Eating Before Church

尼古拉前执事 · Post by **尼古拉前执事** » Sun 21 March 2004 9:17 pm

Well a lot of the positions of the GOA are not Orthodox.

尼古拉前执事 · Post by **尼古拉前执事** » Sun 21 March 2004 9:26 pm

(I was thinking of your priest's telling you that you do not need to believe all the things that the Church teaches, that confession is only needed once a year if that, that fasting is only for monks and many of the other things like that. Of course there is the whole organ and kneeling on Sundays stuff but I think there have been plenty of threads on those violations of Holy Tradition.)

TomS · Post by **TomS** » Sun 21 March 2004 9:35 pm

Nicholas wrote:
Well a lot of the positions of the GOA are not Orthodox.

That is incorrect. The Greeks were the FIRST, the Russians were just seekers who discovered the truth THROUGH the Greeks!

尼古拉前执事 · Post by **尼古拉前执事** » Sun 21 March 2004 9:44 pm

TomS wrote:
Nicholas wrote:
Well a lot of the positions of the GOA are not Orthodox.

That is incorrect. The Greeks were the FIRST, the Russians were just seekers who discovered the truth THROUGH the Greeks!

Yeah but not the GOA!

TomS · Post by **TomS** » Sun 21 March 2004 9:46 pm

Okay. You got me there brother!

Natasha · Post by **Natasha** » Sun 21 March 2004 10:00 pm

I was taught that you should not eat before church at all-even if you are not taking part of communion that day.

Moronikos · Post by **Moronikos** » Sun 21 March 2004 11:13 pm

Valentina,

I apologize for the tone of my post.

If you are receiving communion, you are supposed to fast from midnight. If you are not receiving, I don't know what you are supposed to do. I have always tried to maintain the fast even if I wasn't communing. If you have a medical condition where you need to eat, you should discuss that with your priest. Your original question would be a good one to ask him as well.