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#225682 - 03/06/07 09:33 AM Grassroots effort
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I urge everyone on this forum to point out the shortcomings of the revised Divine Liturgy to as many people in your parish as possible. Ask them to write letters. Show them where the Liturgy has been feminized (neutralized). Many people will accept this revision without understanding the seriousness of the situation. It is the duty of those who can see through the smoke screen to inform those who have not yet opened their eyes. I have experienced this revision and the people are struggling as they leaf through half a dozen or more pages to get to the next hymn. The books are extremely confusing. The music is too complicated for the laity. As someone who can site read music I cannot fathom how someone with no musical training will ever understand the new music. Perhaps Mr Thompson expects that they will memorize everything in ten years. And then of course the inclusive language is a travesty while the antiphons and litanies have been reduced. And they want us to pay for these books! I have a baptist friend who comes to Liturgy occasionally and it took him a few times to catch on to the "old" Liturgy. I'm sure the first time he experiences the revision, he will put the book down in frustation. And this is supposed to help the renewal of our Church? This is suppose to help us with evangelization? Stand up people! Clergy and laity unite! Let us not tolerate what has been done to our sacred Liturgy! I believe the whole thing can still be retracted. Those who are presently in power (including the revisionists) will put up a monumental fight because of the investment that was laid out, but we must put forth our best effort. We are not Arian because St Athansius would not compromise. Let us take a stand! Let us refuse to compromise.


Edited by Recluse (03/06/07 09:34 AM)

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#225709 - 03/06/07 04:01 PM Re: Grassroots effort [Re: Recluse]
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Let's take Saint Athanasius as our patron, and ask him to give us voices, to defend the Ruthenian Recension!

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#225720 - 03/06/07 04:39 PM Re: Grassroots effort [Re: nicholas]
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Originally Posted By: nicholas
Let's take Saint Athanasius as our patron, and ask him to give us voices, to defend the Ruthenian Recension!

Amen! St Athanasius the Great, help us.

Perhaps we can also ask the Orthodox Saint Mark of Ephesus!

No compromise!!!



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