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I think if we open our prayer books, the answer will quickly come.

I am also opposed - I'd tell him that as an Orthodox Christian you don't participate in non-Orthodox services and you think it'd be rude to just "stand and watch."

This is a case of different applications of the canons, I believe.

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I want to piggyback on this.... The Small Entrance is not only Christ's entrance into the world as Teacher, but also his entrance into a world that is fallen and in need of great blessing. The greatest blessing we have is that we, the Church, are the Kingdom of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit...

Desert Fathers rock.

Blessed catechumenate to you, brother.

Some wisdom from another thread elsewhere in the Cyberworld...... Paleo, lay off the "jurisdictionalism."

On the Holy Spirit by St Basil the Great.

I'd wait on this. Good books. Deserve to be read while on retreat on a monastery. all IMO.

The candlestands bear no symbolism except that each prayer is offered up in the resurrecting light of Christ.

And A4C - I feel ya.

Just remember: I believe in one baptism for the remission of sins. ~The Symbol of Faith (Creed)

That is a position. Ecumenism is a touchy subject. I ask that you ask another question, please! =)

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"In the traditional sense"?

I also agree that the Pentarchy is inadequate in our present context. HH Alexei is closest thing to a universal "head" of the Orthodox Church.

An Archbishop is the bishops' bishop. Metropolitan is the archbishops' archbhisop. The Patriarch is the metropolitans' metropolitan. And wherever that higher ranking bishop is, he is the bishop of that diocese. Example: HH Alexei is the bishop of Moscow, Patriarch of All Russia (the...

Most Christians in the Holy Land are part of the Orthodox Church though.