what Orthodox's prayers are for?

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as one poster, an Orthodox, said:

“the Orthodox Church prayers for the ones who has nobody to pray for them.”

for anyone else?
 
water said:
as one poster, an Orthodox, said:

“the Orthodox Church prayers for the ones who has nobody to pray for them.”

for anyone else?
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I think you’re looking for a Catholic-Orthodox difference that doesn’t exist.
 
We offer that up at mass every Sunday. We are to pray for those in most despirate need. We should not only pray for our diseased parents and family but also for the least know or unkown soul in purgatory.
 
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That’s what I thought too. That particular person, who is a poster here on CAF (a convert to Orthodox) didn’t know what he was talking about then.

This poster also thinks those who committed crime such as child molesting will be in Hell - is this person correct according to the teaching of the Orthodox? – I hope not.

Here is where the idea came from:
forums.catholic-questions.org/showpost.php?p=3943595&postcount=69
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Although I myself am not quite sure what the poster is getting at, no, Orthodox teaching regarding repentance and the possibility of furute salvation regardless of the specific sin is the same as Catholic teaching. I’m thinking the poster may be speaking from personal anger or some sort of personal psychological belief and ‘venting’ in a manner of speaking…
 
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That’s what I thought too. That particular person, who is a poster here on CAF (a convert to Orthodox) didn’t know what he was talking about then.

This poster also thinks those who committed crime such as child molesting will be in Hell - is this person correct according to the teaching of the Orthodox? – I hope not.

Here is where the idea came from:
forums.catholic-questions.org/showpost.php?p=3943595&postcount=69
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I think you’re way off base here.

In that discussion about sexual abuse by Catholic priests, Frank J (who is, as you pointed out, Orthodox) made some statement that are really “out there” – for example “Cardinal Law was peddling the priest on young child” and “The Catholic Priest that was kill in jail got his justice the old fashion way by the hand of an inmate.”

To attribute the statements to “the Orthodox” is absurd – just as it would be absurd to attribute them to the “the Catholics” if they had been made by a Catholic poster.
 
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