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...
this gives us pause and thank God that we true christians,, call our Pascha 'Russian Easter' and say Christos Voskrese --- these barbaians have no repect of such a solemn and joyous day as our Paschal greeting in arabic to them is 'eye bishumn'
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My kindergarten daughter loves Yannis Pappas' "Mister Panos" character too. She will walk around the house speaking in a fained Greek accent talking about eating soup made with lamb guts & L-E-M-O-N! It's truly entertains to behold : )
He is crude, rude, insensitive,and socially unacceptable in his depiction of pascha
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