Oca.org Scripture Readings (2024)

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What Bible does the OCA use? ›

The Eastern Orthodox Church officially uses the Septuagint, the Greek Old Testament which was translated from the original Hebrew language into Greek in the third century B.C. The Septuagint of the Orthodox Church contains all the Canonical Books and the Anaginoskoinena Books "worthy to be read" (called Apocrypha in ...

The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) is an Eastern Orthodox Christian church based in North America. The OCA consists of more than 700 parishes, missions, communities, monasteries and institutions in the United States, Canada and Mexico. In 2011, it had an estimated 84,900 members in the United States.

The Divine Liturgy celebrated by the Orthodox Church is called the Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom. It is a shorter liturgy than the so-called Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great that is used only ten times during the Church Year. These two liturgies probably received their present form after the ninth century.

At every Eucharistic Liturgy there is at least one reading from the Epistles and at least one reading from the Gospels. Most Orthodox parishes have Bible study groups, and those who cannot attend such groups are strongly encouraged to study scripture individually, often with the assistance of guided resource materials.

Answer and Explanation: The Greek Orthodox Church uses a variation of the King James Bible called the Eastern/Greek Orthodox Bible. One of the most important differences between it and other versions is the inclusion of preface material explaining the origins of the early Church and its relationship to Greek culture.

We especially wish to emphasize the messages that the one God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, that Jesus Christ is the only-begotten Son of God and the only Savior of the world given to men through whom they must be saved, and that the Orthodox Church is the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.

The Orthodox Church in America is a full member of the Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA), together with the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Amercia, and the other member jurisdictions.

The financial scandal in the Orthodox Church in America was a significant crisis of governance that shook the leadership of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) from 2005 to 2008.

May our Lord and God, Jesus Christ, through the grace and bounties of His love towards mankind, forgive thee, my child, N., all thy transgressions. And, I, His unworthy Priest, through the power given unto me by Him, do forgive and absolve thee from all thy sins.

Do Orthodox call it Mass? ›

Orthodox Liturgy (we generally don't use the term mass) can be offered daily but requires the presence of the faithful. A Priest can't have Liturgy by himself or even as a private Liturgy for a family or individual (such as a famous person or leader). The Liturgy is always open to the whole body of the faithful.

Badarak is a classical Armenian word used to define the celebration of the Eucharist or Divine Liturgy in the Armenian Church.

Jesus Christ is truly God who shares in the same reality as the Father and the Spirit.

Christianity. By the fifth century, the Book of Enoch was mostly excluded from Christian biblical canons, and it is now regarded as scripture only by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church.

We do not take the Bible literally when we recognize that some text is speaking about an event in an extended or analogical sense.

The Coptic Orthodox Church prefers the Septuagint (LXX) for the Old Testament and a literal translation of the Greek Textus Receptus, such as the New King James Version, for the New Testament.

The Orthodox Study Bible, created by The Orthodox Study Bible Old Testament Project and published by Thomas Nelson, uses the New King James Version of the Bible as the basis for a fresh translation of the Septuagint text.

American Bible Society publishes and distributes interconfessional translations of the Christian Bible and provides study aids and other tools to help people engage with it. Founded on May 11, 1816, in New York City, it is best known for its Good News Translation of the Bible, written in the contemporary vernacular.