Meaning of Holy Relics

Meleti: the meaning of the veneration of holy relics.

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[40chrisk]

If you study the face of Christ Panocrator on the Ikon from St. Catherines, and the Face of the shroud, it is identical. Even down to the dark under the eyes and the eyebrows. They have used computers with the two images and they match perfectly. Sombody copied somebody. I heard this Ikon came from Constantinople to the monks.

[allsaintsmonastery]

@40chrisk In fact, I don't really care about the details of the debates on the Shroud. If it helps to prop up some people's faith, good for it.

[40chrisk]

Robots, you know what Frank Herbert of "Dune" did

[allsaintsmonastery]

@40chrisk Interestingly, at our last Meleti, someone asked me about artificial intelligence and whether we could have robot priests. Artificial inteligence exists already, in Parliament, where most of the intelligence is artificial. Robot priests could be just as warm, loving and caring as some of our present priests are.

[MrVirtualCoder]

May the LORD bless you.

[ioannismiami]

Vladyka, would you say more about what it meant to the faithful during the totalitarian Communist rule of Soviet-block nations to protect holy relics from seizure and destruction?

[allsaintsmonastery]

@40chrisk Correct. The nails would also not have been through the middle of the feet either. It would have been interesting to have seen the dozen or so shrouds of Jesus that were on display in the mediaeval era.

[40chrisk]

Agreed, those debates are not important to a living faith in Christ and being an example of an true Orthodox . I had just always wondered how we know what Jesus looked like.

[40chrisk]

@allsaintsmonastery Read all of Christ's belonging were kept at Constanople including his "shourd" which western knights reported seeing venerated at constantinope. What happened to this stuff? Templers steal it, Seracens destroy it?

[neildingman]

Just realized things were missing from my earlier comments, I apologize for my incoherence on the comments section. My internet connection and daily activity caused me to be careless, sorry.

[40chrisk]

@allsaintsmonastery Who ever faked it was a real genius! Nails through the wrists hitting the radial nerve making the thumbs snap in. That is a real somatic reaction to injury. And that would be the best place to have put the nails, unless you were also going to tie the hand with rope. Nails would have riped through a man's hands when bodyweight is there. How could a western man of that time frame(12-13 cent) have know this, unless they did it to some one? There are questions??