By Protopresbyter George Metallinos
3. THE WORSHIPING ParishThe Directly Church manifests Herself historically as a worshiping community. Honest unorthodox such as Erich Seeberg (a consequent Protestant theologian) assertion called Her "the religion of exalt on the property of Christianity". Happening exalt, the straightforward partakes of his Church's way of organism, which is referred to as "a ceremonial dinner of the first-born", "a spot of celebrants" who are "always jubilating" in an eschatological foretasting of the cute population. The Church's exalt was, from the very beginning, a community act; it was an act of the home-made Church, and not of the straightforward as persons. Happening exalt, the weird becomes a associate of the "community in Christ" (in which he enters with his Designation) and he also partakes of the life of a positive, home-made community, and not some usual and generalized look at of Christianity. In exalt, the ecclesiastical establishment becomes pure with its home-made conference. Honest "lone" prayer is imaginary Orthodoxically as no matter which within the ecclesiastical community - as an outcropping of it. The Promise Eucharist in bring to a close is the Routine of the Church as a establishment, and is anyway the plan of the liturgical act.
The Church's exalt unites the straightforward, creatively time, with all the Saints and the reposed straightforward, contemporaneously with the brethren who are scarcely living "in Christ". The Church is so accepted in Her exalt as "one set, comprised of land and angels, and one population" (blessed Chrysostom). This unity of the Church, with Christ at the heart as Her Opening, is portrayed indoors the "debt" of the "Honey Aid", to the same degree the originate of Divine Communion is done. The Officiator "withdraws" (collects) heavy the Divine Mug the "Red meat Christ" (of Whom every one clergy and laity assertion righteous partaken), the "divide up" fervent to the Theotokos, the Angels and all the Saints, and the divide up for the living and the redundant - this rite unadventurously survival performed by the boss officiator, the Bishop, who comprises the clear heart of the Routine (the hardly noticeable heart survival Christ). From now, the "correct" Rod of Christ is allied in an "unconfusable and indissoluble" style to His "common" (collective) Rod - His straightforward. Contained by the Divine Mug is "assembled" the community of straightforward, together with Christ and one option. Christ is so manifested as the properly heart and the Opening of the Church; the Church as the Rod of Christ, and the straightforward - every one living and redundant - as members of that Rod.
