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For those who always wondered what a Chaldean Church looked like: http://www.nd.edu/~acasad/images/news/st_joseph/
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Dear Father Deacon Lance, Thank you for posting the Chaldean Church pics! I always enjoy seeing Eastern Churches. There's not many of them here in the wild west.  Paul
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Dear Father Deacon Lance,
What a beautiful church!
In Christ,
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A beautiful church indeed...but it's pity its fallen prey to the decadent westerners...I mean..chairs and pews...ohhh....decadent...
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Dear Anton I: You failed to mention the "Crucifix" . . .  AmdG
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what is a Bema?
It is a beautiful church.
I for one like my pews.
I wonder if to compromise a church removed the pews from one side. How many people would go to the side without pews?
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Originally posted by Little Green Coat:
I wonder if to compromise a church removed the pews from one side. How many people would go to the side without pews? Simple: all those who come to church late!
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Dear LGC: For sure, 'Bama is for the "University of Alabama?" But I think the "Bema" is the Judgment Seat of Christ. AmdG
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Originally posted by Little Green Coat:
what is a Bema? The area of a church in which the altar is located. From a Greek word meaning platform. For anyone interested, the young man who took the pics of St. Joseph's did so for a theology course on Eastern Liturgies. The pics were an addendum to a paper he did, which includes a discussion of Chaldean church architecture and its relationship to the Chaldean Liturgy. The paper itself is at: The Chaldean Catholic Mass: Liturgical Mediation of Heaven & Earth [ nd.edu] Many years, Neil
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LGC,
A bema used to be a raised platform with a lectern in the middle of the church. What you see in the Chaldean Church is a modern recreation of it. Among Byzantines it usually refers to the part of the soleas in front of the Holy Doors that extends a bit into the center aisle.
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Aren't the Chaldean Catholics the counterpart of the Assyrian Church of the East?
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Originally posted by Tony:
Aren't the Chaldean Catholics the counterpart of the Assyrian Church of the East? yes they are
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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The iconography is certainly nice, but Byzantine. Assyrian Church of the East parishes have zero iconography (no they are not iconoclasts, though).
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A most encouraging sight. If this parish is not having "Mass facing the people", could they be persuaded to do a video-recording of the Holy Qurbana? Incognitus
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A beautiful parish without manyof the glaring Latinizations that usually are seen in Chaldean Catholic Churches.
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