Comments on: ebed melech - the “King’s Servant” http://byzantineevangelization.com/2006-0512/ebed-melech-the-kings-servant/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:45:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Hunter Hutchinson http://byzantineevangelization.com/2006-0512/ebed-melech-the-kings-servant/#comment-3312 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:52:42 +0000 http://byzantineevangelization.com/2006-0512/ebed-melech-the-kings-servant/#comment-3312 I have attended divine liturgy in only one Eastern Rite Church, a Greek-Melekite Catholic chruch, where the congregation was mostly Christian Arabs, and many of the prayers were in Arabic. Hoowever, I felt the service more personally than I have in the Roman Rite. I would love to attend Eastern Rite liturgy more often, but my wife, who is Colombian, and is a dyed-in-the-wool Roman Rite Catholic objects to the fact that part of the liturgy is done behind the iconostasis, especially the mystery of the consecration of the eucharist. My wife says the likes having the priest face the faithful as the eucharist is consecrated. I actually prefer the "mystery" of the consecration behind the iconostasis I have attended divine liturgy in only one Eastern Rite Church, a Greek-Melekite Catholic chruch, where the congregation was mostly Christian Arabs, and many of the prayers were in Arabic. Hoowever, I felt the service more personally than I have in the Roman Rite. I would love to attend Eastern Rite liturgy more often, but my wife, who is Colombian, and is a dyed-in-the-wool Roman Rite Catholic objects to the fact that part of the liturgy is done behind the iconostasis, especially the mystery of the consecration of the eucharist. My wife says the likes having the priest face the faithful as the eucharist is consecrated. I actually prefer the “mystery” of the consecration behind the iconostasis

]]> by: Carson http://byzantineevangelization.com/2006-0512/ebed-melech-the-kings-servant/#comment-77 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:27:34 +0000 http://byzantineevangelization.com/2006-0512/ebed-melech-the-kings-servant/#comment-77 Gordo, Thank you for this testimony. It shows how the books and devotions transformed your life but it also shows how a living testimony can help transform the lives of others. CDL Gordo,

Thank you for this testimony. It shows how the books and devotions transformed your life but it also shows how a living testimony can help transform the lives of others.

CDL

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