Thank you! Will do. I’ve been trying to pray without ceasing.
It was a beautiful day beyond words being Baptized and Chrismated into the Orthodox Church with my husband. I’m at a loss for words but want to thank everyone here who has helped me since early 2021 when I joined as Melily. I know that online interaction is no substitute for real life experience and relationships but I still feel this forum has been a great help and blessing on my journey to Orthodoxy so I wanted to express my gratitude.
Thank you Father.
I think this forum is pretty unique in terms of representing Orthodoxy on the Internet. There are a couple of "Orthodox only" forums that I would never recommend to inquirers.It was a beautiful day beyond words being Baptized and Chrismated into the Orthodox Church with my husband. I’m at a loss for words but want to thank everyone here who has helped me since early 2021 when I joined as Melily. I know that online interaction is no substitute for real life experience and relationships but I still feel this forum has been a great help and blessing on my journey to Orthodoxy so I wanted to express my gratitude.
It was a beautiful day beyond words being Baptized and Chrismated into the Orthodox Church with my husband. I’m at a loss for words but want to thank everyone here who has helped me since early 2021 when I joined as Melily. I know that online interaction is no substitute for real life experience and relationships but I still feel this forum has been a great help and blessing on my journey to Orthodoxy so I wanted to express my gratitude.
Most, if not all of us here are converts. It seems we are from different backgrounds, different regions, different countries. But our lives have all converged on one point: our being Orthodox Christians.
So, how did you get to be here?
My story's a little unusual, but I'll post mine later. First I want to hear stories from others. Come on, don't be shy.
(If The Powers That Be want to make this a sticky so that it'll be available for visitors' perusal, that's fine. )
I made a YouTube video about my conversion from Atheism to Catholicism and finally to Orthodoxy. Here it is if you want to watch it. Pardon the video quality, I have a cheap camera:
Im not officially an Orthodox member but I do hold many of their doctrines and teachings in the highest regard. If I may be permitted I would like to share why I hold the EOC in such high regards.
I really enjoyed listening to your story! Thank you.I made a YouTube video about my conversion from Atheism to Catholicism and finally to Orthodoxy. Here it is if you want to watch it. Pardon the video quality, I have a cheap camera:
same hereI'm still not good at it. I still hope to get better.
I'm still bumbling. But I think I know where I'll end up. Still not made Orthodoxy official, but every time I encounter it, it feels like home.I bumbled around for a couple years.
praise God! keep us in the loop!I'm still bumbling. But I think I know where I'll end up. Still not made Orthodoxy official, but every time I encounter it, it feels like home.
keep us in the loop!
praise God!Update: I've known for a while I was headed into Orthodoxy. Back around Pascha, in discussion with the Fathers at Church, we decided it best to let my responsibilities to my local protestant church lapse naturally. Life got busy over the Summer and didn't let me make the 4-hour journey to Church. Now being free of those responsibilities, it spurred me to make the effort a few weeks ago and arrange a proper visit for last weekend, coincidentally there was a baptism. Once again the Spirit showed his hand has been all over my journey.
I thought I was enquiring about formally becoming a catuchemen. And I guess I am one now, but not for long. I'll be chrismated in the middle of next month! So this hasn't been a nice tidy Conversion story in one post, but it is a Conversion story.
It might take me a while to learn to write 30 paragraphs where 3 will do, but to summarize my journey - the Spirit kept leading me into Orthodox churches until one time I got to where I didn't have language barriers. Talking to the Fathers, I wasn't being told new things but having misconceptions corrected, and realizing the things I was uneasy about in protestant churches were things Orthodoxy has been getting right all along. My biggest obstacle was the status of Mary, but I'm sure I'm not the first with that. The bottom line for me is that in order to be truly free in Christ, I need to be grounded in Christ, which Orthodoxy (particularly the Liturgy) does for me. I said it somewhere here already, Orthodoxy is built on solid rock.
Thanks for reading.