I read a medieval penitential once and realized with horror that if they added up the penances cumulatively I'd be excommunicated until probably...
In the Orthodox Church, confession is usually an elective thing, and practices vary pretty wildly. Some people confess weekly and others not at...
I’m not quite sure of my terminology as I describe this, so please excuse me if I’m using the wrong words. Veneration can be explicit (bowing,...
There is an Orthodox Church of France that was once in communion with actual Orthodox Churches, but St. John of San Francisco was pretty much the...
There are probably some Orthodox people who want to ordain women, but if so they're a tiny minority. The structure of the Orthodox Church,...
The current Romish catechism mentions the Episcopacy, Presbyterate, and Diaconate as three seperate orders, here. To the best of my knowledge,...
If my above answer didn't answer your question, then perhaps you could clarify what you're asking?
This is a gold mine! Thank you for sharing.
It has additional collects and lessons for black letter days, but you could get those from Lesser Feasts and Fasts. There are also some introits,...
In the Orthodox Church we do. For example, before consecrating the Eucharist the priest stands in front of the royal doors and bows to the...
Not three separate categories, but three subcategories of iconography. Certainly. Here is a recent example, from a newspaper, about flags:...
Since Orthodox iconography has come up in several threads recently, I thought it might be helpful to show and explain some examples of it. Since...
Exactly! I understand intellectually separating the altar by a screen, as an icon of the holy of holies in the Old Testament, but my intellect...
I wouldn’t, at least not for the word icon. Most commonly in English, it’s either a picture for a computer application or a celebrity who...
I forgot to mention this earlier, but I was able to attend my first BCP (unless you count the '79 book as a BCP) Holy Communion service a few...
I am happy to continue, I could just see things devolving because I understand your position slightly less with each post, and the position you...
As far as I know, we don't officially reject transubstantiation, or sacramental union, or any hypothesis regarding exactly in what manner Christ...
Magisterium is primarily a way for certain RCs to say "the Church teaches..." and then give a nice large dose of private opinion, in much the same...
Stalwart, I do not mean to start a flame war. I'm a guest on this forum, and I also have no desire for Anglicans to Byzantinize themselves, just...
But nothing we've seen so far from St. Augustine, St. Epiphanius, or Eusebius, has been iconophobic. And I have read all that you've quoted. For...