The Sacredness of Water.avi

Sermon at the Blessing of the Water on Theophany..

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[allsaintsmonastery]

@HKragh That is a valid question, and a solid one. But, as you say, this is not the place to discuss it. I certainly would not argue about it or try to "talk it away." It is there, and cannot be denied.

[allsaintsmonastery]

@HKragh Actually, I agree that the use of modern,spoken English would be much better. In the parishes it is almost always used. Here in the Monastery we did not bother to change it, and the chanting is slower because it is a monastery. Ironically, the new arrivals from Eastern Europe find it easier, for one reason: in older English one can still use the familar, rather than having only the formal plural "You." and the structure of older English is more like other languages.

[HKragh]

@allsaintsmonastery Well, if he didn't want hatred to be preached in his name, he could have left it out of his book. Because it's there. Unless you want to ignore those parts...

Anyways, this is not the time for such a debate.

[allsaintsmonastery]

@HKragh Good thing God knows all this before we even say it. If I were the Creator and had to hear Protestants howling and shrieking at me, preaching hate in my name and behaving like they were at a rock festival, I would create a heavenly aspirin to take.

[HKragh]

@neildingman If you imagine the universe as a 3 dimensional grid, and each cell in this grid is growing at a speed below the speed of light, grid cells far apart will in fact move away from each other by speeds above the speed of light, even though no object itself is moving above the speed limit.

[allsaintsmonastery]

@neildingman Reality is strange. Perhaps the speed has reached that velocity.

[neildingman]

@allsaintsmonastery Yes, I thought the universe was traveling at a base speed. But recently, I've heard and read the universe is expanding greater than the speed of light. I don't understand it but I saw it on Nova.

[allsaintsmonastery]

@adrenacrumb It is entirely possible that God does not agree with you about that. The elements of life and the ability for life to commence exist throughout the entire universe. The one necessary thing that may be missing is liquid water. Water exists throughout the known universe also, but not in liq. form.

[allsaintsmonastery]

@davidperi Descent of the Holy Spirit is what is being said.

[HKragh]

If you are speaking to the creator of the universe, the most intelligent being in existance, why do you speak so strangely? Why not just say stuff, instead of singing in strange notes? Does he/she understand this better? Do you enjoy it more? What is the reason for not just speaking in plain english to the guy?