Which Orthodox church is best for me?

[mayogirl25]

This is a Roman Catholic Forum website and you are asking which of the two Orthodox churches in your vicinity you should join?

 

[Peter_J]

I would recommend none of them-in the USA-Canda_Australia the Orthodox Churches are very ethnic and the vast majority of the congregants are first or second generation for example Greek canadians or russian Canadians

If you have never been baptized you should first decide if you want to be a Christian and believe in the principles stated in the Nicene Creed-if you do I would ecommend that you try the Roman Catholic Church first-the ethnicity is broad and they have the same sacraments as the Orthodox-

I would not recommend the Church of canada as they as well as my Church are having significant issues which a new Christian should not have to deal with

All in all, I’m not too sure the Orthodox would want you to recommend them. (Not that I can speak for them. )

 

[MarianCatholic]

Hi people thanks for all your replies.
But you’ll be happy to know that I have decided not to rush into this again. Actually this is about the 2nd time I’ve thought about eastern orthodoxy and changed my mind. The last time this lasted for 2 days as well as now. So I might be catholic after all! who knows?

I think the reason why I was so attracted to orthodoxy in the first place was because of what I read on a Wikipedia article :
“Through baptism, Orthodox Christians enter a new life of salvation through repentance, whose purpose is to share in the life of God through the work of the Holy Spirit. Christian life is a spiritual pilgrimage in which each person, through the imitation of Christ and hesychasm cultivates the practice of unceasing prayer (often with use of the Jesus Prayer). This life occurs within the life of the church as a member of the Body of Christ. It is through the fire of God’s love in the action of the Holy Spirit that the Christian becomes more holy, more wholly unified with Christ, starting in this life and continuing in the next. Born in God’s image, each person is called to theosis, fulfillment of the image in likeness to God. God the creator, having divinity by nature, offers each person participation in divinity by cooperatively accepting His gift of grace.”

I thought whoever wrote this was brilliant. But now I guess Catholics believe in the same thing more or less right?

This is a serious matter that involves your eternal salvation. Therefor I highly recommend you to go through the RCIA program as well as the Orthodox program (the last one I obviously do not know much about) I just assume they are ok with people learning about their faith without any prassure to join in the end?.

It will take approximately 1-2 years and will be very interesting (at least I would’ve enjoyed it )
And remember that wether you end up Catholic or Orthodox the most important thing is that you’ve made up your mind about it as much as you can. So you don’t regret your decition after all so considering the importants of this choice 2 years time really isn’t that much.

I myself converted to Catholisism from Lutheranism not long ago but find myself drawn to the Orthodox Church. I have no intention of joining them any time soon (probably never), but I have to admit that if there was a Orthodox Church anywhere close to where I live Would probably have been inquiring there as well in my conversionprosses away from Lutheranism.

I guess you can say that I admire their church and as soon as Im given a chance I will attend liturgies in their church (in addition to my Catholic Church of course).
I meant what I said when I joined the Catholic Church (that I’ll do my best to keep my faith for the rest of my life), but I think my spiritual life can be enriched as catholic by looking to some of the aspects of the Orthodox Church.

And there is definitely no doubt that they do possesses a fullness of truth not very far from our Church even though I consider the Papacy to be a undeniable truth that they’ve missed out on.

Anyway, sorry for my rant

I’ll pray for your journey of faith my friend

Yours in Christ

• MarianCatholic