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This past week we parishioners received a survey request from the hierarchs of the Assembly of Bishops in America. The survey was our opinions about how to evangelize and live out our faith in our parishes. Father asked us to all take the survey.
I must say I found it very off-putting and uncomfortable. There were questions like:
how do you feel about women deacons?
how do you feel about female altar servers?
how important is sacred tradition to you or do you favor a modern approach to Orthodoxy?
how important is fasting to you?
The questions kept coming, and they got downright disturbing to me. It was the talk of the parish last weekend. The mere suggestion of secular humanist modern liberalism penetrating us struck fear in the minds of many. I was not thrilled that they'd ask such questions. Did anyone else experience this survey? What did you think if you did?
I must say I found it very off-putting and uncomfortable. There were questions like:
how do you feel about women deacons?
how do you feel about female altar servers?
how important is sacred tradition to you or do you favor a modern approach to Orthodoxy?
how important is fasting to you?
The questions kept coming, and they got downright disturbing to me. It was the talk of the parish last weekend. The mere suggestion of secular humanist modern liberalism penetrating us struck fear in the minds of many. I was not thrilled that they'd ask such questions. Did anyone else experience this survey? What did you think if you did?