[nuabuncarnigo]

I just wanted to comment that I was graetly scandalised by the following website:

http://www.bereanbeacon.org/eastern_orthodoxy.php

(which is catholic) but in particular the following article that is contained on that site ...

http://www.bereanbeacon.org/eastern_...Scriptures.pdf

Does anyone know the history of the author of this article?

Vasiliki

[Alina20100]

Don't be scandalised: just ignore such things. There are many about. Reading them may be useful to certain people who are called to combat such movements within various places; but unless this is the task to which you are called, reading such propaganda will only become a temptation. It is not worth seeking to know the hows and whos and wheres of the people involved. If one wishes to be led astray, one will be.

Peace!

Christ is risen,
Fr Irenei

[MightyMasd]

The one paragraph i read says the author was a priest of the Ukranian autonomous orthodox church, sounds like a vagante uncanonical jurisdiction to me. I wouldnt worry about protestants. America is a kind of homebase for them and i can tell you that there incompetent and in disarray. I had a co-worker who was a penetecostal and theological student at a protestant seminary, he realized that my Orthodox understanding of scripture was enlightening, (and not what he was falsely told), so he began begging me to open up a church with him. I told him i already have one. I can honestly tell you that i dont know why any protestant remains christian, its so bland and superficial.

[KignPeeseeamn]

Vasiliki, the document in the second link you provided is stuffed full of so many liturgical and doctrinal errors, it would take days to point them out and analyse them. I suspect that this "priest" was never an Orthodox priest to begin with, given much of what he has to say, or, he was particularly deficiently educated in his priestly duties.

Here are but a couple of examples:
The reading of the Scriptures was restricted, and is still restricted, to the reading of specific passages during the worship service in the Church. There are 11 such readings. To these are added readings on the theme of various holidays. These readings are chosen from the Gospels and Epistles of the Apostles and mostly from the epistles of the Apostle Paul. It is very rare to hear readings from Peter or John, and other epistles are never read, as if they never existed. Eleven readings? He may be referring to the Resurrectional Gospels which are read in sequence at Saturday Evening Matins. It is well-known that the yearly cycle of daily NT scripture readings will cover practically the whole of the NT.

It is interesting to recall one other event from the reading of the parts of the Holy Scriptures, mainly the Psalms. It is true that several Psalms are read during various services: “Hours”, “Sixth Psalm”, and others. But these are only selected psalms, and
always the same. The other psalms remain unknown to church members. Incorrect. At every Matins service, there are three psalms appointed for each day of the week, known as kathismata, which are chanted following "God is the Lord" and the daily or festal troparion. In addition, other psalms, often in groups of six, are a permanent part of Matins, and the various Hours services, as well as Compline. Psalm 50 is also sung in its entirely at Matins after the Gospel, and other sections of Matins, when conducted in their full form, also include the reading of entire psalms. Parish abbreviations usually result in a few verses of these being sung.

In short, this article is simply a propaganda piece by sola scriptura apologists. Don't waste your time on it.

[kazinopartnerkae]

Yes- a rapid read through of the article calls into question whether this person was actually ever an Orthodox priest. There are certainly enough basic mistakes in understanding.

In Christ- Fr Raphael