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Born and baptized Roman Catholic with very devout parents. Back then, I would've charecterized my self as a "ChEaster" - That is I attended only on Christmas and Easter. I even attended a RC university for Graduate studies, where I went to Church for the opening mass and the graduation mass -...

As a former Roman Catholic it really all boils down to the question of Papal Supremacy - all differences between Rome and the Orthodox World stem from that one thing.

"And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on...

My ex-evangelical wife really enjoyed the book. She quotes from it all the time.

Along with all the great books that have been suggested - by the way I second The Orthodox Church By Bp. Kallistos Ware and Searching for God in the Land of Shallow Wells by Matthew Gallatin - Also get out to www.ancientfaithradio.com and listen! Asking for your prayers, Chacci

Thanks for the responses.. Ahh! I forgot about the Ancient Faith Radio statement.. that is a good one! My priest once sent out invitations to inquirers classes with that statement on it..Thanks Asinner! My wife makes fun of me because I always start explaining Orthodoxy using the same long...

Good people of TAW: Christ is in our Midst! I've been thinking a lot lately about what short statement would make the most impact on people and would explain the essence of Orthodoxy... For those of you who may not be aware, there is a concept in Sales called an "elevator statement". It...

I also was at the PLC. I missed Frederika's first talk and was only able to attend that last 2/3'rds of her second talk... Any idea if recordings will be sold? When were you at the bookstore? I had a short conversation with someone at the bookstore Saturday afternoon... as I recall it was...

Glory to thee, who has shown us the light! Glory be to GOD on High, and on Earth peace and Goodwill among Men! We Praise you! We Bless you! We worship you! We Glorify you! We give thanks unto you for your great Glory!

I voted mostly favarouble. I grew up in the Roman Catholic Church and I wouldn't trade it for the world. Asking for your prayers, Chacii

Senor ten piedad en la sirvienta de Dios, Elizabeth.

Your right. Your fifteen. When I was fifteen I would eat the table if my mom didn't stop me! Asking for your prayers, Chacci

One way to look at this is that GOD was glorified by this event. Look at the example of humility and Christian love the Amish gave to us because of this terrible occurence. Satan's work "backfired" on him... again. Asking for your prayers, Chacci

GOD Grant you Many YEARS! GOD Grant you Many YEARS! GOD GRAAAAANT you ooo Many Manyyyy Many YEARS!!!

My church was fortunate enough to have Father Nektarios Serfes who is the President of the Decani Monastery relief fund come speak to us of the atrocities he witnessed in Kosovo first hand. Here is his website. Asking for your prayers, Chacci

Thank you to whomever blessed me with an Autumn Leaves background and blessings! Unfortunatley, the Autum Leaves don't go well with my Christ Pantocrater Icon, but thanks for your gracious gift anyways. Asking for your prayers, Chacci

Mistake: Believing that any individual monk, nun, priest are above sin. Mistake: Trying to hard to fix oneself rather than depending on the grace of God.

OrthoChach

Felicidades Lector David!

Thanks again for your prayers. I think you may have taken my post out of context. :D Let us review. The question I am answering by using this scripture, which very well may not have been the question asked, is: are we called to grow in the image of God? That is, are we called to become more...