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Offline Elisha

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Re: Women and the Epistle
« Reply #90 on: May 16, 2014, 05:14:42 PM »
Quote from: Maria on May 16, 2014, 04:11:08 PM

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The Antiochians also had women reading the Epistle and even giving homilies. Some were good, but I preferred that readers would read the Epistle and that priests would deliver the homilies.

My dad reads the Epistles sometimes at the Antiochian parish I grew up in when I have visited over the past few years.  He reads it like a Protestant and I have told him.  He can't sing and the concept just flies over his head.  He's 70 now and you just can't teach this old dog new tricks.  I tolerate it.
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Re: Women and the Epistle
« Reply #91 on: May 16, 2014, 05:33:16 PM »
here's a suggestion...

GET OVER IT AND GET OVER YOURSELF
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Re: Women and the Epistle
« Reply #92 on: May 16, 2014, 05:43:24 PM »
Quote from: Deep Roots on May 16, 2014, 05:33:16 PM
here's a suggestion...

GET OVER IT AND GET OVER YOURSELF

What is "IT"?
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"What people say when they speak on their own account is repellent and murksome, for their words do not come from the living spring of the Spirit, but are spawned from the morass of their own heart, a bog infested with the leeches, snakes and frogs of desire, delusion and dissipation; the water of their knowledge is evil-smelling, turbid and torpid, sickening to those who drink it and filling them with nausea and disgust."

Gregory of Sinai, On Commandments and Doctrines

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Re: Women and the Epistle
« Reply #93 on: May 16, 2014, 05:44:52 PM »
Quote from: Mor Ephrem on May 16, 2014, 05:43:24 PM
Quote from: Deep Roots on May 16, 2014, 05:33:16 PM
here's a suggestion...

GET OVER IT AND GET OVER YOURSELF

What is "IT"?
the issue with women reading the epistles.
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Re: Women and the Epistle
« Reply #94 on: May 16, 2014, 05:51:26 PM »
Quote from: Deep Roots on May 16, 2014, 05:44:52 PM
Quote from: Mor Ephrem on May 16, 2014, 05:43:24 PM
Quote from: Deep Roots on May 16, 2014, 05:33:16 PM
GET OVER IT AND GET OVER YOURSELF

What is "IT"?
the issue with women reading the epistles.

When the Church responsibly addresses the matter, your response will be helpful.  Until then, we still have some things to iron out.  Despite some appearances, we are not at liberty to just throw out all our standards like other Churches do.
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"What people say when they speak on their own account is repellent and murksome, for their words do not come from the living spring of the Spirit, but are spawned from the morass of their own heart, a bog infested with the leeches, snakes and frogs of desire, delusion and dissipation; the water of their knowledge is evil-smelling, turbid and torpid, sickening to those who drink it and filling them with nausea and disgust."

Gregory of Sinai, On Commandments and Doctrines

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Re: Women and the Epistle
« Reply #95 on: May 16, 2014, 05:52:45 PM »
Quote from: Mor Ephrem on May 16, 2014, 05:51:26 PM
Quote from: Deep Roots on May 16, 2014, 05:44:52 PM
Quote from: Mor Ephrem on May 16, 2014, 05:43:24 PM
Quote from: Deep Roots on May 16, 2014, 05:33:16 PM
GET OVER IT AND GET OVER YOURSELF

What is "IT"?
the issue with women reading the epistles.

When the Church responsibly addresses the matter, your response will be helpful.  Until then, we still have some things to iron out.  Despite some appearances, we are not at liberty to just throw out all our standards like other Churches do.

if you say so.

I'll stick to "get over it."
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Re: Women and the Epistle
« Reply #96 on: May 16, 2014, 06:03:33 PM »
Quote from: methodius on May 16, 2014, 04:29:48 PM
Deacons can give homilies, too. It is one of their functions, both to read the Gospel and to preach it.

Yes, and I did enjoy hearing the young or not so young deacons preach. 
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The memory of God should be treasured in our hearts like the precious pearl mentioned in the Holy Gospel. Our life's goal should be to nurture and contemplate God always within, and never let it depart, for this steadfastness will drive demons away from us. - Paraphrased from St. Philotheus of Sinai
Writings from the Philokalia: On Prayer of the Heart,
Translated from the Russian by E. Kadloubovksy and G.E.H. Palmer, Faber and Faber, London, Boston, 1992 printing.

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Re: Women and the Epistle
« Reply #97 on: May 16, 2014, 06:55:42 PM »
Quote from: Maria on May 16, 2014, 06:03:33 PM
Quote from: methodius on May 16, 2014, 04:29:48 PM
Deacons can give homilies, too. It is one of their functions, both to read the Gospel and to preach it.

Yes, and I did enjoy hearing the young or not so young deacons preach.  

If you live near a seminary, it is not uncommon to run into a service where one of the students is preaching - with supervision by his Homiletics prof....gotta learn somehow!
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