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I keep hearing in my mind the old Sesame Street (or was it The Electric Company?) song:
"One of these things is not like the others.
One of these things just doesn't belong.
Can you guess which thing is not like the others
before I finish my song?"
Fr David Straut ROFLOL Fr. David: Gotta take my hat off to you tonight for the quick wit. Asking for your blessing and your continued holy prayers. BOB
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"Hey, who's the guy without the beard and wearing the tie?!" [ Linked Image] Monomakh I think he is the Referee, called into the Church of the Nativity to stand in between the two groups of clergy when they next clean the Church.
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Our man is in Israel for peace talks. Could this be the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate's synod?
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"Hey, who's the guy without the beard and wearing the tie?!" [ Linked Image] Monomakh I think he is the Referee, called into the Church of the Nativity to stand in between the two groups of clergy when they next clean the Church. It doesn't look real, it looks superimposed. Sorry. Father David: that little song was from Sesame Street. I remember all the songs quite well from my children's preschool days. Alice
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Its very much real. President Bush is on a pilgrimage to the Holy sites as a Christian right now. Bush prays in Bethlehem amid sea of barricades [ breitbart.com] The president -- a fervent Christian -- landed by helicopter and then was whisked to the Church of the Nativity in a motorcade through streets largely deserted as part of a massive security operation aimed at protecting him.
After a short tour of the sixth century Byzantine church he descended into the Grotto of the Nativity, an underground chapel glimmering with hanging lanterns, where he lit a candle at the believed site of Jesus's birth.
"For those of us who practise the Christian faith, there isn't a more holy site than where our saviour was born," Bush said as he came out of the church. [ Linked Image]
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I think he is the Referee, called into the Church of the Nativity to stand in between the two groups of clergy when they next clean the Church. LOL--Should we have a little contest tonight and see who can come up with the best caption for the picture? BOB
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It must be the makeup and suit.
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I am disappointed that there is no mention of President Bush wanting to visit the Holy Sepulcher. Does anyone know why that might be? Do Evangelical Christians visit there?
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I am disappointed that there is no mention of President Bush wanting to visit the Holy Sepulcher. Does anyone know why that might be? Do Evangelical Christians visit there? This may not be true of Pres. Bush, but my experience growing up as an evangelical was being taught that the traditional Holy Sepulcher is the wrong one. I never ever heard of an evangelical who accepted the traditional one as legit. Jason
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Some Evangelicals would visit, yes. The Holy Sepulcher never came into a discussion of doctrine or "church history" I witnessed. I don't imagine that President Bush is the type of Evangelical who would say "Catholics are the children of Satan, the Pope is the Anti-Christ!" An Evangelical of the latter viewpoint would not likely step into the ancient church.
The site of the Jewish temple plays a big role in some Evangelicals' eschatology.
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"I never ever heard of an evangelical who accepted the traditional one as legit."
I'd have to agree here, I have heard of various other points around Jerseulem as being the site.
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Someone should remind the Patriarch: "Your Beatitude: a man is known by the company he keeps!"
As for the evangelicals/fundamentalists and the Church of the Resurrection, they normally visit the so-called "Garden Tomb" instead. Protestant services are regularly held there.
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Someone should remind the Patriarch: "Your Beatitude: a man is known by the company he keeps!"
Fr. Serge Well then, he keeps good company! 
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