Attention Orthodox Christian Teens:
It’s YOUR Turn to Speak Out
Sign up for the Oratorical Festival.
Speak your mind about your Faith at your Diocesan Parish Life Conference.
Here’s What You’ll Need:
Keeping in mind The 2008 Conference Theme; "At the beginning He made them male and female. 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh."
Senior Division:
Speak about people being male and female in the image of God and about the role of masculinity and femininity in personal life and in the Mystery of Marriage in Christ.
Junior Division:
Discuss the sanctity of the marriage bond between one man and one woman (as defined by the Orthodox Church), and how the family is strengthened by it.
For Reference You May Wish To Consult:
-The Holy Scriptures (such as New Testament explanations of the Old Testament passage (Gen 1:27) as found in the Gospels and letters of St. Paul).
-The Marriage Service of the Church and other liturgical and hymnographic texts.
-The lives of the saints.
-The twenty-seventh verse from the first chapter of the Book of Genesis, "So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them."
Click here for more information about your Diocesan Parish Life Conference.
The Deadline for Entries: Two Weeks before each PLC, so get started today.
Don’t be shy.
Just get up and express Orthodox Christianity, the Eternal Faith.
You’ll be glad you did—and so will we.