Conversions to Orthodoxy

[elizabethevangeline]

I do not think the link is working well (or my computer?).
There are only Christmas greetings from 4 persons on a Non-denominational thread...

Bizarro! Sorry about that. Maybe it's a "recycled" link. I found the original thread in my history. Well, people wrote cool things!

 

[jjwq2]

Mike the Iconography is an old friend of mine and if he wants to email me. That would be awesome.

 

[EricTheRed]

I am very interested in joining the Orthodox church. I simply dont know how to start. I have never been very religious before, I only went to a few baptist churchs but never really enjoyed it. I also have no friends in a orthodox church. Should i just call up the local orthodox priest?

 

[choirfiend]

I am very interested in joining the Orthodox church. I simply dont know how to start. I have never been very religious before, I only went to a few baptist churchs but never really enjoyed it. I also have no friends in a orthodox church. Should i just call up the local orthodox priest?

Absolutely! Find the local Orthodox Churches, contact a priest, and arrange to visit services. He will hopefully be very helpful, and can advise you and teach you about the faith so you may one day make the decision to convert, should that be your desire.

If you need help finding a church, we're pretty good at that if you let us know the general town/area that you live in

Best wishes and welcome to TAW! Please feel free to ask questions in the regular threads.

 

[Xpycoctomos]

to find a church near you: http://orthodoxyinamerica.org/
It's not exhaustive but it is an excellent start (thre are a lot of mission churches not listed there... so do not dispare if there is not one near you according to the site).

also checkout: www.oca.org
www.goarch.org
www.antiochian.org

those are good for starters

 

[MariaRegina]

I am very interested in joining the Orthodox church. I simply dont know how to start. I have never been very religious before, I only went to a few baptist churchs but never really enjoyed it. I also have no friends in a orthodox church. Should i just call up the local orthodox priest?

My husband is Swedish-Norwegian. He loves the Orthodox Church. You won't be the only Orthodox Viking.

 

[VickiY]

Oh...and, if you have lots of choices around you for Orthodox Churches, visit them ALL for which one might feel most comfortable to you. Best of luck!

 

[Montalban]

My husband is Swedish-Norwegian. He loves the Orthodox Church. You won't be the only Orthodox Viking.

There's odd-bods in the Orthodox church.
I'm a Celt who converted, but unfortunately English-language services are hard to come-by here in Australia

 

[Oblio]

Eric, Welcome to TAW, come over to St. Euphrosynos Taverna thread, it's where we hang out and fellowship.

 

[EricTheRed]

I will be sure to check that out. Is there a way to change your denomination on this site. I looked on user cp but could not find it.

 

[Montalban]

Oh...and, if you have lots of choices around you for Orthodox Churches, visit them ALL for which one might feel most comfortable to you. Best of luck!

Not in this country.

English language services with the Greek Orthodox Church is almost on an ad hoc basis. The English service will be at one parish one week, then another the next week, and so on, on rotation through about 6 different churches, one tens of kilometres away.

The Antiochian Church has an English language service with a priest who can't speak proper English, who keeps breaking into Arabic

 

[Xpycoctomos]

Montalban. What language is that in your sig?

 

[Petronius]

Montalban. What language is that in your sig?

A guess: a celtic language ?

 

[Xpycoctomos]

Ah.. that's right... probably. i forgot he was a Celt.

Now the next question.. what does it mean?

 

[Montalban]

Montalban. What language is that in your sig?

It's (Scots-)Gaelic*; it's the beginnings of "Hail Mary"

It reads "Hail Mary, full of Grace, the Lord is with Thee"

-*which is very similar to Irish.

 

[Montalban]

A guess: a celtic language ?

A good guess. You are correct. You now move up to the next level of difficulty, for $10,000.00

 

[crusader4peace]

wow its so interesting to read alot of testimonies abt people being orthodox christians.

well my story is nothing great. my dad married a catholic and when they got married the condition from my mom's catholic church was that my mom and future kids would be baptised in the catholic church. so i was baptised in the catholic church but over the years as i grew up, i got very influnced by my dad's orthodox church that we used to go every sunday. eventually i became an orthodox as well as my mom.

traditionally my dad's family are orthodox christians. our family was converted by St. Thomas and since then for many centuries our family are orthodox christians.

oh by the way, i belong to the malankara syrian orthodox church from India. well thats about it, nothing exciting i guess.

im so glad to meet alot of orthodox christians from around the world. im quite new in here and hope to make a lot of friends in here.

God bless u all.

Vinod Varghese

 

[Khaleas]

Welcome to TAW!!!

 

[MariaRegina]

It's (Scots-)Gaelic*; it's the beginnings of "Hail Mary"

It reads "Hail Mary, full of Grace, the Lord is with Thee"

-*which is very similar to Irish.

Welcome back into TAW, Montalban.

And thank for explaining the origin of your user's name. Fascinating.

 

[Montalban]

Welcome back into TAW, Montalban.

And thank for explaining the origin of your user's name. Fascinating.

I'm always luking around

Now if only I could find an Orthodox parish with commitment to English-speaking services, and to English-speaking parishoners!