creed

In the Anglican forms of service there is usually some kind of preface before communion about who should or should not take communion, but not afaik before reciting the Creed. Of course, people are free not to take part, or to omit parts - but there is peer pressure to recite along with people...

Merry Christmas to all members on the Gregorian Calendar. The Ethiopian and Coptic Orthodox Churches are among those who will be celebrating Christmas on the 6th and 7th. While reading my English translation of the Ethiopian Qedase (“Holies”, the Divine Liturgy) specifically to compare their...

Hi there, So, this is just a simple fact about receiving: if you ask, you receive. So, if I ask you to have children in the name of "my" Evolution - you have to at least give me an answer why not? I mean, you would raise them and they would call you 'parent', but the exact meaning of that word...

Hi, I've come across the idea that the earliest Christians (mid first century) had multiple creeds that helped them when the Apostles weren't present and letters weren't in circulation. I know that Communion would be one of those: "For I pass on to you what I received from the Lord himself...."...

Do you ever get tired of saying the Lord's Prayer, one of the Creeds (Apostolic/Nicene), singing the Gloria (in some churches this occurs after reciting a creed), singing the Doxology (usually after the offering has been passed), "passing the peace", reciting a corporate confession of sin...

I ran across this great post about translation issues in the Creed which touches on some other things we've been discussing as well. https://publicorthodoxy.org/2017/06/19/women-and-the-creed-for-us-humans-and-for-our-salvation/

Disclaimer: I realize this has likely been discussed before on this forum. It does not seem to be a current topic though, so a new discussion here can be beneficial to those who are new to the forum, or to those unlikely to dig through past threads and innumerable posts to see where the...

Please not this is not about the filioque or the version of the Nicene Creed It is also not about the position of the Creed in the Liturgy Since the third council of the Toledo in 579 there has been widespread use of the Nicene Creed in the Eucharistic Liturgy of the Western Church. I don't...