Great news! OLC plenary sessions uploaded onto AFR

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Great news that came in an email today. The plenary sessions from the 2012 Orientale Lumen Conference XVI “Theology of the Laity.” are now available on Ancient Faith Radio. 👍

When you have listened (and listened, and listened again) to these please consider supporting the Orientale Lumen Foundation with a donation to help with the cost of making these available to all of us. Then go back and listen again to the plenary sessions from last year’s conference “Rome and the Communion of Churches: Bishop, Patriarch or Pope?” and make another donation if you can. 🙂

Also, there will be two OL Conferences in 2013:

June 17-20 in Washington, DC

July 8-11 in Constantinople (Istanbul) with an advance tour July 4-7 to
Thessaloniki, Greece

Themes for both are still being discussed.
 
As always, Fr. Robert Taft’s presentation is particularly illuminating and uplifting. What I’ve heard of Sr. Vassa’s presentation is also very good and well worth listening to. I don’t doubt that Met. Kallistos’ presentation is also phenomenal. I believe I might listen to that one this morning. 👍
 
I’m so going to donate to Ancient Faith Radio, whenever I can. They’ve put out quality content, in my experience with their music, and talk radio.
 
Phillip_Rolfes said:
As always, Fr. Robert Taft’s presentation is particularly illuminating and uplifting. What I’ve heard of Sr. Vassa’s presentation is also very good and well worth listening to. I don’t doubt that Met. Kallistos’ presentation is also phenomenal. I believe I might listen to that one this morning. 👍
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I listened to St. Vasa first. I’m a fan of hers and hope in time we will get to hear much more of her. Fr Taft I’ve listened to only twice so far. 😃 As soon as the closing ceremony of the Olympics concludes I’ll be moving on to Met. Kallistos. 👍
 
Haven’t been going through them too fast – about 1 a day. So far Mathewes-Green, Gresko, and Larin.

This evening, after listening to Sister’s talk, a somewhat odd thought struck me: I feel like I’m missing something by not hearing the Q&A after the talk.
 
Peter_J said:
Haven’t been going through them too fast – about 1 a day. So far Mathewes-Green, Gresko, and Larin.

This evening, after listening to Sister’s talk, a somewhat odd thought struck me: I feel like I’m missing something by not hearing the Q&A after the talk.
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I’ve only been to one OL Conference and from that experience I can definitely say you are missing something by not hearing the Q&A. I purchased three talks from the Conference I attended and at that time I understood the Q&A was on the DVD. The Q&A for one of the presentations had been a panel of all the presenters and was really interesting, so I was definitly disappointed when it wasn’t on the DVD. C’est la vie. 🙂 All the more reason to try to get to the Conferences. 🙂

I just listened to Khouria Frederica’s presentation. I was kind of confused by it on several levels. I didn’t get how most of it related to the topic “Theology of the Laity” apart from a direct reference somewhere after the beginning and then in the final minutes. She talked about of myriad of things, all possibly interesting but for me disjointed. I kept thinking it would begin to make sense in relationship to the topic as to why she was talking about whatever she was talking about at that point. Hopefully my response is unique and others will see relevance in the stories she offered. I’ve always appreciated her AFR “Frederica Here and Now” podcasts, and her writing.

I was more confused by her references to her husband prior to becoming Orthodox as being a “priest” in a denomination, which in all the references to their prior religious community she for some reason chose to never name, but is well known to be the Anglican/Episcopal church. I grew up in the Anglican church in the 50s and we called our pastor a “priest”. But as a Catholic I would not call a pastor other than Catholic and Orthodox a “priest”. Is the Antiochian Orthodox, or other Orthodox, relationship with the Anglicans such that they do typically speak of Episcopal clergy, male and female, as “priests”?

She also referred to the “ordination” of protestant clergy (in this case not Anglican… but another protestant ecclesial community). Again, as a Catholic I’m used to speaking of Catholic and Orthodox clergy as being “ordained”, but not Methodists, or Presbyterian etc. pastors as being “ordained”.

I am curious about both of these-- from an Orthodox, or Catholic, perspective calling Anglican pastors “priests”, and saying that protestant pastors are “ordained”. Is this usual? I’m always interested by assumptions I have that turn out to be wrong. 🙂

She also talked about when she was 'in seminary". For decades I would say “when I was in seminary…”, but after becoming Catholic I’ve said “When I was in a School of Religion…”. Are there women at St Vlad’s and St. Tikhon’s and would you say they are “in seminary”? (I’m a woman.)
 
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Hopefully my response is unique and others will see relevance in the stories she offered.
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Probably somewhere in between, i.e. a bunch of other people felt the way you did, and a bunch didn’t. I would have to put myself in the latter group, actually. Out of the 3 I’ve heard so far, Khouria Frederica’s talk may have been the easiest for me personally to “get”.

As far as her saying “seminary” rather than “school of religion”, etc., I guess I didn’t think about it till you brought it up. Weighing everything, I’m glad she did. I get tired of Orthodox who insist on naming everything from their perspective, rather than using things’ commonly accepted names, e.g. always saying “the Vatican said” in order to avoid saying “the Pope said” or “Rome said”.

P.S. I, too, wondered why she avoided naming the ECUSA.
 
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