Is the male-only priesthood a discipline or essential to the nature of being a priest? Sr. Vassa (again unflinchingly taking up a contentious topic by climbing up the ladder to the highest platform and then jumping into the deep end head first) dives right in and says there is no reason beyond personal preference to not have female clergy. You know, when people ask me about women in priesthood, they say, 'Sister, why can't women be priests?' And I say, 'Women CAN be priests. We don't WANT them to be priests.' Because you see, God can do anything, and the Church, by divine authority, uh, can do anything, but, the Church doesn't want to - and that's a legitimate reason. What I don't like is when we TRY to pretend that there are other reasons for this, because it's legitimate not to want something, and there are reasons not to want this - right? - but, we shouldn't pretent that there's some... reason, that, for example, the maleness...
Ukraine is NOT part of the Russian world.
ReplyDeleteThat phrase could translate "Российский мир" -- which Ukraine is objectively not part of, or "Русский мир" -- which at the very least, more than half of Ukraine is not part of, or "Мир Руси" -- which Ukraine definitely is part of.
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Deletetoo many anti Russian Orthodox people here ... as well as the new age Orthodox converts who have all the answers --
DeleteThis is the true face of Russia, they abuse the Cross of Christ for their political goals and fight against Democracy, Freedom, Human Rights and International Rights. Moscow lost the great majority of ukrainian faithful
ReplyDeleteidiots, idiots everywhere
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