Nina Baltes wrote:
> Soprano wrote:
>
>> training. I am also celibate. I belong to the Eastern Orthodox
>> religion and I don't want to put a suggestive tattoo on my inner thigh.
>
> Well in that case, you're screwed (haha! I kill myself!) anyway.
> http://www.troparion.com/askfather.htm
>
> "Our purpose is not to attract attention of others by making radical
> statements with our bodies for our personal vanity, but rather to
> attract the grace of the Holy Spirit and to lead others to Christ
> through our Christian example.
> (...)
> We are not to transform ourselves according to the latest whims and fads
> of society but rather conform and abide by the will of God.
> (...)
> Rather than making "artistic expressions" with our bodies, let us make
> an _expression of faith by maintaining our bodies, pure, spotless and
> undefiled so that we may “be an example of the believers, in word, in
> conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity” (I Timothy 4: 12).!"
>
> Nina
I don't know anything about that national Church. My priest is
Carpatho-Russyn, but I am in the OCA.