<div>Or, as the Catholics would say, only in extremis?</div>
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<div>I buy that.<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:11 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brunians@brunians.org">brunians@brunians.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Orthodox Christians may not take the sacrament from Catholic priests<br>unless they really need it and there are no Orthodox priests around.<br>
<br>This I have from an orthodox priest.<br><br><br>.<br>
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<div class="h5"><br><br>> For the record, Orthodox Christians are told not to take the Sacrament<br>> from<br>> Catholic priests, and it is my impression, at the least, that the Orthodox<br>> do not offer the Eucharist to Catholics.<br>
><br>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 1:28 PM, <<a href="mailto:brunians@brunians.org">brunians@brunians.org</a>> wrote:<br>><br>>> > The question is, then, whether the Orthodox or the Catholic are<br>>> orthodox<br>
>> > as regards the _filioque_ clause.<br>>><br>>> That part's pretty minor. They can take sacrament from each other's<br>>> priests, in an emergency. The Anglicans are also reasonably close: they<br>
>> should be considered something other than Protestant if you ask me.<br>>><br>>> It's not like slicing and the dicing and the mixing and the matching of<br>>> the theology that Martin and John and their ilk indulged in.<br>
>><br>>> > (Will the filioque clause be coming down your chimney this Christmas?<br>>><br>>> I'll be enjoying a nice drive on Christmas.<br>>><br>>> > Have you been a good brunian or a bad brunian?)<br>
>><br>>> I'll do until something better comes along.<br>>><br>>><br>>> .<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>> > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:07 AM, <<a href="mailto:brunians@brunians.org">brunians@brunians.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> The original group is the orthodox group: there was no one before<br>>> them,<br>>> >> they get to say what is orthodox. Any deviation from what that<br>>> original<br>>> >> group says is therefore, by definition, heterodox.<br>
>> >><br>>> >> QED.<br>>> >><br>>> >><br>>> >> .<br>>> >><br>>> >>>>>>> Orthodox Christianity (including Catholicism) is Christianity.<br>
>> The<br>>> >>>>>>> forms<br>>> >>>>>>> of Protestantism are Christianity with various bits sliced off.<br>>> >>>>><br>>> >>>>>>> Well, EXCUUUUUUUSE me! Martin Luther, John Calvin and their<br>
>> >>>>>>> followers<br>>> >>>>>>> would beg to differ.<br>>> >>>>><br>>> >>>>>> Heretics all.<br>>> >>>>><br>
>> >>>>> ....And so Josh got the Christmas party started at the Urth List.<br>>> >>><br>>> >>>> Bah! Humbug!<br>>> >>><br>>> >>> Now you sound like a Puritan.<br>
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