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#223117 - 02/09/07 06:23 AM Whale Bellies
EJKlages Offline
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The priest at the Orthodox parish just down the road from me has a blog, Glory to God for All Things. His most recent entry was a reflection on the prayer of Jonah from the belly of the whale, and one paragraph in particular hit home as we discuss a liturgy with truncated and eliminated litanies, truncated antiphons, pre-cuts and abridged/non-existent Proskomedia, etc.

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Neither should we seek to make Church “easier” or more conformed to the age. We’re in the belly of a whale. What we need is to be spewed up onto the land, and not a program for the improvement of whale bellies.


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#223126 - 02/09/07 08:32 AM Re: Whale Bellies [Re: EJKlages]
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That's a great quote. I've read Fr. Stephen's blog before and enjoyed his writings.

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#223204 - 02/09/07 02:24 PM Re: Whale Bellies [Re: EJKlages]
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Good stuff.

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