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Does everyone bring their ikons to Divine Liturgy?
Thanks!One each, yes.
It was pouring with rain this morning so we had the procession inside the Church instead of around the outside.
We're getting a months worth in less than a weekThanks!
Pesky rain.
Maybe building an ark could help. Sounds like a flood is coming!We're getting a months worth in less than a week
Better bring that icon of Noah then.Maybe building an ark could help. Sounds like a flood is coming!
In the Melkite parish we attend for Divine Liturgy, the children process with icons at the Entrances.Does everyone bring their ikons to Divine Liturgy?
We have the children process with the icons around the buildingIn the Melkite parish we attend for Divine Liturgy, the children process with icons at the Entrances.
Sweet! It’s my first Sunday of Orthodoxy officially being Orthodox.Yes we do. I already have one picked out for it.
I'm having a lot of trouble with this today and had a very surprisingly bad reaction - instead of either trying to explain or even leave it for later, I got extremely mad, an anger that doesn't befit the topic. Very unbecoming. I am both ashamed and at a loss because I realize that I cannot by myself come up with a good supporting argument in favor of today. Anyone has a good resource about the icons controversy?
I mean in favor of icons and celebrating the victory in a complicated political and bloody imperial conflict that is very unclear to me. I have never even thought about it too much and I grew up with icons being part of my "core identity" as it were. I never questioned them in any way. So I was completely taken aback when I had to defend them and was told they were anti-Christian, pagan, idolatry and that the events in from 7th century were actually evil. I am still reeling.
I feel like one of the folks I usually criticize because they have a certain position they believe 100% but they aren't ready to explain it.
And so instead, I starting yelling and screaming and talking about my emotions on the matter instead of my thoughts
I mean in favor of icons and celebrating the victory in a complicated political and bloody imperial conflict that is very unclear to me. I have never even thought about it too much and I grew up with icons being part of my "core identity" as it were. I never questioned them in any way. So I was completely taken aback when I had to defend them and was told they were anti-Christian, pagan, idolatry and that the events in from 7th century were actually evil. I am still reeling.
I feel like one of the folks I usually criticize because they have a certain position they believe 100% but they aren't ready to explain it.
And so instead, I starting yelling and screaming and talking about my emotions on the matter instead of my thoughts
Father mentioned that today isn’t about triumphalism - it is about the restoration of what had always been held to be true. (That said, those who were supporters of iconography were often persecuted or killed - it wasn’t a good time in the Church.). Read some of St John of Damascus. Focus on the theological part of it - not the politics. The defense of iconography is at its core about the incarnation of Christ.I mean in favor of icons and celebrating the victory in a complicated political and bloody imperial conflict that is very unclear to me. I have never even thought about it too much and I grew up with icons being part of my "core identity" as it were. I never questioned them in any way. So I was completely taken aback when I had to defend them and was told they were anti-Christian, pagan, idolatry and that the events in from 7th century were actually evil. I am still reeling.
I feel like one of the folks I usually criticize because they have a certain position they believe 100% but they aren't ready to explain it.
And so instead, I starting yelling and screaming and talking about my emotions on the matter instead of my thoughts
Lord have mercy.I mean in favor of icons and celebrating the victory in a complicated political and bloody imperial conflict that is very unclear to me. I have never even thought about it too much and I grew up with icons being part of my "core identity" as it were. I never questioned them in any way. So I was completely taken aback when I had to defend them and was told they were anti-Christian, pagan, idolatry and that the events in from 7th century were actually evil. I am still reeling.
I feel like one of the folks I usually criticize because they have a certain position they believe 100% but they aren't ready to explain it.
And so instead, I starting yelling and screaming and talking about my emotions on the matter instead of my thoughts