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A newspaper report is not publication for peer review in an academic journal. A real scientist would not have issued a press report but submitted a research paper. I can find no evidence that any science has been submitted or published in relation …
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binC, I guess to most of us here.. i. It seems blasphemous to subject divine things to study in this way. ii. The whole experiment is flawed if, as it appears, the sign of the cross was made simply as a gesture and without faith. It is not magic…
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They are thinking of having a maximum % of foreigners allowed in an English premier squad. Something was wrong with them all. Even Rooney played like he was asleep. But then, most of the best teams played badly this time round.
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Unseen Warfare is a most excellent and Orthodox guide to the spiritual life and discusses such things. As does the Conferences of St John Cassian, which describe his conversations with the Desert monastics. Father Peter
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One of the problems we have is that in other countries a majority of the national team will play for the top national league teams. But in the UK most of the best players in the Premier League (the best teams in the world) are foreigners. And so alt…
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God knows I am not very good and can't cope with too many problems, or at least too many more problems. Father Peter
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Baseball is hardly a sport. It is what sports people do to warm up before playing a proper sport. :-) Actually you are aware that Baseball was invented in England? Father Peter
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But our Lord tells us to forgive 70 times 7. It would be hard to carry on as if nothing had happened, but if we remember that we are also great sinners then we should not find ourselves in a position where we allow ourselves to act as blameless bef…
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My eldest daughter is in Madrid as part of her studies and she waited for hours on the street to welcome the team home. She managed to get this photo of the team as they went past really close to her... Father Peter
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Ah. It wasn't clear to me at all that we were talking about spoiled children and un-interested parents. This is surely a matter for the priest to address with the parents in the first place. Parent classes, discussion of acceptable behaviour in the…
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A 7 year old boy could usefully be a servant and under the care of an older man be given many interesting things to do. I don't think the children who can concentrate are the issue. It is the one's who can't, and who are too young to be servants. …
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I don't disagree with your diagnosis, but I am not sure it solves the problem. The fact that when we were young we acted completely differently is true, but things have unfortunately changed and since we are not completely separated from society ar…
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My own opinion is that it is better to have young children come in at the Gospel and be helped to engage in the worship for 45-50 minutes, than to expect them to be able to concentrate for 1.5 or 2 or more hours. As they get older and more engaged t…
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The Gospels are eyewitness accounts. There are more copies of the Gospels than of any other early books. Most of what we know about most historic ancient figures derives from single manuscripts, we have hundreds of copies of early Gospels, and the e…
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I would look online and see what sources the ACC uses and then see if the complete originals are available, especially on archive.org
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I am afraid that I don't believe this at all and it seems almost blasphemous. The Lord's Prayer and the Sign of the Cross are not magic, and it seems to me that to subject them to scientific scrutiny in this way makes them devoid of any value - as …
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I haven't had time to watch this video yet, but let us be cautious since it is clearly from a protestant source. Since protestants do not generally consider marriage a sacrament they will surely have a different take on things than from an Orthodox …
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There are more pictures here.... and some video from the BBC. http://www.syrianchurch.org/
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He was carried into the Church on a chair, as I think was the normal custom, with the women ullulating and the children throwing flower petals. Then he was helped into a throne at the front of the church. When he came to consecrate the Church he was…
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You can see me best in the 6th picture on the right. I am not sure what you mean by a pulpit. There wasn't one in the church. The wooden covered structure is the altar and is common in many Orthodox Churches. SORRY I see you were linking to a diffe…
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If a person is sinned against then they must still forgive the adulterous spouse. This is required of us all, in all circumstances, that we must forgive if we wish to be forgiven. But beyond this, if the person sinned against is willing to continue …
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I think that we all understand the high value which is placed on marriage by our Church since it is not simply a contract between two people but a sacrament in which God acts by the power of the Holy Spirit and continues to act in those who seek to …
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We should try not to think of anything at the Liturgy other than what we are doing there. I know this is not always easy. But those who are engaged in business should put aside thoughts of customers and projects. Those who are busy with family shou…
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There are some more pictures here.... http://antiocheurope.org/Ar/News-2010/UK/Consecration_the_Syriac_Church_in_London.html You can even spot me by the altar in a couple of them. Father Peter
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I have started reading some lists of 'contradictions' put together by various atheists and agnostics. What is clear is how prideful so many of these people are. They think that they have established some great truth which has been hidden for milleni…
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The Utrecht Church in Holland is only 2 hours drive away? Is that any good? http://www.koptischekerkutrecht.nl/ Father Peter Actually I just found a phot of the priest Father Bishoy Kamel with my own bishop on the gallery page here... http://ww…
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Ioannes, That might be something I could do, since I could look at one contradiction at a time. Do you think that list of 101 contradictions I provided is complete? Does it deal with the most important supposed 'contradictions'? Do you want to poi…
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I should add that there is an Archive of back issues of the Glastonbury Review here .... http://britishorthodox.org/glastonbury-review-archive/ I am not aware of any particular book by Orthodox about the reported contradictions in the Scripture. I…
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The British Orthodox Church puts out a publication called the Glastonbury Review. Have you ever seen it Ioannes? http://britishorthodox.org/glastonbury-review/ God bless you Father Peter
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Did he have a dream? I don't know, and I don't think it is relevant. We should not trust ourselves to dreams in any case. We should not trust ourselves to visions or angelic visitors. The Fathers are very clear. We are not to put our trust in our o…