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Do Clothes Make the Man? Keeping the Cassock

June 24, 2016 Filed under: 3 Comments

by Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos (The cassock) has a history connected with sacrifices, struggles, tears and blood. … To clergy the cassock reminds them that they are spiritual physicians and not just social workers. The life of the cleric is sacrificial, an ongoing offering that requires … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bishop, Deacon, General, Priest Tagged With: cassocks

A case for wearing the cassock (or even the collar)

February 10, 2015 Filed under: 10 Comments

This documentary explains how Orthodoxy studies the world in order to understand and speak to it, but witnesses to it by remaining true to itself.  Abbot Tryphon makes the case for clerics wearing recognizable clerical garb because it allows them to image Christ to others (even if the best cultural … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, General Tagged With: Abbot Tryphon, attire, cassocks, clergy, culture, men in black, Orthodox

Today’s Need for Bright and Transparent Cassocks

December 13, 2012 Filed under: 1 Comment

By Monk Moses the Athonite Lately there is a lot of talk about clergymen who have forgotten their mission, or they preach and are occupied with alternative projects. They rightly condemn the far right, but they also flirt with the known left. The first supports violence, racism and non-freedom. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deacon, Pastoral, Priest, Vocation Tagged With: cassocks, monk moses, priests

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