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I prefer the one you have called the old way. Father Peter
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Why do you want justice? Do we want God to be just with us? If He treated us as we deserve then we would be beyond hope. But the fact is that we are forgiven by God, and we treat Him much more badly than anyone could treat us. When he hung on the c…
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From the point of view of someone who is English and loves the English language, version #1 sounds by far the best. Father Peter
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CertifiedOrthodox, I have replied to many of your PMs. You post here, and then you post the same things to me in PMs. If you only posted in PMs I would reply only in PMs. Father Peter
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CertifiedOrthodox, you do not seem able to forgive those who did whatever happened to you. This comes out very strongly in all your posts. If you are unable to forgive then you will never be able to move on and your spiritual life will be diminishe…
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You don't have to agree with me. I can't make you. But our Orthodox Faith is very clear. Ordination is a sacrament. Just as baptism is not just having a wash, and the holy communion is not just sharing some food. So the grace of ordination is charg…
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I don't hate priests. Really. I just don't think of you more than a man. That's good for you. It really is. If ever you do anything wrong, I'm sure you'd want people to see you the same way. I can't really agree with this at all. Indeed one of the g…
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May the Lord have mercy on him, and grant you wisdom as you seek to help him. Father Peter
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We can never truly repent, if we mean that we can try and try and try to really mean we are sorry. In fact repentance does not so much mean feeling sorry as changing direction. If we really mean to repent then we do not start with ourselves but we…
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CertifiedOrthodox, I would really encourage you to talk through your negative feelings towards priests with your own FOC. I am not sure if you are married, but your husband should also know if you have been mistreated by priests and/or a bishop. You…
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I am not sure what the issue has to do with Protestants. I can't ever recall in my entire life a Protestant discussing it. St Basil is very clear that the Virgin Mary was married to St Joseph. He says... The marriage with Joseph was planned so tha…
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It feels rather rude that you have quoted my comments and then posted the very opposite as if I said the opposite to what I actually did. As I have said several times, if you do not want to kiss a priest's hand then don't. But don't dismiss the tra…
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Why repeat the same thing over and over. You must do whatever you choose. I have already explained that the practice has great value, I am not sure why you are saying the opposite. I am not sure why you are asking questions when you then become an…
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Why does the fact it might be cultural mean that it has no spiritual value? All of the things we do are cultural. The fact is that the Coptic Orthodox Church is THE Orthodox Church in Coptic guise. The Church has to be expressed in a culture - cult…
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How common is that practice, minagir? I have seen some Copts prostrate themselves before my bishop, but not many, not even in Egypt. Father Peter
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Yes, I had not thought that it might be different for a woman to kiss a priest's hand. It is not easy for me to put myself in the place of a female. How do other sisters on the forum find the practice of kissing a priest's hand. Certainly for me as…
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It is not appropriate to speak in a way which criticises someone who has already clearly been through a great deal of stress, even if we do not mean to criticise. This topic is not best suited for an open internet forum. Father Peter
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You have already answered your question. You do not have to kiss the priest's hand. If, as appears to be the case, you do not want to, then don't do so. Those who do want to, will do so. The priest handles the holy things on the altar, and especi…
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I think we need to be careful not to judge all people based on our experience with some others. It is the case that perhaps some priests may well enjoy being priests in a prideful and sinful manner, but that does mean that all do, or most do. I kn…
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As Mixahls has shown, we must begin with the words of Scripture, which are quite clear. The Spirit proceeds from the Father. It seems to me that one of the main problems with the filioque is this... The Fathers of the Church have taught us that th…
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#2 and #3 don't sound correct in English. Supplicate is like the verb to ask. We ask or supplicate someone, we don't ask before someone, or ask to someone. We entreat you is also good, just as we entreat before you or entreat to you would be incorr…
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Marriage was created by God in the beginning and has always been holy in all places and at all times. Of course sinful men and women have made a mess of what God provided as a gift, and at times women have been badly treated and marriage has been a …
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There are some useful comments by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware here... http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TVrbrM-nicoC&pg=PA197&dq=filioque+kallistos+ware&cd=3#v=onepage&q=filioque kallistos ware&f=false The …
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I should also say that the reason that the Fathers do not consider the human nature to have been created immortal and incorruptible is because this would make God the creator and cause of death. If immortality were inherent to Adam's humanity then …
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But the immortality of the soul is NOT inherent according to St Cyril and St Severus. Rather it remains a gift of God. Only God is inherently immortal and incorruptible. If the theology of Simeon the New Theologian is as you say then it contradicts…
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Mixahls, Simeon the New Theologian is not a father of our Orthodox Church - though that does not mean he is in error, but on this occasion he is clearly teaching something other than our own Orthodox fathers, if he teaches as you have described. I …
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I thought that St Kyrillos, the Pillar of Orthodoxy, is St Cyril of Alexandria from the 5th century? Father Peter
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It might be worth carefully looking through some of the books here.. http://books.google.co.uk/books?q=jeremiah&btnG=Search+Books avoiding those which seem most dismissive of a traditional view of the Bible and seeking out those that show most…
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We are all born without original sin. We do not believe in original sin as something that is passed on from generation to generation, but we bear the consequences of Adam's sin, which is that we are subject to the sentence of death. As St Cyril and…
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i am not sure what you mean about limiting God's power. It is a matter of fact though that Orthodox have never categorised saints for lists of intercessions. A few saints, especially those who were doctors, have become associated with prayers for…