[Magdalen] Philiowhy? - Re: Philiioque

[Grace Cangialosi]

Interesting, Scott. When I was vicar of two mission congregations in the Shenandoah Valley, I met an Orthodox priest at a meeting of a Council of Churches committee. He asked me where I was from, and when I told him, he said, "I tell people in your area they can come to your church, because we don't have any there."
At the time I didn't realize that that was pretty radical...

> On 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