[Magdalen] Philiowhy? - Re: Philiioque

Scott Knitter scottknitter at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 16:49:10 UTC 2016


I love Greek church festivals in the summer, including the food and
the church tour, but I keep quiet on the tour and when visiting any
book-sale booth at such festivals. I once said I was visiting from an
Episcopal parish, thinking they'd like the liturgical-church
connection, but it simply gave the priest there a cue to start working
on me about why I don't just go all the way and become Orthodox
(similar to traditional Roman Catholics who wonder why we wouldn't
"just come home" to the "Catholic Church").

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 5:45 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> I worked with four students from Holy Cross (the school of theology
> attached to Hellenic College in Brookline) and I can promise you that they
> aren't. One of them, a guy who'd been brought from Greece, wouldn't even
> speak to women who spoke to him first. Talk about boundaries!
>
> Their hospital skills included close interviews with patients to make
> absolutely certain they'd been chrismated (where, when & who, please)
> before further discussion occurred.
>
> Their idea of a lunch break was to open the BCP and mock the translation of
> Eucharistic Prayer D.
> -M
>
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 12:20 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
>> I have told the story elsewhere of being at the ordination of a  former
>> Episcopal priest into the priesthood of one of the local 4 Russian
>> jurisdictions (the OCA).  TEC was the object of really  embarrassing
>> criticism that even upset the ordinand.  Ecumenism between the  OCA
>> and TEC are many light years away.  Maybe the Greeks are closer.
>>
>>



-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA


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