Included in the wider Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canon beyond the Trent-era Roman Catholic deuterocanon, affirmed at the Synod of Jerusalem, 1672.
Source The Confession of Dositheus (Synod of Jerusalem, 1672)Synod of Jerusalemthe holders' own account
Included in the wider Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canon beyond the Trent-era Roman Catholic deuterocanon, affirmed at the Synod of Jerusalem, 1672.
Source The Confession of Dositheus (Synod of Jerusalem, 1672)Synod of Jerusalemthe holders' own account
Source The Confession of Dositheus (Synod of Jerusalem, 1672)Synod of Jerusalemthe holders' own account
Source The Confession of Dositheus (Synod of Jerusalem, 1672)Synod of Jerusalemthe holders' own account
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church. Almsgiving is bound closely to the fasting seasons, what is not spent on food being given away.
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church. Holy Unction is one of the seven mysteries and is administered to the living faithful in general, most publicly on Holy Wednesday, and not to the dying alone.
Theology proceeds by denial as well as by affirmation, and the denials operate on the affirmations rather than cancelling them. The order is inherited from the Cappadocians and from Pseudo-Dionysius.
Source Byzantine Theology: Historical Trends and Doctrinal ThemesJohn Meyendorff
The episcopate is held to run in unbroken succession from the apostles, and it is the bishop rather than the see that carries it. This is the ground on which this church recognises its own orders and those of the other Orthodox churches.
Source The Orthodox ChurchTimothy Ware (Kallistos Ware)
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church. Baptism is by threefold immersion, and is followed immediately by chrismation and communion in the same service.
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church. Baptism, chrismation and first communion are given together in one rite, so the baptismal life begins in infancy and is not deferred to an age of discretion.
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source The Confession of Dositheus (Synod of Jerusalem, 1672)Synod of Jerusalemthe holders' own account
Source The Confession of Dositheus (Synod of Jerusalem, 1672)Synod of Jerusalemthe holders' own account
Source The Confession of Dositheus (Synod of Jerusalem, 1672)Synod of Jerusalemthe holders' own account
Source The Confession of Dositheus (Synod of Jerusalem, 1672)Synod of Jerusalemthe holders' own account
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church. Orthodoxy ordains married men to the priesthood but requires that bishops be monks, so celibacy shapes the episcopate rather than the parish; Mount Athos remains the tradition's monastic centre.
Source The Definition of Faith of the Council of ChalcedonCouncil of Chalcedonthe holders' own account
Kept on January 7 of the civil calendar, the Serbian Church retaining the Julian reckoning, and preceded by the Badnje vece cutting of the badnjak on the eve.
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church. The churching of a mother and the presentation of a child on the fortieth day is kept as a living rite here, not as a survival.
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church. The Orthodox confess standing beside the priest before an icon rather than through a grille, the priest understood as a witness rather than a judge, and confession is ordinarily expected before receiving communion.
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church. Chrismation is given with baptism, in infancy, by a presbyter using chrism consecrated by a bishop. The rite completes initiation here rather than following it years later.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Source Mokranjac Divine Liturgy (Wikipedia and Project Mokranjac)Wikipedia contributors and Project Mokranjac
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church. Prayers of exorcism are read over every candidate as a fixed part of the baptismal service, before the renunciation and the anointing.
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church. Orthodox fasting means abstinence rather than hunger: no meat, dairy, eggs, fish with backbones, wine or oil on the strictest days, kept through Great Lent and three further fasting seasons and on most Wednesdays and Fridays, which is roughly half the year.
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church. The washing of feet is performed on Holy Thursday by a bishop, the Niptir, in the cathedral and in the great monasteries.
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church. The funeral service, the Panikhida and the memorial services on the third, ninth and fortieth days form one continuous set of offices for the dead.
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church.
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