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Orthodox Terminology
CELIBACY PDF Print E-mail
CELIBACY -The state of being unmarried.? In the Orthodox Church candidates for the Holy Orders may be married or unmarried. After ordination a deacon or priest cannot marry. Bishops are chosen from celibates or widowers who have taken the monastic vows.
 

The Sayings of the Fathers

A man may seem to be silent, but if his heart is condemning others, he is babbling ceaselessly. But there may be another who talks from morning till night and yet he is truly silent, that is, he says nothing that is not profitable. - Abba Pimen
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