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#382694 - 07/09/12 08:31 PM
Re: Bridging church?
[Re: Thomas the Seeker]
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As one who serves in such a church, I like that change from noun to verb form; it expresses a relationship which is not static but dynamic.
 My thinking was probably influnced by an article of Fr. Neuhaus's that I was reading yesterday, which quotes this statement from Professor John H. Erickson: "The council [Vatican II] affirmed rather that Eastern Catholics constituted churches, whose vocation was to provide a bridge to the separated churches of the East." (boldface added)
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#382710 - 07/10/12 01:14 AM
Re: Bridging church?
[Re: Peter J]
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Anglicans have also thought of themselves as a bridge - one between Catholicism and Protestantism.
Sometimes I think Eastern Catholics are in the same situation as the Anglicans, only our bleed of members is going two ways - toward Orthodoxy and toward Roman Catholicism. In North America we are rapidly dwindling away it seems.
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#382761 - 07/11/12 02:46 AM
Re: Bridging church?
[Re: Rybak]
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This Greek Catholic perceives himself as being on the bridge toward the Kingdom. I ain't headed neither toward Roman Catholicism nor Eastern Orthodoxy. However, it's an imperfect bridge as some of the flooring is missing and so are some of the handrails.
Sometimes I blunder off the bridge ito the weeds and briar thickets growing alongsides of it but I try to clamber back up onto it ASAP.
I do admit that at times I feel like a troll lurking beneath it...
Edited by sielos ilgesys (07/11/12 03:00 AM)
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#382763 - 07/11/12 05:43 AM
Re: Bridging church?
[Re: Rybak]
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Anglicans have also thought of themselves as a bridge - one between Catholicism and Protestantism.
Sometimes I think Eastern Catholics are in the same situation as the Anglicans, only our bleed of members is going two ways - toward Orthodoxy and toward Roman Catholicism. In North America we are rapidly dwindling away it seems. Well, the biggest thing going against Eastern Catholic Churches is the heavy ethnicity in their parishes. Only the most devout "foreigner" would join.
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#382768 - 07/11/12 01:43 PM
Re: Bridging church?
[Re: sielos ilgesys]
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This Greek Catholic perceives himself as being on the bridge toward the Kingdom. I ain't headed neither toward Roman Catholicism nor Eastern Orthodoxy. However, it's an imperfect bridge as some of the flooring is missing and so are some of the handrails.
Sometimes I blunder off the bridge ito the weeds and briar thickets growing alongsides of it but I try to clamber back up onto it ASAP.
I do admit that at times I feel like a troll lurking beneath it... Fantastic metaphors! I may be quoting this from time to time....
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