[Magdalen] Philiowhy? - Re: Philiioque

[Jay Weigel]

​There is a sort of local Coptic Orthodox church hereabouts. We visited
their Egyptian festival in the spring and got a tour of their church which
was still in the building process. No attempts at conversion whatever, but
amazing hospitality. The nearest Greek Orthodox church is in Winchester,
about an hour's drive, which our listsib Kate Conant attends. I've never
been there.​ There are two Russian Orthodox churches of different
varieties, the ROCOR one in Harrisonburg and the Old Believer one in Weyers
Cave, both led by American convert priests (go figure).

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>