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spiritmech
July 31st 2005, 10:58 PM
My parents went with me this morning to Divine Liturgy. I don't think it offended them too badly. Please pray for them.

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furay
July 31st 2005, 11:51 PM
What a blessing! I will pray :pray: :candle:

My Dad came with me once to Divine Liturgy... methinks it did offend him.:lol::sigh:
My parents went with me this morning to Divine Liturgy. I don't think it offended them too badly. Please pray for them.

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ChrisChillin
August 1st 2005, 01:37 AM
What is the religious background of your parents? This Baptist hopes and prays they saw beauty and grace in that time of worship...
spiritmech
August 1st 2005, 08:54 AM
non-Denominational Bible church.
Jezz
August 1st 2005, 11:06 AM
non-Denominational Bible church.
You mean they're Orthodox?

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spiritmech
August 1st 2005, 02:10 PM
Aye carumba. lol
furay
August 1st 2005, 08:36 PM
:lol:
You mean they're Orthodox?

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George Blaisdell
August 1st 2005, 10:46 PM
My parents went with me this morning to Divine Liturgy. I don't think it offended them too badly. Please pray for them.

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So did they hang out for coffee, and meet some of the Orthodox faithful? I would not expect them to have much for the liturgy - It was probably just a bit MUCH... I mean, it IS a bit much, by any human standards!

But the faithful are the ones I enjoy rubbing shoulders with, and I should think your folks would too...

Arsenios
spiritmech
August 2nd 2005, 12:48 AM
We only stayed for the first half. My parents didn't think they could take 2 hours...
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George Blaisdell
August 2nd 2005, 06:03 PM
We only stayed for the first half. My parents didn't think they could take 2 hours...
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Was it the standing? Or the service itself that they could not stand?

I took my 'liberated' niece in Portland to a Greek service [at St. John the Forerunner's], and she walked out of there at the end having experienced something that she had never seen or imagined before, but waas certainly not
put off in any way... She really liked what she saw in the self-denial of everyone participating in the service, and the fact that they were all somehow one in it... She couldn't quite get her mind around exactly HOW it happenned, but only noticed by direct perception [thanks to the Holy Spirit, in my understanding] of the participants - Turns out she hungers for that kind of thing, so absent from western culture...

The big seller, I should imagine, will be the quiet transformation that they will not fail to notice taking place in their own child across time before their very eyes...

Have you received a prayer rule yet?

Arsenios