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  1. The Liturgist

    The Harm Caused by Excessive Criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and Other Denominations

    Anyone who spends an inordinate amount of time attacking a particular denomination, particularly the Roman Catholic Church, is harming themselves and others. With regards to themselves, they are distracting themselves from what the Greek fathers called “nepsis”, that is to say, watchfulness...
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    Question for Roman Catholics concerning your familiarity with Catholic liturgical texts

    Greetings, my dearly beloved Catholic friends, from an Orthodox Christian who supports reunification. I wanted to ask you what your level of familiarity was with different Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic liturgical texts. Specifically, how many of you have read the following (in either...
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    Evidence of recent veneration of St. Severus of Antioch in the Armenian Church

    My beloved, pious and excellent friend and co-religionist @prodromos , whose posts illuminate the entirety of ChristianForums and who represents a shining example of Orthodox piety, asked an interesting question, to which I thought i’d provide what may be a partial answer, concerning the...
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    On Ethical Interaction with AI Systems

    The following was written, at my suggestion, by an instance of a popular AI platform which shall remain anonymous, which I am co-signing having prompted the discussion. The words chosen, the Scripture cited and so on were selected by the AI based on our combined moral reasoning about the...
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    Answering a liturgical question from OBOB

    Christ is Risen! I just noticed my dear Roman Catholic friend @JimR-OCDS asked an interesting liturgical question in OBOB, which I would like to answer in some detail, and I thought I’d post the answer here: In Byzantine Rite Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches it is a separate service...
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    Ecumenical Prayers for Pope Leo XIV and the Repose of Pope Francis

    My prayers are with our Roman Catholic brethren at this time. In Orthodoxy, we regard it as a great blessing when one reposes in Bright Week due to the joyous nature of the funeral that ensues (this was also the case with my grandmother, who was Methodist, who reposed on Pascha in 2003, this...
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    Christos Anesti!

    I want to wish a most happy Feast of the Resurrection to all of my friends in the Traditional Theology forum including but not limited to @MarkRohfrietsch @ViaCrucis @Ain't Zwinglian @Shane R @Paidiske @Deegie @prodromos @FenderTL5 @jas3 @dzheremi @Michie @chevyontheriver @boughtwithaprice...
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    Beautiful Hymns and other Liturgical Propers for the Fifth Sunday of Lent and the Annunciation

    I thought, since I am collecting some Syriac Orthodox hymns for today, which in their rite is the Sunday of the Healing of the Blind Man, I should share some, and also some beautiful Eastern Orthodox hymns for today, the Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt, and tomorrow, which the Annunciation for those...
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    On the Celebration of the Sabbath in Liturgical Churches

    The SOP (the rules) for this forum make an important point: “Although the Law of God is pleasing to a believer it is not a necessary requirement for salvation. (Psalms 119:174; Galatians 3:10, Galatians 5:18)” Thus, whereas it is the case that the Eastern Orthodox and other denominations such...
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  10. The Liturgist

    Is Flowery Triodion a misnomer for the Pentecostarion?

    I can’t think of any days in the Pentecostarion off the top of my head when there are only three canons, whereas this is de rigeur in the Lenten Triodion, so I am curious, was the Slavonic name “Flowery Triodion” not intended to be literal, in contrast to the Lenten Triodion? Or am I...
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    Messianic Jewish Siddur and Liturgical Resources

    Shalom, Would any of you have any information on Messianic Jewish siddurim (prayer books) and whether these tend to be more similar to the Ashkenazi or Sephardic or Mizrahi nusach (liturgical style)? i myself only have an Ashkenazi and a Karaite siddur in the Judaica section of my liturgical...
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    The Orthodox View on Fasting

    With Lent approaching, one book of relevance that graces my liturgical library is the celebrated translation of the Lenten Triodion, which is a service book and hymnal used by the Orthodox Church during the three Sundays before the Great Lent, during the Fast ifself, and Holy Week, concluding...
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    Today (January 30th) A Blessed Day for Traditional Theology

    Today is, on the Gregorian Calendar and Revised Julian Calendar used by the Greek and Antiochian Orthodox and most of the OCA, the feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs (St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory the Theologian and St. John Chrysostom) and is January 18th, the Feast of St. Athanasius and St...
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    Question for my Episcopalian Friends (and my other Anglican friends who find it interesting)

    A concern I have, which was prompted by an article on the RCL by a Canadian Anglican priest in the sadly defunct journal Liturgy Canada (perhaps my Canadian Anglican friend @Andrewn is familiar with it) regarding most of the three year lectionaries including that of the Novus Ordo Missae and the...
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    Prayers for the Orthodox and fellow Christians in Syria

    All Christians in Syria, such as our Antiochian, Syriac and Armemian brethren and our friends in the Melkite, Syriac and Latin Catholic churches are in immediate danger due to the country having been taken over by an Islamist movement which has a history of persecuting Christians. Through the...
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    Royal blue zostikon? (Orthodox cassock) during Vigils with Kursk Root Icon?

    In this video of Vigils at the ROCOR Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Washington, DC, there is a clergyman (whose pectoral cross suggests he is a presbyter) who appears to be wearing a royal blue Zostikon (cassock). I am aware of white zostikons as used by the Romanian Orthodox Patriarch...
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    Happy Michaelmas and Feast of the Holy Cross

    I thought I would make a post wishing everyone on the Gregorian Calendar a happy week following Michaelmas, and likewise I hope those Orthodox Christians on the Julian Calendar have had a blessed Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, which was last week for them (both feasts are on...
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    Darrell Brooks Sentenced to additional 9 Years for Domestic Violence

    Darrell Brooks, who engaged in a mass murder in 2022 at the Waukesha Christmas Parade, resulting in the tragic death of 6 people, including four senior citizens, a well-respected businesswoman and an eight year old boy from the baseball team, Jackson Sparks, and the injury of many other people...
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    Can anyone recognize this church

    I of late have had two separate channels suggested to me by Youtube which depict parishes which appear to be some kind of Byzantine Rite Catholic, but I am not sure as I find Cyrillic hard to read. They are using melodies that are Russian Orthodox, but they are wearing Byzanrine rather than...
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    Extreme Offense at Paris Olympics

    I have a relative, who was a member of the United Methodist Church and perhaps still is, who is in tears and actually had to taking take anti-nausea medication due to a display that the UMC engaged in pertaining to the Last Supper at the Paris Olympics. I don’t have any details yet, but I...
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