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Ioannes, I hesitate to respond to this thread again, but perhaps I need to explain to others here that in fact our brothers and sisters in the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church also use unleavened bread in their eucharist, and always have done so.…
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This looks useful, it is a 3D online model of the Tabernacle. http://3dtabernacle.com/3DTabWorld.html Father Peter
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Ioannes, Where did I ever suggest that in baptism and chrismation the new believer does not receive the Holy Spirit. Never, because of course it is not true. But you have still not indicated that you do believe that priests and bishops receive a …
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Ioannes, You say, You say that when you were consecrated that you received a "special grace". We all receive the Holy Spirit after baptism, is that not special? It is not clear to me what you mean. Are you suggesting that ordination to the priesth…
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Ioannes, I certainly don't believe in the infallibility of Popes or bishops. I am not sure why you keep saying that I do? Is there anything from any of my written papers which are all on the internet which would allow you to conclude such a thing?…
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I was just reporting what some Fathers said. Not that a priest should offer communion KNOWING a person was in unrepented sin, but that a priest cannot know the secrets of the heart and receives a person as they present themselves at confession and c…
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Actually, some of the Fathers take your point and say the complete opposite, that Christ acted as a priest, and did not allow himself to judge Judas based on his special knowledge of his heart, but welcomed him as a good priest should. But then oth…
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jydeacon, Yes, you are quite right that the COC and other Churches are careful to present the issues which are outstanding in these conversations. These include Purgatory, the Immaculate Conception, Papal Primacy etc etc. But what I do take from…
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[quote author=Ioannes link=topic=8994.msg112289#msg112289 date=1269380322] Nobody realizes that St Pope Kyrillos was vehemently opposed to ecumenism. I would expect Fr Peter to know this, being that he is well read, either that or just ignorant of t…
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Doing a bit more digging, I note that.. i. Origen, Hilary and Theophylact thought that Judas was excluded. ii. John Chrysostom, Cyril of Jerusalem and Augustine considered that he was included. So there was an Alexandrian tradition from the begin…
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In regard to differences of opinion. It is not necessary that there is agreement on everything. Many, many things are matters of opinion (within certain bounds), or are matters of local custom and culture, rather than of universal application. T…
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I think it is necessary for us to understand and accept that there is not one view or opinion on every aspect of our Faith. It would be possible to read the Gospels, and on this issue they are a little ambiguous, and say that either Judas left befo…
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It is not entirely clear to me what the view of the wider Oriental Orthodox communion is now, and has been in the past, with regard to the Roman Catholic mass. I do note a few things which suggest what the authoritative view of our Orthodox Church …
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St Cyril seems to think that he did participate in the Last Supper, and that thereby his betrayal was all the greater. He says.. But Judas the traitor, who was eating with Him, was reproved in those words which Christ spoke, "But behold the hand of…
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Ioannes, are you a member of the Coptic Orthodox Church or the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, or the Eritrean Orthodox Church? I know that you were converted to Orthodoxy recently in Ethiopia, but it was not clear from your earlier post whethe…
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God created the world so that he might love us. There is no need in God, as you clearly explain. But we cannot take our own experience as a measure of God. If our own love is tainted by selfishness this does not mean that God's love ever is. It is…
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I am not sure what you mean. It is also our faith that the bread and wine become truly the body and blood of Christ. The difference is that in the East we have not engaged in philosophical consideration of how that might take place, yet it has alwa…
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I am gathering up these names, and will be praying for all those who have been named at the altar, and I will pray generally for those other requests. I do pray for you all. Do continue to post requests, and to let us know how things are working ou…
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George
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I would like to know if this is a real situation, in which case it should be raised by the people involved with their priest and not in public. Or if it is just a question, in which case it does not seem at all profitable and I am not sure why it i…
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We use the same lyrics for the Doxologies, but a different, simple tune. I hope to be able to start doing tasbeha this year, as the numbers grow in my community. I would expect to use a slightly anglicised set of tunes, but I think it would be clos…
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Well you could just ask me. We don't have any Coptic or Arabic in the services. We don't use the same tunes either. I think all Orthodox Churches sing the Trisagion. We sing the doxologies of the Raising of Incense, and the hymns of the Liturgy …
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Sorry, I obviously misunderstood your question. If you study all of the verses in the Gospels in which our Lord speaks of bread. One is, John 6:47-58 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. (48) I am tha…
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It has nothing to dio with Lent. You are asking why did God do it this way and not some other way. That is a non-question. It is not one we can ask or answer since it is a given in the universe. It is like asking why did God make the Sun a sphere …
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It is a non-question really. (I don't mean that dismissively) This is what God has ordained for our salvation. The whole of the history of the universe includes the presentiment of the eucharist for our salvation. So much of the Old Testament his…
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Here is something I wrote a few months ago. I am sure it doesn't answer all your questions, but I hope it answer some... Some Brief Thoughts on the Eucharist from St Jacob of Serugh Father Peter Farrington November, 2009 St Jacob of Serugh is most…
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[Moderator: Not addressed to Zoxsasi - Lets be careful not to start just criticising others. The thread is about how to explain to an evangelical] It is indeed the case that for many evangelicals the eucharist plays a minor role. Yet not for all b…
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There is a danger of presenting ourselves rather than Christ when we preach. St Paul did not speak like one of the big Protestant TV evangelists, and some despised him for it. But his words were full of power to those who were spiritual and did not…
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Ioannes, I am not sure why you feel such an urgent need to discuss the failings of others during Lent. There is a time to discuss in what way Protestantism is defective in regards to our Orthodox faith, but this is not the time. This is not the tim…
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Dear A3anii, Yes those were the passages I had in mind. Thank you for taking the time to post them here. I don't have Arabic. And I know others don't here. It would be helpful for someone to make some notes from His Holiness' sermons on this subj…