Dear Adults Posters,

I find it distressing that even when dealing with our young, some of us feel it necessary to attack the Liturgical practices of other Churches as lesser or worse. Surely we can set a better example of Christian love for one another's ways.

If the situation that Elizabeth described exists and there is a movement of young people from the Byzantine Church, it is important the treasure that they have be demonstrated. I am sure that you agree with me that Byzantine Churches and Liturgies and life have much within them to draw people of all ages. Should this not be the focus of the effort to draw them?

Is the issue that the Latin Church, its Liturgy, and life are perceived to be fun, and easy, etc, Rather than expressing distain for them or suggesting that they are lesser or worse, would it not be better to ask the Latin posters here to explain that this is not what our Chruch, our liturgy or life are about. Should they not hear about what we believe and practice and what it means?

I hope that we will all look to nurturing our young in the practice of Christian love that Elizabeth urges us to show. Help them to learn their heritage and the beauty of their Churches and their Liturgies. Help them too by example to know about the other Churches in our communion and to hold them in that love also!

Let us not pass on to our future the prejudices of the past.

Please!


I am sorry to have to say this in this place visited by young people. I simply did not know in what other Forum to say it.

Steve

Please do not let the written expression impede the meaning or the love!

JOY!

May the joy of Christ be with you all.
I would like to suggest the fact that the East and West though the same, have a different deposit of faith. The East, in the levened Eucharist, focuses on the Ressurected Lord. While the West, with the unlevened Eucharist, focuses of the Cruicified Savior. They are both Jesus, transubstantiated by the same Holy Spirit, giving each of us the Body and Blood of Christ.
The precepts of the Liturgy are the same, they just are celebrated differently. The East held the tradidtions of Hagi Sophai(Constantinople), while the West took the traditions of Jersulem.
We are one of 28 Rites, Catholic, and Universal.
There are over 28,000, Prostentant denominations in the world. We have lasted almost 2001 years this way. The protestant's spread out like that in just over 400 years.
What I am trying to get at is sometimes we fight like brothers and sisters (he,he), but we are all one in the same Catholic Church and more important, ONE IN THE SAME LORD, JESUS CHRIST!

Go with God!
Rose

I want to say hi to Ann, it is her 19th birthday! :rolleyes: :p

Elizabeth,
I think that most people here have a sincere respect for the religious traditions of Western Christendom. You just have to remember that many people in the Byzantine Catholic and Orthodox Churches who were Roman Catholics probably had some serious problems with the way the mass was being celebrated, and all the usual post-Vatican II problems.

In Christ,
Michael

Pax vobiscum!

I'm a Latin rite Catholic, of the Plilippines (the only Christian country of Asia, and about 80% are catholics of the latin rite). I visited many forums and e-groups that help in the church to breath using both lungs (eastern and western churches). Hope that I'll be accepted here as one of the youth that would like to see the church to be very fruitful of God's gifts. and be a seeker of truth through the help of fellow believers.

God bless!!! thank you very much...