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When I went to St. Tikhon's monastery for Thanksgiving my Spiritual Father told me that he would like me to become an ASL Interpreter (so does the Igumen.) This past week I've been networking within the OCA (Orthodox Church in America) for contacts re: Deaf Outreach. The OCA is especially...

I just got what seems to be a sound explaination as to why olive oil and wine are not to be consumed during Lent... We all know about meat and dairy products, but both olive oil and wine used to be stored in animal skins. It sounds like a feasible explaination to me... Anybody out there have...

Howdy! On 16 January I found my Spiritual Father. Being a convert, I am looking for the best way to describe what a "Spiritual Father" is to non-Orthodox friends and family. So far, the best that I have been able to come up with is: "A Spiritual Father is the Orthodox equivalant to a...

Since I am a former Lutheran, my "Theotokos insight" is still in the developmental stage. Where does Orthodoxy get it's information about Mary's being ever sinless from? Didn't Jesus rebuke her twice? (After they found 12 year old Jesus in the temple and at the Cannan wedding.)

Is it possible to carry on an objective conversation with a person who has the "cultural ghetto mindset"? i.e.; That's not the way we did it in Greece/Serbia/Ukraine/Russia/whatever so it can't be truely Orthodox!" Many of them tend to get very "agitated" when I talk about things that are...

:crosseo: Pray for the new OCA Diocese of New York and New Jersey as they seek out their first Bishop! I just heard today (at St. John the Baptist OCA in Rochester, NY) that Metropolitan Jonah said that there were enough parishes in New York and New Jersey for them to form their own Diocese.