{"id":6714,"date":"2019-06-06T12:59:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T16:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6714"},"modified":"2019-06-01T09:00:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T13:00:44","slug":"elder-cleopa-on-the-need-for-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6714","title":{"rendered":"Elder Cleopa+ on the Need for Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe must uphold Holy Tradition with great reverence and godliness, for not all that is needful to effect our salvation is found within Holy Scripture. Holy Scripture instructs us to do many things; however, it does not manifest the light to us. For example, it instructs us to be baptized, but it doesn\u2019t explain to us the method. Likewise, it guides us to confess our sins, to receive Communion, to be sacramentally wed; but nowhere does it specify the rite enabling us to fulfill these mysterion (sacraments). Furthermore, it instructs us to pray, but doesn\u2019t tell us how, where, and when. It tells us to make the sign of the Holy Cross in front of our chest according to the psalmist: Lord, lift Thou up the light of Thy countenance upon us; but it doesn\u2019t show us how. Who teaches us in writing to worship facing east? Where in Scripture are we told the words of the epiclesis (invocation) of the Holy Spirit for the sanctification of the all-holy Mysteries? Which teaching from Holy Scripture instructs us to bless the water of Baptism and the oil of Holy Chrismation? Which passage in Scripture teaches us about the threefold denunciation and the renunciations of Satan before Holy Baptism? The prayer of glorification toward the Holy Trinity\u2014\u201cGlory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit\u201d\u2014from which passage did it come to us\u2026 Therefore, the order by which the Church upholds the unwritten is as follows: Whatever is of Apostolic origin and is practiced by the Fathers becomes valid as tradition, and has the power of law in the Church of Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

~ ‘The Truth of Our Faith’<\/p>\n

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