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Recent content by wynd

  1. wynd

    changing rites, jurisdictions, etc?

    Laypeople are just "Orthodox" and don't belong on paper to any particular rite or jurisdiction like in the Catholic Church. If you want to go to a church of another rite or jurisdiction you can just go, there is nothing to change.
  2. wynd

    Old time TAW members (my thanks to you all!)

    It's funny, I joined in 2006 and used to post here all the time but I haven't been on this site in years. I randomly got the idea to check TAW today and I saw this thread. I also just had my 10-year chrismation anniversary (St. John of the Ladder, 2008).
  3. wynd

    Attending classes at Orthodox Parish

    There is no obligation to convert at the end. That being said, if you get far along in the classes and still have doubts I think it would be polite to tell the priest your feelings so he isn't caught off guard if you appear to be ready and then suddenly decide not to convert at the end of the...
  4. wynd

    I'm catholic, but far from certain...

    If you convert you will just be Orthodox, not Greek Orthodox or Russian Orthodox, and you can attend and receive communion at any Orthodox church in the world. So don't feel like you have to pick one parish and never go to the other parish again.
  5. wynd

    OT: Apple Computer fans cult-like?

    Do you read your own posts? :D:D
  6. wynd

    Is it just me....

    Agreed 100%. Let's start a(nother) Seinfeld thread!
  7. wynd

    OC vs RCC

    I think this is the video you're thinking of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh_nqtp3VrU This was done by the group "Call to Action," a heretical ultra-liberal splinter of the RCC which being a member of will get you excommunicated in at least one RCC diocese. They are decidedly not part...
  8. wynd

    OC vs RCC

    I may be picking at semantics here, but by "vernacular" do you mean in the local language or just the "new" post-Vatican II Novus Ordo Mass? If the latter then I wholeheartedly agree, but if the former then I have to disagree as I've seen some reverent Masses in English (they're very rare but...
  9. wynd

    Unity in America

    They did (and still do) if you consider the entire Catholic communion, i.e., the Eastern and Oriental Catholics in addition to the Romans.
  10. wynd

    Christmas Liturgy

    And the priest's prayer in the anaphora is MUCH longer :D
  11. wynd

    You might be Eastern Orthodox if...

    We have that. "Let us complete our prayer unto the Lord..." :D
  12. wynd

    You might be Eastern Orthodox if...

    You might be Orthodox if you say a prayer before you pray!
  13. wynd

    OT: I'm sorry, but this just cracked me up

    I see what you did there...