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To: kosta50

well i can't see kicking people out of liturgy for not following it..

there's a sign on the door that folks are expected to at my parish. and there's a box of shawls by the door for folks who didn't come prepared...

what more could they do save kicking folks out of liturgy?

i know they refuse people for communion if they haven't gone to confession also.


234 posted on 03/09/2007 9:16:07 AM PST by kawaii (Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
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To: kawaii
there's a sign on the door that folks are expected to at my parish. and there's a box of shawls by the door for folks who didn't come prepared... what more could they do save kicking folks out of liturgy?

That's a lot more than any other church I have seen. Kicking anyone out is not an option, but teaching forecfully the truth, even insisting on it, is.

In Serbia, half a century of communist rule corrupted even the pious, even a 1,000-year-old Christian culture. Many of the so-called "Orthodox" don't know many things, and the clergy are charged with not letting something that became corrupt continue.

Refusing communion without confession is certainly one of them. That is as close as kicking someone out of the church or liturgy as it gets. But most Orthodox churches do not insist on women being covered even during communion.

So, while your church may be a welcome exception, one cannot say the same for the rest, and I have seen many-an-Orthodox-church in my lifetime.

243 posted on 03/09/2007 10:33:28 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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