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1 posted on 01/15/2018 6:05:00 PM PST by marshmallow

First deaconess in Armenian Church in Iran in 100 years; pictures: https://news.am/eng/news/430380.html

2 posted on 01/15/2018 6:12:11 PM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)

The LCMS has deaconesses, and has had them for a long time.

Sadly, we don’t really know how to use them at times.

3 posted on 01/15/2018 6:16:00 PM PST by redgolum

Wishing the Armenians the best. They are in a tough environment.

4 posted on 01/15/2018 6:47:13 PM PST by Tax-chick ("It's the end of the world as we know it ... if the sky is falling, I don't want to be below it.")

It's my own personal opinion (and we all know how useless that is) that the Oriental Orthodox or Miaphysite churches are the most liberal and non-dogmatic of any of the ancient communions (I must confess that I have no experience of the Nestorians). This is because they define themselves primarily ethnically--"the church is the nation; the nation is the church."

One summer I attended services at an Armenian church for several weeks and found the priest very liberal (and the Catholicos in Etchmiadzin at that time was also very pro-Communist). Their liturgy is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, but they just seemed to be all about being Armenian, with little attention paid to theology. And I also believe a person could be an atheist and still be a priest in that (and many other) churches. It's a beautiful rite and it's a nice living.

Then of course they are fully committed to ecumania. How in the world do such ancient churches participate in such things?

5 posted on 01/15/2018 7:28:56 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Vegam Yehudah tillachem biYrushalayim . . . .)

6 posted on 01/16/2018 3:28:26 AM PST by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)

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