CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHERE

[Liudmilla]

Can anyone tell me where I can find the text for the "anathema" (I don't know what it is called normally) prayers that are read in the cathedral churches on the Sunday of Orthodoxy?

[尼古拉前执事]

Liudmilla,

I have not yet had any luck in finding the full Rite of Orthodoxy, but so far only the last part:

Solemn Anathema against ecumenism

Pronouncement of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, 1983, signed by all the Bishops, to be permanently added at the end of the Anathemas listed in the "Rite of Orthodoxy," celebrated on the First Sunday of the Great Fast, the Sunday of Orthodoxy:

To those who attack the Church of Christ by teaching that Christ's Church is divided into so-called "branches" which differ in doctrine and way of life, or that the Church does not exist visibly, but will be formed in the future when all "branches" or sects or denominations, and even religions will be united into one body; and who do not distinguish the Priesthood and Mysteries of the Church from those of the heretics, but say that the baptism and eucharist of heretics is effectual for salvation; therefore, to those who knowingly have communion with these aforementioned heretics or who advocate, disseminate, or defend their heresy of ecumenism under the pretext of brotherly love or the supposed unification of separated Christians, Anathema!

I shall ocntinue to look for you.

[ania]

I know this reply is probably very late in coming, but anyway, just thought to put my to cents in on the topic of "Chine Provoslavya," or the Rite of Orthodoxy. Though the one I would hear year in year out (I grew up near Jordanville, and they did it every year) pretty much stayed the same, and the prayers at the begining & end are pretty much the same throughout the Orthodox world, the actual list of the anathemized can vary greatly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. For example, before the canonization of the Royal Martyrs in Russia by the MP, my dad was called upon to record a few tracks on a cd, one of which included anathema, and what he read was quite a bit different compared to what he or Fr.Joseph Jarashuk read in Jordanville every late Febuary, Early March. The MP dropped quite a few, and added some of their own. Since the cd itself was along the theme of the canonization, it mostly focused on enemies of the Royal Martyrs & Defilers of the Church. The anathemas can change as time goes on, as the whole point of it is to declare that the church excommunicates those who have vered away from the church's teachings, and as times change, so do the crimes against the church. Anyway, that was a long ramble, hope it makes sence.
Ania