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What it's all about

#381093 06/05/12 10:54 PM

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What it's all about

Schimnik reading the psalter over the deceased.

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Re: What it's all about Slavipodvizhnik #381115 06/06/12 05:28 AM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 10,090 Likes: 16 Massachusetts Irish Melkite Global Moderator Member
Irish Melkite Global Moderator Member Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 10,090 Likes: 16 Massachusetts	FYI to those who don't know Slavonic (which would include me ) Schimnik is a monastic who has attained the Great Schema Many years, Neil "One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."

Re: What it's all about Slavipodvizhnik #381445 06/12/12 02:44 PM
Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 42 Earth John of Patmos Member
John of Patmos Member Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 42 Earth	I love to see pictures of monks wearing the Great Schema.

Re: What it's all about John of Patmos #381525 06/13/12 11:34 PM
Joined: May 2012 Posts: 11 TX P Palaiologos Junior Member
Palaiologos Junior Member P Joined: May 2012 Posts: 11 TX	If you see an excessive amount of Schemamonks, they probably arent exactly doing great in their discipline :P

Re: What it's all about Palaiologos #381556 06/14/12 11:02 AM
Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 569 Likes: 2 Brooklyn, NY USA E Economos Romanos V. Russo Member
Economos Romanos V. Russo Member E Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 569 Likes: 2 Brooklyn, NY USA	Does the same stricture apply to Western religious orders with a preponderance of Solemnly Professed Religious?

Re: What it's all about Palaiologos #381718 06/17/12 09:08 AM
Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 42 Earth John of Patmos Member
John of Patmos Member Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 42 Earth	Originally Posted by Palaiologos If you see an excessive amount of Schemamonks, they probably arent exactly doing great in their discipline :P I think this is the second actual pic, not painting of a great schemamonk that i have seen.

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