Are there any other churches within the Apostolic churches (I will be liberal and include any church that has a clergy even Lutheran) that has "general" bishops or are we fairly unique in this phenomenon (At least within the Oriental and Eastern chu…
For the same reason there was the tree of life and the thorn of death revealed to us. God told us that our actions have consequences, so we really chose death over Life (the I AM).
But if it is part of the natural order of things, then it is God who…
"For who that has understanding will suppose that the first, and second, and third day, and the evening and the morning, existed without a sun, and moon, and stars? And that the first day was, as it were, also without a sky? And who is so foolish as…
Minasoliman, the prayer of Reconciliation of the Liturgy of St. Basil quoting a passage from the Wisdom of Solomon says that "death which entered into the world by the envy of the devil."
It does not seem that God who is the Life could create death …
They are there to remind us of our death. I think it is healthy to be always reminded of our own death especially at this time of year. I've heard several times that funerals are more for those present than for the departed in that the prayers are m…
Polyphony being incorporated after chant has already been established in its basic melodic line: https://www.academia.edu/447148/Some_Aspects_of_the_Polyphonic_Treatment_of_Byzantine_Chant_in_the_Orthodox_Church_in_Europe
Original Byzantine hymnolo…
While it may be true that monophony is older than polyphony it does not rule out the case that Coptic hymnology was ever chanted polyphonically. Remenkimi is right, we don't have musical notation and therefore we don't know.
Before we ask ourselves…
http://www.suscopts.org/q&a/index.php?qid=649&catid=383
While it is a fully ardent response, it shows that his grace endorses/subscribes to the doctrine of Theosis.
In one sense he is right, in another sense he is assuming things he cannot know. We don't know whether animals as they are will be resurrected on the last day into the New Creation of the Kingdom. What we do know however is that the whole creation a…
My conjecture (a little more than conjecture since this is what happened with Palm Sunday), is that originally this procession was a public procession of the Cross in the streets heralding the victory of the weapon of the Cross while stopping at cer…
Satan also offered Adam and Eve a counterfeit as he always does. He promises peace and luxury with every temptation, but it never comes. He promises us to become gods (but our own 'gods') through every temptation. Remember that he told them they wou…
It seems that the larger the church, the more institutionalized and organized its teachings become. Hence why RC seem more scientific than EO who seem more scientific than us OO's. I suppose Assyrian Church of the East is even less nuanced.
Nope ^, they are separate services.
In fact Agpeya before the Liturgy is a recent addition as well from last century.
Often Liturgy began straight with the Offertory (while singers chanted Alleluia Phai Pe Pi).
Thanks Ramez,that was a very interesting article to read. The part written by Abul-Barakat is what Abouna Athanasius El-Maqari describes in his book as the old rite for raising of incense (however here he focuses on Matins) saying:
1. Prayer of Than…
minatasgeel, that is more or less contemporary practice even though not all of that might be done (Vespers, Compline and more often than not Vespers Praise are left out).
I am asking what would the service of Vespers Raising of Incense look like if …
It kind of does, but my main question is how was it that the Hours of Vespers, Compline, Vespers Praise and Vespers Raising of Incense were all one service at one point? If someone wants to do all these three in one service, how would they go about …
Let's put it this way: the Holy Spirit never became incarnate. So the Holy Spirit, that is the Spirit of Christ, can never replace any part of our humanity or Christ's humanity.
So if you believe humans have spirits (as well as souls), then Christ…
We say that Christ assumed human nature in its entirety and that the Holy Spirit, the third hypostasis of the Trinity, can be both referred to as the Sprit of God [the Father], or the Sprit of Christ as He is proper to both.
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This issue is directly connected with whether you believe the human person to be composed of body and soul/spirit, or body, soul and spirit. As far as I understand from the fathers, the human is believed to be composed of body and spirit (it seems m…
Thank you qawe for putting in better terms than I could have. It is the life of liturgy that is missing, this focusing in communion with God, not just in the moment of physically placing the mysteries in one's mouth, but through the entire liturgy w…
Thank you qawe for putting in better terms than I could have. It is the life of liturgy that is missing, this focusing in communion with God, not just in the moment of physically placing the mysteries in one's mouth, but through the entire liturgy w…
Again, my problem is not with our liturgies as if they were inadequate. I cherish these prayers. My concern is with having prayerful composition come to halt. What makes this the case today? Have we become spiritually static or on a decline? And yes…
My concern is not whether the liturgies themselves are dry and boring, far from it. My concern is that our dealings with the liturgy have become static and treat it like a set in stone ritual. It is exactly that phobia of heresy that is the problem.…