Saturday Evening Vespers Fulfilling Sunday Obligation

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For another reason are there four Gospels: they are pillars of the world. As the world is divided into four parts—east, west, north, and south—it was right that there also be four pillars. And for yet another reason are the Gospels four in number: they contain four elements—teachings, commandments, warnings, and promises. To those who believe the teachings and observe the commandments, God promises the good things that are to come. But those who do not believe the teachings and do not keep the commandments, He threatens with the punishments that are to come.
From Blessed Theophylact Archbishop of Ohrid and Bulgaria, from Preface to “The Explanation of the Gospels” Chrysostom Press

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The obligation of attending services is grounded in the commandments and the Jewish faith. The Orthodox approach avoids the term, but still expresses the obligation, in that those who do not attend are required to confess that. And that the sacraments are denied to those who miss for reasons not sufficient to the pastor.
 
Aramis said:
The obligation of attending services is grounded in the commandments and the Jewish faith. The Orthodox approach avoids the term, but still expresses the obligation, in that those who do not attend are required to confess that. And that the sacraments are denied to those who miss for reasons not sufficient to the pastor.
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According to some on this site, it is impossible to express the same theological concepts using two different sets of words.
 
aemcpa,

There are different ways of living the faith for various people. Consider the expression in the canon law of rite. The rites vary in their liturgy, theology, spirituality, discipline, culture, and circumstances.

CCEO
Canon 28
  1. A rite is the liturgical, theological, spiritual and disciplinary patrimony, culture and circumstances of history of a distinct people, by which its own manner of living the faith is manifested in each Church sui iuris.
  2. The rites treated in this code, unless otherwise stated, are those which arise from the Alexandrian, Antiochene, Armenian, Chaldean and Constantinopolitan traditions.
 
Vico said:
aemcpa,

There are different ways of living the faith for various people. Consider the expression in the canon law of rite. The rites vary in their liturgy, theology, spirituality, discipline, culture, and circumstances.

CCEO
Canon 28
  1. A rite is the liturgical, theological, spiritual and disciplinary patrimony, culture and circumstances of history of a distinct people, by which its own manner of living the faith is manifested in each Church sui iuris.
  2. The rites treated in this code, unless otherwise stated, are those which arise from the Alexandrian, Antiochene, Armenian, Chaldean and Constantinopolitan traditions.
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I agree. Others, apparently, do not.
 
aemcpa said:
According to some on this site, it is impossible to express the same theological concepts using two different sets of words.
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Those people suffer a delusion.

That there may be multiple ways with one being more precise or more clear than another, I’ll grant, but the number of synonyms makes the claim that two sets of words can’t express the same theological construct obviously bogus.

Worse, those who believe that there is only one way to express a theological construct should be praying in Aramaic, saying the creed only in Greek, and listening to lections in Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic. I’ve never met anyone who actually lived up to the logical requirements of that delusion.

Accurate translation is a whole 'nother issue. The East-West divide originates in a poor translation to the Latin Credo.

The problem is that the Credo isn’t actually the Nicene-Constantinopolitan creed, due to “procere” being a mistranslation of “ekporousis”.
 
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