"I am the door. By me if any man enter in he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture." - John 10:9 At every parish where I have had the pleasure of attending services, there is always a small group of people who find their way all the way up to the church building but don't actually attend services. At one parish it was a group of male gypsies who talked on cellphones or smoked cigarettes. At another it was a few Protestant husbands who, though they never attended services, opened the parish doors for people as they filed in. At yet another parish the men stood in the narthex and chatted until it was time to receive and then got in line. Latin or Greek Catholic, Eastern or Oriental Orthodox I see the same small throng of men standing next to the front door, but not standing, sitting, or kneeling amongst the people. If it were me (and I can only speak for myself here) this option would be an unsavory one. The boredom would be immediate. The anxiety of som...
Hmmm...
ReplyDeleteRather than focusing on obscure heresies that are not threatening the Church such as “aspects of the mystery of iniquity" and "anti-trinitarian/occult/neopagan beliefs about God” perhaps the hierarchs of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece might consider a contemporary heresy that is actually ravaging the Church such as the neoorthodox ecclesiology that the Phanar created a century ago & has been forcing down the throats of the other Orthodox Churches over the past few years?
Just an idea...
God forbid that we should confront the pressing issues in order to fulfill the Great Commision of Christ.
ReplyDeleteWill the hatted men ever stop saying "pan"? What a meaningless term.
ReplyDeleteWell good for them I suppose. But, a bit ironic given the predicament the Church of Greece is in regarding the Ukrainian schismatics. This should be the main issue they are tackling as it is applicable to Orthodoxy as a whole.
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