Father Bless.
Dear: Father Serafim,
Christ Is Risen!
Thank you for the explanation. I was going to attend the JP parish in Anahiem but I gusses there is some problems between the Antiochians and himself, that priest being a former Antiochian Orthodox Priest, so I was not blessed to go.
I was orignally going to attend this parish but my ROCOR Spiritual Father (Long Story) Decided that this Antiochian parish would be best for me.
In Christ
Nektarios
"This inter-riveraly between the Patriarchates is stupid."
Here-here! Childish games. I congratulate converts to Orthodoxy who put up with this. If I were not born into the faith, I think that the lack of friendliness among the various Orthodox patriarchates and metropolitanates would be a huge stumbling block for me.
Christ is Risen!
Thank you for the explanation. I was going to attend the JP parish in
Anahiem but I gusses there is some problems between the Antiochians
and himself, that priest being a former Antiochian Orthodox Priest, so
I was not blessed to go.
It's truly a crying shame when some use politics and personal dislikes to prevent Orthodox from worshipping with other Orthodox who share the same faith and partake of the One Body and Blood of Christ. The Mysteries don't belong to any man but to the Church, and we commune in them in the truth... not in the personal foibles of particular hierarchs or priests.
I was orignally going to attend this parish but my ROCOR Spiritual
Father (Long Story) Decided that this Antiochian parish would be best >for me.
I pray you come to visit us and share our life in the Church at some point.
In the Joy of the Risen Lord,
Rd. Constantine
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