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To: Kolokotronis
They actually do have their own, unique vestments and do administer sacraments, unction and baptism for example and maybe others but they do not go into the altar so far as I know and likely haven’t for hundreds of years.

Really.......

My reading of Orthodox literature indicates that your church is on high alert for precisely the sort of innovation which will be discussed by the commission described in this article and the role of deaconesses in Orthodoxy is essentially non-existent, even in a non-liturgical role.

See HERE for example.

19 posted on 08/02/2016 8:36:08 AM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Take the proclamations of the site you linked to with several pounds of salt. It is a very, very, very Western site run by converts from protestantism. The article in question is simply wrong and out of date. I also note that most of it is lifted from a college paper written by another convert from protestantism!

As for the office being essentially non-existent, that is likewise simply wrong. As I said earlier, I’ve met one; There is a deaconess in the monastery outside my maternal village down in Greece (I have never met her but I have seen her at vespers at the monastery). I have a cousin who is a nun at that monastery and she speaks highly of her.

I am not suggesting for a moment that you folks should have deaconesses. It is 100% your call. If what you get is what we have, I assure you it’s not a problem, but given the culture of the Latin Church and Western society, that may well not be possible.


21 posted on 08/02/2016 8:54:01 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen and you, O death, are annihilated!)
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