SC - Byzantine Bread Stamps

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Huette skrev:

>Just as most of the vestments have not changed in the
> past 1500 or more years, neither have the Eucharistic
> breads.  The idea of using leavened breads for the
> sacraments is modern (i.e. from within the 20th
> Century.)

Sorry, Huette, but while that may be true of much of the Western Catholic
church, it definitely isn't true of the Greek church, and Byzantines were
Greek-oriented  worshippers. As you can see from the scholarly information I
posted after the posting you are quoting, there have been all sorts of
doctrinal arguments about the matter across the ages.

Phlip

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Philippa Farrour
Caer Frig
Southeastern Ohio

"All things are poisons.  It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a
poison and a remedy." -Paracelsus

"Oats -- a grain which in England sustains the horses, and in
Scotland, the men." -- Johnson

"It was pleasant to me to find that 'oats,' the 'food of horses,' were
so much used as the food of the people in Johnson's own town." --
Boswell

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