Posted on 07/22/2022 12:14:22 PM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in America issued a statement on same-sex relationships and sexual identity today.
A resolution was proposed at the 20th All-American Council, which is currently underway in Baltimore, to affirm the Church’s stance on these issues. However, the OCA statutes dictate that such doctrinal and moral matters fall not within the competency of an All-American Council, but that of the Holy Synod. Thus, the hierarchs, under the presidency of His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon, issued a statement.
In it, the hierarchs reaffirm the Church’s unchanging teaching that sexual activity is blessed only within the confines of a marriage of a man and a woman, and thus “call upon all clergy, theologians, teachers, and lay persons within the Orthodox Church in America never to contradict these teachings by preaching or teaching against the Church’s clear moral position.”
At the same time, the Synod expresses its pastoral concern and love who struggle with sins and passions, including same-sex attraction, and calls on the latter to live the same life of chastity and repentance that is the calling of every Christian.
The Synod also reaffirms that “God made human beings in two sexes, male and female.”
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I never heard of Oca Synod, is she that Alaskan Rapper with the white hair?
Close. Orthodox Church in America.
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Clear and unambiguous.
Very nice. Clear and unmistakable directions. It’s almost a shock to see a church teach morals.
If the LCMS ever goes woke, I’m going here.
Ping!
Save Thy people, O Lord,
and bless Thine inheritance.
Grant victory to Thy Church over her enemies,
and protect Thy people by Thy Holy Cross!
I had a priest, whom I respect and love deeply as he brought my wife into the Church and reignited my passion, that the homosexual issue was complicated. We all fall short.
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