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Saint Luke Orthodox Church - Ministries - Community
You spend time figuring out the best way to remove smoke stains from your ceiling and wax from your walls. Before you pray, you say a prayer.
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You don't flinch when someone throws water at you. When you first tell people who ask what religion you are, at first they think you're Jewish. You're experienced at removing wax from clothing. The service routinely starts at least 15 minutes late and lasts 2 and a half hours - and nobody around you complains.
You know you're in an Orthodox church when the priest says, "Let us complete our prayer to the Lord At the end of Holy Week, you have rug burns on your forehead. Your Easter isn't Easter without an all-night party featuring 10 dishes of wonder food with cheese.
Re: Orthodox Assimilation on University Campuses
Your priest is married. You have seen all members of clergy in purple robes. You can differentiate between the eight different chanting tones. High Schools cannot inoculate against the outside world. The best may try and teach critical thinking, gently teaching students how to evaluate choices, how to make choices, and how to deal with ideas.
They introduce students to a range of ideas, some of which the school agrees with, and many that it doesn't. They teach that while our community's bedrock values and history - yes, many teach extensive courses in Jewish history are rooted in Torah and Jewish experience, there are also many wonderful things in the world. My guess is that the graduates of those that follow this approach do not go into culture shock at University.
You’re Orthodox and you are not always joyful?! What?
The orthodox community cannot provide "The answers" whatever that strange phrase means without engaging in a fundamental reappraisal of its own ideology. Please, enter the code that you see below in the input field. During the interview , she heartily requests that God forgives the ISIS terrorists for their wickedness. Here is a picture of genuine and flawless Christianity! Here is an example that makes my heart glow with indescribable hope and uncontainable faith.
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From this, we can only conclude that there certainly exists some sort of extreme joy and power that comes to proper Christians. This presents infallible proof that when Orthodoxy makes promises of comfort and peace, it surely deliver them to those who are faithful. Instead of being depressed and wallowing in self-pity, they go down to the grave with great joy. Peace seems to radiate from their hearts to the same degrees at which the sun radiates heat.
Comparing ourselves to this grandness of faith and this hugeness of heart of this little girl and the persecuted Copts, we realize… here is Christianity in its most refined form. Through them they are like a kind of mirror of whether or not we are true in our faith.