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To: NYer; x5452

" The Eastern Catholic Churches allow for married priests but under scrupulous assessment."

Absolutely...and this cannot be stressed enough, once one is ordained, one may not contract a marriage. In other words, save in a very few rare instances, you marry before you are ordained to the diaconite or you don't marry at all.

"Even the Eastern churches encourage a celibate priesthood."

Celibacy is considered the highest calling. All Orthodox celibates are monastics. If they are priests, they are called priest/monks.

I trust we will never see the day, and I don't think we will, when the Eastern Church allows formerly celibate priests to marry.


9 posted on 10/04/2005 11:33:53 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis

Do you think in Greece the Eastern Church will restore the role of deaconesses like St. Olympia? I thought I had read something about that or perhaps it was a restoring of a kind of order of widows.


28 posted on 10/04/2005 3:25:25 PM PDT by Maeve (Praying for America because we really need it.)
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