Fr. Panayiotis answers some of the basic questions that Protestants have when encountering Orthodox Christianity for the first time. In this episode, he discusses why Orthodox Christians receipt the Lord’s Prayer and also whether communion (the Eucharist) is symbolic or not. Please comment, rate, and subscribe for more videos.
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Yes! We need more videos like this. It is a guide to those who are misguided. So many Protestants are becoming ‘non-religious’ because they do not feel that spark in their churches that the Orthodox Church has. Long Live Orthodoxy!
This is a great video! Very informative. I've always wondered about these questions and I'm so glad that Fr. Panayiotis broke it down into bite sized pieces and explained it in a way that the average person could understand. I do have one question: Why do Protestants reject Confession?
1 Corinthians 11:23-32 shows that regardless of what man thinks ; the word of God declares that one is guilty of His (Jesus Christ’s) body and blood if that one partakes unworthily. Hence the opposite is as stated …that if one judge (himself) beforehand, he would not be judged by God. Symbolism plays no part in any of this as far as God is concerned. Symbolism in discerning the body and blood of Jesus lies only (potentially) in the imagination of man.
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The main thing I find with my Protestant friends and family is that it’s that they don’t object to literal Eucharist on the basis of cannibalism, but simply that they can’t understand how the body and blood could be literal, due to the rationalism mentioned here. The idea of the mystery is one that I subscribe too, but many I know have a hard time following it as well. The part of John 6 where Christ speaks literally of his blood as drink and his flesh as food is important, along with it’s significance to the Old Testament practice of animal sacrifice, and the sacrifice of the slaughtering and mandatory consumption of a spotless lamb on Passover every year, that meal being celebrated by Christ and the apostles during the Last Supper. In this case, Christ is the spotless lamb, and thusly in Eucharist we literally consume him. It is a holy mystery. We must be him able and accept that we cannot rationalize everything, though that is not to say we shouldn’t rationalize what we can.
You simply cannot rationalise the beauty of real faith, rich in simplicity. Like in the lovely parable of Jesus pulling a small child from the crowd, and saying that unless we become like one of these we cannot enter the Kingdom of heaven. Purity, simplicity and trust are surely the right way to approach God.
Thank you so much for putting all this across so beautifully, as ever, it all makes so much more sense now. God bless!
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John Wesley was a very smart man. He knew the Consecration could only come through the Apostolic succession of the Catholic/Orthodox church. So the Methodist church has always had pieces of bread and grape juice. The ministry of Wesley and Whitefield and Methodist circuit riders was not intended to rival those Churches, but to attract the very poor, alcoholic, beaten down part of the British public, who had zero use for any church and could afford the shoes to attend anyway. In Ireland many Catholics attended the outdoor sermons and also went to Mass.
The Catholic and Anglican churches simply lacked the balls to evangelize in those places. They still like urban areas with middle class people…same as Orthodox.