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To: Kolokotronis
Somehow I doubt there has ever been a clown version of the Divine Liturgy of +John Chrysostomos. This is really a disgrace, NYer.

Do the Orthodox do the Stations of the Cross?

31 posted on 03/25/2007 6:02:40 AM PDT by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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To: NYer
"Do the Orthodox do the Stations of the Cross?"

No, that is a Latin devotion unknown in Eastern Christianity except under Latinizing influence. On Friday evenings in Great Lent we Orthodox chant the Akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos. That said, the Stations are an absolutely wonderful, powerful and spiritually enriching practice in my opinion. It is the Stations, among other practices, which points out the difference in focus of the Church in the East and the Church in the West. As Metropolitan Methodios of Boston said in praising Gibson's The Passion of The Christ, the West is The Church of The Crucifixion, the East is The Church of The Resurrection.

In Orthodoxy, the Passion is summed up in this icon called "Extreme Humility":


32 posted on 03/25/2007 6:30:29 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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