Romanian Byzantine Chant-St Gregory Palamas-Stihovana

Saint Gregory Palamas (Γρηγόριος Παλαμάς) (1296 - 1359) was a monk of Mount Athos in Greece and later the Archbishop of Thessalonica known as a preeminent theologian of Hesychasm. He is venerated as a Saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, as well as the Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic Churches. Some of his writings are collected in the Philokalia. The second Sunday of the Great Lent is called the Sunday of Gregory Palamas in those Churches that commemorate him according to the Byzantine Rite. He also has a feast day on November 14.

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[doxapatriqueio]

Dau slava lui Dumnezeu pentru aceasta bucurie duhovniceasca.

[Ioann988]

"Do not be attracted to the Latin faith, nor adopt their traditions, avoid their pleasantries and every dogma of theirs and abominate their habits and keep your daughters from marrying them, nor marry their women, nor fraternize or embrace or bow to them, do not eat with them nor drink from common implements, nor accept their food

[OEfstratios]

doxa si kyrie doxa si!

Glory to you o lord glory to you!

[poopsix]

@Ioann988 Do you not know the difference between that and praising the huge commonalities between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches?

Also, that's dumb. All the honest Orthodox know that the Latin Church is a real Church with sacraments and a Patriarch and everything, and that the separation is largely political.

[poopsix]

@ITSbigwillystyle What? Aramaic is the true language, as that is what would have been spoken by Peter, first Pope of Rome. The Church also did liturgies in Greek in the beginning (both in Rome and in the East) as that's what the people spoke.

[7vulcan7]

Never is the power of the Great Satan more evident than in the fracturing of the Katholikos, and the estrangement of the members of the body of Christ. The Church in the West and The Church in the East are one Church. Athenagorus Patriarch of Constantinople and Paul IV Patriarch of Rome lifted the mutual excommunication over 40 years ago. When will you make an end of doing Satan's work by keeping Christians apart?

[ITSbigwillystyle]

I believe this is the closest example of what catholiscism was first spoken in, because Romanian is the closest language to that of Roman, which is the birthplace of Catholicism.

[Ioann988]

...... It is not fitting, my child, to praise the other's faith. If somebody praises someone else's faith, he blasphemes his own. If however he praises both, his and someone else's, he thus becomes bi-faithful and comes close to heresy."

[Ioann988]

The uniates should heed the instructions of St Theodosius - the father of 'slavic' monasticism. They claim to venerate him as a uniate saint! But he wrote:

[Ioann988]

Truly, if the uniates come even a little close to some aspects of Orthodoxy (i.e. externally or using orthodox theological terms etc), they remain utterly removed from Orthodox ecclesiology and the fact that they must be recieved into the Body of Chirst - the Orthodox Church and that if they want to be fully Orthodox, they should know that it is only in the Orthodox Church that true baptism and sacraments are to be found.

[Ioann988]

Yes, this is very true, I was in the uniate church before being baptised Orthodox. The unia is a very sad work of the evil one - a work that estranges many people who think they are Orthodox when in fact they are estranged from Orthodoxy; and due to the lie of the Unia (i.e. that one can be Catholic and Orthodox at the same time), may never recieve the great gift of Orthodox Baptism and the saving grace of her Holy Mysteries (sacraments)