Essay about Saint Haralambos Orthodox Greek Church

When many think of the early Church, they think of a perfectly uniformed group of individuals praising and worshiping together. This, in fact, is not true; the early church was not perfectly unified and had many internal and external conflicts. The apostles preached about Jesus and tried to get followers through talking about his life, death, and resurrection. When the church was starting, many internal questions arose like: Who can hear the gospel? Who was in charge? And what does it mean to be free? Many also were not sure whom to turn to ensure that something was valid within the church. With so much confusion, people turned towards the principle apostolicity, which connected the work and intentions of the apostles and ensured reliability. They used the partnership with the spirit to make decisions.

At the front, there were three Rabbis; two male and one female. This was the first evident sign that this temple was reformed, on the grounds that in Orthodox and some Conservative Judaism, leadership by a female is not permitted. Each of the three rabbis wore the talit, and one of them was the Cantor. He played a guitar and sang a song and the style reminded me of the praise and worship songs we sing at my church. He continued singing as people found seats. The service started with some singing in Hebrew. The lighting of the candles for Shabbat occurred next along with the reading of a blessing. Some more readings and songs followed that. A decent amount of the service was in Hebrew, particularly the singing, however there were also times that English was also spoken. Since the books were in Hebrew, which reads from right to left, the books opened in reverse. This took some getting used to; however, there were English translations. The following segment of the service is what I describe as a parade of the Torah. The Torah,

he Russian Orthodox Church when through many troubles during the Soviet Union Era. When the Tsarist government was overthrown and Bolsheviks took over, the Russian Orthodox Church was without official state backing for the first time in its history. The new Communist government issued a decree that declared freedom of religious and anti-religious propaganda which banned church programs from television and led to a decline in church power and influence.

I learned that in the Catholic community the ceremony is referred to as “Mass”, and before Mass, the Apostle Creed is recited by a volunteer. In addition, the altar had lit candles and sacred images were displayed such as the Virgin Mary and Jesus in the Crucifix. Besides that, I felt out of place amongst the congregation because I didn’t know the process in greeting other members. In a Catholic service the congregation is very active, the members that volunteer have many roles to accomplish before the Priest commences Mass. As the Priest reached the Altar, he kissed it. The Priest had an incense burner and was spreading it all around the Altar; it was my first time that I witnessed this type of sacred

The Greek Orthodox Church is one of the three major branches of Christianity, which "stands in today's society as one of the communities created by the apostles of Jesus in the region of the eastern Mediterranean, and which spread by missionary activity throughout Eastern Europe" .The word orthodox comes from Greek, this means right-believing. Currently, the orthodox religion has more than 174 million followers throughout the world.

There was a podium in the center where they stood to perform their sermons. Behind the pastors was a choir consisting of ten females and a ten year-old boy on the drums. The drummer was extremely talented. The choir performed gospel soul music. This was different compared to the slow Arabic hymns that are played at my catholic church. Both the choir and congregation were involved with the music. Everyone was singing and clapping, it was like being at a party. The music made the service a lot of fun.

This paper will set out to explore the implications of what it means to be liturgical in our current time and space while considering the history of the church. More specifically, I will consider the role of music and how it can aid as well as inhibit a congregation’s worship life. To do such a task I will focus on issues related to cultural specificity, didactic and evangelical effectiveness, and catholicity and confessional faithfulness.

From Chrismation, members are allowed to receive communion. The Holy Eucharist is the most important sacrament according to Greek Orthodox Christianity. Eucharist in Greek means “thanksgiving.” This is because the church celebrates the Life, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Eucharist originates from the Last supper. Jesus told his disciples to continue to eat the bread and wine during service in memory of Him. In Orthodox Christianity the Eucharist is referred to as the Divine Liturgy. It is the center of the meaning for attending church

I’m a Coptic Orthodox and my family try to go to church every sunday. We also sometimes come in Friday and Saturday nights. In Sunday, there is a liturgy, or a mass. In church, people get baptized when they’re a few month old and they take their first communion. In Friday and Saturday we have hymns classes and Choir/Band meetings. In Sunday, we all go to Sunday School after the liturgy. I also pray every day and try to read the bible before I sleep every night.

They went to the church so they could get married. But they had to do a multitude of tasks. These tasks had to demonstrate how the church is growing socially. There were four tasks they had to complete. One they had to demonstrated which socio -economic groups it grew, they had to show the connection to the Jews, they had to demonstrated all the effects of epidemics, and they had to prove the role of women in the church. After these

On March the 6th ,2016, I visited the Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral church in San Francisco. The site is located in a convenient neighborhood one block south Union St at 1530 Green St. This Orthodox Church is the oldest Orthodox parish in town, and it is one of the few parishes in northern California with such a unique shape. The church was designed to show the Russian unique architect, and its outstanding shape connected to Moscow patriarch. Even though it is a small church, but it looks stunning where it’s placed right in the corner with a two sides street view.

When the service started it began with prayer, during the service there were moments of prayer, and the service ended with prayer. Something that I found very entertaining was the form of worship that they used which was singing. They sang a lot of different songs that worshiped God. You could tell who went to church a lot because they knew all the songs by heart. For those like me that didn’t know the songs, the words were projected on to the wall so you could sing along with everyone else. There was also a live band that played the music to sing to. This part of the service was really entertaining to me and I really enjoyed it.

Paul refers to many church leaders as Thessalonica for their hard work in the Lord. He asks that they hold these leaders in the highest regard in love because of their work (Longenecker, R. N. 2002. p. 84). The overseers are those who serves the church as elders, bishops and deacons, “So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ” (Ephesians 4:11-13 NIV). There was no absence of organization in the office of the church.

If you would be forced into the military you would probably not be happy, but what if you grew up knowing you had to serve. This is the life of an average Israeli. Now imagine now that you have a friend and he is more religious than you and because he is religious he does not have to serve at all. You would probably not feel so happy about it. This is the issue that was discussed in Israel earlier last year. Israel is one of the few countries in the world with a mandatory peacetime draft. Every Jewish eighteen year old in Israel must serve in the army. For the longest time though ultra-orthodox were exempt from serving, as they would be studying in yeshivas. The big argument is can you force people to serve in the army if their religious beliefs contradict it. As for many topics in Judaism there are many answers. Within different categories of Judaism there are different answers, even between the same categories there are different answers.

Inside the church the liturgy would be based on the Common Book of Prayers. The Common Book of Prayer contains the text for the new baptisms and the future communion. During Worship service there were no seating arrangements when it came to God. The Vestry Room in the church was the dressing room for all of the clergymen so they could dress for the service.