287 - Richard Rohlin - Universal History: The Symbolism Of Nationalism
The Symbolic World
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How to Participate in the Liturgical Year
For you as a Christian, the liturgical year is your epic. It's one that you can totally participate in. We have this prayer, but it's part of our evening prayers in the Orthodox Church. And it's addressed to the mother of God. Every single Christian is descended from and is a child of Mary. When you pass through the baptismal font, you become something more than just your body. That's why the church can simultaneously talk about there's no Jew, Greek, bond, free, male, female, but then preserve distinctions between those things in important ways.
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