LIFE, DEATH RESURRECTION

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LIFE, DEATHRESURRECTION

• IN
• BYZANTINE SPIRITUALITY

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Spirituality of Memorial Services

• Salvation of the Reposed
• Prayers for the Repose
• Salvation of the Bereaved
• Console Comfort those Mourning
• Salvation of the World
• Proclamation of Gods love mercy for all
• Evangelisation

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Byzantine Practice

• At Death we call the Presbyter
• For the Last Rites
• Confession
• Holy Communion
• Office of the Departure of the Soul from the Body

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Requiem Services

• Funeral Service
• Not a Mass
• The Order of Burial
• 1 version for Laity, Deacons, Minor Orders
• 1 version for Bishops Presbyters
• 1 version for monastics
• Parastas
• A Memorial Service
• An abridged version of the Order of Burial
• Panakhyda
• An abridged version of the Parastas
• Just the last section

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Prayer for the Reposed

• A Memorial Service
• Whether a Parastas or a Panakhyda is done
• Immediately after the person has reposed
• On the
• 3d Day
• 9th day
• 40th day
• The Anniversaries
• The semi-anniversaries

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Byzantine Doctrinal Theology

• Both Kataphatic
• But especially Apophatic
• We dont NEED to know everything
• Not everything has to be dogmatically defined to
  the last detail
• What has been revealed to us, this we know
• What has not been revealed, we can live with not
  knowing

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What we know What we Dont

• In the Byzantine Churches
• Very little actual Official Dogma about the After
  life
• What we know for sure
• Basically what is in the Bible
• Cf. old Latin Church dictum re the 4 Last Things
• Death
• Judgment
• Heaven
• Hell

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The Dream of St Macarios a Midrash

• Guardian angel takes the soul
• Present in places of good works
• On the 3d day
• See Heaven
• On the 9th Day
• See Hell
• On the 40th
• The Particular Judgment

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Byz. Midrash After life states

• Heaven
• Paradise
• Hades
• Gehenna
• The Particular Judgment, awaiting
• The Final Judgment
• The 2d and Glorious Coming
• Resurrection and the Kingdom

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• Arent you worshipping Idols?
• Why do they look so Weird?
• What good are they?

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• Arent you worshipping Idols?
• Why do they look so Weird?
• What good are they?

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• Arent you worshipping Idols?
• Why do they look so Weird?
• What good are they?

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• Arent you worshipping Idols?
• Why do they look so Weird?
• What good are they?

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THE THEOTOKOS
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The Gospels in Colour Healing the Soul
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