Dorothea
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- Jul 10, 2007
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I always thought it interesting that Christ changed a few of the names of the Apostles. And further on the saints...There were Saints in the NT, such as St. Stephen.yes, services are in English and yes, priests can cut their hair.
and for icons, kissing an icon is no more worship than kissing the photo of a loved one. as far as being named for a saint at baptism, that is also no different than being named for your grandfather. the practice is not man made, and as early as we can tell, Christians took the names of saints. we see this in the NT, as the tradition was for sons to take the names of their fathers (John the Baptist).
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