A Response to “On administering Holy Communion in a Time of a Plague”
This was sent to me and deserves a read. You can read the Calivas article here . We can all agree that we are living in unusual times. However, the nature and extent of the illness that we face, and the proper response of the Church, is a matter of much disagreement. We have seen various responses to the COVID-19 epidemic: calls to close our Churches as infectious vectors, and demands to open them as places of spiritual healing. Directives a) ordering the cessation of sacramental life as part of an effort to “flatten the curve,” and cries for access to the divine grace that flows forth from those very mysteries; b) calling for the restriction of “at-risk persons,” and serious questions about the validity of such controls, c) instructions to liturgists to wear personal protective equipment during the celebration of the divine services and the distribution of the holy Mysteries, and uncertainty about the fitness of such practices. Who has been championing what and on behalf of whom? The ...
"open minded clergy...who will be immune to fundamentalism...who will know how to coexist peacefully and build bridges with..."
ReplyDeleteWhat nice secular speak. So God is going to turn the tide of the Islamic route of the Imperial Church of the East in Turkey with...secular speak/attitudes/ideas?!? Puuuuulleeeeaaasseeeee.
That said as a bibliophile I would love to spend a few weeks in the library...
Sad. I think the best thing for the library is to get it exported to someplace safer than Turkey. There have been earthquakes and manmade "accidents". The local government would send a card of condolences but the fire department (if there is such) would be terribly slow, would lose the address if something happenned. Halki lives in short youtube videos, nowhere else, call it a day. The monk is probably an example of the quality of the education one could expect IF it reopened. Building a bridge to Islam....That would be the one over the Golden Horn, right? There's already a school headed in the direction of closing that does that in Boston.
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