Recent content by Coralie

the Orthodox countries have been vilely persecuted (see the Beatitudes) in a way that the Christian West never has. This has caused social breakdown on a grand scale.

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Generally speaking they've always come across to me as people with a strong sense of right and wrong, but who are also highly aware how harsh reality can be in the face of idealism. So they aren't passionate and overconfident in the way that many Westerners can be... there's a cynicism/fatalism...

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The second priest got back to me. He was somewhat noncommittal, saying I was clearly caught between two clergymen and he didn't want to add to that. But he said that I should look into my heart and ask myself whether the advice of my new priest was leading me to love God more and love my...

Thanks. I will wait for a few weeks, to give the second priest time to respond, and then I'll write to the Bishop and tell him what happened. Thanks Kyrie for those pointers, they helped me to see it more clearly and to be less anxious. Tonight I told DH what happened and it was fine at first...

What on earth do I say to the Bishop? Should I just explain what I was advised (incl. background), and ask him if I should follow this advice? Should I state that I don't want to do this, that I think it's immoral and dangerous? Or should I withhold my opinion and just ask for his counsel? Or...

Kristos thank you. I'll mull over that for a bit. I can tell from the outset that if I follow the advice i was given, I will almost definitely be damaging my spouse's salvation, and most probably my own too. nutroll thanks. I'm comforted that I'm not the only person who's been in this sort of...

Yes, there are plenty of other parishes around. I could just quietly switch to another, very convert-friendly church nearby, while I wait for word from the other priest/the Bishop. But I don't know what the right thing is to do? Is it OK to do something like that? Or would I be committing some...

I do feel this is partly my fault. I was open with my priest about DH's struggles with Xianity and how painful I found them, because I assumed he would be as understanding as Patera was in my old church. Instead I just gave my priest fodder with which to demonize DH. And I realize now that he...

I have thought of doing this. Frankly I'm afraid of the consequences. I'm afraid of what my priest will say to me, what he'll say about me to others... he gets very angry with people who challenge him, and says so, to a lot of people. that's bad isn't it? :sad: this is such a horrible...

Thank you dearest :hug: to you and everyone else who gave me a "welcome back" :) It does. Thank you. I was hoping to get your opinion in particular, because I feel you have a broad formal and informal education in these matters. I considered this and tried to work out how to do it, but the...

Hi all, I haven't been on in ages (since the last Great Influx of People Who Wish to Debate All the Darn Time, iirc). Hope you are all well. I have a problem that's eating me up and I would so appreciate your views. This has got so messy I can no longer see the wood for the trees. DH is...

I converted in South Africa, in a Greek Orthodox Church. The liturgy was in Greek, although after I converted the priest started to add some English to the litanies. (He had wanted to do this for a long time -- it was a large immigrant parish with a lot of "Greek = Orthodox" thinking among the...

YAY!! God grant you many many years :)