You mentioned that. It is a beautiful practice of the Men of God that is looked down upon. Thanks for writing such a wonderful post, bringing out the more authentic tradition practiced by Jesus, peace be upon him. If you are on Facebook, please check this page out, I hope you will join it and contribute the Christian perspective. Yes Muslim wear beards, because they took it from Christian tradition. Its quite ungodly to say peace be upon the Lord Jesus in my view.
How can it be that you wish peace to the one that is the essence of piece and the one by whom the world was created? Therefore Jesus as being un-separate one with the Holy Trinity is God in essence as well our personal Saviour.
Considering all that it is very wrong and even an insult to say to a Christian, peace be upon Jesus and is one and the same thing like saying peace be upon God.
Thanks for sharing the truth about the real meaning of wearing a beard. I really appropriate your post. It is not the beard that shall influence or assist in the salvation of our soul. Many non believers and atheists do have beards. Many evil doers and sinners do have beards. Wild and rough bikers of numerous biker gangs have long beards. Our judgement will be influenced by our behaviour and the condition of our heart.
Perhaps a beard may serve us as a humble reminder of what our true purpose in life is and allow us to focus deeper on pleasing our Father in Heaven rather than our own self. A Priest willl also be judged according to his actions and not his appearance.
No commandment enforces the beard upon any man. Tradition and culture that has been created by man himself, is what enforces and encourages certain profiles or factors. Name required. Mail will not be published required. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. Why does Orthodox Christian priests and monks wears long beards and why Roman Catholics does not Thursday, 19th May Here are the few reasons: 1. Long beards wearing's tradition among Orthodox Christian priests and monks comes after Christ Christ himself had a beard as it was normal and considered proper for a man to wear long beard.
Long beards priest wearing comes as a natural tradition from the Old Testament's times and the tradition of early Church If one reads thoroughfully the old testament, he will find out that even from Moses and Aaron and onwards the tradition is the same. A source of confirmation that the long hear and beards wearing was an established tradition that dates back to the old testament is found in the old testament in Ezekiel Here is what exactly we read there: He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head.
Long hair and beards wearing by the Monks An interesting fact is why does the Monks and novice neophyte lay brothers also stick to the ancient tradition. One can read about this in the old testament in Leviticus Leviticus "They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
One of the most important figure in Christianity that used to be Nazarite is Samson , his life can be read in the old testament in Judges 13 — 16 As we read in Judges , Samson's great God given power consituted in a prohibition to shave his hair and not to drink wine.
Reason why Roman Catholic Priests and monks abandoned the ancient tradition of wearing long hairs and beards In the early Roman Empire it was a customfor a men to shave. Since the Code of Canon Law is silent on the question of hair, beards and grooming, it remains a matter of personal choice. Certainly — since they were Capuchins — two of our greatest modern holy men, St Pio of Pietrelcina and Blessed Solanus Casey, were bearded.
Historically, beards seem to be one of those areas where the Church takes her lead from civil society; pace Durandus, it seems more or less a neutral question. Still, if it were up to me, it would be a few more centuries before we had a bearded pope again.
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A couple of silly questions really. Why are the services in Church conducted in Ancient Greek? Also why do priests have to have a long beard? Answer to Question The Church uses many books in her services and each day of the year has its own service.
These were written many years ago when everyone understood the Koine language.
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