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 ...
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ReplyDeleteMany years, to Father Peter. May his voice not soon fall silent.
DeleteMany years, to Father Peter. May his voice not soon fall silent.
DeleteHeers is horrid. His ratiocination is pseudopatristic pettifogging, Orthotoxic spin on ‘one issue voting’ employing exotic ‘based’ vocabulary to restate the propaganda that trump is an ‘outsider’. Yes, an outsider as in the outer darkness where the worm never sleeps...
ReplyDelete"...His ratiocination is pseudopatristic pettifogging..."
DeleteHa, very true. However, Trump IS an outsider to the status quo, and he is probably no worse or better morally than Biden or most of the rest
Morality aside, trump is a straightup caudillo and Stochastic Terrorist, as well as his son calling for ‘total war’ as he faces defeat in polls and his supporters such as Bannon calling for beheading of Dr. Fauci and the head of the FBI. Apparently this is now mainstream.
DeleteThe first few minutes I dropped my vegetarian shawarma and though he wanted us to vote for Biden, then I opened up a Michelob Ultra (low carb, so fasting) and realized I was wrong.
ReplyDeleteOn a more serious note, who is his Bishop? He was a Greek priest, then ROCOR, and now......?
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DeleteAs near as anyone can tell he is in ecclesial limbo, which as any internet canon warrior can tell you is "invalid". So he is invalid, or an invalid, or something...
DeleteNo, Heers is a priest of the Church of Greece it appears. He should keep his bulbous nose out of American politics and focus on his adopted home which also has a fascism problem.
DeleteWho is a fascist? Trump? 70 million people who voted for him? Please, save your hyperbole for people who don't know better...
DeleteIf t looks like a fascist, talks like a fascist and walks like a fascist it’s probably fascist.
DeleteHeers is copacetically CoG I hear.
It's Gypsy Orthodoxy, and who doesn't love to hear stories about St. Paisios?
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Gypsy Orthodoxy, if we are going to have Fr Peter's perspective, we should get some balance and have our moderator add Brother Nathanael. :)
ReplyDeleteAnecdotally, among neophytes Abp. Alexander’s rebuke of Heers is unpopular. A catechumen told me he didn’t understand how the Church which owns the Truth could ‘bow to the state’ by adopting pandemic safety measures. He seems to be a fan of Jay Dyer, and the last time I saw him at church he didn’t even wear a mask.
ReplyDelete"...last time I saw him at church he didn’t even wear a mask..."
DeleteA stout man or two of your community should step up and escort him out the door. Not sure if Heer has unconsciously adsorbed America's individualistic streak and incorporated it into his idiosyncratic theology, but his thrice-holy-blessed-and-transubstatiated-spoon/temple theology is silly and non-normative.
What he is taping into, correctly in my opinion, is the tendency among too many Orthodox bishops/priests/laity to compromise with the world and bring in secular assumptions (about this or that - including politics) into their thinking.