My journey to Orthodoxy is not normally considered a journey. I was born into an Orthodox family, and I was baptized about 40 days after my birth, and I grew up as an altar server, and singing in the church choir, and in general receiving a first-class youth of instruction in practical Orthodoxy. I learned how to be a reader, and I learned chanting in the Greek, Antiochian, and Russian styles.
But in college, as is often typical, I fell away from the Church. I stopped going to Liturgy regularly, and I was only an occasional churchgoer. I attended church regularly when I was at home with my parents, but I had never been someone who didn't have a job in church. I had never known how to worship without something to do.
And so for a long time I was C and E (Christmas and Easter). And when I moved to Jackson, Mississippi, after law school, I began attending Holy Trinity and St. John the Theologian Greek Orthodox Church. In contrast to the stereotype of old Greek parishes, I found a welcoming community struggling through the change from being a city church with a city congregation to being a city church with a suburban congregation. Eventually, the church had to move away from its historic location on West Capitol Street to its new home in Ridgeland, and I pray God that they are doing well there.
After I moved to Hattiesburg, I again lapsed.
Forgive me, but I will continue later. It's time to listen to two sociopaths lie to the country again.
But in college, as is often typical, I fell away from the Church. I stopped going to Liturgy regularly, and I was only an occasional churchgoer. I attended church regularly when I was at home with my parents, but I had never been someone who didn't have a job in church. I had never known how to worship without something to do.
And so for a long time I was C and E (Christmas and Easter). And when I moved to Jackson, Mississippi, after law school, I began attending Holy Trinity and St. John the Theologian Greek Orthodox Church. In contrast to the stereotype of old Greek parishes, I found a welcoming community struggling through the change from being a city church with a city congregation to being a city church with a suburban congregation. Eventually, the church had to move away from its historic location on West Capitol Street to its new home in Ridgeland, and I pray God that they are doing well there.
After I moved to Hattiesburg, I again lapsed.
Forgive me, but I will continue later. It's time to listen to two sociopaths lie to the country again.
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