The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

I do not understand the quibbling over the place of women in the Church and the world. According the Scriptures and the Fathers, man has the preeminence. He was created first, he named the animals, he conversed with God (and we have no record that Eve had the same privileges). Authority is a male ...

Sorry: to whom it may concern:
Whoever thinks that women are the objects of male pleasure, should find another religion. God made male and female in the image of God. They are ontologically equal. The are of equal worth. At the same time, he gave them different tasks and equipped them to do it ...

Show me, then, from the holy Tradition of the Church --- make a study of the appearance of women in icons (including the Theotokos) --- that women should be priests or that men have deprived them of a sacerdotal ministry granted to the female sex by Christ. I do not want to hear anything else. I do ...

Those messages which favor the ordination of women do not appeal to the Scriptures, the Canons or the holy Fathers for their argument. An Orthodox is not persuaded by anything but these authorities. Whatever your intelligence, whatever your eloquence, whatever your frustration, it means nothing to ...

We are Orthodox. We are not led by modern egalitarian ideology. Feminism is a secular theory, socialist in origin.
We follow the Scriptures, the Fathers and the canons, none of which allow women neither to speak in the church nor to lead the congregation. They are not forbidden to teach the Church ...

"Original sin" is the Augustinian sense means that Adam's posterity has inherited his guilt. We are all guilty of his disobedience. Orthodox do not accept this extra-patristic, post-patristic anthropology. Man has not inherited guilt, he has inherited mortality. Sinful Adam took death into his ...

Let us assume the two natures of Christ are divided (Nestorian). What is the consequence? The Church is the Body of Christ; hence, her divine and human side are divided. For example, the Eucharist is the "mystical body" of Christ; hence, the visible and invisible dimensions of the Mystery are ...