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2 days ago · One of the main issues that contributed to the split was the use of Latin in the Western (Roman) Church, while Greek was used in the Eastern (Orthodox) Church. This led to a linguistic divide that exacerbated other cultural and political differences between the two churches. Another major factor in the split was the concept of papal authority.
Things that attracted me to Orthodoxy: I do agree strongly that sin is to be viewed as an illness, a sickness, not as a judicial matter, which inclines me towards Orthodox, as well as the rejection of PSA (Penal Substitutionary Atonement) as a disgusting view of the atonement; that is another great thing, but the status of Apokatastasis in the ...
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2 days ago · Orthodox believers are called to pursue deification, or divine qualities, according to a Russian Orthodox leader. The most powerful way to do this, he says, is through the Eurcharist. Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev spoke with EWTN about the importance of the Eucharist at the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, Hungary, on Sept. 6.
4 days ago · In the 19th and 20th centuries, the larger body of ethnic Egyptian Christians began to call themselves Coptic Orthodox, to distinguish themselves from the Catholic Copts and from the Eastern Orthodox, who are mostly Greek. [14] In 1959, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church was granted autocephaly.
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4 days ago · The Coptic Church has never departed from the tradition of administering both the Body and Blood of our Lord to all the faithful (John 6:53). And Orthodox believers of all ages share in the Eucharist. The Church also uses ordinary (that is, leavened) bread, for the offering as it has always taught, what most scholars now acknowledge, that the ...
1 day ago · The Eastern Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople has expressed a desire that Christians in the East and the West begin celebrating Easter on a “unified date” rather than adhere to separate Lenten calendars. “It is a scandal to celebrate separately the unique event of the one resurrection of the one Lord,” Patriarch Bartholomew I, who ...
4 days ago · Saints Maximus and St. Martin suffered for the faith from the tyrant emperor Constans II, dying after torture in distant exile in the Caucasus. St. Maximus’ tongue and right hand were cut off, but by a miracle he continued to speak. He died in 666, while the truth he fought for was still trampled on.
