The importance of Lex Orandi in the Orthodox Church...
"...as long as they are free to participate in the worship of their local church, the Eastern Christians can survive...As long as the mysteries can be celebrated the Church lives, held together not by organization nor authority nor education, but by communion year after year in the regular cycle of feast and fast."
"...as long as they are free to participate in the worship of their local church, the Eastern Christians can survive...As long as the mysteries can be celebrated the Church lives, held together not by organization nor authority nor education, but by communion year after year in the regular cycle of feast and fast."
+ Fr Robert F. Taft, "Beyond East and West: Problems in Liturgical Understanding." 2nd Rev. Ed. (Rome: Pontifical Oriental Institute Press, 2001) 146
