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A collection of popular questions and answers, provided by Fr. John Memorich

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What are the “Hours”?

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While on vacation, we once visited a Greek Orthodox Church which used an organ during liturgy. I thought that we were not supposed to use musical instrument such as organs or guitars during our worship service? But then again, when I read the Psalms, they often talk about the use of stringed instruments, cymbals, flutes, etc. Why don’t we use these as part of our worship, it’s in the Bible?

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Why are non-Orthodox Christians unable to receive the Sacrament of Holy Communion in the Orthodox Church?

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Faith Great Lent

In today’s day and age it seems that the Orthodox Christian Faith is the only church which actually challenges its faithful. Other denominations don’t go through the rigors of fasting, extra services, etc, so why should we?

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Why do I always feel so ashamed when I come to Confession?

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What was the role of the priest during Old Testament times?

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I was reading my Bible and came upon this passage. “I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.” Can you explain this for me?

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Social and Moral Issues

There is a new television reality show about a Mormon man who is married to four women. They back up their life-style Biblically claiming that historic figures from Scripture had more than one wife. For instance, Abraham had two wives and so did Jacob; and didn’t King David and Solomon have many wives? If the Church teaches that we are only to be married to one person, yet believe that the Bible is also divinely inspired and “true,” why did God allow those persons to have more than one wife?

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What can I do to make the Advent Season more relevant and improve my spiritual life?

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What is a catechumen?

Prayer

Why do we instinctively look “up” when we pray or think about God? Why does the priest say, “Let us lift up our hearts unto God” and then point upward to denote where Heaven is?

Church Attire

My wife and I will be visiting your church for “Friends and Family Day,” and would like to know what the appropriate attire is for the liturgy. Is formal clothing (suite and dress) typically worn?

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What is a Prokeimenon?

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Social and Moral Issues

Why does it say in the marriage service that a wife must be subject to her husband? Isn’t this a little old fashioned?

I was reading the Book of Romans when I happened upon this verse: “I Tertius, the writer of this letter, greet you in the Lord” (Rom. 16:22). But I thought that St. Paul wrote this epistle. Am I wrong?

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In Jesus’ parable of the “Wheat and the Tares,” what are tares?

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I have a collection of blessed pussy willows from over the years and would like to dispose of them properly. How should I go about this?

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I know that we generally pray facing towards the east, yet how would one go about finding east in space?

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What is the ‘Judgment Seat?’

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Social and Moral Issues

I realize it’s probably a defect in my character, but I still have trouble being charitable. Can you offer me any advice?

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