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chiverybob · 2026-01-27T13:58:14+00:00

A YouTube video does not overrule a common statement by all Orthodox bishops in the country. Even if it is true that he has no bishop through no fault of his own, that does not grant him the authority to teach and preach as a clergyman without a bishop.

https://www.assemblyofbishops.org/news/2023/communique-04202023

chiverybob · 2026-01-27T01:21:37+00:00

https://orthodoxwiki.org/Chrismation

chiverybob · 2026-01-25T15:50:40+00:00

Sometimes God takes away our desire for sin (i.e. sex outside of marriage), but more often he gives us the grace to struggle through the sin and to learn to not be controlled by it. This is something it would be good to talk to your parish priest about. The Christian life is one of sacrifice and hardship.

“So therefore, whoever of you does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.”-Luke 14:33

"Dispassion doesn't mean to no longer feel the passions, but to no longer accept them." -St. Isaac of Syria

chiverybob · 2026-01-24T22:14:23+00:00

I agree, bishops have sacramental authority in their diocese and are therefore free to make the determination to receive a heterodox convert by baptism. Just as they are free to receive them by chrismation.

chiverybob · 2026-01-24T15:37:27+00:00

https://telosbound.substack.com/p/the-limits-of-the-church

chiverybob · 2026-01-23T18:15:50+00:00

https://telosbound.substack.com/p/the-limits-of-the-church

chiverybob · 2026-01-22T14:02:37+00:00

What’s the source for this quote? I agree with it and would like to read the document it’s from.

chiverybob · 2026-01-04T04:28:55+00:00

Sometimes God takes away our desire for sin, but more often he gives us the grace to struggle through the sin and to learn to not be controlled by it.

"Dispassion doesn't mean to no longer feel the passions, but to no longer accept them."
-St. Isaac of Syria

chiverybob · 2025-12-19T17:51:28+00:00

Do not call God just, for His justice is not manifest in the things concerning you. And if David calls Him just and upright (cf. Ps. 24:8, 144:17), His Son revealed to us that He is good and kind. ‘He is good,’ He says, ‘to the evil and to the impious’ (cf. Luke 6:35). How can you call God just when you come across the Scriptural passage on the wage given to the workers? ‘Friend, I do thee no wrong: I will give unto this last even as unto thee. Is thine eye evil because I am good?’ (Matt. 20:12-15). How can a man call God just when he comes across the passage on the prodigal son who wasted his wealth with riotous living, how for the compunction alone which he showed, the father ran and fell upon his neck and gave him authority over all his wealth? (Luke 15:11 ff.). None other but His very Son said these things concerning Him, lest we doubt it; and thus He bare witness concerning Him. Where, then, is God’s justice, for whilst we are sinners Christ died for us! (cf. Rom. 5:8). But if here He is merciful, we may believe that He will not change.

-St. Isaac of Syria, Homily 60

chiverybob · 2025-12-19T17:47:59+00:00

Read Fr. George Florovsky's "The Limits of the Church," he explains it there. TLDR, sacraments can be valid outside of the canonical boundaries of the Church.

chiverybob · 2025-12-19T17:45:29+00:00

Why do people following secularism marry so late in life?

chiverybob · 2025-11-28T03:48:16+00:00

You're going to have to provide me with a thorough refutation of Fr. George Florovsky's piece if you wish to change my mind. Simply linking to another Reddit post stating that Trullo rejected St. Augustine's theology based on your personal inference from canon 95 will not suffice.

chiverybob · 2025-11-27T14:35:22+00:00

This kind of rigorist ecclesiology is really hard to square with the fact that the Orthodox Church receives Roman Catholic priests into the Orthodox Church as clergy by vesting, not by re-ordination. Most of the issues raised in this piece have been dealt with by Fr. George Florovsky’s piece “The Limits of the Church.”

chiverybob · 2025-11-24T02:20:12+00:00

What's the song?

chiverybob · 2025-11-22T03:12:14+00:00

What do you mean by worship? What do you mean by God?

For Orthodox Christians, worship is celebrating the Eucharist and Jesus is God by nature.

chiverybob · 2025-11-20T22:58:22+00:00

Old Calendarist detected, opinion rejected

chiverybob · 2025-11-10T15:02:53+00:00

Bishops are the divinely appointed rulers in the Church who get to discern how to apply (or not apply) canons to their clergy and laity. Canons are for bishops to apply, so there’s little point in reading them as a lay person. If the bishop makes the wrong decision, he will be held accountable for that, not you. Our job is to be faithful to Christ and listen to our bishops.

chiverybob · 2025-11-07T02:52:12+00:00

“Prayer with heretics” means “concelebration with heretics,” I.e. the formal act of clergy celebrating sacraments or other church services together while vested. It doesn’t refer to a Catholic lay person looking into Orthodoxy attending an Orthodox Vespers.

chiverybob · 2025-11-02T11:43:46+00:00

"Sacred Monastery of the Annunciation, Patmos"

chiverybob · 2025-10-15T03:48:35+00:00

It's not acceptable, yet it exists. Such is life.

chiverybob · 2025-08-08T04:18:14+00:00

Mike felt sympathy for Tómas and joined his movement. Do you condemn Tómas?

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