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No she doesn't . She is a mouthpiece of the EP which was supposed to stop after severing ties with them. She is defiantly against her bishop.
I tried listening to a couple of her podcasts years ago when she became known. TBH, I found her boring and uninspiring.I've heard of Archbishop Lazar, but who's Jay Dyer?
Same here.
For some reason I always got a weird Protestant-youth-minister-esque vibe from Sr Vassa and never listened to her podcasts. Something about a monastic that isn't the abbot or abbess, or a priest, broadcasting online just seems a little odd to me.
Yes, she did give bad advice to that mother, and was roundly criticised for that, including by me.
You should not be surprised that I left that out, because we were talking about her recent Facebook posting, that doesn't even mention homosexuality. If I were criticised in every post for things I said in other posts, I wouldn't want to post much.
We need to avoid the "slippery slope fallacy" whereby we avoid talking about relevant topic A, because we are afraid that it may lead to irrelevant or harmful topic B. Just because we don't want to discuss (and shouldn't) whether Jesus was begotten, not made, doesn't mean that we cannot discuss communion spoons (whose form have changed radically from the Early Church).
We do need to speak about spoons and autocephaly and the Church calendar because Orthodoxy looks a bit chaotic in the way that it is responding to a changing world. Leaving everything to oikonomia in practice means that we invite innovation, just what you seem to oppose.
And we need to speak about divorce, precisely because as you say it is a "huge issue". There is a heterogeneity of praxis in the Orthodox Church that is remarkable and maybe that needs to be corrected, but we can't do that if we cannot talk about it without being labelled a "modernist".
That, and all the positive comments her picture is receiving. There is a story of a monk who was complimented on his beautiful hair. He responded by dunking his scalp in scalding hot water so his hair would fall out. He felt that he was vulnerable to vainglory, so got rid of the potential cause.
I must also mention that I have seen several monks in “civilian” clothes when it was necessary and appropriate and it never made me question their sanctity. I have also heard bishops tell dirty jokes and use curse words and again, never questioned their vocation or position.
I think IP is right in that judging anyone based on a photo we may very well not know the whole context to is very risky business. (I'm reminded of the anecdote of the saint caught buying cigarettes)
That said, I do understand why people should react with suspicion when a monastic becomes high-profile in general, and especially if she is generally seen, not in a sisterhood at a convent or whatever, but as an independent operator who's not hiding in a desert cave. It goes against what we generally understand monasticism to be. But I would say that worrying about her hair to be the least of the issues. It may be a symptom of something more serious, but just be careful about judging on the basis of stuff like that alone. It's not wise.
But judging her words IS wise, if we are coming from our Tradition, seeking truth, ourselves accepting correction from the consensus of that Tradition. WE should always start from a place of, "Is this what the fathers taught? Is the the sum of Scriptural teaching? (ie. not cherry-picking, but finding confirmation and clarification from the fathers and saints?) and even change our own minds if it turns out that something WE think isn't.
Obviously, she says some very true and wise things from that Tradition. I don't think anyone here denies that SOME of what she says is on-target and necessary. The entire issue is her words and teachings that are not.
Wow....Jay Dyer's a recent convert who's very into conspiracy theories and telling popular Orthodox figures they're wrong and evil.
I heard one and had the same reaction.I tried listening to a couple of her podcasts years ago when she became known. TBH, I found her boring and uninspiring.
Jay Dyer is great! Though I have not got into his theories about HollywoodWow....
I heard one and had the same reaction.
I know a priest who was a professor at St Tikhon's Seminary several years ago. He once told me that he avoids reading new books from contemporary Elders until they've been out for a while. The reason being that among the seminarians "the latest book" becomes a fad. So, seminarians will read the book just to say they've read it and yet completely miss the point of what that Elder was trying to say (99% of the time it boils down to some fashion of "love one another"). Call me a cynic, but I tend to have similar views whenever the Orthodox World is talking about "the latest podcast".
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