To: Agrarian; annalex; Forest Keeper
"The order died out for good reasons, and there is no reason to revive it."
The Synod of the Church of Greece voted to reinstitute the order last Fall. It will be for nuns monasteries in remote areas and the duties will be those from ancient times only. These deaconesses in ancient times also nursed sick women.
3,833 posted on
03/20/2006 2:55:29 PM PST by
Kolokotronis
(Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
To: Kolokotronis; Agrarian; annalex; Forest Keeper
These deaconesses in ancient times also nursed sick women Didn't they also teach catechumens?
3,836 posted on
03/20/2006 3:30:15 PM PST by
kosta50
(Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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