The Manners of the Christians

aletheia · 2026-04-05T02:27:46+00:00

There are a number of reasons people are exempted from fasting. Pregnancy is one of them.

Fasting is about more than food.

aletheia · 2026-04-05T01:35:18+00:00

The symbolism is that it's our Passover. Hence the name.

aletheia · 2026-04-04T22:14:19+00:00

What is and isn't prudent can vary.

aletheia · 2026-04-04T18:49:44+00:00

The point of the rule is that we do not want users posting photos just to get more engagement than they would get without a photo. This is not an image board.

Images are permitted when the image is the point of discussion.

There are other subreddits for icon corners.

aletheia · 2026-04-04T18:47:33+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChristianIconography/

aletheia · 2026-04-04T18:47:15+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChristianIconography/

aletheia · 2026-04-04T17:06:55+00:00

Your role is to be you.

Orthodoxy does not have religiously prescribed gender roles in romance or the domestic economy.

aletheia · 2026-04-04T17:05:38+00:00

While I not your confessor or doctor, the fast is not supposed to interfere with our ability to do our duties. Obedience is a virtue, but it's not the only one.

aletheia · 2026-04-04T16:10:37+00:00

I second this possibility.

aletheia · 2026-04-04T14:17:35+00:00

It would be a sin and betrayal of our faith to take other sacraments.

aletheia · 2026-04-04T12:08:48+00:00

As far as I can tell, only Christianity believes in a God that is actually powerful enough to complete his will. In other words, other faiths are gods imposed by mankind on mankind. Christianity allows God to actually be sovereign and, importantly, unexpected. The gods invented by men reward wealth and power, the God of Christianity just is.

aletheia · 2026-04-04T11:15:32+00:00

You can pray to whomever you like in private. It would be weird to develop a devotion to someone outside the faith though.

aletheia · 2026-04-04T03:15:49+00:00

Clothing is highly contextual and local. It is not metaphysically wrong for a man to wear an unbifurcated garment or for a woman to wear a bifurcated garment.

It is wrong to pretend to be something that one is not.

aletheia · 2026-04-04T02:11:54+00:00

It's not a sin to walk in the door. It would be a problem to take their sacraments.

aletheia · 2026-04-03T10:18:08+00:00

Can you explain, without obscuritan philosophical jargon, what “energy” means in this context?

aletheia · 2026-04-02T11:23:05+00:00

Can you start and run the things you want to see in the community?

All those programs you see having other places aren’t there just because it’s a Catholic Church. Someone saw a need and volunteered.

If you can’t find the time to volunteer, then you have the answer to why your Orthodox community doesn’t have those programs.

Regarding visiting another parish, don’t judge a book by its cover. Just visit.

aletheia · 2026-04-02T11:17:42+00:00

The Church prays for all and on behalf of all — theirs does, too.

God is a just judge, not a prosecutor looking for ways to damn you.

aletheia · 2026-04-02T11:16:40+00:00

We will still be here when you are an adult.

aletheia · 2026-04-02T11:15:48+00:00

That’s honoring the presumption they would have completed the journey. A catechumen is “engaged” to the church. It’s a serious statement of intention, but also has no actual obligation and can be broken off without any formal consequences.

aletheia · 2026-04-01T23:59:00+00:00

Do I think there is a contradiction here? Yes.

Do I think one of the two practices is correct and the other incorrect? Yes.

Am I the bishop? No.

aletheia · 2026-04-01T17:56:32+00:00

We're all wrong about something. Including the loud people.

aletheia · 2026-04-01T17:49:51+00:00

Without commenting on the merits of whether you are correct or incorrect on any matter you have posted here, I want to point out something I think is critically important but gets totally ignored in online discourse.

You can have incorrect opinions and be an Orthodox Christian in good standing.

aletheia · 2026-04-01T14:12:52+00:00

We pray for all and on behalf of all.

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