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A Thursday Prompt story
© 2021 by Walter Reimer
Prompt: bishop
“Father?” When the ram looked up, the Doberman said in his accented English, “you’d best come quickly.”
Father Gustav, Society of Jesus, sighed and silently begged the Lord for strength. “Where?”
“The sanctuary.” The canine took to his heels, following the ram as Father Gustav ran from his office.
The Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem is the holiest site in Christendom, but what should be a place of quiet contemplation on the sacrifice of Christ and His rebirth was occasionally the scene of fights, squabbles and near-riots as various Christian sects jockeyed for position and jealously guarded their portion of the ancient cathedral.
Sometimes, it got silly. There was a ladder propped alongside a window that hadn’t been moved in over two hundred years because all six of the sects governing the church had to agree to it being taken down. A notable fight broke out over Holy Week one year because one person had moved a chair that belonged to his sect, but he’d moved it onto a piece of the floor claimed by another sect.
Father Gustav shouldered his way past the crowd of priests and acolytes to see several of his own engaged in a melee with several priests from one of the Eastern churches. “STOP!” he thundered, following with the same word in Latin, German, and Greek. “This is God’s house, and – Father Benedict, will you please stop beating the bishop?”
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A Thursday Prompt story
© 2021 by Walter Reimer
Prompt: bishop
“Father?” When the ram looked up, the Doberman said in his accented English, “you’d best come quickly.”
Father Gustav, Society of Jesus, sighed and silently begged the Lord for strength. “Where?”
“The sanctuary.” The canine took to his heels, following the ram as Father Gustav ran from his office.
The Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem is the holiest site in Christendom, but what should be a place of quiet contemplation on the sacrifice of Christ and His rebirth was occasionally the scene of fights, squabbles and near-riots as various Christian sects jockeyed for position and jealously guarded their portion of the ancient cathedral.
Sometimes, it got silly. There was a ladder propped alongside a window that hadn’t been moved in over two hundred years because all six of the sects governing the church had to agree to it being taken down. A notable fight broke out over Holy Week one year because one person had moved a chair that belonged to his sect, but he’d moved it onto a piece of the floor claimed by another sect.
Father Gustav shouldered his way past the crowd of priests and acolytes to see several of his own engaged in a melee with several priests from one of the Eastern churches. “STOP!” he thundered, following with the same word in Latin, German, and Greek. “This is God’s house, and – Father Benedict, will you please stop beating the bishop?”
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I went into this not know what to expect. "Father Benedict, will you please stop beating the bishop?” I laughed really hard, it reminded me of something me and my cousin Rp, all thats in my head now is "To meet me and my beat stick." from our chat and now the bishop meets the same.... (still laughing)
It's no joke. It's called the Status Quo, based on several firmans by the Ottoman Sultans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statu.....and_Bethlehem)
The sects in question are: Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Syriac Orthodox, Armenian, Coptic Christian, and Ethiopian Churches.
The sects in question are: Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Syriac Orthodox, Armenian, Coptic Christian, and Ethiopian Churches.
I see. How long have the Copts and Ethiopians had a presence in Jerusalem? Cos the Greek Orthodox Church has had a Patriarch of Jerusalem since the Council of Chalcedon (leaving aside countless bishops since the church’s inception), the Syriac Orthodox Church has had bishops and archbishops there since roughly the same time (they and the Copts split away when they refused to recognise Chalcedon), the Armenian Apostolic Church has had a see in Jerusalem since 638, and the Church of Rome has been appointing Latin Patriarchs to Jerusalem on and off since the success of the First Crusade.
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