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by Lydia
Sat 17 January 2015 2:36 pm
Forum: Theology and Tradition
Topic: Outside the Church, there is no salvation?
Replies: 35
Views: 74327

Re: Outside the Church, there is no salvation?

The Website for the GOC under Archbishop Stephanos in the USA is currently being update by Fr Stephen Fraser. If you want some good info though, visit http://www.orthodox-christianity.net

For "Matthewite" (Pejorative) stuff, you have to really use google translate and dig deep on http://www.google ...
by Lydia
Fri 16 January 2015 9:26 pm
Forum: Theology and Tradition
Topic: Outside the Church, there is no salvation?
Replies: 35
Views: 74327

Re: Outside the Church, there is no salvation?

No, I don't gossip. But, if people post things that are untrue, they must be corrected.
The stories I meant are things I have heard, seen or been part of, or the accounts of people whose probity is beyond reproach.

by Lydia
Mon 12 January 2015 9:48 pm
Forum: Theology and Tradition
Topic: Outside the Church, there is no salvation?
Replies: 35
Views: 74327

Re: Outside the Church, there is no salvation?

Nope. HOCNA does not require its members to believe in Awake, Sleeper. (Not sleepers)
I know many clergy and laity that reject it.
Bishop Ephraim has stated many times publicly (as I can personally attest) that this is his opinion.

I also know that the Toronto parishes left for other reasons ...
by Lydia
Sun 11 January 2015 10:16 pm
Forum: Theology and Tradition
Topic: Outside the Church, there is no salvation?
Replies: 35
Views: 74327

Re: Outside the Church, there is no salvation?

Nope. HOCNA does not require its members to believe in Awake, Sleeper. (Not sleepers)
I know many clergy and laity that reject it.
Bishop Ephraim has stated many times publicly (as I can personally attest) that this is his opinion.

I also know that the Toronto parishes left for other reasons than ...
by Lydia
Sun 11 January 2015 6:05 pm
Forum: Theology and Tradition
Topic: Outside the Church, there is no salvation?
Replies: 35
Views: 74327

Re: Outside the Church, there is no salvation?

As a Roman Catholic youth, I was taught that Limbo was a place of natural happiness, neither a state of deprivation, nor of punishment. Nevertheless, Limbo was never defined as a dogma of faith in Roman Catholicism.

Certainly, in today's ecumenical circles, one cannot find this teaching of Limbo ...
by Lydia
Mon 22 December 2014 9:55 pm
Forum: Book and Media Reviews
Topic: St John Maximovitch
Replies: 1
Views: 2903

St John Maximovitch

There is a new film on the life of St John:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSOoD9cCBoo#t=89
The one thing that stood out for me was the care he had for his flock, from Shanghai to a Phillipine DP camp to San Francisco.
He was a true Bishop, a shepherd who fiercely guarded the people knowing that he ...
by Lydia
Wed 10 December 2014 11:51 pm
Forum: Sacred Scripture
Topic: Jacob and Esau
Replies: 4
Views: 17380

Jacob and Esau

I was listening to a reading of Genesis on the radio, and as the person read the passages when Joseph brought his father, Jacob(Israel) to see Pharoah, how the most powerful man on earth was blessed by a poor, old hebrew shepherd. He then related a passage from Hebrews stating that there was no ...