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1001 7,14| in the Tradition of the Church. Thus, one is not to go 1002 7,14| Fathers and the Creeds of the Church, but is to faithfully pass 1003 7,14| the mystical life of the Church.~ Fr. John mentions that 1004 7,14| for them to return to the Church that their Western forebears 1005 7,14| Fathers and Mothers of the Church who faithfully served God 1006 7,14| of the Tradition of the Church. But the greatness of the 1007 7,14| Apostles. Let us inquire of the Church, and not fall into self-deluded 1008 7,15| necessity of accepting the Church's interpretation of the 1009 7,15| Philip then gave him the Church's interpretation, the Christian 1010 7,16| service in the Orthodox Church.~·        The Psalter, which 1011 7,16| is found all through the Church's various services. It has 1012 7,17| and Austria of the Russian Church in Exile explains that the 1013 7,17| the entire Old Testament Church in making this translation 1014 7,17| corruption in the Orthodox Church by the grace of God and 1015 7,17| For the Syrian Orthodox Church and all Eastern Churches 1016 7,17| still a part of the Orthodox Church, yet another translation 1017 7,17| beginning in the Christian Church, the Scriptures were not 1018 7,17| that all that the Christian Church teaches with regard to the 1019 7,17| himself, as a child of the Church, a participant in its divine 1020 7,17| holy words to which the Church is so attentive.~ In contrast, 1021 7,17| something the Christian Church does indeed have. Thus, 1022 7,17| freely to His Christian Church by means of grace.~ The 1023 7,17| therefore clear why the Orthodox Church prefers the Septuagint translation 1024 7,17| effort of the Old Testament Church, and its text, it bears 1025 7,17| them. In the Roman Catholic Church since the sixteenth century, 1026 7,17| books:~ ~The [Orthodox] Church accepts these latter books 1027 7,17| calledecclesiastical.” The Church includes these books in 1028 7,17| teaching of the faith, the Church puts them in a secondary 1029 7,17| respected in the ancient Church; but a distinction between 1030 7,17| always been maintained in the Church [Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, 1031 7,17| Fathers in discussing the Church's understanding of the role 1032 7,18| consciousness and the life of the Church. While the doctrinal definitions 1033 7,18| accepted by the rest of the Church, they then come to acquire 1034 7,19| The Mind of the Orthodox Church to the Synodikon of Orthodoxy. 1035 7,19| experience. The mind of the Church is linked to, and is in 1036 7,19| decisions of the Fathers of the Church as it has been expressed 1037 7,19| orthodox teaching of Christ's Church.~ ~ 1038 7,20| of the Holy Fathers, the Church's great theologians. It 1039 7,20| Section 5: The Orthodox Church does not have the Latin 1040 7,20| does not have the Latin Church's established preference 1041 7,20| defined, are still held by the Church with an unmistakable inner 1042 7,20| saints, things of which the Church has made few explicit definitions. 1043 7,20| bishops. They deal with the Church's earthly life and are an 1044 7,20| reflects the mind of the Church. Most importantly, iconographers 1045 7,21| forbidding the sale of the Church's Mysteries are canons of 1046 7,21| the earthly life of the Church where conditions are constantly 1047 7,21| ancient institutions of the Church which originated in Apostolic 1048 7,21| ecumenists trample on the Church's sacred canons. They see 1049 7,21| world.” In the same way, the Church is not “of the world,” and 1050 7,21| archbishop notes, the true Church of Christ:~ ~... has always 1051 7,21| the understanding of the Church that it must adapt itself 1052 7,21| the four signs of the true Church is that it is holy. The 1053 7,21| it is holy. The Orthodox Church is holy because it does 1054 7,21| if a new council of the Church is assembled, one of its 1055 7,21| bishop's stewardship over the Church, when there is a genuine 1056 7,21| The importance of the Church's practical canons is not 1057 7,21| It has been observed from Church history that in the periods 1058 7,21| The Mind of the Orthodox Church, pp. 180-81].~ ~ 1059 7,22| would come to guide the Church in Truth (Jn 16:13). The 1060 7,22| Holy Spirit guides Christ's Church through all that is called 1061 7,22| Tradition of the Orthodox Church.~ ~ ~ 1062 8,4 | teaching of the Orthodox Church. Many Holy Fathers have 1063 8,4 | dogmatic theologian of the Church, St. John of Damascus. In 1064 8,7 | earlier chapter, the Orthodox Church to this day retains the 1065 8,7 | while the Roman Catholic Church uses an altered text. The 1066 8,7 | the truth of the Orthodox Church's Creed. The significance 1067 8,7 | no individual part of the Church has any right to tamper 1068 8,7 | common treasure of the entire Church. Among all the dogmatic 1069 8,7 | dogmatic decrees of the Church's councils, the Ecumenical 1070 8,7 | Councils. Thus, the Latin Church stands condemned by five 1071 8,7 | against the unity of the Church.~ Secondly, in its theological 1072 8,9 | Holy Trinity?~ The Latin Church's divergence in the doctrine 1073 8,10| mission to the world.~ The Church believes that Christ had 1074 8,11| teaching of Christ, of His Holy Church, of Sacred Scriptures, and 1075 8,11| Sacred Scriptures, and of the Church's Creed, and this teaching 1076 8,11| but the Roman Catholic Church begs to differ with Christ, 1077 8,11| Creed which the undivided Church produced under the inspiration 1078 8,12| between Rome and the Holy Church. Can you explain the meaning 1079 8,14| remember when discussing Church history with friends, I 1080 8,14| the undivided Apostolic Church was expressed in the celebration 1081 8,14| confessed by the entire Church, belongs to the Church, 1082 8,14| entire Church, belongs to the Church, and one part of the Church 1083 8,14| Church, and one part of the Church does not have the right 1084 8,14| Council. For any part of the Church to tamper unilaterally with 1085 8,14| Spirit in the life of the Church. Through this heresy, Sabellius 1086 8,14| development of the Latin Church's false Trinitarian theology 1087 8,14| the same time the Latin Church restrained the worship of 1088 8,14| examples as well of the Latin Church's dabbling with diabolical 1089 8,14| Spirit in the world, in the Church, and in the lives of individual 1090 8,14| Catholic doctrine of the Church, for every false teaching 1091 8,14| the dogma concerning the Church. Because of the inattention 1092 8,14| West has come to regard the Church largely as an earthly institution, 1093 8,14| likewise did the concept of Church unity triumph over diversity, 1094 8,14| centralization of the Latin Church and is overemphasis on papal 1095 8,14| different concepts of the Church. The underlying causes of 1096 8,14| underlying causes of the Latin Church's breaking away from the 1097 8,14| breaking away from the ancient Church of Christ in the Great Schism 1098 9,3 | Hierarch of the Russian Church in Exile, explained that “ 1099 9,3 | the consciousness of the Church always piously protected 1100 9,5 | and that of the Orthodox Church with regard to man's original 1101 9,7 | well as the icons in the church?~ In censing the faithful, 1102 9,7 | of incense envelops the Church.~ The practice of censing 1103 9,7 | misunderstood by those outside the Church. This writer heard the remark, 1104 9,7 | the world today, the only Church in Christendom He would 1105 9,7 | recognize is the Orthodox Church as it had gone so far astray 1106 9,7 | the icons, and all of the church at certain moments during 1107 9,7 | of Christians gathered in church would be heartfelt and truly 1108 9,9 | grace does the Orthodox Church reject?~ It rejects any 1109 9,15| theologian in the early Western Church had, whereas in the Eastern 1110 9,15| whereas in the Eastern Church there were many. Thus, theology 1111 9,15| salvation. The Orthodox Church holds a less exalted view 1112 9,15| deferred to the judgment of the Church all he had ever written). 1113 9,15| mitigated form by the Roman Church) is rejected by the vast 1114 9,15| original guilt. The Anglican Church teaches that works before 1115 9,15| and likewise the Latin Church speaks of justificatio prima 1116 9,15| South America of the Russian Church in Exile instructs in this 1117 9,19| ascetic of the Orthodox Church, wrote: “Behind the veil 1118 9,21| of her history, the Greek Church has been enabled to preserve 1119 9,22| entire life of the Orthodox Church. Because of Orthodoxy's 1120 9,22| cannot be assumed that the Church overlooks Christ's humanity 1121 9,22| sadness of Great Friday, the Church contemplates the Resurrection 1122 9,27| tradition of the Orthodox Church.~ ~ 1123 9,28| of the Holy Spirit in the Church.~ The Life-giving Holy Spirit 1124 9,28| Moreover, because the Church is the Body of Christ, it 1125 9,28| instructed that “where the Church is, there is the Holy Spirit, 1126 9,28| Spirit is, there is the Church.”~ The Holy Spirit came 1127 9,28| Spirit came to the Christian Church at Pentecost (Acts 2: 3) 1128 9,28| Spirit to those within the Church. Regarding this ministry 1129 9,28| manifestation of God's grace in the Church's Holy Mysteries, Vladimir 1130 9,28| upon the members of the Church, is frequently referred 1131 9,28| Theology, pp. 170-71].~ ~The Church lives by the Holy Spirit, 1132 9,28| from distortion; and in the Church's preservation of divine 1133 9,28| Acts 2:38).~ The Orthodox Church lays great stress upon the 1134 9,28| that is, His work in the Church, there is a general ministry 1135 9,29| the Holy Fathers of the Church. Moreover, as Metropolitan 1136 9,29| grace of God.~ The Orthodox Church teaches that to become a 1137 9,29| Theology of the Eastern Church, p. 85 ff]. Orthodoxy understands 1138 9,29| ascetic tradition of the Church are meant to lead us where 1139 9,38| the whole course of the Church's history.~ As another writer 1140 9,38| Tradition, the Orthodox Church has always shown honor to 1141 9,38| the constant rule of the Church to place relics of holy 1142 9,39| It involves attendance at church, the reception of the Holy 1143 9,39| Deification involves life in the Church and the reception of the 1144 9,42| times, in the Christian Church among various ascetic recluses 1145 10 | 10. The Church of God.~ ~ ~ 1146 10,1 | of Christ in the Orthodox Church?~ “Christ is the Head of 1147 10,1 | Christ is the Head of the Church” (Eph 4:15, 5:23; Col 1: 1148 10,1 | Shepherd and Pilot of the Church. “I am with you always, 1149 10,1 | Head over all things to the Church, which is His Body, the 1150 10,2 | textbook.~ Christ so loved the Church and gave Himself up for 1151 10,2 | for it (Eph 5:25).~ The Church is one and the same with 1152 10,2 | flesh and of His bones. The Church is the living vine, nourished 1153 10,2 | Him. Never think of the Church apart from the Lord Jesus 1154 10,3 | alone. He is saved in the Church, as a member of it and in 1155 10,3 | that takes place in the Church. As the textbook states, 1156 10,3 | to men by Christ in the Church, and since it is celebrated 1157 10,3 | in the Mysteries in the Church, Khomiakov can rightly state 1158 10,3 | that we are saved in the Church rather than alone.~ Adding 1159 10,3 | themselves, Christ founded the Church, His grace-filled kingdom 1160 10,3 | sanctifies) to all members of the Church. Christ also established 1161 10,3 | Mysteries (Sacraments) for the Church as the means by which Christians 1162 10,3 | God Himself founded the Church, gathered His children together, 1163 10,4 | Protestant ideas of the Church.~ Protestantism neglects 1164 10,4 | following aspects of the Church, which Orthodoxy regards 1165 10,4 | hierarchical structure of the Church, Apostolic Succession, the 1166 10,4 | prayers to the saints, and the Church's intercession for the departed.~ ~ 1167 10,5 | the Orthodox idea of the Churchcertainly spiritual and 1168 10,5 | The Orthodox idea of the Church is spiritual and mystical 1169 10,5 | the earthly aspect of the Church in isolation from God. The 1170 10,5 | isolation from God. The Church is always thought of as 1171 10,5 | always thought of as the Church of Christ and the Holy Spirit, 1172 10,5 | relationship existing between the Church and God. The Orthodox doctrine 1173 10,5 | Orthodox doctrine of the Church is Trinitarian (it sees 1174 10,5 | Trinitarian (it sees the Church as an icon of the Holy Trinity); 1175 10,5 | Christological (for the Church is the Body of Christ); 1176 10,5 | Pneumatological (inasmuch as the Church is a continued Pentecost 1177 10,6 | aspects of the concept of Church life: (1) The Image of the 1178 10,6 | that this concept of the Church has broad applications. 1179 10,6 | of the Triune God, so the Church as a whole is an icon of 1180 10,6 | unity in diversity. The Church contains a great many people 1181 10,6 | inherence of the members of the Church. There is no conflict in 1182 10,6 | There is no conflict in the Church between freedom and authority. 1183 10,6 | catholic, when applied to the Church, means (among other things) 1184 10,6 | characteristic is reflected in the Church, which consists of a number 1185 10,6 | also are the bishops of the Church. No single bishop can exercise ( 1186 10,6 | Lastly, the concept of the Church as an icon of the Holy Trinity 1187 10,6 | Trinitarian nature of the Church. In a council, many bishops 1188 10,6 | way of thinking about the Church in his epistle to the Romans: “ 1189 10,6 | bond between Christ and His Church, wrote that “where Christ 1190 10,6 | is, there is the Catholic Church.” (The Catholic Church, 1191 10,6 | Catholic Church.” (The Catholic Church, it bears repeating, means 1192 10,6 | repeating, means the Universal Church to which the Patriarchate 1193 10,6 | these lines. The Catholic Church does not refer to the modern 1194 10,6 | the modern Roman Catholic Church which severed itself from 1195 10,6 | itself from the Universal Church of Christ in 1054).~ St. 1196 10,6 | therefore did not leave the Church when He ascended into Heaven. 1197 10,6 | textbook explains that the Church is “the extension of the 1198 10,6 | Chrestos Androustos adds, the Church is: ~ ~... the center and 1199 10,6 | and kingly power.... The Church and its Founder are inextricably 1200 10,6 | inextricably bound together.... The Church is Christ with us [Dogmatic 1201 10,6 | unity between Christ and His Church. New Christians are buried 1202 10,6 | members of His Body, the Church, they receive His All-Pure 1203 10,6 | of Antioch described the Church as a Eucharistic Society. 1204 10,6 | used to describe both the Church and the Holy Mystery.~ The 1205 10,6 | and the Holy Mystery.~ The Church is thought of first and 1206 10,6 | sacramental life of the Church.~ (3) A Continued Pentecost: 1207 10,6 | one another. Because the Church is the Body of Christ, it 1208 10,6 | mentioned, but this unity in the Church has never involved the ironing 1209 10,6 | human variety. Life in the Church involves the exact opposite, 1210 10,6 | Spirit is a gift to the Church, He is also a personal gift 1211 10,6 | 12:4).~ Some outside the Church feel that to be a Christian 1212 10,7 | dogma of Chalcedon to the Church?~ The Council of Chalcedon 1213 10,7 | Chalcedon must be applied to the Church as well as Christ, for just 1214 10,7 | nature, so too does the Church, where there is a synergy ( 1215 10,7 | is a human element in the Church as well as a divine. However, 1216 10,7 | fully the case with the Church's human element, for only 1217 10,7 | the saints in Heaven. The Church is the Body of Christ and 1218 10,7 | of tension in which the Church exists here on earth.~ ~ 1219 10,8 | textbook, the mystery of the Church consists in what?~ The mystery 1220 10,8 | what?~ The mystery of the Church consists in the fact that 1221 10,8 | individuals. Sinners in the Church together become the Body 1222 10,9 | logical conclusion that the Church is one?~ Alexei Stepanovich 1223 10,9 | logical conclusion that the Church is one from the fact that 1224 10,9 | fact that God is one. “[The Church's] unity follows of necessity 1225 10,10| 10.~ Can the Church be divided, or can there 1226 10,10| there be schisms within the Church?~ In the Nicene Creed, Christians 1227 10,10| Catholic and Apostolic Church.” Oneness is the first of 1228 10,10| characteristics of Christ's Holy Church. The Church is not a set 1229 10,10| Christ's Holy Church. The Church is not a set of different 1230 10,10| invisible way by that claim. The Church, which is the Body of the 1231 10,10| is only one Christ. The Church remains and will always 1232 10,10| ever be) schisms within the Church; there can only be schisms 1233 10,10| only be schisms from the Church.~Protopresbyter Michael 1234 10,10| that Christ, depicting the Church in parables, speaks of one 1235 10,10| foundation-stone of the Church. Christ likewise gave a 1236 10,10| 4:5), and one Christian Church (Mt 16:18).~ Fr. Michael 1237 10,10| goes on to explain that the Church is not only inwardly, but 1238 10,10| bears repeating that:~ ~The Church does not lose its unity 1239 10,10| because side by side with the Church there exist Christian societies 1240 10,10| societies are not in the Church, they are outside of it [ 1241 10,10| Orthodoxy does not view the Church's unity as ideal and invisible, 1242 10,10| invisible” and “visibleChurch, for they are one. Likewise, 1243 10,10| would never say that the Church is invisibly one but visibly 1244 10,10| notion of an “invisible Church” — a theological fiction 1245 10,10| Christian while denying the Church.” Elsewhere the martyr articulates 1246 10,10| Christ created precisely the Church and that it is absurd to 1247 10,10| separate Christianity from the Church and to speak of some sort 1248 10,10| apart from the Holy Orthodox Church of Christ [Christianity 1249 10,10| Christ [Christianity or the Church?, p. 29].~ ~Here on earth, 1250 10,10| which alone is the one true Church established by Christ. The “ 1251 10,10| by Christ. The “Undivided Church” is not something that ceased 1252 10,10| now.~ The Roman Catholic Church proclaims that it is the 1253 10,10| proclaims that it is the one Church, and it recently reaffirmed 1254 10,10| found in the Roman Catholic Church.” At the same time, however, 1255 10,10| also “represent the true Church.” Thus, speaking out of 1256 10,10| states that it is the one Church, and then, speaking out 1257 10,10| Churches also represent the one Church. Where is the truth?~ An 1258 10,10| explanation of the true Church and its oneness:~ ~The Orthodox 1259 10,10| oneness:~ ~The Orthodox Church, continuing the principles 1260 10,10| Councils of the Undivided Church defined in precise terms, 1261 10,10| precise terms, holds that the Church of Christ is ONE and cannot 1262 10,10| therefore are from that One Church, not within it. One who 1263 10,10| organic structure of this Church ceases to be a member of 1264 10,10| are the property of — the Church, not to the individual person, 1265 10,10| organic structure.~ ~By the Church, Orthodoxy has always meant 1266 10,10| hierarchy. All the early Church Fathers and Councils made 1267 10,10| sacramental life of the Church or entitled to the privileges 1268 10,10| whether one is or is not a Church member than any “lines of 1269 10,10| continuing unity of the One Church founded by Christ, and became 1270 10,10| apostate. Bishops who leave the Church cease being bishops, whatever 1271 10,10| cannot do. Thus the Orthodox Church maintains that when Cardinal 1272 10,10| the rest of the Christian Church which continued holding 1273 10,10| unity of the continuing Church have remained apostates 1274 10,10| continuing unity of the undivided Church founded by Christ, or who 1275 10,10| teachings defined by that Church, ceases to be a member of 1276 10,10| in membership in that One Church founded by Christ.~ ~/.../ 1277 10,10| taught and consider to be “Church teaching,” even though they 1278 10,10| what the One continuing Church of Christ has always held 1279 10,10| Christ founded only ONE Church; not many; and of all the 1280 10,10| actual fact the continuing Church which He founded. And this 1281 10,10| And this is THE ORTHODOX CHURCH [Abbot Augustine Whitfield, “ 1282 10,10| leave as a layman in the Church, deprived only of his orders; 1283 10,10| himself from the continuing Church and was no longer so much 1284 10,10| Churches outside Christ's One Church, Protopresbyter Michael 1285 10,10| Orthodox teaching of the Church, which in itself is quite 1286 10,10| comprise a singleinvisible Church,” inasmuch as each of them 1287 10,10| by side with the Orthodox Church there exists outside of 1288 10,10| members of the Orthodox Church. Often we can observe in 1289 10,10| Christian world outside the Church a religious fervor and faith, 1290 10,10| relation of all of them to the Church of Christ?~ ~Of course, 1291 10,10| them as belonging to the Church. Already the fact that one 1292 10,10| Christian world outside the Church, namely the whole of Protestantism, 1293 10,10| the bond with the heavenly Church, that is, the veneration 1294 10,10| indirectly, with the Orthodox Church, with the Church in its 1295 10,10| Orthodox Church, with the Church in its historical form; 1296 10,10| rejected and condemned by the Church at her Ecumenical Councils. 1297 10,10| either with the Orthodox Church of Christ or between themselves. 1298 10,10| refer only to the Heavenly Church. The Church on earth, even 1299 10,10| the Heavenly Church. The Church on earth, even though it 1300 10,10| perhaps even “adjoining” the Church, but sometimes “against” 1301 10,10| are all “outside” the one Church of Christ. Some of them 1302 10,10| which is present in the Church, and especially the grace 1303 10,10| in the Mysteries of the Church. They are not nourished 1304 10,10| Christian unityunity in the Church — can be based only upon 1305 10,10| differences of mind. The Church is the pillar and ground 1306 10,11| Orthodoxy's theology of the Church a theology of communion. 1307 10,11| communion that holds the Church together.~ St. Ignatius 1308 10,11| of Antioch saw each local Church as one of a congregation 1309 10,11| such is his idea of the Church as a Eucharistic Society, 1310 10,11| discussed in chapter one. The Church universal is then formed 1311 10,11| celebration of the Eucharist. The Church is not and never has been 1312 10,11| criterion for membership in the Church, therefore, is the act of 1313 10,11| is the act of communion. Church membership is ended, conversely, 1314 10,11| ceases to be a member of the Church if he severs communion with 1315 10,12| once popular among High Church Anglicans and taught that 1316 10,12| taught that the Christian Church was divided into branches. 1317 10,12| 15), and “one Christian Church” (Mt 16: 18). Also, as noted 1318 10,12| contrary to the fact that the Church is one, it cannot be reconciled 1319 10,12| The only branches of the Church (if one wants to think in 1320 10,13| salvation only within the Church.~ St. Cyprian instructed: “ 1321 10,13| if he does not have the Church as his mother.” In his book 1322 10,13| on Christians Outside the Church, Patrick Barnes, a convert 1323 10,13| then to the Presbyterian Church, the Episcopal Church, and 1324 10,13| Presbyterian Church, the Episcopal Church, and finally to Orthodox 1325 10,13| about the nature of the Church. Protestants, he states, 1326 10,13| Barnes notes that since the Church is Christ's Body (Eph 1: 1327 10,13| except through Christ's Church. Scripture clearly teaches 1328 10,13| encountered through His Holy Church, is the only door to the 1329 10,14| there are sheep outside the Church and wolves within. Thus, 1330 10,14| within. Thus, not all in the Church will be saved, it is noted.~ 1331 10,14| concerning an invisible Church membership or its comment 1332 10,14| heterodox may be linked to the Church by “invisible bonds.” The 1333 10,14| notion of an “invisible true Church,” especially in the light 1334 10,14| that “we know where the Church is but we cannot say where 1335 10,14| visible membership in the Church for salvation, a teaching 1336 10,14| incorrectly uses the word Church in two senses. Thus, he 1337 10,14| historical and one true] Church is, but we cannot be sure 1338 10,14| cannot be sure where it [the Church in an undefinable or mysterious 1339 10,14| regard to those outside the Church, the textbook also states 1340 10,14| possibly be members of the Church, inasmuch as there are many 1341 10,14| and separated from-, the Church. Just how and to what extent 1342 10,14| person must belong to the Church in some sense in order to 1343 10,14| of Etna writes that the Church on earth is a visible organism 1344 10,14| linked to the Orthodox Church without the benefit of its 1345 10,14| Either one belongs to the Church or one does not.~ Mr. Barnes 1346 10,14| relation to the Orthodox Church, they cannot be seen as 1347 10,14| apophatic mindset, the Orthodox Church remains circumspect on this 1348 10,14| no salvation outside the Church” is not the same as saying 1349 10,14| that “no one outside the Church can be saved.” Sacred Scriptures 1350 10,14| only within the Orthodox Church; but we can also make a 1351 10,14| those who do not enter the Church in this life [The Non-Orthodox: 1352 10,14| Christians Outside of the Church, p. 173].~ ~Mr. Barnes' 1353 10,14| salvation of those outside the Church. The saint replied:~ ~Why 1354 10,14| own days. The ark is the Church. Only those who are inside 1355 10,14| of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, expressed 1356 10,15| the infallibility of the Church.~ The unity between God 1357 10,15| unity between God and His Church is spoken of throughout 1358 10,15| Scriptures, in which the Church is referred to as the Body 1359 10,15| Truth (1 Tim 3:15). The Church is a living organism against 1360 10,15| unity with God that the Church as a whole cannot err. The 1361 10,15| a whole cannot err. The Church cannot submit to false teaching, 1362 10,15| falsehood. An error of the whole Church would be tantamount to its 1363 10,15| to Christ's promise, the Church cannot die. As Protopriest 1364 10,15| explains:~ ~If the Orthodox Church as a whole cannot err, her 1365 10,15| the opinion of the whole Church is manifested at Ecumenical 1366 10,15| are the voice of the whole Church, which is directed by the 1367 10,15| the infallibility of the Church is provided by Fr. John 1368 10,15| in no individual in the Church save Christ alone, and so 1369 10,15| heresy in opposition to the Church and despite attempts at 1370 10,16| position of the bishop in the Church.~The hierarchy was established 1371 10,16| that:~ ~All members of the Church of Christ comprise a single 1372 10,16| own use, so also in the Church there exist various ministries. 1373 10,16| highest ministry in the Church as an organization is borne 1374 10,16| example of the Old Testament Church, in which there were a high 1375 10,16| New Testament Christian Church the priesthood: bishops, 1376 10,16| the highest rank in the Church, and bishops therefore receive 1377 10,16| existence of the earthly Church itself should come to an 1378 10,16| highest ministry in the Church by the Lord Himself — placed 1379 10,16| uninterruptedness of the Orthodox Church's episcopate, Fr. Michael 1380 10,16| the essential sides of the Church. And, on the contrary: the 1381 10,16| an attribute of the true Church, even if in it there is 1382 10,16| understanding was present to the Church from its beginning. From 1383 10,16| its beginning. From the Church History of Eusebius of Caesarea 1384 10,16| states, the Roman Catholic Church cannot demonstrate an unchanged 1385 10,16| departure from the Apostolic Church in 1054, although it continued 1386 10,16| in the Eastern Orthodox Church, whose bishops to this day 1387 10,16| Regarding the equality of the Church's bishops, Protopresbyter 1388 10,16| equality remains forever in the Church among the successors of 1389 10,16| Churches.~ In Scripture, the Church is represented as the Bride 1390 10,16| the highest pastor of the Church and the image of Christ, 1391 10,16| Christ, is represented in Church teaching as the guardian 1392 10,16| bishop is betrothed to the Church, as the Apostle Paul speaks 1393 10,16| relation to the Corinthian Church (2 Cor 11:2). This bond 1394 10,16| exclusive and single. When a Church or group of Christians is 1395 10,16| understood in the ancient Church that the occupation of two 1396 10,16| bishop's union with the Church and his diocese is completely 1397 10,16| for a bridegroom of the Church. This attitude of the Church 1398 10,16| Church. This attitude of the Church was given formal definition 1399 10,16| fourth century gave the Church many great bishops on the 1400 10,16| rank is the highest in the Church, all the more must a bishop' 1401 10,16| total service to God and Church in body and soul. This consciousness 1402 10,16| regarded as naturally basic to Church order.~ The same bishop 1403 10,16| Tradition preserved by the Church from ancient times. Other 1404 10,16| greatest luminaries of the Church.~ Writing of the bishop' 1405 10,16| bishop's position in the Church, St. Dositheus, Patriarch 1406 10,16| is so necessary for the Church that without him neither 1407 10,16| without him neither the Church nor the name Christian could 1408 10,16| the Catholic [Universal] Church, through which we obtain 1409 10,16| the early Fathers of the Church, and who was beheaded in 1410 10,16| bishop, they are not in the Church.” This comment refers to 1411 10,16| is made manifest in His Church through the ministry of 1412 10,16| one is cut off from the Church.~ The bishop's dignity that 1413 10,16| when other members of the Church (priests or laymen) act 1414 10,16| Eucharist in the primitive Church. However, presbyters (priests, 1415 10,16| blessing, all the Mysteries and Church services, save that of the 1416 10,16| that priests performed the Church's sacred rites (James 5: 1417 10,16| and also that in the early Church there could be several priests 1418 10,16| churches in his diocese. No church can be built without his 1419 10,16| bless chrism. In the early Church, as the number of converts 1420 10,16| lay hands upon each. The Church therefore began to bless 1421 10,16| the way back to the early Church.~ In addition to the special 1422 10,16| apparent in the Apostolic Church where, not only was there 1423 10,16| occasion throughout the Church's history. They were especially 1424 10,16| bishop's position in the Church with the reminder that even 1425 10,16| fundamentally that of the Church, he is not to be thought 1426 10,16| someone set up over the Church. Instead, a bishop is in 1427 10,16| Instead, a bishop is in the Church as one of its members, and 1428 10,16| of an office within the Church. Pastor and flock are united 1429 10,16| Cyprian states in brief: “The Church is the people united to 1430 10,16| shepherd. The bishop is in the Church and the Church is in the 1431 10,16| is in the Church and the Church is in the bishop.”~ Lastly, 1432 10,16| eliminate the human. While the Church as a whole is infallible, 1433 10,16| Regarding the affairs of the Church, in the words of the Savior, 1434 10,17| power over the rest. The Church has never been monarchical, 1435 10,18| is the very body of the Church, that is, the people itself.~ ~ 1436 10,18| the whole people of the Church, which is the Body of Christ.~ ~ 1437 10,19| position of the laity in the Church?~ The Holy Spirit's gifts 1438 10,19| decision of the Orthodox Church is never imposed from above, 1439 10,20| also members of Christ's Church, just as we are, and a man' 1440 10,20| men.” Thus the Orthodox Church teaches, and thus it is 1441 10,20| Savior, as children of His Church.~ ~Commemoration of the 1442 10,20| Commemoration of the dead and Church prayers for them are a primordial, 1443 10,20| Apostolic Tradition of the Church, preserved wholly in her 1444 10,20| catechumens who had entered the Church in his time, wrote apropos 1445 10,20| time, wrote apropos of the Church's commemoration of the dead 1446 10,20| departed in God and in His Church. Whether alive or dead, 1447 10,20| departed members of the Church continue to live after death, 1448 10,20| the part of the pilgrim Church on earth does not stop. “ 1449 10,20| remission of their sins.~ The Church Militant prays for its members 1450 10,20| those who are alive, the Church follows the words of the 1451 10,20| existed in the Old Testament Church. In the days of the pious 1452 10,20| hell by the prayers of the Church and by the powers of the 1453 10,20| Bloodless Sacrifice that the Church offers for the departed.~ 1454 10,20| Liturgies of the Christian Church — both East and Westtestify 1455 10,20| and Westtestify to the Church's remembrance in prayer 1456 10,20| Fathers and teachers of the Church speak of the same thing.~ 1457 10,20| of the same thing.~ The Church intercedes for the dead 1458 10,21| provenance by the Orthodox Church, but it is never used by 1459 10,21| saints has waned in the Latin Church, the communion of saints 1460 10,21| saints as members of the Church that have been redeemed 1461 10,21| communion with the Heavenly Church, with the Theotokos, the 1462 10,21| was present in the ancient Church, yet Protestantism shuns 1463 10,21| what the ancient Christian Church's understanding was of the 1464 10,21| certain Christians that the Church glorifies and lists in the 1465 10,21| is an expression of the Church's conscience, takes place 1466 10,21| self-sacrificing service to the Church, or by the gift of healing, 1467 10,21| remembered in prayers. The Church cannot do otherwise than 1468 10,21| give way to other forms of Church communion with him — sc., 1469 10,21| Christ” (1 Jn 1:3). In the Church, this fellowship with the 1470 10,21| raising up prayers for the Church on earth. He states: “And 1471 10,21| general assembly of the Church of the firstborn, which 1472 10,21| between Christians in the Church Militant and those in the 1473 10,21| and those in the heavenly Church.~ Sacred Scripture gives 1474 10,21| earliest times, the Orthodox Church has held the teaching of 1475 10,21| explaining the Liturgy of the Church of Jerusalem, St. Cyril 1476 10,21| Fathers and teachers of the Church, especially from the fourth 1477 10,21| numerous testimonies about the Church's veneration of the saints. 1478 10,22| between all the members of the Church: all are tied together by 1479 10,22| all the members of the Church, both the living and the 1480 10,22| same Body of Christ, the Church. Members of a body help 1481 10,22| from the members of the Church Militant, and they receive 1482 10,22| intercession of the saints, the Church ends its every service with 1483 10,23| Tradition of the Holy Orthodox Church, which have remained unchanged 1484 10,23| The Theotokos, the Holy Church teaches, is the supreme 1485 10,23| antiquity the Christian Church has always confessed Christ “ 1486 10,23| This dogma entered into the Church's Creed, Fr. Michael explains, 1487 10,23| Theotokos is preserved in the Church's Sacred Apostolic Tradition. 1488 10,25| severed itself from Christ's Church in 1054. One view is held 1489 10,25| maintained by the Roman Catholic Church.~ The Protestant Reformers 1490 10,25| Rome left the Apostolic Church in the eleventh century, 1491 10,25| God. Although the Latin Church has not yet proclaimed such 1492 10,25| rejects the Roman Catholic Church's false doctrine that Mary 1493 10,25| satisfied with what the Church has held since the time 1494 10,25| the matter of the Latin Church's dogma of the Immaculate 1495 10,26| invented by the Roman Catholic Church and subsequently proclaimed 1496 10,26| proclaimed a dogma of that Church in 1854. Like all heresies, 1497 10,26| clergy and laity in the Latin Church, which by then had already 1498 10,26| itself off from the Universal Church founded by Christ, thus 1499 10,26| so to speak) of the Latin Church. By no means did all of 1500 10,26| unwavering teaching of the Latin Church, and as a result, he did


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