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yikes

Well since prots and orthos both allow divorce, might as well just ditch her and get a new one. Why the winnie the pooh are you asking how to raise your kids on an imageboard full of autistic retard teenagers who think they're a bunch of Aquinas's? Grow up.

>>792751

>eastern brother

No heretic is my brother.

>>792750

There are a few other adults here. I was addressing them. You can simmer down there Simba

>>792756

U dumb. U think because you're "nice" that makes u good. But how would anyone ever know to cross over to the only church that can save them if they don't even know there's a line in the sand? U the one who needs to work on his heart. Are you a woman? Are you afraid of conflict? Try lifting weights little man.

>>792757

I may not always be smart. I am definitely an unworthy sinner. But at least I'll spell out the whole word "you".

>>792743

Buy a prayer book and do your daily prayers with them. It's not invasive, it teaches your wife and children about Orthodoxy, and it's just healthy overall to pray together like that. You can alternate who says the prayer, for instance.

I'd have recommended the Typika but you said you don't want them to think you're LARPing as a priest. It's probably better to do that if they're already Orthodox.

>>792743

>How do I structure family worship in a liturgical way that familiarizes the kids with Orthodoxy yet doesn’t cross the line into “Dad’s leaping as s priest”?

Ask your priest, he will surly give you good advice or at least give point you to a book on the topic. In Orthodoxy the family is regarded as a "small church" with the father being the head of the family. On sunday we would gather for prayer before our icon corner and light our vigil lamp before lunch. On feast days the lunch table would be decorated with a candle and an icon, we would pray together and our father would cense (is that the proper word?) everything. Build up such rituals in your family.

What should also be is that your wife participates as well in the preparation of the rituals. I don't know about the OCA, but in Serbia we have consecrated wheat and bread, which is prepared by the mother. Both parents of the family should participate in their own ways. It would be sad if you were to drive a wedge between your wife and yourself, and it would be bad for the children.

>>792753

Wow, even a muslim is my brother, whether the both of us like it or not. You aren't Christian

>>793483

Last thing in the world you should do is be emberrassed… too much depends on it. Here's a thought exercise: Imagine yourself confessing your faith to everyone you know and being met, surely, with their ridicule. Now imagine yourself being ready to be martyred for that very faith. Take it seriously, have a little fire in your life.

Gatolic here; I come from a household which was split in the middle due to my father and his family being hardline Stalinists.

I would suggest:

1) pray for them, and thank God for entrusting them with a father who cares for their soul;

2) be patient and gentle, don’t come in as being forceful: it takes patience and time for the seed to grow into a tree;

3) buy them a prayer book and other books which could shine some light on why you begum Ortho;

My father came to the faith in his late 30s, and he still has issues with many things…but without my mother’s silent prayer and work, without her patient example he would have stayed a Communist. Your children at least already have some of the fundamentals of what Christian faith is, so if you have the patience and love to show them the whys of you finding Christ in the Orthodox Church, they could follow you.

>>792753

Grow up you child.

>>792753

based

>>792743

Liturgy at home? NO. Matins (Orthros) and Vespers and Typika can be done at home. Talk to the Priest about performing these services and use the Calendar to structure them according to season and holidays. Use the martyrology to keep up with what's happening. Follow the fasting days and feast days and why. Daily Scripture reading as a family in the evenings with a good "read the Bible in a year" plan and an Orthodox Study Bible reading the notes and articles. You can also get a psalter and read from it, either with the Eastern monastic "whole thing in a week" pattern, or with the Western (Anglican originated but approved for ROCOR Western Rite) pattern of reading the whole thing in a month. My wife and I read alternating verses when we do this.

Try setting up a mild daily routine, maybe just some prayers morning and night and the Bible study, and on special calendar days do the home services to make it special.

I know you mentioned OCA. My family has been both Eastern and Western Rite, sadly, the Eastern Rite makes their home services hard to access and extremely repetitive, but as part of a ROCOR Western Rite church today, everything we need for daily Matins/Vespers along with all of the calendar variances are extremely accessible to the laity so it makes it much more enjoyable and less boring.