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Orientalium ecclesiarum No. 17 – Text and Footnotes
Orientalium ecclesiarum or the Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches of November 21, 1964 presents the diaconate in a somewhat different perspective than Lumen gentium No 29. The reader is asked...
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Diaconal ecclesiastical dress:West & East
By:Protodeacon David Kennedy Since there is often considerable confusion in regards to what diaconal ecclesiastical dress is to be, especially in regards to "permanent" deacons, the following is...
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Orientalium ecclesiarum No 17 Commentary Part I
By: Protodeacon David Kennedy Section 17 of Orientalium ecclesiarum, (November 21, 1964) can be outlined in the following manner: There is a “desire or a wish” on the part of the holy council/synod...
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Orientalium ecclesiarum No. 17. Commentary Part II
By: Protodeacon David Kennedy (The Little Entrance, Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, NY. Source: Eastern American Diocese of ROCOR) The primary rational that Orientalium ecclesiarum...
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Orientalium ecclesiarum No. 17 Commentary Part III
By: Protodeacon David Kennedy (2) Synod of Neocaesarea, canon 12, AD 314-325 "If any one be baptized when he is ill, forasmuch as...
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A reader asks about the subdiaconate...?
A reader asked: Is it possible for a Latin Catholic to become a subdeacon according the Eastern rite to serve the liturgy in a monastery?By: Protodeacon David Kennedy His Grace Bishop Benedict is being...
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Orientalium ecclesiarum No. 17. Commentary Part IV
By: Protodeacon David Kennedy (3) Synod of Sardica, canon 8, AD 343 “Greek: Bishop Hosius said: This also let your...
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The Diaconate in the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Second Vatican Council
By: Protodeacon David Kennedy Part 1(What follows below is the first part of a paper delivered Oct 18, 2014 at the University of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto. This international...
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The Diaconate in the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Second Vatican Council...
By: Protodeacon David Kennedy(St. Lawrence, Archdeacon of Rome)Part B.1: What did Vatican II change?I would like to compare Orientalium ecclesiarum 17, with Lumen gentium 29.What does O. e. 17 say? In...
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The Diaconate in the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Second Vatican...
By: Protodeacon David Kennedy(Christ enthroned on the Theotokos, Agia Sophia, Constantinople)Part B.2 Lumen Gentium 29 At a lower level of the hierarchy are to be found deacons, who receive the...
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The Diaconate in the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Second Vatican...
By: Protodeacon David Kennedy(Protodeacon Vladimir Nazarkin, Photo: Moscow Patriarchate)Part C: Instruction for Applying the Liturgical Prescriptions of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. 6...
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Orientalium ecclesiarum No. 17. Commentary Part VII
By: Protodeacon David KennedyFourth Council of Constantinople — 869-870 Canon 23 No bishop may dispose of the property of other churches, and no cleric may celebrate the sacred mysteries in a church...
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Eschatological Actions
By: Protodeacon David KennedyI have been asked to address a few questions that at least indirectly are related to the physical movements of deacons, subdeacons and altar-servers as well as that of the...
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Orientalium ecclesiarum No. 17. Commentary Part VIII
By: Protodeacon David KennedyThis is the last reference to Footnote 21.Fourth Council of Constantinople — 869-870, Canon 26 A cleric who has been deposed or suffered an injustice at the hands of his...
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Permanent Diaconate — Terminology?
By: Protodeacon David Kennedy(Priest, bishop and deacon: Raganaldus Sacramentary, c. 845.) Language very much not only conveys meaning but it shapes meaning. It has the power to form how the...
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Diaconate: October 2017 Conference
Renewing the Male and Female Diaconate in the Orthodox ChurchOctober 6 & 7, 2017 Irvine, CaliforniaA Pan-Orthodox ConferenceThis conference will examine the theology, history, and purpose of the...
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Eastern Catholic Deacon Congress
I cannot say how delighted I was to discover that this September 20-22, in Scranton, PA there will be a conference on the diaconate in the Eastern Catholic Churches. For anyone interested in the...
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Orientalium ecclesiarum No. 17. Commentary Part VIII
By: Protodeacon David KennedyThis is the last reference to Footnote 21.Fourth Council of Constantinople — 869-870, Canon 26 A cleric who has been deposed or suffered an injustice at the hands of his...
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Permanent Diaconate — Terminology?
By: Protodeacon David Kennedy(Priest, bishop and deacon: Raganaldus Sacramentary, c. 845.) Language very much not only conveys meaning but it shapes meaning. It has the power to form how the...
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Diaconate: October 2017 Conference
Renewing the Male and Female Diaconate in the Orthodox ChurchOctober 6 & 7, 2017 Irvine, CaliforniaA Pan-Orthodox ConferenceThis conference will examine the theology, history, and purpose of the...
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