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  1. Joseph Hazen

    Orthodox view on Marriage, submission, roles, and family

    One could argue the same about our relationship with Christ in the Church. In fact many do. One could argue the man is under the woman's control as well, I suppose, seeing as how he may very well (in fact will) have to give up his own desires to see her's done, and quite probably far more often...
  2. Joseph Hazen

    Orthodox view on Marriage, submission, roles, and family

    In my experience there are situations (which arise in every area where people join together for any cause) where there's no consensus but a decision still needs to be made. In such situations, I believe Scripture says the husband should make that decision. How should the husband be the head of...
  3. Joseph Hazen

    Orthodox view on Marriage, submission, roles, and family

    Wives submit to your husbands, husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church. I believe it is the husband's job then to form the 'game-plan' for the family. He does this by asking the wife questions such as 'what is your ideal life' or 'where would you want the family to be in five years.'...
  4. Joseph Hazen

    Where is Gurney ?

    Gurney and I used to be co-parishioners - our hometown is not very close to where the fires hit, so he's perfectly safe...provided he can find water to drink! ETA: I just realized what this could read like. Gurney is still Orthodox. The reason why we're not co-parishioners anymore is because I...
  5. Joseph Hazen

    searching for answers

    I told my wife I love her today. I did it yesterday too. I did it the day before, and the Sunday before that and every other Tuesday. But I say it the exact same way every time. "I love you." Does that mean its meaningless? Furthermore, as others said, our worship is not to get something out...
  6. Joseph Hazen

    Prayers Please

    ...Are you the one in my parking spot? LoL, hope you have fun, and enjoy our glorious lack of quality air conditioning in what is shaping up to be the hottest week so far this summer.
  7. Joseph Hazen

    Work, eat, sleep, repeat...

    Yeah, it sounds like the commute is the real underlying problem. Every marriage is going to have rough times where you're getting along, but you're distracted from each other. As far as Sunday, cleaning up, cooking, choir practice...your marriage is your means of Salvation. Marriage is a...
  8. Joseph Hazen

    Jesus Growing Over Time

    The slight element of truth in this claim might come from the uber-detailed aspects of Theology which could be known if a believer was careful to stick to the scriptures, but which later on came to be defined very clearly when people began getting creative and formulating heresies. So, for...
  9. Joseph Hazen

    OCA Statement: no mention of racism

    It's a tough line to walk. Racism is a huge problem in our country and The Church ought to address it. At the same time however, with race-relations at such a tension right now some are sick of hearing about it and would turn away at the mention of racism, casting The Church in with a certain...
  10. Joseph Hazen

    Quick question - immaculate conception?

    She was conceived the regular way. By a singular action of God she was preserved from the stain of original sin. That's the Roman Catholic teaching. It's kind of hard to mesh it with the generally accepted Orthodox teaching on original sin. Sometimes our teaching is called 'ancestral sin' to...
  11. Joseph Hazen

    What's on your bookshelf?

    For Orthodox interpretation of the Fathers - Way to Nicea and then The Nicene Faith. Three books total, The Nicene Faith is broken into two volumes. They're used as our textbooks in the intro to Patristics class, but they're fairly easy to grasp. While studying the controversies and writings the...
  12. Joseph Hazen

    Do Orthodox Christians hate Roman Catholicism?

    Yes, what would an actual Orthodox Christian who is attending Seminary and studying these exact issues, who used to be Roman Catholic, know about the teachings of his own church about Roman Catholicism when compared with that of an Anglican? I should let others speak, even when they're giving...
  13. Joseph Hazen

    Do Orthodox Christians hate Roman Catholicism?

    I don't see how it's offensive to say that someone is a heretic. It's just a statement as regards that person's position in respect to the sparker's Church. Anybody who thinks everyone is just saying the same thing and we need to ignore differences to be polite…well, that's a very juvenile...
  14. Joseph Hazen

    Liturgical "trappings"

    Yeah, I've never encountered plastic in Orthodoxy. In fact I've had conversations with friends about how Orthodoxy is authentic as compared to a lot of what we experience in the rest of the world, which we called "the plastic world." Every Gospel book I've seen, every Epistle book that has had a...
  15. Joseph Hazen

    two new saints of the Church!

    My priest told me that they would be canonizing them at the meeting of the Synod this year. I'm so glad, because I love St. Sebastian. I don't know why, but reading his story (Abbot Damascene of Platina did a biography of him a few years ago) just resonated with me. So when do they get their...
  16. Joseph Hazen

    Orthodoxy and the Biblical Canon

    Haha, I wrote almost this exact sentence in a paper I wrote for my finals this semester. This thread has been exactly what I've heard in Seminary, which is nice confirmation that I'm learning Orthodox teaching and not the professor's perspective.
  17. Joseph Hazen

    Liturgical prayer

    "All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. ...For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was...
  18. Joseph Hazen

    Cassocks in Public

    Here I've heard some students say they think the collar, cassock, or the riassa put too much of a barrier between themselves and the laity. They're a small minority I think. Some think that way just about the cassock and riassa and so, if ordained, plan to wear the collar. Some think the collar...
  19. Joseph Hazen

    Fellowship in traditional churches vs evangelical protestant churches

    I agree with Mary. I've never been to an Orthodox church that didn't have Coffee Hour after Liturgy on Sunday, full of sometimes too-helpful people wanting to know you, where you come from, and how you came to their parish lol. The food is also usually excellent. I've spent hours at a Coffee...
  20. Joseph Hazen

    What does _____ offer the Church?

    Really? Ugh, I'd been told it was a local phenomenon. I hate organs. Only partly because they're instruments in church, but mostly because I hate the shrill, screeching fury that bellows forth from their metallic mouths. Hedrick I'll listen to the videos as soon as I can do so without my son...