Thursday, February 23, 2006

The Fullness of the Faith

Just got back from a stained glass meeting with a nun at a "Moscow Patriarchate" Russian Orthodox Church (the real Russian Orthodox Church, she was careful to point out, not the liberal OCA). When she asked what I was and I told her she said, "Ahhh, I was once Anglican." Of course, I assumed that since she had an English accent. "But I found the fullness of the faith in Orthodoxy." she went on. She then told me she'd pray for me.

Now, I happen to be personally acquainted with the former priest of that parish, a life long Russian Orthodox, who left, and is now a priest in a continuing Anglican jurisdiction. Apparently he found that traditional Anglicanism has the fullness of the faith as much as orthodoxy!