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The question

Is it bad for a servant to take a break from his service and everyone around him to calm his stress down?

The answer

With permission from your Confession Father, it is sometimes beneficial to take a brief retreat from some services in order to refresh, gain perspective, devout more time to prayer, seek guidance, and for personal spiritual nourishment. Your Confession Father will need to set a specific time for this brief interval. If certain services are causing you to stumble or to cause others to stumble, this may be a just cause to set this service aside. Rather than being over-involved in too many areas of services, it may be better for you to remain focused on one particular area of which you and your Confession Father agree.

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Questions answered by His Eminence Metropolitan Youssef (opens in a new tab) of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States. Question 1499 on the Diocese’s Q&A site. Questions and answers © Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States. All rights reserved.