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And please forgive my spelling errors - my right eye is failing me and I don't know how to edit a post.
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Dear DMD, Thank you for your enriching post which moved me deeply. Coming to know my brother Rusyns has been an eye-opening experience for me. Most recently, a legislator I knew very well and who was a Rusyn (he used to recit Rusyn poetry in the
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Dear Stuart, Thank you for your comprehensive answer! I'm both happy and sad that I know more about this process now . . . have a very good night. Your servant, Alex
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Archbishop Joseph Raya
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I have to tell a miracle! Remember he needed surgery on his brain? I have been so excited for him. THEY WERE ABLE TO GET 80% of it! How awesome is our God! Marion is such a jewel. You know it is so hard for us who are from the United States re
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Thank you all!! Tests were negative. Glory to Jesus Christ!!!!!
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All glory to God! Yahoo!
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Many Latin marriage tribunals employ a kind of tautological argument when using the most common reasons for granting a decree of nullity--"defect of intent" and "defect of understanding". In effect, the failure of the marriage it
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I knew that prayer would soften their heart...we got an extension/albeit at a flat rate of $1000! Thank you Pani Rose and Jaya and everyone else who prayerfully posted here. With love in Christ, Alice
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Originally Posted By: The young fogeyIn English it's 'the Ukraine', and I'm pro-Russian without apology, so that meaning of 'the Ukraine' is part of what I mean, but of course as an American looking at how a Christian, nationalist Russia (yes, a bada
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Christ is Risen!! There's also another struggle going on beneath the surface in the Catholic Church that would bear directly on this idea of living out the Tradition. We have had a number of bishops who have openly challenged not only disciplines t
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I am really trying to delve more seriously into Eastern theology. I would appreciate a list of good theologians to look into, but I would like lists that include very Eastern sources and very Catholic sources; please do not take offense at that dicho
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Originally Posted By: theophanChrist is Risen!! I agree; excellent article. From where I sit the problem is that the Christian East sees the preservation and living out of Tradition as a sacred duty; something to be diligently done. Tradition is t
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Growing up, in the Roman rite, I was mainly asked to memorize prayers. I don't remember being asked to know why we pray these prayers, or even to devise a rule of prayer. I do know people, at one of the Roman rite parishes I used to attend regularly,
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Dear Sergey, Just one more question - when you wrote that one should not rely on anything "Alex Roman wrote" - what was your meaning? Was it because I'm not pro-Russian that I'm not trustworthy? I was deeply offended by that. Alex
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Also, there is a kind of implicit "Jansenism" in the idea connoted by the popular imagery of "Holy things for the Holy." Fr. Alexander Schmemann once wrote about this. The result was a kind of asceticism that relied on one's own
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Dear Fr Deacon, An excellent and deeply insightful point! Personally,I believe that the old rules of strict fasting and prayer, including abstention from sexual relations prior to Communion in the East are the probable culprits . . . The canons
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OK, if you say so. But someone I know rather well and who is related just got an annulment after 20 years of marriage and two children. Under what conditions could such a situation be considered worthy of an annulment (since the person in question
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Dear Sergey, Please forgive my earlier post on "the Ukraine" business. I should just learn to keep my mouth shut. Alex
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Well, when Bl. Pope John Paul the Great was in Ukraine, he was present at a Divine Liturgy where there was an explicit commemoration of "Patriarch Lubomyr . . ." and the Pope said nothing. Don't you Latins have a rule that says "silen
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Dear Peter, You Rock! That's exactly it in a nutshell. See, I told you you were wasted at CAF . . . Alex
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Dear Sergei, Well, we will agree to disagree. "The Ukraine" is not "English" for Ukrayina. I also speak English and did my doctorate in the sociology of Ukrainian cultural identity in English as well. Here is an article on this
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Originally Posted By: davinpaI have to say that the time is not right for decentralization. The RC bishops need to learn not to tamper with Tradition (big T and small t) before we can do some decentralization. If we do it now, I'm afraid we'll get so
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or is it just a rumor?
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is the edit tab back?
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