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I am am Anglican woman looking forward to marriage with an Orthodox man. I hope to be as lovely as your wife!

I was told by a Catholic priest that because the Catholic church accepts the Orthodox as a "sister" church, they will allow the marriage to occur in the Orthodox church, and the children to be raised Orthodox. Then it was "But here, check my list of all the things absolutely wrong with...

There is dialogue of some sort! A priest at a local Episcopalian church said he was a member of some sort of Orthodox-Anglican Dialogue society. I mean, pretty obviously we're not going to start sharing communion or anything, but he gave me a website (which I forget) and it looked pretty...

Now that is cruel. :P

I'm always extra nice to Mormon missionaries, since they're so young. I have LDS friends who have sent their sons (and daughters!) off to do missions work. When their son went off to Tokyo very recently, I told him that I hoped that some would come to know Christ through his work. Even a...

Halloween is just good fun for me. I love pumpkins, and the little cartoony white ghosts, and I can even handle the spiders (for me that's a big deal.) As an Episcopalian, I always think of Halloween as the fun right before the seriousness of All Saints Day - just like Mardis Gras!!! Do you...

I've been to a few Orthodox parishes, and the priests all have nice, neatly trimmed beards! Some of the parishioners, however....

How many persons are attending Western Rite churches? How will this affect them? All for the misdoings of one individual? Sounds awfully sad to me.

I would generally assume one's home parish and community to be the normative place for spiritual direction and growth, but perhaps not.

Thanks MKJ. The lack of spiritual direction really is the biggest problem. I'm a smells n' bells girl, but I also realize those are aesthetic, and one can grow without them. Even when we had a priest, I was on my own. Our Bible study was lead by "what did you think about that passage?"...

I have looked into Bible studies and other programs at other Episcopal churches. They're all on Sunday, and an hour in the opposite direction (I'm smack in the middle; no Episcopal churches in my immediate area). I might look into what the Lutheran or Catholic churches offer. It's just very...

I'm not sure I follow "not communicate with those where you are." I do the readings when I'm scheduled, and I take care of our parish's facebook. We have no choir, and I cannot sing well, regardless. We have no ministry offerings, and so few people and little resources, that I'm not...

My parish is small. We're a handful of people, without enough money for a regular priest, and the group is elderly, on the whole. Everyone is very nice, but I feel alone, and like I'm getting no spiritual direction. The sermons are forgettable, there's no Bible study or any sort of...

I'm a non-Orthodox in a relationship with an Orthodox man. I have visited his churches in jeans and fancy shirts, long skirts - in other words, a variety of outfits. No one seemed to mind terribly much. I've been to two Russian churches, neither of which insisted on headscarves. Actually...

Can we make the Republican and Democrat leaders partake of this? Then the bickering would make sense! Just saying.

Some are interested in surgery, and others are happy to change their outward appearance. I have two friends going through the process of becoming eligible for surgery. It involves therapy visits and such. Lots of hoops! The T is in there because they're considered a part of the larger...

I hear a lot about the Daily Office on Anglican forums and in the blogosphere, but I never hear about it IN church, beyond the few times we end up doing it rather than the normal Eucharistic service. That said, how normative is the Daily Office as a prayer form for lay persons?

Isn't there a Western Rite version of the BCP that the Antiochians or Russians use? I'm certain that you could use that well enough - and I am VERY certain that each church has a daily scripture reading cycle, which could be used for the daily readings. Kyriaki and I have sat down and made...

I will pray for you!

You are silly :P