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Recent content by Matrona

  1. Matrona

    How did you find Orthodoxy?

    Orthodoxy is rich with these sorts of rituals. :) I love them, too.
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    How did you find Orthodoxy?

    That's because it was Holy Friday, the Orthodox commemoration of when Jesus was killed and buried. The table you passed under is there to symbolize the bier Christ's body was carried on from the cross to the tomb. :)
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    The Holy Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II

    What a beautiful story... I have an icon of the Tsar-Martyr and his family that I love. I'd also like one of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth.
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    Pushing For Unity Of Jurisdiction - American Orthodox

    In his defense, I don't think he meant those things... but our campus's Campus Crusade group sends missionaries to Russia to convert the "heathens" and if any of this garbage gets back to them, that'll make them all the more determined to 'convert' Russia out of Orthodoxy.
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    Pushing For Unity Of Jurisdiction - American Orthodox

    Well, sort of. I think the OCA should be the only jurisdiction, but I'd stop well short of complimenting them in that fashion. The local OCA priest came to my Russian Civ class to give a talk on the Russian Orthodox Church. Several things he said left a very negative impression, but I was...
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    The Touchstone

    I too am reading that, I may not have time to comment on it any time soon though. Just wanted to post to say that I am not ignoring it. :)
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    Generosity for the Vashon Monks

    How wonderful that one man's greed was made into an opportunity for the community to show its generosity!
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    Forgiveness Sunday

    To start the journey of the Great Lent, Orthodox Christians have a special service called Forgiveness Vespers where we individually ask the forgiveness of everyone else. To commemorate it I would like to ask the forgiveness of everyone else here for any way I may have transgressed against you...
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    How did you find Orthodoxy?

    St. Matryona was the one known as "Matronushka", and one of the reasons I am glad for my name which is similar to hers. It's a pity a lot of the Russian new martyrs aren't well known yet.
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    Orthodox Questions.

    Hey Maize, There are listings of Orthodox parishes at www.goarch.org, www.oca.org, and www.antiochian.org. From your profile I noticed you have a link to a Unitarian church in Lexington, Kentucky, so I looked up parishes there and I found St. Andrew Antiochian Orthodox Church...
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    Icons

    I've never been to a moleben. I would love to have one, but my parish has a priest who comes from a long distance so we are lucky to have him around as much as we do. I don't drive, so if one of the other local parishes had one, I couldn't get there.
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    "Orthodixie"

    Where have you lived? I'm a navy brat too, although we didn't move around. I grew up in Charleston, SC.
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    The Orthodox/Roman Catholic Veneration of Mary, the Mother of God

    1: This is not a Roman Catholic forum, we are Eastern Orthodox. :) 2: Eastern Orthodox do not worship Mary. She is, however, the greatest woman who ever lived, because she had the closest earthly relationship with Christ. She risked her life and reputation so that God could become an...
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    Christian: Problems With Modern Bible Translations

    Or, you could actually study Greek for yourself and not rely on what someone else TELLS you is the best translation... We had someone at my church who converted from Jehovah's Witness. His mother was very unhappy about it, but she didn't shun him like the elders wanted her to, so they started...
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    How did you find Orthodoxy?

    I was (and still am) in college, working with the campus pro-life group, and I knew the pro-life writings of Frederica Mathewes-Green. Knowing that she's also Orthodox, I struck up a conversation with a guy who happened to be president of this campus's OCF chapter. I went to an OCF meeting and...
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