you do not believe for sure that the Holy Spirit is a divine Person, and think that the spirit could be an attitude then I have to sa…
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I hope to visit the US one day, and Canada. Whereabouts are you? I'll have to try and arrange a tour, just once in my life, to visit people. Father Peter
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Well we all struggle with accents. There are times I have been in a liturgy prayed in English (not always in the Coptic Church) and not discovered the fact until halfway through! How do you speak? Are you entirely American in your accent, or stil…
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I used to work for an Anglo-Finnish company and so managers etc were always going back and forth. I rang up the same diary woman at work and put on a Finnish accent. I asked to speak to our Finnish Managing Director who had gone to Finland and hadn…
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We are already in the same Church. Everything I have received (well you know what I mean) is from the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate. I have worshipped with a local Coptic Orthodox priest and tears were streaming down his face as he prayed the Fracti…
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I have done many other worse things. Once, when I was at Bible College, I rang up a phone in the student residence from a phone further up the corridor. I asked for a younger guy who was really keen and into the Reformed theological tradition. I pr…
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Sometimes when we joke at other's expense it can be humorous for all concerned. But often it is not. When I was in my last job I was part of a small group who worked together for years and knew each other well. It was perhaps OK to joke around with…
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I do understand that it is not always as I described it, I do understand. I can think back to my evangelical days, and even in our protestant communion, we started to get some folk who thought that children should be allowed to be 'free' to worship…
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Well I don't have lots of kids in my small congergation, but there is always complete order in the altar. In the case that Zoxasi presents, I would suggest that it is always proper to submit to the opinion of a senior, and in this case to allow hi…
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There is no reason at all not to follow mabsoota's advice. You are being asked questions about a scientific position and it is entirely reasonable to answer those questions fully according to that position. It should also be possible in a Religiou…
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I find the US survivalist thing a bit too cranky, and it seems to me to rely on a non-Christian worldview. We don't need to do anything to survive in a true sense, other than remain as close to Christ as possible. Stocking up on guns and tins of bea…