Glad I’m Catholic and not a Greek Orthodox — I would never approach a woman or unordained person — only a priest.
“Glad I’m Catholic and not a Greek Orthodox — I would never approach a woman or unordained person — only a priest.”
Really!!!!!!!!!!!!! The holiest people I have ever met are all monastics. I’d far prefer to go to confession to a wise monastic “Spiritual Olympian”, than to the average parish priest. In Greece and indeed throughout the Orthodox world, people will travel hundreds, even thousands of miles to go to confession to a holy spiritual father or mother in a monastery or hermitage.