"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...
The fact that these guys posted that just shows they don't know how twitter works....
ReplyDeleteIt also seems to show that they may not know how Orthodoxy works, either. In the end, these exchanges seem to boil down to one person being an Orthodox Christian and the other playing one at Fordham.
ReplyDelete"Did you see the 12+ round tweet contest between @FrJohnWhiteford and @atpapanik on sex, sodomy, and other Church stuff?"
ReplyDeleteNo. I don't follow the "micro blogs" such as twitter, Facebook, and the like because as near as I can tell they are just blogs reduced/limited to soundbites and corporate advertising/control. When I click on the two links above, just a bunch of random subjects and one sentence commentary come up - I could see no "contest" between Fr. John and Aristotle at all.
Anyone to the discussion that works?
I'm glad someone is opposing the fordham group. We certainly can't expect any bishops to do it. They're terribly busy doing selfies and visiting each other. Standing still with a pool stick can really take it out of a guy.
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