Showing posts with label othodox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label othodox. Show all posts

Saturday, 8 March 2014

WHAT IS AN ANATHEMA?

Anathamatization of Nestorius at the Third Ecumenical Council. A fresco by Dionsysius. 1502 г.
Rarely does the Rite of Orthodoxy, which is now being performed, take place without censures and reproaches on somebody's part. And no matter how many sermons are given explaining that the Church here acts wisely for the salvation of her children -- still the malcontents just keep repeating their line. Either they do not listen to the sermons, or these sermons do not strike home as regards the latters' perplexities, or perhaps they have formed their own conception of this rite and do not want to abandon it, no matter what you tell them.