The Orthodox Priest & the Love of God || PRP Special 

To become a priest in the Orthodox church, one must be baptized in the Church and one must have both a blessing and an approval letter from their own priest as well as have completed all the prerequisites and requirements needed to attend an Orthodox seminary, where you will study Orthodox theology. At the end, if you complete your studies well and you receive the blessing of the Bishop, you may be tonsured as a priest. If you are already Orthodox and still wish to become a priest, consult your own parish priest first and then start looking for a seminary to attend.

Hi, Moses--The process starts in your parish. Tell your priest your intention, and follow his guidance. Blessings on your journey!

I wish i knew how to become Orthodox Christian.

This man of God is truly a light to this dark world

@@dannyh7557 Go to an Orthodox Church.

+Benito di Caprio convert to orthodoxy and save your soul

+Benito di Caprio i was formerly protestant (for 28+ years). God willing i will be received into the Holy Orthodox Church this year via baptism. Orthodoxy is the true faith of the apostles. May the Lord God guide your way to His Holy Orthodox Church. regards, theOrthodoxFaith (*dot*) org

Hi, Benito-- Here's a directory of Orthodox parishes in the Netherlands: www.orthodox-christianity.org/orthodoxy/countries/netherlands/nlparishes/ May God bless you on your journey! If I can help, drop me a line at: frjames@arimatheachurch.com.

+Lodewijk Langeweg Christ is the *head* of the Orthodox Church. there is no contradiction except for those who do not understand the Orthodox Faith. are you a Trinitarian Christian? what sect / denomination do you belong to?

God has given me to come to know Him and lead me to Himself without any formal religious organization. It is time for increasingly number of us to have a more direct relationship with Him. In His infinitely great Love for us He wills for us to have His happiness. So He is appearing here now as each and every one of us, in our human disguise.

Lodewijk Langeweg Orthodoxy is not a religion, it is *the Church* - the very body of the Lord against which the gates of hell shall never prevail [Matthew 16_18].

There are evil men who infiltrate and dress themselves with garments of light who are full of evil and darkness.

Many doctors and surgeons also harm or kill people. Some deliberately. But to then despise medicine is irrational. Despise the corruption of it, yes, with zeal.

God is referred to as He in the Bible and so He is not woman.

Argument about the "race of Jesus" is a silly, secular distraction. Do you have any Jewish friends? Look at them. Have you seen pictures of Isreali Jews? That's what He looked like. Is it okay to portray Him as Black? or Red? or Brown? or Asian? Sure! He was Messiah to all. But if you want to know "what color" He was here on earth, just look up any Israeli website. But, since He was God incarnate, it really doesnl;t make any difference.

@@fr.jamesrosselli9701 Jesus was white but would have been tan like others because they all were outdoors a lot and traveled a lot by walking. All the Messianic Jewish people who love Jesus and believe the Old and New Testament of the Bible that are here in America are white and the ones I met had brown or sandy blonde hair. But if their family does not have much money they might become hospitalized against their will and labeled crazy or that might happen if they seek counseling due to grief and stress. They will even risk danger to themselves in helping another. But in regards to skin color God does not make any distinction and neither do the children of God. The racism or skin issues are distractions coming from those who are not a child of God as in mostly the Catholics.

thenewguy2006 Jesus is fully man and fully God. The Father is of no gender but we refer to Him in the masculine sense because this is how He has revealed Himself to us.

And no, God has no wife.

The "holes" are in the fact that none of this was suggested. Jesus was a Jew, He was also the prophesied Messiah of he Jews, and of all mankind: of all our religions, all our philosophies: the sum, substance and fulfillment of them. Jesus was not "a god." He was Son of God and God the Son, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity (If you would have some beginning understanding of the Trinity, look at your hand: fingers, thumb and palm. Each is different, each is specialized, yet whenever any of them does anything it is the one hand which is acting). God "can" do anything. He is Omnipotent. Therefore, there is nothing He cannot do. So, any consideration of "how" He "can" do anything is irrelevant. God's intention is in and of itself an action. Thjios is something we have never experienced (although enough of us walk in the self-delusion that we can), and whyich is beyond o0ur capacity to underrstand, however much our vanity may rebel at that thought. You would profit, my friend, from a reading of the New Testament and from more discussion like this. The questuions you've asked are not that uncommon, and you've made a good beginning of it.