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Re: Letter from Metropolitan Methodios forbids concelebration with OCA clergy

Posted by Harry Coin on 3/30/2008, 6:43 pm, in reply to "Letter from Metropolitan Methodios forbids concelebration with OCA clergy"
Message modified by user Harry Coin 3/31/2008, 10:40 am

Once in a while we hear, even in Met. Methodios' parishes, '...And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us...'.

Now we see him cutting off whole groups of folk because of, as he writes: 'affront to his person'.

So I suppose by the reasoning in this example of Official Orthodox Christian Leadership in action: Boston, the GOA and by extension the Ecumenical Patriarchate: either the Lord's prayer is correct, or they are.

I seriously doubt communion is available in the GOA, unless it is also as much communion in any trinitarian church.

How can parish clergy expect grown men to accord them moral authority when they agree to submit to such 'bishops'?

Responses:

Guys...you're forgetting the charter... - Tamara Northway 3/31/2008, 12:00 am
- Re: Guys...you're forgetting the charter... - Harry Coin 3/31/2008, 1:59 pm
  - Re: Guys...you're forgetting the charter... - Dean Calvert 3/31/2008, 5:09 pm
    - Re: Guys...you're forgetting the charter... - Harry Coin 3/31/2008, 6:38 pm

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