Recent content by Etsi

Aren't service dogs allowed in?

No, I'm no (pride part). I just see things differently now and didn't realise till today just HOW differently. I grew up sitting through those services. I'm glad it was online, because if I had been there, I would have been tempted to raise my hand and ask questions (and not ones the pastor...

I'm home today. I watched one of the online Liturgies (unfortunately, the cantor snorted through much of it :confused: Please, if you have a microphone and a cold, maybe it's a day to let someone else cant). Then I watched a friend's Baptist service (they were singing and I used to be Baptist)...

:thumbsup: It's known that many large families survive because we know how, and practice, consuming less. Those of you, go ahead and have one child. I have eight. If your one and one of my eight were in a car accident, I still have a chance of having a child that will care for me in my old age...

#1 It is not considered theft to eat and then pay in much of the US. In fact, we've had newscasters that have had segments on grocery shopping and how, if one is dealing with an extreme situation (blood sugar, pregnancy, nausea), then one may snack on a box of crackers, a sandwich, or other such...

Okay, that prayer was prayed over me at my first confession after the first miscarriage (non was prayed over me after the second miscarriage). However, I do not remember hearing the term "murder"...merely the "has aborted that which was conceived in her" (which is an accurate medical term, even...

So telling a woman that she murdered her child and she must refrain from a very important means of Grace is supposed to heal and comfort her? What about her husband? Men don't feel any pain over the loss of a child? Not buying either.

Penance is for wrongdoing or wrongthinking. Explain how this is not meant as punishment when there was no wrongdoing or wrongthinking to warrant penance.

This.

I have to disagree for several reasons. It is a presumption to believe that all pagan cultures thought little of miscarriage or unborn children. There were some cultures like that, and usually it was the men that were glad to be rid of the child (thus MEN in the North that would take a babe from...

I don't understand refraining from the Chalice for something like the loss of a child, when the Eucharist is a means of Grace.

This is all new to me. I lost two babies within seven months of each (one was lost a week after my Chrismation and a few days after Christmas). I was never denied communion (though I stayed home for three weeks out of choice). I also never had ANY prayers prayed over me in dealing with it...not...

:doh: We pay a dollar! There is no difference between candles at Pascha and every Sunday, unless one brings their own. Big, church wide events, we are usually gifted tickets or told to just go anyway. Special tickets events (dinner for one of our priest's 50yrs of service), we just don't go...

a woman punished for miscarriage?! Someone explain what he's talking about?!

Gyro with tzitziki! ;)