Extracts and quotations

[Andreas Moran]

I tried unsuccessfully today to include in a post the text of an encyclical of the Holy Synod of the Greece. I had saved the text as a word document and then tried to upload it as an attachment but the panel said it was too long (too many Kbs or something). But posts, such as Fr David's recent ones with long extracts from Pomazansky, include long extracts. How do I include in a post chunks of text from the internet, word documents, and how do people manage to put long quotes from books into posts?

Sorry for being so 'technologically challenged'!

[Father David Moser]

I had saved the text as a word document and then tried to upload it as an attachment but the panel said it was too long (too many Kbs or something). But posts, such as Fr David's recent ones with long extracts from Pomazansky, include long extracts. How do I include in a post chunks of text from the internet, word documents, and how do people manage to put long quotes from books into posts?

My post was just a "copy and paste" job. I went to the source document, copied the segment I wanted, then "pasted" it into the compose box as a quote. I try to keep the overall amount way down and just put in a link to the full text somewhere.

Fr David Moser

[Andreas Moran]

Thank you, Father, but in the tool bar above the 'Reply to Thread' box, there's no paste icon. So how do we cut and paste into a reply? Sorry to be dim! :o

[Father David Moser]

Thank you, Father, but in the tool bar above the 'Reply to Thread' box, there's no paste icon. So how do we cut and paste into a reply? Sorry to be dim! :o

Just like you cut and paste anywhere else. Put the cursor where you want the text and use the "paste" button on the browser edit menu or right click on the mouse and you will get a pull down edit menu that has "paste" on it. For those who still remember, "Control V" will also paste text from the clipboard to wherever the cursor happens to be.

Fr David Moser

[Andreas Moran]

Holy Synod of the Church of Greece; Athens, March 31 2004
ENCYCLICAL LETTER No.2784:
On the manner of reading the prayers of the Divine LiturgyTo : the Most
Reverend Metropolitans of the Church of Greece.
Subject : On the Manner of Reading the Prayers of the Divine Liturgy.

Most Reverend Brothers in Christ,

The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, in the framework of her permanent and
unchanging concern for the strengthening of the proper worship of God and
bearing in mind the conclusions concerning this subject reached by the Special
Synodical Commission for Liturgical Renewal, desires through this present
encyclical, to inform you, and through you to the whole complement of our
Most Holy Church of Greece the following, which relates to the manner of reading
the prayers of the Divine Liturgy, so that the participation of the totality of
the People of God in the celebration, reading and singing in it, would become
universal and together with that, fully realized. The manner of reading these
prayers in the past gave rise to contradictory opinions. However, inasmuch as the
subject relates not only to ritual, but touches upon the people’s salvation, by
way of a conscious participation in the Divine Liturgy, it requires a thorough
knowledge of its history, and the theological side of this problem, in order
that correct conclusions may be made, and introduced into contemporary liturgical
practice. The witnesses of the first eight centuries (i.e., of the period of the
first extant written Euchologion) testify that the people heard the prayers of
the Liturgy. This is indicated for example, either by the evidence of responding
with “Amen” to the priest’s prayers (Justin, Dionysius of Alexandria, Jerome),
or by theobvious indications that the prayers “were heard” by the people
(Dionysius of Alexandria, Canon 19 of Laodicea, Lives of righteous Melania), or
the use of the verb “I say”, with respect to the prayers of the Divine Liturgy
(Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian), or to places in Chrysostom about the
priest who “responds to the voice of the people”, and performs the Divine
Service, as well as to the Body of the Church, which proclaims prayers of
thanksgiving “with one mind” and “in one voice”. We will add here an indirect
witness about reading the prayers of the Divine Liturgy, with respect to hearing
of them by the people, which is found in a most important text of the Apostolic
Traditions, indicating that the bishop prays “by himself” during his vesting,
whereas he “offers” the Eucharistic prayers before the Altar of Sacrifice.

BINGO!!! :D

Thank you, Father!