Reply With QuoteHahaha, I'm glad I proved you right.Originally Posted by Piirka
I told you folks those austrians were nuts...
Damn! Not again!
How have you been mate?
Hi Custodes,
The orthodox don't have orders. There is only a 'division' in how a monastic chooses to live, within set precepts, but they all have the same manner of both practice and outlook.
1- the hermits (direct inheritors of the anchorite tradition, such as St Anthony), who live in complete isolation, except if they converge for liturgy (ie mass), or, if they take on an acolyte who will follow in their footsteps.
2- the 'idiorrythmics', who are neither hermits nor classic monks who live in a cloister. They tend to live in comfort, and some even in luxury, and are kind of looked upon with some disdain. These are becoming less common.
3- the 'cenobotics', the classic monastic, who lives in the monastery with the other monastics and are led by the abbot.
I've not come across the Kiev story you have related, but I have read of accounts where some monastics were almost insane (if not indeed insane) in their practices. The liturgical texts that I mentioned, we're usually, if I recall correctly, mainly martyrs. The τελειούται that I mentioned, more often than not, usually refers to a martyrdom, ie. execution. For example, there are references with that word in connection with swords; and s/he was put to the sword.
But, I'm intrigued now with what you wrote, I'll search for it to read up on it. Thanks!
Hahaha, I'm glad I proved you right.
Damn! Not again!
How have you been mate?
And you just admitted you had been a geek before that.Hahaha, I'm glad I proved you right.
Damn! Not again!
How have you been mate?
All is fine, we have our second summer month here until winter again settles in. About time to fetch the skis from the storage again.
Hahaha, yeah I'm all over the place
Mmmm, summer. I'm so over winter. Been a long and cold one. Friggin health problems. You'd have nice, sweet summers up north, yeah?
Our summer is like your winter, so quit grizzling, ya ding bat.
Far out, I thought your summers were full of bloom and evergreen tree,Our summer is like your winter, so quit grizzling, ya ding bat.
of butterfly and sparrow,
of cricket and bee,
of sweet sun and nekkid women,
Wandering gaily, about the beach.
I'm disappoint.
(wtf, did I just write that???)
Hey, what happened to Stoltenberg? I just noticed
You forgot to put in the mandatory "no homo"-declaration after that...Far out, I thought your summers were full of bloom and evergreen tree,
of butterfly and sparrow,
of cricket and bee,
of sweet sun and nekkid women,
Wandering gaily, about the beach.
I'm disappoint.
(wtf, did I just write that???)
Hey, what happened to Stoltenberg? I just noticed
Stoltenberg? Has somebody met the ban hammer again?
Finnish beach yesterday:
You forgot to put in the mandatory "no homo"-declaration after that...
Stoltenberg? Has somebody met the ban hammer again?
Finnish beach yesterday:
That goes without saying
Your old avatar, wasn't his name Stoltenberg? the cleaner who got to sit in that meeting.
Why have they covered themselves in tar?
Oh, him. I felt like having a change and bumped on this silly duck picture.
Robert Stoltenberg as Piirka...
The tar is for repelling the insects and protecting from uv-radiation.
Good morning.
You Finns are weird.
The tar is for repelling the insects and protecting from uv-radiation.
Time to open one of these.
Your weekend started already ?
Also, karhu is not a good beer.
Yeah... Let me guess, you drink reindeer piss? KARHU.IS.GOOD.BEER!
Nah, actually I prefer Sandels.
Disappointingly, I have nothing bad to say about that...
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