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by Maria
Thu 15 August 2013 11:45 pm
Forum: Praxis
Topic: Bad habits
Replies: 12
Views: 5666

Re: Bad habits

I recall reading a story about two monks on Mount Athos. One was a great Elder, revered for his asceticism and piety. The other, a monk who struggled with drunkeness. When they both had died, and their relics unearthed, the Elder was in a corrupted state, the other monk, incorrupt. An old monk expl...
by Maria
Thu 15 August 2013 11:43 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Issues
Topic: Criminal Mind, NCIS, New Technology, Smart Phones, etc.
Replies: 39
Views: 8434

Re: Criminal Mind, NCIS, etc.

Please pray for my husband as TV is very addictive for him, especially the news.

by Maria
Thu 15 August 2013 11:34 pm
Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
Topic: World Orthodox Seek to Celebrate Eucharist with Heterodox
Replies: 6
Views: 2376

Re: World Orthodox Seek to Celebrate Eucharist with Heterodo

Lord have mercy.

Let us pray that these people come to their senses ... or at least the people in the pews start voting with their feet and their pocketbooks.

by Maria
Thu 15 August 2013 11:08 pm
Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
Topic: HOCNA-GOC AB Makarios intercommunion in Spring 2013
Replies: 25
Views: 8084

Re: Crisis in GOC of Greece under Arch. Makarios

I get the feeling that the Synod of Metr. Macarios is totally unaware (or wilfully disregarding) the heresy of the HOCNA synod, namely that of Name-Worshipping. I have carefully read both written letters of defence of Bp Ephraim of Boston and those of clergy and concerned laymen in HOCNA that quest...
by Maria
Thu 15 August 2013 11:07 pm
Forum: Intra-TOC Discussions
Topic: Crisis in GOC of Greece under Arch. Makarios - Polemics
Replies: 10
Views: 261

Re: Crisis in GOC of Greece under Arch. Makarios - Polemics

The real crisis in Makarios synod is : that one of his bishops Athanasios of Gardikion departed from his monastery at Fthiodita and from their synod as well (not to mention that probably left priesthood), thus Kallinikos' monastery is left with a few monks and someone published pictures of another ...
by Maria
Thu 15 August 2013 6:51 pm
Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
Topic: 17+ Coptic Churches set ablaze by Muslim Brotherhood
Replies: 8
Views: 2520

Re: 17+ Coptic Churches set ablaze by Muslim Brotherhood

http://www.thetower.org/egyptian-govt-calls-on-morsi-supporters-to-end-violence-as-islamists-burn-down-scores-of-christian-churches-and-home/ Attackers today set fire to a Christian youth center in Fayoum. They also reportedly destroyed a 4th century church, one of the oldest in Egypt. Scores of oth...