Veneration of the Cross — Fr. John Peck

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Is the Veneration of the Cross Idolatry?

March 22, 2014 By Fr. John Peck

by Fr. John Whiteford Another grand slam from the Bible – from Fr. John’s “Stump the Priest” column Question: How would you answer a Protestant who considered our veneration of the Cross (bowing down before it and kissing it) to be idolatry? First we should consider whether or not bowing down before something or kissing […]

Is the Veneration of the Cross Idolatry?

How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Gospel of Peace.

We must be super-conservative in preserving the Orthodox faith, and super-modern in propagating it.

But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.