Saints
What book is recommended to learn more about the saints?
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For the lives of saints? See a Synaxarion such as The Synaxarion: March, April Volume 4: The Lives of the Saints of the Orthodox Church by Hieromonk Makarios (1998) (and the other volumes for other months, of course).
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Thanks, we really should have that in logos
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We have one title by Sebastian Dabovich that covers the lives for fourteen Saints important to the Orthodox faith. A lot of the material in Butler's work is relevant, as well. Then there's The Fathers of the Desert (2 vols.) and Select Narratives of Holy Women.
Beyond that, you should know we're working on a Saints database for our Orthodox users that is comprehensive for every day of the year (similar to what Verbum has for Roman Catholics) to go alongside a Byzantine or Orthodox lectionary (both Julian and Revised Julian calendars).
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Gabe Martini said:
comprehensive for every day of the year (similar to what Verbum has for Roman Catholics)
Except our Latin rite Catholic version is anything but comprehensive [:(]
Gabe Martini said:alongside a Byzantine or Orthodox lectionary (both Julian and Revised Julian calendars).
And, I trust, Eastern rite Catholic which share lectionaries and synaxarions with the Orthodox? And that multiple rites will be supported?
Gabe, I'm not sure that you realize that in the US often the Eastern Rite Catholics and the corresponding Orthodox use the same service books, celebrate using the same calendar, read the same theology books ... With the troubles in the Middle East shoving Christians out, the Western countries may well have a flood of Eastern rite refugees leading to more parishes that are dual rite ... a prime market for Logos as each side learns about the other. And more Americans are returning to the rite of their heritage as it becomes available.
Having had an Orthodox class at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley where the head of the Orthodox affiliate had trouble grasping that the Ethiopean priest was a Coptic Catholic Jesuit not an Orthodox Coptic, I'm never sure who on the Orthodox side recognizes the degree to which traditions and materials are shared. But since you are building a market, I'm sure you don't want to disenfranchise a segment of your market.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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I am aware. [:)] We are referencing both Byzantine Rite and Orthodox synaxarion in the creation of this so it can serve both Verbum and Logos users who are either BR/ER or Orthodox (or just interested in this sort of thing).
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