tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post5266366932548710268..comments2024-01-12T04:58:49.069-05:00Comments on Kyrie, Eleison!: Learning to Live in England, Part 31Anastasia Theodoridishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16092531121989260111noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-13268148250128709192010-08-29T11:51:40.416-04:002010-08-29T11:51:40.416-04:00May their memory be eternal...my deepest sympathie...May their memory be eternal...my deepest sympathies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-47857908977392672192010-08-28T17:36:19.751-04:002010-08-28T17:36:19.751-04:00Memory Eternal to your loved ones, and love and hu...Memory Eternal to your loved ones, and love and hugs to you....Elizabeth @ The Garden Windowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00274788007550318693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-36933412872205753532010-08-28T06:11:40.653-04:002010-08-28T06:11:40.653-04:00Thanks to all of you for these great comments.
I ...Thanks to all of you for these great comments.<br /><br />I do of course pray for my Dad, and my best guess is, our parish priest in Richmond would be glad to, as well.<br /><br />Anam, thanks especailly for taking the time to type out those prayers. I have a few with me, in my prayer book, but not as many.Anastasia Theodoridishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16092531121989260111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-31066843216547451172010-08-28T02:30:28.486-04:002010-08-28T02:30:28.486-04:00Memory eternal to your father and sister.
I went...Memory eternal to your father and sister. <br /><br />I went out for a wee while years back with a Coptic Orthodox ob/gyn and he had been able to invoke a conscience clause against performing or assisting in abortions in the NHS. There was a timee when they were talking about forcing all ob/gyns to perform terminations or change specialty but nothing came of it. I think there is a resentment against it amongst many doctors, they might not believe it intrinsically wrong but they do find it distasteful and are annoyed that as doctors they are obliged to deal in death. I have a friend who is a nurse and she thinks the reason the govt didn't try to force <i>everyone</i> to be involved is that they were terrified of the public seeing how much disapproval there is in medicine and nursing of abortion and the women who come back time and time again.margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07727534908302610374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-11442815351433468932010-08-27T11:46:37.832-04:002010-08-27T11:46:37.832-04:00Dear Anastasia: My mother died on 7 December 1979....Dear Anastasia: My mother died on 7 December 1979. When my stepfather, being Russian Orthodox, asked his local priest, a close relative, to come to our home to conduct the traditional memorial service, the priest refused, because my mother had been a Lutheran. Father John Meyendorff came some distance and he conducted the “moleben”. He, one of the most renowned scholars of Orthodoxy of the last century, recognized that even Lutherans, such as his paternal grandfather, can have a share in the inheritance our Lord prepared for us. <br /><br />You can have a memorial service for your father – you just have to find someone who is worthy to conduct it.<br /><br />Peace and Joy!<br />George A. MarquartAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-58762847325066976152010-08-27T07:17:52.050-04:002010-08-27T07:17:52.050-04:00I've typed and sent it to your comcast email w...I've typed and sent it to your comcast email which I trust you can access there. It is coming from my aol account with the subject line "Trisagion memorial prayers"<br /><br />I have no idea the rhyme or reason for the capitalization in the prayers.(sometimes it's "Thee" and sometimes it's "thee." Ditto for "Thy" and "thy.")Anam Carahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960986859370967282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-17379780644616214042010-08-27T06:43:05.832-04:002010-08-27T06:43:05.832-04:00Perhaps you could say the trisagion prayers for th...Perhaps you could say the trisagion prayers for the dead yourself. Do you have the prayers in your prayer book? If not, I would be happy to type them out and send them to you.<br /><br />My priest (my husband is Anglican) did a Trisagion Memorial several years ago for our mothers (mine had been dead 20 years, my husband's 5 years) privately before a Molieben service we used to do every Monday night even though they weren't Orthodox.<br /><br />Perhaps he was wrong in doing this, but how can it be wrong to pray for someone to find rest in God since we can't be the judge? Doesn't this show the love which we are commanded to have for others?<br /><br />We have also used the service in the Antiochian little red prayer book on Memorial Day when we've gone to Arlington Cemetary to visit graves of relatives who weren't Orthodox.Anam Carahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960986859370967282noreply@blogger.com