Since today is the Quartodecimian celebration of the Resurrection, I thought to pull this back up to the top. The rest of the conversations will be posted after Holy Week (and then some: I’ve got a lot of travel to deal with).
I asked the Pastor about holidays. She had already indicated that [...]
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Posted in church geekery, praxis conversation on 31 March 2007 - 13 ניסן 5767
A couple of things:
According to the wiki (and we know how that goes) Melito of Sardis is a saint. As proof a link to an Orthodox website referring to “St Melito”. If anyone knows anything about this, let me know. True or not the Wiki reports that Melito’s feast day is [...]
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We left off with “Trinity” and me asking “What do you believe”?
The pastor shot back with “what is ‘believe’?”
Is it possible for real love to be shown by non-Christians?
Of course.
Is it possible for real Charity to be done by even atheists?
Of course.
Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.
I was surprised by the Latin quote. [...]
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The Annunciation being a fish day (¡YAY!) I’ve prepared some lovely Moroccan spiced Talapia to take to the monastery today for Trapeza.
Had a very cool discussion with Peter yesterday about the recent series of “emergent” posts on Praxis A’ville. (There’s more coming, btw - forgive the delay: documenting dialogue is rather different from BlogPost writing!) [...]
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The Praxis community meets on Saturday night: there is a huge potlock and, in the context of that Agape meal they celebrate something like the Eucharist recorded in the Didache. Unlike my past experiences with such meals the bread is not left on the table to be consumed with the meal: rather the members [...]
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