The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

HI Maria,
Thanks for the additional info. I guess very little shocks me anymore. Oddly enough, back in the mid-70's I sold virtually everything I owned and moved to Goleta. There was an ex-Baptist minister there who thought he had some special 'light' on the Church and the home-church group here ...

Thank you, Priest Mark and Archimandrite for your responses. I just learned a couple of minutes ago that Fr. Gillquist is battling cancer again. Prayers.

Ivanov

Were all the hundreds received by the Antiochians put through a 1 year catachumenate and then allowed entry by Chrismation? How was this handled? This has a bearing on my current situation, though I am now (as a 'catechuman') looking only to True Orthodoxy but am stuck in a city with 3 'world ...

Thanks, Maria & Chad! We really appreciate your help! I'm going to look at an exhaustive list of True Orthodox parishes in the US just to get a sense of all options, but will certainly look at Jonesboro. We will leave Memphis either way, so that opens it up a bit for us. My only concern at the ...

I am new to this Forum and wanted at the outset to say thank you for the time, effort and expense that you put into this Forum. I am embracing the Orthodox Faith and entering through the catechumenate into The Ancient and Orthodox Church, having left and renounced 20+ years in Roman Catholicism ...