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To: Graves
Yes, indeed, it is so evil to change the liturgy. Any moment now the Orthodox will condemn St. John Chrysostom for the heretic he really was for changing the the liturgy of St. Basil. Yes, indeed, any day now all the Orthodox will return to the true and pure liturgy of St. Basil for all their Masses.

Oh, wait, St. Basil also changed the liturgy of St. James. Yes, we must consign St. Basil to the depths of Hell with St. John Chrysostom. Yes, only the pure and unchanged liturgy of St. James will do.

405 posted on 07/18/2005 5:21:03 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: Petrosius

"Yes, only the pure and unchanged liturgy of St. James will do."
Nice try Petrosius but the only difference between the three is the wording of the canon. The original one, of course, is that of St. James. The others are slightly shorter. All three are retained. We don't persecute parishes for retaining them. Finally, unlike Alcuin of York, Orthodox never interpolated words into the Creed to make it say what they want it to say. Nor have they exchanged azymes for leavened bread, or put Protestant hymns in the liturgy as have the Novus Ordo clergy, or composed prayers for the liturgy that draw heavily on Augustine of Hippo.
Don't you get it?
There is a spirit in the West, a spirit of restlessness and dissatisfaction. Because of this, the West keeps on reinventing the wheel, even the liturgical wheel. Why? It all started with Augustine, and then the Council of Toledo, and then Alcuin and his liturgical tinkering, and then Henry II actually telling the Pope what liturgy he could employ in his very own basillica, and then the Cluniac Reform with its policy as to forced clerical celibacy, and then the new paschalion in 1582, and most recently the imposition of worst liturgy ever concocted(the disgusting Novus Ordo).
You people are sick. And you just cannot seem to stop ruining the world you live in.
Get some help.


406 posted on 07/18/2005 5:44:28 PM PDT by Graves (Orthodoxy or death!)
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