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Rethinking primacy in an ecumenical sense - Vatican News There is an attempt to soften the papacy. Perhaps this document is being prepared as a basis for participation in the joint celebration of Easter in Nicaea in 2025. Question: Is Pope Francis softening the papacy?

In Acts 9:14, Ananias tells Jesus that Saul "has authority from the high priests to bind all who call on your name." "Calling" - in the original, this is a participle from the verb "epicaleo", which in the classics had the meaning "to call the gods to help", so it is impossible to understand...

It is also a means of grace. Making the sign of the cross over oneself brings sanctification. Demons are afraid of the Cross.

Gavin Ortlund is a professor of historical theology, that is, he is a patrologist. He knows the Fathers and church history very well. At the same time, he is a Baptist pastor.

Such a thought came to my mind, or rather a question: so at the Last Supper, did the Apostles eat everything to the end that was the Body and Blood of Christ, or were there any surpluses left? It could also be that the smallest part was transformed into the Body and Blood of Christ, at the level...

Question: What do Lutherans do with the surplus of the Eucharist? When everyone has received communion and there is too much left, are there leftovers, are they thrown away? Question: are they thrown out, or are they eaten to the end so that there is nothing left?

Such a thought came to my mind, or rather a question: so at the Last Supper, did the Apostles eat everything to the end that was the Body and Blood of Christ, or were there any surpluses left? It could also be that the smallest part was transformed into the Body and Blood of Christ, at the level...

Question: are they thrown out, or are they eaten to the end so that there is nothing left?

Question: What do Lutherans do with the surplus of the Eucharist? When everyone has received communion and there is too much left, are there leftovers, are they thrown away?

By the way, Martin Chemnitz is a Lutheran theologian of the 16th century, when he writes about Lutheran ordination, he writes that prayer is performed so that God, "By His Holy Spirit, grace and blessing, may abide in this ministry." That is, it can be considered that Lutheran ordination...

Lutheran Pastor Dmitry Rozet: 1 Timothy 4:14 does not speak of any "gift of the priesthood." The literal translation of this verse looks like this: "Do not neglect the spiritual gift (charismathos) that is in you, which was given according to prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the...

Theophylact of Bulgaria (~1078−~1107): "Here the apostle speaks about the gift of teaching".

So, this is not ordination to the priesthood or bishops, but the transfer of the gifts of the gifts of the Holy Spirit? For example, the transfer of teaching gifts, the transfer of gifts for apostolic ministry, for serving as a teacher. Is this somehow combined with the interpretation of...