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Christ is risen! I have been away from these Forums for several years now and decided to come back to my old stomping grounds when I saw this very interesting thread. As an Orthodox priest of the Church and university professor, allow me to weigh in here. Fasting is never imposed by the Church...

Dear Bushmaster, Please forgive me for taking so long to answer your question. It has been a very busy week. Origenes Adamantios' heretical writings and Origen himself were originally condemned by the Church via local synods and then officially by the Fifth Ecumenical Synod in Constantinople...

To my knowledge, participation in the Eucharist for Catholics does not mean that man experiences the divine essence, even though the essence-energies distinction is nonexistent in Western theology. The benefits of communion, different from the West's idea of "substance" and the East's concept of...

Dear Elizabeth, Thanks for your questions. (1) Origen was not excommunicated solely for his belief in the restoration of all (apokatastasis ton panton), which diminishes the gift of free will by preempting its prominence by the "even greater love of God." Regarding this matter, Origen...

Thus, terms like "transubstantiation" (metousiosis), of whichthe Greek derives directly from the Latin and was first used in the 13th century by the Latin-minded Easterners who wanted union with the West, cannot be used to "explain" the change that occurs mystically in the eucharistic gifts...

Man's participation in the divine essence via Eucharistic reception is impossible, as the great Origen mistakenly believed, since Creator and creature are not (and can never be) the same in their existence. The former is unoriginate and eternal and gives being to the latter, not the other way...

I do not cook :)

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zuccine

I have never been in Alaska yet.

store bought. ice cream or pie

I take it to the car wash. Do you like to have lunch in restaurants?

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I read. I watch movies with my family. I go to the movies. I like to take naps.

"Eastern Orthodox Christianity: A Western Perspective" By Daniel B. Clendenin. A very good book for someone who is looking to understand Orthodoxy from a western perspective. Some of you from Russia must know this author. He was teaching at the University of Moscow. God bless, +Chrysostomos

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Hello everyone, I'm back! This is a response to a question raised by a member of an OCF group, regarding the difference between mysterion and sacramentum. I use this distinction as a springboard to discuss the theology of "mystery" within Holy Orthodoxy and, specifically, to marriage. It is...

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