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he tends to come and go but doesnt really announce it cause all Romanians swarm around him
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i keep meaning to ask, if anyone goes to St John the Baptist monastery, can you please discreetly ask when Fr Raphael will be visiting from Romania. thank you!
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It adds so much solemnity having funeral marches played
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The woman walking past confused on the phone saying "something holy" made me laugh
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I think we did have this, the road we processed was quiet
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Feels much more solemn and enables peace of mind
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Interestingly, I was praying after yesterday's conversations on here and today His Grace gave a sermon about having doubts about God
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Today I had the blessing of leading the choir during Matins and the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy, celebrated by His Grace Bishop Maximos of Melitene, Assistant Bishop to the Midlands of His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain. Many Years to His Grace on his nameday, the Feast of Saint Maximos the Confessor! Many Years, Master. ☦️
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I would say the important things to take from the OT are:
1. The Ten Commandments
2. The history of the Israelites
3. The select stories, morals and bits of wisdom that do still apply to our modern day
I am happy for you, I will keep asking and knocking for explanation on some verses of the Bible or for a personal experience like yours. There are other verses that are heavily criticised that don't cause me any problem (Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them. 16 “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the Lord’s people. 17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, 18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.)... here it is Moses who is speaking, and Moses is not God
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Personal experiences can indeed be delusions and this is why it’s important not to rely on things like feelings as they come and go and can happen as a result of mere chemical reactions in the brain that have no divine nature to them whatsoever. At least in my personal case my experience to me is impossible to doubt even if everyone in the world told me it was a delusion. I know myself and my own mental capabilities very well, what was done for me could not have been done by me and it was something that goes against the interests of Satan.
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Same really. I always choose this setting, as everybody knows it and it is really uplifting
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Some photos from today's service this was after there is a strict no phones rule during liturgy
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I personally particularly like a band during the Holy Friday evening procession
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The problem is that after the 10 commandments there are some other commandments from wish that are attributed to God Himself and it does not make sense
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A procession I took part in August 2022 when I was on holiday in Greece.
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Personally I like processions with public roads being cordoned off by the local authority
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Now tell me, this cannot be a mere coincidence
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and from that look how many generations before man was ready for Christ.
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Yes our past was cruel and barbaric, God could have fixed it all instantly with the snap of His fingers but again doing so would remove our free will
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I would not get too caught up in what most of the OT says, many parts of it no longer apply to us under the new covenant, especially as we live in a very different world today than the people of the OT even if there are still many parallels that can be drawn.
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Blessed Sunday to all 🙏 just returned from the most glorious Theophany Liturgy
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