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by Etienne
Fri 30 July 2004 6:13 pm
Forum: True Orthodox Christian Churches
Topic: Met. Valentine should be deposed
Replies: 10
Views: 2859

So a strict upholder of the canons would never instruct a priest not concelebrate with the Serbs, and then when Patriarch Pavel complained about such a priest, that same strict upholder of the canons would not then reprimand the priest for not concelebrating with a Serbian priest; would he? I hold n...
by Etienne
Fri 30 July 2004 6:02 pm
Forum: Theology and Tradition
Topic: A book in the wings?
Replies: 1
Views: 1088

Yes, such a carefully and fairly researched work would be very welcome. Some time ago a priest suggested to me the very same thing and I replied the task would be considerable. If someone does I may be interested in purchasing a copy or two................

by Etienne
Fri 30 July 2004 5:57 pm
Forum: True Orthodox Christian Churches
Topic: Ecclesiological Dissonance
Replies: 23
Views: 7166

Patrick, Probably, Sir, it was their - to me at least - bizarre pre-occupation with dates. As I have said I very much liked the priest, and others in the congregation. The humour about the supposed laxity of the 'new calendarists' was quite gentle but funny. So I suppose I found a dissonance between...
by Etienne
Fri 30 July 2004 10:45 am
Forum: Theology and Tradition
Topic: Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Replies: 114
Views: 25431

I confess to being a major critic of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), and the Zionist elders total disregard for the people of Palestine when setting up the state of Israel. My activities have included very recently correspondence on the firing on British parliamentarians by the IDF. This correspon...
by Etienne
Fri 30 July 2004 10:15 am
Forum: True Orthodox Christian Churches
Topic: Fr. Dionysi DID INDEED witness Fr. Vladimir's Ecumenism
Replies: 6
Views: 2560

Truly the evil one has sown and reaped a harvest. A Chinese friend once gave me some advice to apply when all about seems chaotic and troubling, "Be still, be nothing".

Maybe 'least said, soonest mended' would be a good approach..........

by Etienne
Fri 30 July 2004 10:01 am
Forum: True Orthodox Christian Churches
Topic: Ecclesiological Dissonance
Replies: 23
Views: 7166

All my family were baptised according to Orthodox form within the Church in Exile.................

by Etienne
Thu 29 July 2004 6:43 pm
Forum: Praxis
Topic: I am nothing
Replies: 5
Views: 2080

Oh, Waldemar, when I first heard this very old but irrevently funny joke it was the Rabbi, the Cantor and the janitor.............. A Pole told me one about a Polish farmer on the Russian/Polish border who caught a fairy. The fairy was indignant and demanded to set free at once! The farmer was cunni...

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