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190 - Deacon Henok Elias - Inside the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

The Symbolic World

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Is There a Tradition of Poems in the Orthodox Church?

An entire tradition of poetry that's recited one time in church. The person performing will have a chanter, will then redo it, will actually sing it. And usually they will not let you study scripture or patristics unless you've spent one to two years in the poetry school. It's an actual form that has pattern and everybody recognizes as this poetry tradition.

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