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- Thu 10 January 2013 12:12 am
- Forum: True Orthodox Christian Churches
- Topic: Greek Old Believers?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7373
Re: Greek Old Believers?
Then let me explain it to you so that you can understand. 1). New Calendarists believe the error of Traditionalists is that they believe that the traditions of the non Orthodox are heretical. 2). That Orthodoxy adopted the New Calendar and discarded the old means there is not always ONE way of doing...
- Wed 9 January 2013 7:56 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Issues
- Topic: Second Amendment
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3107
Re: Prayer For The New Year
The difference for us Americans is that we are a collective citzen sovereignty and not the subjects of a monarch and/or her parliament. We are the arbiters of our liberty and not the recipients of the benefactions of one who exercises fealty over us. The fundamental difference is liberty vs. monarch...
- Wed 9 January 2013 7:43 pm
- Forum: Liturgics and Mysteries
- Topic: Yet Another Western Rite Argument
- Replies: 48
- Views: 23439
Re: Yet Another Western Rite Argument
Was the Orthodox Church incomplete for over a millenium when there was no Western Rite? Is the rite we have a straight jacket or a means of piety? Or do we need a WR/certain type of openess to lead us to a liturgical renewal ala Vatican II?! I choose Orthodoxy, Orthodox worship, no innovations, no c...
- Wed 9 January 2013 7:39 pm
- Forum: Liturgics and Mysteries
- Topic: Yet Another Western Rite Argument
- Replies: 48
- Views: 23439
Re: Yet Another Western Rite Argument
Well, the very fact you have to use a modernist argument of "straight jackets" and call for "liturgical openess" to push the Western Rite is open admission that it is Renovationism. Rubrics in the sense of liturgical actions, those left to us by ancient sacramentaries, some more ...
- Wed 9 January 2013 7:32 pm
- Forum: True Orthodox Christian Churches
- Topic: Greek Old Believers?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7373
Re: Greek Old Believers?
You know, the New Calendarists use the same argument in regard to the GOCs. There needs to reverence in piety and respect.
- Tue 8 January 2013 7:45 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Issues
- Topic: Second Amendment
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3107
Re: Prayer For The New Year
As a Second Amendment advocate, I will add a word of clarification. This amendment was drafted not only for hunters and for people to be able to defend themselves, no, its primary purpose was to insure the peoples' sovereignty and to insure that tyranny would never result, because the foundation of ...
- Tue 8 January 2013 7:38 pm
- Forum: True Orthodox Christian Churches
- Topic: Greek Old Believers?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7373
Re: Greek Old Believers?
Prior to the fifteenth century in Italy, the sign of the Cross was made with three fingers, three on top, two on the bottom, right to the left, the way it is done now in the Orthodox Church. Whereas, in the East the Old Rite practice was more prevalent.