Tradition Is Alive

Tradition is alive. It's passed down from person to person. This is why our young converts get so confused. They look to each other, all equally ignorant, or online, which by its nature cannot hold the tradition. I don't want to make an idol of a priest, because I think hanging out with the sisterhood ladies and the guys who hang out smoking on the patio and singing in the choir and in general having real life experiences of all aspects of church life is the way that the tradition is passed on. Because so much of life IS online now, I think we need to be very clear and explicit with new people that you have to experience Orthodoxy to get it. A bunch of learned podcasts will not and cannot substitute for showing up to services.

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