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Title: LIFE, DEATH RESURRECTION


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LIFE, DEATHRESURRECTION
  • IN
  • BYZANTINE SPIRITUALITY

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Spirituality of Memorial Services
  • Salvation of the Reposed
  • Prayers for the Repose
  • Salvation of the Bereaved
  • Console Comfort those Mourning
  • Salvation of the World
  • Proclamation of Gods love mercy for all
  • Evangelisation

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Byzantine Practice
  • At Death we call the Presbyter
  • For the Last Rites
  • Confession
  • Holy Communion
  • Office of the Departure of the Soul from the Body

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Requiem Services
  • Funeral Service
  • Not a Mass
  • The Order of Burial
  • 1 version for Laity, Deacons, Minor Orders
  • 1 version for Bishops Presbyters
  • 1 version for monastics
  • Parastas
  • A Memorial Service
  • An abridged version of the Order of Burial
  • Panakhyda
  • An abridged version of the Parastas
  • Just the last section

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Prayer for the Reposed
  • A Memorial Service
  • Whether a Parastas or a Panakhyda is done
  • Immediately after the person has reposed
  • On the
  • 3d Day
  • 9th day
  • 40th day
  • The Anniversaries
  • The semi-anniversaries

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Byzantine Doctrinal Theology
  • Both Kataphatic
  • But especially Apophatic
  • We dont NEED to know everything
  • Not everything has to be dogmatically defined to
    the last detail
  • What has been revealed to us, this we know
  • What has not been revealed, we can live with not
    knowing

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What we know What we Dont
  • In the Byzantine Churches
  • Very little actual Official Dogma about the After
    life
  • What we know for sure
  • Basically what is in the Bible
  • Cf. old Latin Church dictum re the 4 Last Things
  • Death
  • Judgment
  • Heaven
  • Hell

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The Dream of St Macarios a Midrash
  • Guardian angel takes the soul
  • Present in places of good works
  • On the 3d day
  • See Heaven
  • On the 9th Day
  • See Hell
  • On the 40th
  • The Particular Judgment

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Byz. Midrash After life states
  • Heaven
  • Paradise
  • Hades
  • Gehenna
  • The Particular Judgment, awaiting
  • The Final Judgment
  • The 2d and Glorious Coming
  • Resurrection and the Kingdom

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  • Arent you worshipping Idols?
  • Why do they look so Weird?
  • What good are they?

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  • Arent you worshipping Idols?
  • Why do they look so Weird?
  • What good are they?

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  • Arent you worshipping Idols?
  • Why do they look so Weird?
  • What good are they?

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  • Arent you worshipping Idols?
  • Why do they look so Weird?
  • What good are they?

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THE THEOTOKOS
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The Gospels in Colour Healing the Soul
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