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  1. The Liturgist

    Question for Roman Catholics concerning your familiarity with Catholic liturgical texts

    By the way, I love Fr. Robert Taft SJ’s liturgical books. He is most famous for his miraculous The Byzantine RIte: A Short History (which is almost impossible to do; if I tried to write a short history of the Byzantine Rite it would take up 8,000 pages the first 2,000 of which would be a...
  2. The Liturgist

    Is Joanna Luke's Key Witness?

    Not true, I’m outlining a problem with their hypothesis insofar as it contradicts with Patristic history, not an insurmountable one, but one which you should I think address rather than merely dismissing it as hagiography. To show it was Joanna who was St. Luke’s source of information, we would...
  3. The Liturgist

    Question for Roman Catholics concerning your familiarity with Catholic liturgical texts

    Do members ever get together to celebrate the Liturgy of the Hours conventually?
  4. The Liturgist

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

    I agree, which is why I never engage in them.
  5. The Liturgist

    Question for Roman Catholics concerning your familiarity with Catholic liturgical texts

    I can hook you up with the entire Byzantine Rite, both from EC and EO sources; the primary noticeable difference is that the EC liturgies have a petition in the Litany of Peace for the Pope of Rome, and fortunately these EC textual variants are well documented, so that you can annotate EO texts...
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    Question for Roman Catholics concerning your familiarity with Catholic liturgical texts

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but Vatican II desired to make the Liturgy of the Hours more commonly celebrated publicly, so do let me know how that goes for you.
  7. The Liturgist

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

    Yes, and that is the point of this thread - rather than members of denomination A relentlessly criticizing denomination B, we should be doing that. I would rather be sharing the beauty of the traditional liturgies with members of the forum than defending Roman Catholics from false accusations...
  8. The Liturgist

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

    No, I dedicated 50 pages to defending Roman Catholics and other liturgical Christians from unwarranted criticism, not just from your denomination but many others, and I have also defended your denomination when someone falsely accused it of being non-Christian. I do this as a penance, to try to...
  9. The Liturgist

    Kola Superdeep and "Screams from Hell"

    By the way, it would be absolutely hilarious if the USSR, in addition to Chernobyl and the accidental drainage of the Aral Sea, also opened up a literal Hell-hole. It sounds like the kind of thing the Soviet scientific establishment would absolutely do if they thought they could harness the...
  10. The Liturgist

    Kola Superdeep and "Screams from Hell"

    I myself don’t believe the Kola borehole reached Hell, since Orthodox soteriology states that the souls of the deceased are in a state of joyous anticipation if they are among the saved, or of dread if they are not, and we also have prayers that can improve their condition (see Orthodox Dogmatic...
  11. The Liturgist

    Hello comrades. I am Russian and I live in Russia. If you want to meet me and become my friend, let's do it.

    Welcome to CF! Hopefully you will participate in the Orthodox forum.
  12. The Liturgist

    The phrase 'gay Christian' blends 2 incompatible truths

    The items in question are seriously indelicate and we have young people on this website, so our Lord and St. Paul spoke in generalities with regards to lascivious behavior.
  13. The Liturgist

    What Jesus Said About Adam and Eve

    An obsolete version of an encyclopedia may or may not be trustworthy, but the phrase that he suppressed was not “Mary, Mother of God” but rather “Theotokos”, and it was in widespread use in Constantinople - particularly since one of his predecessors, St. John Chrysostom, used the word routinely...
  14. The Liturgist

    What Jesus Said About Adam and Eve

    That’s because the only writings of Nestorius that survive are his self-serving memoirs, the Bazaar of Heraclides, and he had a specific motivation to stir up trouble by fueling the EO/OO schism between the Pope of Alexandria and the Archbishop of Rome whose predecessors had deposed him; it was...
  15. The Liturgist

    What Jesus Said About Adam and Eve

    His own church is wldely regarded a Restorationist denomination, in that the Plymouth Brethren believed they were restoring the ancient form of the church, which was Restorationism in a nutshell.
  16. The Liturgist

    What Jesus Said About Adam and Eve

    What the Greek priest meant is not what you think he meant - the word Mystery in an Orthodox context can have the meaning of sacrament, and there are also aspects of salvation that we do not fully understand, but everything I have stated is Greek Orthodox doctrine, which you would know if you...
  17. The Liturgist

    Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Divine Name

    It’s just neo-Arianism combined with neo-Apollinarian chiliasm. The Eastern Orthodox believe all modern heresies are just regurgitations of ancient heresies, and I have come to agree with that view; we believe the last original heresy was iconoclasm.
  18. The Liturgist

    The phrase 'gay Christian' blends 2 incompatible truths

    If we read the Canons of St. Basil or St. Gregory of Nyssa, it is clear that modern homosexuality falls within what St. Paul was talking about. The penintential canons of St. John the Faster, in which he cut in half the default penances before any oikonomia was applied, provide an even more...
  19. The Liturgist

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

    Mindfulness if understood in a non-Buddhist concept; specifically, being mindful of our sins, as opposed to the buzzword kind of mindfulness. I wish you hadn’t used that word, because it will cause needless alarm, and I hadn’t noticed you had used it, or else I would have objected to it; Nepsis...
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    The Harm Caused by Excessive Criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and Other Denominations

    No comparison. Nepsis is a Greek Patristic concept focused on the avoidance of sin, whereas mindfulness comes from Buddhism which is not built upon a hamartiological framework but on “self-awareness” and which is ultimately connected to the Nihilist, annihlationist doctrines at the heart of...
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