Which Renderings Of This Prayer Do You Use?

Jakub · Post by **Jakub** » Sat 23 August 2003 8:23 pm

Has anyone used the Orthodox Prayer Book from St. Tikhon's or compared it with the Jordanville ?

James

Justin Kissel · Post by **Justin Kissel** » Sat 23 August 2003 8:32 pm

My wife and I have a small one, that has both Slavonik and English in it, is that the St. Tikhon's book you mean? We haven't really used it a whole lot thus far, so we aren't very familiar with it. Is there something in particular you were curious about?

Jakub · Post by **Jakub** » Sat 23 August 2003 10:03 pm

Paradosis,

I was thinking of getting the Tikhon or a Old Believers to add to my Jordanville. Which do you prefer if any ?

james

Liudmilla · Post by **Liudmilla** » Sun 24 August 2003 10:34 pm

I checked my Jordanville prayer book (from 1960) this prayer is printed in the same version as the 1979 one. I guess it's a question of habit.

rebecca · Post by **rebecca** » Wed 27 August 2003 1:56 pm

Paradosis wrote:
In the minds of Protestants, after that it would have been perfectly natural for Mary to have sex with Joseph since "sex isn't dirty" and "they were married" (and they don't have any of the traditions that the Orthodox Church does that would make this unlikely, if not downright foolish).

I've heard RC priests quoted as saying that!

"Theotokos" is better than "Mother of God" in some ways because for inquirers, the latter may conjure up an image of a preexistant "goddess" who is the "mother" of not just Jesus in his incarnation, but of God as a whole. And this would give them more fodder for dissing our veneration of the Theotokos.

Justin Kissel · Post by **Justin Kissel** » Wed 27 August 2003 2:07 pm

Good point $/\$

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Which Renderings Of This Prayer Do You Use?

Which rendering do you prefer?