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Is Yale Law School high-profile enough for you? The law professor who moderated that particular event even told protestors to "grow up". Or how about the University of Pittsburgh? Apparently they've had several 'anti-trans' speakers despite heavy protest and backlash over each one. Universities...

No to 'woke', but yes to right-wing 'safe spaces' accomplished via the potential of stochastic terrorism? Might as well stop pretending to be a university, since apparently being challenged by views other than your own is now not a part of the experience. And to think I used to feel at least...

For everyone's sake, I sure hope AI is better at stopping fentanyl than it is at stopping the kids I tutor from adding unnecessary spaces around quotation marks " like this ". I have my doubts after using AI every day (we can't opt out of it, unfortunately), but again, I hope it is.

So in this view is eating and drinking unworthily a matter of not being 'reverent' enough about Christ's victory upon the cross? In other words, is reverence a matter of personal or collective appraisal of a historical event, rather than saying anything about the presence of Christ in the...

No! You mean the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran doesn't believe in a Zionist Evangelical reading of the Old Testament?! Well now I've heard everything. "Yahweh" is a funny way to spell AIPAC and the U.S. congress. Yeah. Just like they destroyed "the great Satan" America by saying...

I don't know what a "version date" would mean in an Orthodox context. No doubt our friend The Liturgist (whose username for some reason breaks my brain's/computer's ability to use the @ function, so hopefully he'll see this even without being properly summoned :) ) could set us all straight on...

What about Yugoslavia? What about Biafra? What about any of these?

:oops: So you think a copyright date for the specific explanatory version of a liturgical text that is found online at copticchurch.net means that the liturgy that it is describing was authored in that year? Like the Liturgy of St. Mark didn't exist until 1998, or 1911 in the case of Greek Mark...

The Coptic version is not a "much newer" version, as the relationship between the two is complicated enough as to preclude being able to say that one is definitively much older than the other, as in truth they developed in tandem. The oldest Egyptian anaphora (without respect to later divisions...

I have no idea. The version I posted comes from copticchurch.net, a Coptic Orthodox website. I can't vouch for what New Advent has or why it is the way it is.

Yes. It is in the linked PDF, with the pre-confessional dialogue concerning the precious blood forming part of what is called there "The Prayer of the Congregation" (the text that I have included from it begins on page 53), while the priest's confession before the Eucharist is listed as "The...

The post to which you are replying concerns what is being claimed about the liturgy of the Egyptian Church by someone who is not a member of it and has expressed some ideas about its contents that are at variance with what is actually proclaimed within it. It is not about your -- or anyone...

I'm not sure where you are getting that idea, but it is very incorrect. The priest's confession before the Eucharist in the liturgy of St. Mark is exactly the same as that found in the most commonly-celebrated liturgy of the Egyptian Orthodox Church (that of St. Basil), and is proclaimed as...

And St. Justin Martyr thought that matter preexisted with God, probably as a result of some vestiges of his pagan background and education. Does that mean that his concept of "seeds of the Word" is somehow not true? No, right? The problem with this way of looking at things is that it assumes...

I wouldn't have any problem if the child or their parents requested a chaplain to be there, say as a kind of mediator or something similar. After all, it would not be unreasonable to think that the parent or the child would have the best idea of how to effectively deal with whatever issue is...

"Some people" could make any kind of argument about anything, and "some within" whatever church we look at may believe in anything. This is why we do not believe nor behave according to what "some people" may be able to argue, but according to the texts of our respective liturgies. These are our...

Yes, I do. Please stop shouting at people in thread titles. It is off-putting and very unnecessary. We can read you just fine without ALL OF THIS SORT OF THING THAT MAKES IT SEEM LIKE YOU ARE HAVING A TANTRUM.

So because other people have gotten things wrong in the past that somehow makes it less likely that you are getting things wrong right now? That makes no sense. You completely contradict yourself when you refer to those various beliefs as 'heresies', too. On what basis do you determine that...

I know it's a typo, but I still want to point this out because it's hilarious to me, as a former Oregonian. :D Not true, because you'd still have to contend with the fact that it is affirmed to be literal in the liturgical texts of every ancient Church. It's not like St. Ignatius was the only...

So if it's all matter of "God is everywhere" (a point which no one disputes, regardless of what communion they are in), then why did the RCC itself face east for a huge chunk of its history before switching over to mostly facing the people? Presumably there was some reason why you faced...