«Μέσα στη θλίψη της απέραντης μετριότητας,
που μας πνίγει από παντού,
παρηγοριέμαι ότι κάπου,
σε κάποιο καμαράκι,
κάποιοι πεισματάρηδες αγωνίζονται
να εξουδετερώσουν τη φθορά»
Οδυσσέας Ελύτης
I get your point but my fear is that if we keep striping things from the traditions how much would be truly left? In a way that scares and saddens me but time will tell. Let’s hope for the best.
I guess the alternative would be to have ceremonies like we are flying with Aegean airlines. Greek followed by an English translation hahaha.
I cannot find the right words to describe the difference but as you said there is calmness.
I was born and raised in Greece and later came in the US. I am by no means an expert in Theology nor is it my place to comment on how things are done here to be honest as I am a guest. But I can definitely hear and feel the difference in the liturgy.
In a way it saddens me to see people stray away from the tradition whether it is not speaking the language or changing the liturgy. But as I said I am biased.
At the end of the day I am exercising our oldest tradition of fighting and arguing with my people ahhaha
That was the opposite of my intention thus why I said the teachings should be understandable.
The liturgy has a mysticism and a kind of 'music' that gets lost in translation, even into Modern Greek, let alone English. At least that is how I feel (I am biased for sure)
I could also argue that for many people that might be the only Greek interaction or the only Greek they hear.
I will play the devil’s advocate and say that the liturgy part needs to remain in Greek ( even non Greek speaking Orthodox churches like Serbian, Romanian etc keep that part). It survived unchanged during much harder times (e.g. occupation), it is a bit ridiculous in my eyes that we changed this tradition the last 10/20 (?) years.
The teachings parts should be in the native language whatever that is as people should learn from them
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