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

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What is a “dendrite?”

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What is a “stylite?”

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Why does the Psalter Book contain an additional 151st psalm when the Bible only contains 150?

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Why does the Bishop’s staff have two serpents around the top?

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Why do we have processions?

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What is a Mantiya?

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Why do churches have bells?

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While on vacation, we attended an Orthodox Church where, during the Great Entrance, parishioners bent down and touched the priest’s robe as he walked by. Why did they do this?

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What is a shrine?

“Why do we greet the bishop with bread and salt?”

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What does “Pantocrator” mean?

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What is a Great Schema?

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When Orthodox priests retire, are they actually “retired,” as in no longer having to be at church on Sundays celebrating liturgy?

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Why do we celebrate the Lord’s circumcision on January 1st?

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Fr. John, I know your birthday was the day after Christmas and that you just turned 54. However, can you give me a logical answer about people’s ages in the Book of Genesis? Some of them lived to be 900 years old! What is our Church’s teaching about this?

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Why did the Magi bring gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the Christ Child?

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Why do so many towns in the Holy Land begin with “Beth?”

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If someone gets married outside the Orthodox Faith, what do they have to do to remain a member in good standing?

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What is a “Protopresbyter?”

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What does the term “exegesis” mean?

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