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RLT
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That’s what I was thinking.Sounds like a lack of grooming practice.
I would like to get my beard to look like this;
St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe
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I would like to get my beard to look like this;
St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe
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James_Miller
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In the Malankara Church a beard is the norm unless one has a dispensation.
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IAGladfelter
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Several have claimed on this thread that in Jesus’ day, Jewish men wore beards. That is not exactly true. In Jesus’ day (and among the ultraorthodox Jews today, married men wore beards, and unmarried men did not. Rbbis were required to be married, so they wore beards. One class of Jewish men who wore beards were called Nazarites (nazirites or nazarites, (in Hebrew: נזיר, nazir. They voluntarily took a vow described in Numbers 6:1–21, and among some other things, were required to refrain from cutting the hair on their heads. Jesus was neither married nor a Nazarite as far as we know, and many of the earliest paintings/ frescos/mosaics of Him do show him clean shaven. Incidentally, in Modern Hebrew, the word, nazir נזיר, is used for both Catholic and Eastern Orthodox monks, whether they are bearded or not.
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Chatter163
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A three year-old thread was resurrected to talk about facial hair? :banghead:
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Joannm
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One of our priests started growing a beard, but shaved it off the other day when the Rangers lost.
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Baelor
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Our priest (OF) wears a beard. It looks nice.
I would add that it strikes me as strange that one could not just wear a beard because one likes beards. Must there be some deeper symbolic reason?
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ConstantineTG
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The East decided to have beards as part of the tradition for the clergy, the West decided to have clean shaven priests as the norm.
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archangel04
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Yep! People just don’t like to read the rules of the forums. Just start a new post!
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Baelor
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My question is whether this norm should continue and why it ought to be the subject of regulation.
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