https://didacticmind.com/2024/05/sunday-scripture-template-17.html Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Mon, 06 May 2024 12:17:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://didacticmind.com/2024/05/sunday-scripture-template-17.html#comment-8765 Mon, 06 May 2024 12:17:25 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=20339#comment-8765 Didact
because they have stood firm in their faith and their teachings, refusing to bend or bow to the pressures of the world. In this respect
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happened to catch a bit of Orthodox theology on the radio around Chicago years back. an Ortho priest was explaining the significance of the bride and groom crowning each other during the wedding ceremony. according to the priest’s explanation ( i’ve heard plenty of RCC priests say goofy crap that isn’t endorsed by the RCC church, i not going to demand much better from the Ortho church ), the reason why this is part of the Ortho wedding is because centuries back a tsar had demanded that the Ortho church be responsible for tracking all marriages, both civil and religious. and that the crowns are to designate actual Ortho parishioners engaging in an actual religious marriage. shrugs
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regardless of how “orthodox” it might be for the church to be registering non-religious, civil weddings they have been more resistant to the last 3 decades of globo-homo advance than most of the Western churches have been.
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they were on the wrong side of the Donatism debate though, as they were part of the ‘Great Church’ along with the RCC back prior to 500AD.

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