The wine in the cup becomes the Lord’s blood through its commixture with the lamb.
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Category: Eastern Liturgy
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Things I Like About Eastern Christianity (Part 1)
My first attempt to explain what fascinates me about Eastern liturgies.
Read moreOpen to Me the Doors of Repentance
The process of repentance begins annually, but it never ends. Our daily lives become the arenas for the living out of the process.
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Interview: A Fellowship with HMML and the Collegeville Institute
The Orthodox Church can be a life-giving community, a witness to the living God, a pillar of Jesus Christ by recapturing the spirit of brilliant creativity, of courageous engagement of the world, its people, and its issues – even the controversial ones.
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100 Years After the Bolshevik Revolution: Bolshevik Famines and Theology
From 1932-33, Stalin authorized the removal of all grain, produce, livestock, and food from rural Ukraine to place his proverbial boot on the throat of the people.
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Syriac Church to Be Built in Istanbul
It will be the first such house of worship to be built completely from scratch since the start of the Turkish Republic.
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A First: Sign Language Liturgy in Greek Orthodox Church in Cyprus
“This arrangement is aimed at satisfying the needs of the deaf faithful who have never had the opportunity to follow a liturgy and have someone explain to them the deeper meanings in their own language.”
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Unity and Diversity & Patriarch Maximos IV
The Eastern Rites, and all others non-Roman rites should not be seen as “fringe-groups,” but as shining stars illuminating the ideals of a diverse Universal Church.
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Pew Study on Orthodox Christianity in the 21st Century
The researchers covered both Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy.
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Brilliant Creativity: A Gift from the Reformation
The musicians who adopted musical styles prevalent in Central European centers drew from diverse religious sources of poetic and musical composition, in the milieu of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations. I view the musical output of this period as one of brilliant creativity.
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