| | Here's something I thought was worth posting. Joshua, the Western Confucian posted a blog entry titled, "A Baptist Pastor Attends Eastern Orthodox Divine Liturgy". I found some of the quotations to be quite funny:
"Pews? We don’t need no stinking pews! Providing seats for worshipers is SO 14th century."
“You don’t know what Theotokos means? Get a book and read about it. You have a hard time standing for 2 hours? Do some sit ups and get yourself into worship shape. It is the Lord our God we worship here, mortal. What made you think you could worship the Eternal One without pain?"
Interesting point :)
-=On another note=-
I have decided that I won't return to the SSPX chapel any time soon. I went there roughly 2 weeks ago, and I knew I had to stop going there. Nearly every time I've gone, I've felt out of place, and the last time I went, I knew why. My girlfriend came with me, and she didn't know where she had to kneel on the communion rail, so she kneels at the 'wrong' spot apparently. Afterwards, a woman came up to her and told her, "You made us confused by kneeling at the wrong spot" and then went away. Keep in mind, this happened DURING the Mass, not after the Mass. The woman could have easily approached her more graciously after mass by saying, "Instead of kneeling here, please kneel over there"
Fr. Onoda probably didn't care (or perhaps didn't notice), but among the parishioners, it seems there is more emphasis on liturgical perfection than there is on worship. Too extreme for me. And there seems to be way too much about "Archbishop Lefebvre said this", or "Archbishop Lefebvre said that". Aren't there other archbishops that have said encouraging things? It really seems like a cult as they talk about the same particular issues over and over (i.e. Archbishop Lefebvre, the 3rd secret of Fatima, problems with Vatican II, etc).
One of these days I'll go back to St. Nick's in Seoul. It's been a while since I heard the Divine Liturgy in Korean.
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