tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post601745202547969074..comments2024-02-02T19:30:12.868-06:00Comments on Fear Not Little Flock: 1st & 2nd Antiphons- The Divine Liturgy of St John Chyrsostompriest's wife - S.T./ Anne Boyd http://www.blogger.com/profile/03792937108732259684noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-36498918017510576722011-10-14T12:48:59.414-05:002011-10-14T12:48:59.414-05:00I agree with anonymous, Alice and Priest's Wif...I agree with anonymous, Alice and Priest's Wife. Thanks for your blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-21893060595614443762011-10-12T10:12:17.003-05:002011-10-12T10:12:17.003-05:00I don't think that the spirituality you descri...I don't think that the spirituality you describe is exclusively Byzantine. Often Westerners seem to be inoculated against seeing it in their own tradition, but is certainly there. The whole theology of the Mass is about the paradox of re-presenting the sacrifice of the One who has died and has been raised so that death no longer has power over Him. <br /><br />Certainly Christmas in the West has traditionally mixed elements of joy and sorrow. In German lands, where the Advent wreath began, it has red berries to symbolize the Blood shed to bring about eternal life (symbolized by the shape of the wreath and the ever-green branches). In England sprigs of holly have a similar meaning (think of the "Holly and the Ivy" carol). Baby Jesus in the Nativity scene has His little arms spread out to form a cross. These folk traditions echo the liturgical tradition in which death and life are intertwined through the Scripture passages and through the traditional commemoration of the martyr St. Anastasia during the Mass at Dawn. Death, bloody death, is never far away from the thought of the Christian celebrating the Incarnation.Alicenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-35174188256915397692011-10-12T09:57:24.258-05:002011-10-12T09:57:24.258-05:00I can't wait to hear their folk song. Maybe p...I can't wait to hear their folk song. Maybe priest's wife could break from tradition and upload a video and give us a peek into your world? I like the seamlessness between death and life-- beautiful. -FAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com