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  1. truthseeker32

    Promised I'd pop back in when I was baptized

    Hello everyone. I hope you are all well! My son and I were baptized yesterday here in Utah. He took the name Seraphim and I took Isaac. Many years to you all.
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    Leaving the group

    Hey everyone, I just wanted to say thanks to those who helped me along the way. For those of you who don't know I have been a catechumen for almost two months now and it is going great. That being said, I have decided to leave this group for good as I am not a fan of the direction it is...
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    Please pray for my wife and I

    This evening I finally opened up to my wife about sins I have struggled with for over a decade. She is understandably sad and disappointed about my confession. Please pray for my wife and I.
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    A Catholic writes concerning East-West union. Thoughts?

    Roman Rights and Wrongs | Catholic World Report - Global Church news and views
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    God willing people to worship outside of the Orthodox faith

    I like a lot of the Roman Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft's works. He has a lecture in which he explains what he thinks the Roman Catholic church must do to reunify Christendom. One idea he presented in his talk stood out to me. He opined that perhaps God guides some to faith communities...
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    Belief in universal reconciliation a barrier to sacraments?

    I don't want to get into a theological debate about whether universal reconciliation is true or within the realm of acceptable Orthodox opinion. I am instead wondering if there is a canon law stating that Orthodox Christians who hold such a belief are to abstain from or be denied participation...
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    Would Moses have stoned the woman caught in adultery?

    I have been thinking about and struggling with this question lately and I wanted to get your (y'alls) perspectives. How do you understand ancient Mosaic laws that seem harsh to our modern sensibilities? Why don't we stone adulterers anymore?
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    Utah issues same-sex marriage licenses.

    My home state, one of the most conservative in the country, is now legally recognizing same-sex marriage. If this isn't a sign that the battle is lost I don't know what is. Federal judge strikes down Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage | The Salt Lake Tribune
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    Becoming a catechumen tomorrow: prayers please.

    The title pretty much sums it up. I am looking forward to it, but it is also a scary situation as I think about how it is going to affect the relationship I have with my wife and my family. I humbly ask for your prayers.
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    How are we to view our moral state?

    I have encountered another stumbling block on my way to Orthodoxy. I can't bring myself to believe I am the chief of sinners. I have no problem believing I am a sinner, and I have no problem with the idea that I should never assume someone else is a worse sinner than I. But if I was to state...
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    Orthodox understanding of apostolic succession vs. historical concensus

    Historians largely agree that many of the first generation Christian communities were lead by a college or team of presbyters, but the consensus seems to be that the role of bishop did not develop until a bit later. Is this view compatible with the Orthodox understanding of apostolic succession?
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    Why intercessory prayer?

    This Sunday there was a funeral liturgy at the parish I attend. One of the prayers asked God and the saints to save those who had passed. Afterwards I thought about this and became confused. If our salvation is ultimately between us and God, then why do we bother to pray for the salvation of...
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    Two things: A conversion and a question about Judaism

    First, a blogger at the popular religious website, Patheos, has announced his conversion from Catholicism to Eastern Orthodoxy: A Few Changes Second, how does Orthodoxy view contemporary Judaism and the role of the Jewish people?
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    How are your prayers answered?

    As I have mentioned previously I often feel as though I am simply forcing myself to believe in a God that just might not exist. I pray day after day, year after year, and it seems to make no difference to my life. For all intents and purposes it seems like I might as well not pray at all...
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    Orthodox interpretation of Matt. 24:36

    "But of that day and hour no one knoweth, not the angels of heaven, but the Father alone. " (Douay-Rheims) Does this mean that there are things the Father knows that the Son doesn't?
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    How does God answer prayers? Why does He sometimes not answer prayers?

    Attempting to figure out religious/ spiritual truth occupies my mind and time more than anything else. I read, I debate, I pray, I attend liturgy, but remain unsure of what is true. As a result I have spent the past two weeks thinking about what sort of answers the individual searching for God...
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    Orthodoxy and the innocent unbaptized

    Is there an official Orthodox teaching on the fate of those who die without culpability? (i.e. children, infants, mentally disabled) If so, could any of you direct me to the sources that speak to this matter?
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    Oriental Orthodox view of this quote...

    "Keep your mind in hell, and despair not." I am curious to know the general attitude also towards the idea that human beings deserve to go to hell.
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    Monks and spiritual warfare: Why does God allow it?

    Hello everyone, Recently I have read/ been reading these two books: A Night in the Desert of the Holy Mountain: Discussion with a Hermit on the Jesus Prayer: Metropolitan of Nafpaktos Hierotheos Vlachos, Effie Mavromichali, Abbot of Gregoriou Monastery Archimandrite George: 9789607070319...
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    How does an Orthodox Christian interpret these quotes about the Bishop of Rome?

    "We exhort you, honorable brother, to submit yourself in all things to what has been written by the blessed Bishop of Rome, because St. Peter, who lives and presides in his see, gives the true faith to those who seek it. For our part, for the sake of peace and the good of the faith, we cannot...