New Innovations in Monophysite Icons!

尼古拉前执事 · Mon 16 October 2006 9:55 pm

Words fail me:

The Apostate · Post by **The Apostate** » Tue 17 October 2006 3:53 pm

St Neon the Great?

ioannis · Post by **ioannis** » Tue 17 October 2006 8:48 pm

Words fail me too, and yet this pretty much sums everthing up.

Anastasios · Post by **Anastasios** » Wed 18 October 2006 8:12 pm

I would have never posted that link on OCnet if I would have known you were going to put it here with one of the usual "oh! heretic scandal! everyone go here!" links so common here. Do you not realize that I have seen things similar to this in for instance St Irene's Church in Astoria, which used to be GOC? The tackiness of some of their liturgical items is surprising, but a lot of this comes from a very different cultural mindset than we have in America. And this image is hardly representative of the Non-Chalcedonian Churches: in all of my visits to Non-Chalcedonian Churches I have never seen such a thing. So to claim it's a "new innovation in the Monophysite Church" is a bit of a stretch, unless you honestly don't think people in the Eastern Orthodox Church have done things quite similar, and unless you think this is everywhere in the Non-Chalcedonian Church.

ioannis · Post by **ioannis** » Fri 20 October 2006 7:14 pm

I don't think I would disagree with you Anastasios, but I think you may have assumed to much about peoples reaction.

This is kinda like those tacky electric votive candles. Certainly one can talk about this without having the words " "oh! heretic scandal!" attributed to them. There are many lukers who might learn a thing or two about Orthodox tradition with such a conversation, I mean, someone is buying those "candles".

On the other hand you are right, who should really care; we each have such an enormous heap of our own errors and sins to worry about that we could hardly have time clean the speck from someone elses eye. We should hardly have time for the internet just in general I would think.