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I'm not completely sure what you're asking but I think this might help: Saint Paul says to hold on to the traditions he had handed down to them whether in word or in writing. Jude describes it as a deposit of faith which was onced delivered to all. The New Testament wasn't complete nor...

Now that's useful! Thanks for posting!

Show it to me in tha BEYE-BUL! If it not in da BEYE-BUL, I won't believe it! Seeing my old protestant self in posts like this is embarrassing. Forgive me for sounding high and mighty, or like I'm looking down on him and thinking "Thank you, Lord, that I am not like him!" It's not my intention...

I thought it was a great article too, and it reflected a lot about my own journey (though of course, I never converted to Orthodoxy and he's not leaving Orthodoxy...) I had the same problems as you about those parts, and I also thought it was odd that he seemed to believe in some way that "The...

Whoa, praying for y'all! What is the status of abortion in Ireland legally? It seems a lot better than the United States, and I pray it stays that way and that the pro-life movement stays strong in its fight to defend the defenseless!

Thanks for this. You're right and this personal self loathing is a big part of my failure in dealing with my sin. I know confession isn't going to solve everything like a magic wand, really, but I know it will be a huge part of my healing process. I know God loves me, and I've experienced his...

Oh my goodness, I'm in a state of terror and relief all at the same time at the moment. Forgive me if it sounds rushed or is hard to understand because I'm really wound up right now! (It also seems one sided and semi-selfish, but I am aware that I could have killed someone else.) On my way...

I think he means that at death you're destined for hell or heaven but you don't fully go there until the last trumpet, you just experience foretastes of either. (Except maybe the Theotokos, whose body is ressurrected) As far as I know this corresponds with just about all Christian teaching, of...

I found the quote which told the story of Innocent III on the Wikipedia page: Innocent III was believed to be in purgatory on the very day he died. He is said to have appeared to St. Lutgarda in her monastery at Aywieres in Brabant. Engulfed in flames, he declared to her, “I am Pope Innocent”...

reposting on 5 just in case.

I remember reading that Pope Innocent III was believed to be in purgatory pretty soon after he died because he appeared to some nuns (because the Virgin Mary aked God to allow him to visit them) and asked them to pray for him. All Souls Day This is the fisheaters entry on All Souls Day and...

Because we are the heretical Western Church, with a heretical tyrant for a patriarch.

I heard about that, lol. Yep, how dare they try to remove those girls who were causing a racket in the Cathedral. The Russian Orthodox Church is evil and corrupt!!!!1111!1!11

True. However, I think the problem the East sometimes has with using the word is unfounded. The CCC says: "The signs of bread and wine become, in a way surpassing understanding, the Body and Blood of Christ." Transubstantiation, as far as I know, doesn't try to explain how, but what. The bread...

And so I continue to feel better and better about my move Westward. It is an interesting observation. If you confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins, and you baptize infants... Well you'd have to be saying its for the remission of original sin. Also I do remember inquiry classes...

I agree. I remember now that most people I talk to are pretty big on evangelism (one of the reasons I ended up here and not Orthodoxy). Honestly the only time I get freaked out about "Vatican 2 and False Ecumenism" is when I listen to rad trads talk about how "Vatican 2 believeth that you can...

I sometimes wonder why they haven't lol. They don't even accept the hierarchy they believe was divinely established. Awkward situation, but if you wanted something that claims to be untouched by modernism Eastern Orthodoxy certainly makes that claim. Also, I agree with Rahmiel. I wonder about...

Razilaženje: Ancestral vs. Original Sin: A False Dichotomy This Orthodox guy talks about the false dichotomy between Eastern and Western views on original sin, and also commendably attacks the tendency in modern Orthodox proselytism to say to Western Christians: "You worship a vindictive God...

Chany wanted to keep his last name but hide his relationship to Richard Cheyney.

Chrystal J kicks kittens in da head.