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by Barbara
Thu 4 September 2014 11:04 pm
Forum: Inquiring into Orthodoxy
Topic: loving, open, generous, forgiving; vs. hardness
Replies: 12
Views: 6608

Re: loving, open, generous, forgiving; vs. hardness

It DOES sound heavily edited ! I haven't heard that expression "New-Platina" but it does seem to fit.
Quite a sea change between then and - when ? - the going under the Serbian Patriarchate. Or before, maybe ?

by Barbara
Thu 4 September 2014 11:00 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Issues
Topic: Unusual summer time fruits - dragon fruit, etc.
Replies: 7
Views: 2137

Re: Unusual summer time fruits - dragon fruit, etc.

Hmm, too bad. I feel sorry for the tree. I suspect that fruit trees enjoy producing fruit to help humans ! I always go out of my way to lavishly compliment my pear tree, while wheedling my near-defunct apricot tree to snap back to life and produce crops like it used to, around St Vladimir's Day each...
by Barbara
Thu 4 September 2014 10:50 pm
Forum: Praxis
Topic: Icon corners - please post pictures
Replies: 3
Views: 2078

Re: Icon corners - please post pictures

Yeah, I see what you mean. The menorah suddenly present with the rest does show how various objects can compete with Icons for a small space. Still, it does look elegant how the Finns arranged their corner over the pretty varnished secretary, compartmentalizing the Icon corner effectively. The small...
by Barbara
Wed 3 September 2014 11:23 pm
Forum: Monasteries and the Monastic Life
Topic: An ex-Calvinist outsider strongly drawn to Palamism
Replies: 9
Views: 20330

Re: An ex-Calvinist outsider strongly drawn to Palamism

Answering the questions in backward order, first, I avoid secular people as much as possible. I do NOT feel a shred of guilt about it, as it's my life to live and why to waste it catering to those who will never understand the religious perspective ? For, I see it that one has to cater to a secular ...
by Barbara
Wed 3 September 2014 10:58 pm
Forum: Inquiring into Orthodoxy
Topic: loving, open, generous, forgiving; vs. hardness
Replies: 12
Views: 6608

Re: loving, open, generous, forgiving; vs. hardness

Great posts, Liefern and Maria ! Well said, indeed.

Interesting examples above given by Maria faarther above, too.

And - I didn't have a precise idea of what the Cafeteria Catholic appellation signified. Thanks for the note explaining it very clearly.

by Barbara
Wed 3 September 2014 10:48 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Issues
Topic: Unusual summer time fruits - dragon fruit, etc.
Replies: 7
Views: 2137

Re: Unusual summer time fruits - dragon fruit, etc.

I don't think i have eaten ANY of these !
Inspiring to seek out.

So was the tree or the house cut down, Kostacc ?! I am asking for a very serious reason, not to make fun at all.

by Barbara
Sun 31 August 2014 10:32 pm
Forum: Inquiring into Orthodoxy
Topic: Inquirer into True Orthodoxy-question
Replies: 29
Views: 14936

Re: Inquirer into True Orthodoxy-question

Those are good posts, everyone. Maria is right to not confuse him with The Name Worshippers - that's so complex for a new arrival to our midst. Wow, I didn't know, or remember, about Elder Paisios' asking his spiritual children for cigarettes. What ?? I want to read that article on the New Calendar ...