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Saints Cyril and Methodius were sent from Constantinople by Patriarch St Photius.
When Fr Harrison was investigating Orthodoxy in Sydney, which would have been the late sixties or early seventies, the Orthodox Churches in Australia then were still primarily serving first generation immigrants. The situation is very different today. The Catholic Church has gone through similar stages of ethnic enclaves in it own history.
It is rather ironic that learning Greek was such a barrier to Fr Harrison learning about Orthodoxy, seeing as he is now serving at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico and as such is now fluent in Spanish
Arsenios said:Have you ever read such a quote from the Mother of our Lord
in the entire first thousand years of Christianity?
I don't know about that.
I know that after our Mother appeared and spoke such consoling and motherly words,, there were millions of conversions of the native Mexicans in several years, after she left a miraculous image that cannot be explained naturally.
http://www.cruxnow.com/faith/2014/12/12/four-awesome-facts-about-our-lady-of-guadalupe/
The Catholic Church says that this apparition of the Immaculate Lady at Guadalupe is worthy of belief. And I know her personally.
I suspect there are practical, psychological, and spiritual advantages
to having part of the Liturgy in a universal ecclesial language
She does not speak that way to the Orthodox faithful
....I think you know the difference between a personal encounter, which IS Orthodox,
and an apparition speaking to the 'masses', which is not...
Their initial missionary activity was at the behest of St Photius but their activity in Moravia was at the request of Prince Rastislav of Greater Moravia, as he wanted to maintain independence from his germanic neighbors.I don't know about that. That may be so, as they were from Thessalonica, weren't they? Thought I read that somewhere.
They were supported in their missionary efforts by Pope Adrian II after the German clergy had brought accusations of heresy against them for providing the liturgy in their native tongue. The Germans wanted to enforce Latin so they could maintain their influence and control. (as an interesting aside, I have just learned that Pope Adrian II was married and had a daughter).As I understand it, they also worked with the Papacy
I've read nothing supporting the first part. Pope Adrian II did consecrate Methodius as bishop, but Cyril took monastic vows and died shortly after. A synod of German bishops deposed Methodius and had him jailed on his return to Moravia, but Pope John VIII had him released and reinstated, however unlike his predecessor he forbade him from serving the Liturgy in Slavic. Pope John VIII was later assassinated, the first Pope to suffer this fate. Lots of intrigues occurring in the Vatican at this time.and testified to the divinely-given authority of the Papacy. I believe the Pope made them both Bishops.
Their initial missionary activity was at the behest of St Photius but their activity in Moravia was at the request of Prince Rastislav of Greater Moravia, as he wanted to maintain independence from his germanic neighbors.
They were supported in their missionary efforts by Pope Adrian II after the German clergy had brought accusations of heresy against them for providing the liturgy in their native tongue. The Germans wanted to enforce Latin so they could maintain their influence and control. (as an interesting aside, I have just learned that Pope Adrian II was married and had a daughter).
I've read nothing supporting the first part. Pope Adrian II did consecrate Methodius as bishop, but Cyril took monastic vows and died shortly after. A synod of German bishops deposed Methodius and had him jailed on his return to Moravia, but Pope John VIII had him released and reinstated, however unlike his predecessor he forbade him from serving the Liturgy in Slavic. Pope John VIII was later assassinated, the first Pope to suffer this fate. Lots of intrigues occurring in the Vatican at this time.
I'm still not very clear on what the Orthodox believe about Mary in some ways...
I'm not sure whether they agree that she was Assumed into Heaven, body and soul.
We agree dogmatically that She DIED...
Her Assumption into Heaven is believed...
It is not dogmatized...
We also believe that St. John was so assumed as well...
We have NO primary relics of either...
John's grave was also found empty...
She is the Mother of all those in Christ - The Living...
She is NOT the Mother of those not in Christ - The dead...
She births Christ in us in Baptism...
We see the ongoing incarnation of Christ in His Saints...
Arsenios
It would help if you state or link what your source is.Also, we are getting not entirely the same information. My sources quote Cyril and Methodius testifying to the divinely-given authority of the Papacy, and say that Pope John 8th approved the Liturgy in Slavonic, but only said that the Gospel should be read first in Latin, then in Slavonic.
It would help if you state or link what your source is.
Unfortunately all the above gives is a reference to Brianchaninov's book and gives no reference to any primary source. From the best I can figure out, it appears to be a forgery. The whole of the article you linked to is one of the worst examples of quote mining I've seen from Catholic apologists. Lots of little texts completely bereft of any context. It is worse than rubbish.I gave the quotation and link for the quotes from Cyril and Methodius about Papal authority.
Sts. Cyril & Methodius (c. 865):
"It is not true, as this Canon states, that the holy Fathers gave the primacy to old Rome because it was the capital of the Empire; it is from on high, from divine grace, that this primacy drew its origin. Because of the intensity of his faith Peter, the first of the Apostles, was addressed in these words by our Lord Jesus Christ himself 'Peter, lovest thou me? Feed my sheep'. That is why in hierarchical order Rome holds the pre-eminent place and is the first See. That is why the leges of old Rome are eternally immovable, and that is the view of all the Churches" (Methodius ---N. Brianchaninov, The Russian Church (1931), 46; cited by Butler, Church and Infallibility, 210) (Upon This Rock (San Francisco: Ignatius, 1999), p. 177).
http://www.catholicbridge.com/orthodox/pope_orthodox_church_fathers.php
New Advent says that John 8th approved the Liturgy in Slavonic:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04592a.htm
The latin communion believe in her morality... the dogma states at the end of her earthly life she was taken to heaven... the dogma can be interpreted as her death on earth... other interpretation loss the meaning of (end of earthly life)Forgive me my brother -
If I were speaking for myself alone, I would of course be wrong...
If for my parish and my priest, I would be wrong...
If for my Bishop or Metropolitan, I would be wrong...
If for but one, My own Pope or Patriarch, I would be wrong...
And if for all the Popes and Patriarchs for a brief time in the history of Christianity...
Even then I would be wrong...
But the Church, you see, is the Communion of all the Apostolic Churches throughout the History of the Body of Christ upon this earth, and the whole of ALL these Sacred and Holy Churches is of ONE accord in this matter of the mortality of the Mother of our Lord throughout the entire history of the world since the Incarnation of God on earth...
For them ALL, Her mortality is DOGMA...
I must agree with you, that there is but ONE Apostolic Communion that has separated Herself from ALL the other Apostolic Communions and CHANGED that dogma into an OPTIONAL belief, and thereby declared Herself to be standing in Schism from the Body of Christ on earth... And within that Communion, the Latin Communion, I agree with you that there are "some schismatic groups (that) believe one thing or the other", but the Body of Christ on earth, the Apostolic Faith of Christ, all and with one accord, receive the Apostolic teaching from tthe very beginnings, that Mariam is Mortal, that She died and was buried... Her bodily Ascension into heaven is not yet a dogmatic tenet, but is received by all as well...
There is only one schizmatic Communion in the entire 2000 year history of the Church on earth that wrongly thinks that belief in Her mortality and death is not a Dogmatic Truth of the Faith of Christ, and believes, as you say, "one thing or the other"... ALL the rest believe ONE thing, and NOT the other...
We can discuss WHY this Truth is true, and WHY one Apostolic Communion alone by Herself has historically come to believe that it is NOT true, but the HISTORY of its reception BY the Church of Christ on earth cannot be contradicted... The Latins are the ONLY Church to officially make this Dogma of the Faith an OPTIONAL belief for Her Faithful... They renamed the Feast Day of the Dormition of the Theotokos to be called "The Feast of the Assumption" falling the same day...
The Church has Spoken in Truth and in Deed on this matter...
Arsenios
I gave the quotation and link for the quotes from Cyril and Methodius about Papal authority.
Sts. Cyril & Methodius (c. 865):
"It is not true, as this Canon states, that the holy Fathers gave the primacy to old Rome because it was the capital of the Empire; it is from on high, from divine grace, that this primacy drew its origin. Because of the intensity of his faith Peter, the first of the Apostles, was addressed in these words by our Lord Jesus Christ himself 'Peter, lovest thou me? Feed my sheep'. That is why in hierarchical order Rome holds the pre-eminent place and is the first See. That is why the leges of old Rome are eternally immovable, and that is the view of all the Churches" (Methodius ---N. Brianchaninov, The Russian Church (1931), 46; cited by Butler, Church and Infallibility, 210) (Upon This Rock (San Francisco: Ignatius, 1999), p. 177).
http://www.catholicbridge.com/orthodox/pope_orthodox_church_fathers.php
New Advent says that John 8th approved the Liturgy in Slavonic:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04592a.htm
As to the newadvent article, when it makes a statement like the following;
I trust it about as far as I can kick it.
Patricius -
Do you know the difference between Primacy and Supremacy?
Would you explain it to us?
Which do you think the Pope possessed with us?
Arsenios
Unfortunately all the above gives is a reference to Brianchaninov's book and gives no reference to any primary source. From the best I can figure out, it appears to be a forgery. The whole of the article you linked to is one of the worst examples of quote mining I've seen from Catholic apologists. Lots of little texts completely bereft of any context. It is worse than rubbish.
As to the newadvent article, when it makes a statement like the following;
I trust it about as far as I can kick it.
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