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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 ...
South Bend...Indiana?
ReplyDeleteThe University of Notre Dame is in South Bend, Indiana.
ReplyDeleteAh, thanks!
DeleteIs kyrill coming also,,,,if so let us have a square off in msq,,,how many of our young people will we loose due to this intrusion on the autocephality celebrations
ReplyDeleteWhat poster of EPB is complete without a shot of kissing the pope? He really makes it too easy sometimes...
ReplyDeleteThat's the first pic but the 2nd and 4th are even more concerning. The 2nd shows him right before he devours a child and the 4th shows his gluttony as he prepares to devour a poor farmer's livestock. Has he no shame? No. No, he doesn't.
DeleteThe west coast saved from this indignity.
ReplyDelete"Apostolic Visit" seems to be apeing a certain someone's language...
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know the actual history of the use of "Apostolic Visit" by the EP and the ancient sees of the East in general?
DeleteI can't find evidence of any other Orthodox church using it. The Syriac Orthodox patriarch does when he goes to India, but this is under obvious Roman influence.
DeleteCould we try and be bit more civil?
ReplyDeleteConsidering the gross offense the poster alone presents I think folks are being quite civil
DeleteMichael,
DeleteWhat exactly is the "gross offense" of the poster? Ecumenical Patriarchate, New Rome, and such language 1600 years old - even granting the traditional tension with Orthodoxy between "strong" and "weak" interpretations of the EP's canonical role. Irenic meetings with Popes and the like are newer, but now at least 60 years old (older than that if you included WCC, etc.) and yes, there is a tension within the Church about the real effects of these largely symbolic and "political" actions but they are certainly 'legitimate' and not heretical or against Holy Dogma per se and the sorts of things a "universal" bishop would naturally do. What exactly is "grossly uncivil" about the EP and this poster?
Meanwhile...
ReplyDeletehttps://orthodoxethos.com/post/formal-accusation-of-heterodox-teaching-by-patriarch-bartholomew-submitted-to-the-hierarchy-of-the-church-of-greece
As they say in Texas: All hat and no cattle.
ReplyDeleteIt is a marketing/sales poster that is so far beyond the sobriety and humility of a Bishop it just makes me sick.
ReplyDeleteIt is a good example of the work of an adman, no argument there.
DeleteAll modern advertising seeks to manipulate we "consumers". I wonder, where does "rightly dividing the word of Truth" come in?
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