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ordination

  1. riesie

    Women ordination, can somebody help explain?

    Dear Wesleyan, Methodists and Nazarenes, I'm looking for a new denomination and I'm very attracted to the Church of the Nazarene. For me it is important to be in a sola scriptura church. I found whole denominations split over the ordination of women. It appears to me that most info on the net...
  2. The Liturgist

    A beautiful perspective on the Priesthood

    I read this quote from the much respected Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos, which to me underscores the concept of the priesthood and episcopate in the traditional churches: “The Priest holds a great position in the Divine Liturgy, because he asks the Father to send the Holy...
  3. HumbledYorkshireman

    God's calling me

    Hello everyone. So as you may have guessed from the title I have strong sense that God is calling me and over the past couple of years I have been discussing this sense of calling with my priest and to cut a long and winding story short we have agreed to send me to the diocese for a full...
  4. R

    Ordination advice, please?

    Hello. I'd love your input. At first, I posted this as a reply within an existing thread I found where so many are already connected re the subject about which I would like counsel. However, it occurred to me that I should also post my own thread, to increase the odds of getting a reply and also...
  5. R

    Ordination advice ASAP, please?

    Hello. I'd love your input. At first, I posted this as a reply within an existing thread I found where so many are already connected re the subject about which I would like counsel. However, it occurred to me that I should also post my own thread, to increase the odds of getting a reply and also...
  6. R

    Ordination advice, pease?

    Hello. I'd love your input. At first, I posted this as a reply within an existing thread I found where so many are already connected re the subject about which I would like counsel. However, it occurred to me that I should also post my own thread, to increase the odds of getting a reply and also...
  7. R

    New member seeking counsel/ advice re ordination ASAP

    Hello. I'd love your input. At first, I posted this as a reply within an existing thread I found where so many are already connected re the subject about which I would like counsel. However, it occurred to me that I should also post my own thread, to increase the odds of getting a reply and also...
  8. jinc1019

    Women and Authority in the ACNA. Don't They Already Have It?

    Hello All, I've long been interested in Anglicanism, but until relatively recently, I haven't lived in a place in which a regularly operating ACNA parish exists, and I never felt comfortable with the Episcopal Church, for a variety of reasons most of you could probably guess. As I've spent...