The following is a complete agenda of the events that includes a pastoral visit of Most Reverend Virgil Bercea, Bishop of Oradea, Romania and will take place at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church 78 Clifton Road, Toronto.

- Sunday March 23, 2003 at 12:30 PM: Solemn concelebrated Divine Liturgy (bilingual), main celebrant Bishop Bercea
- Sunday March 23, 2003 at 2:30 PM: Reception and Lunch in OLPH Parish Hall
- Monday March 24, 2003 at 7:00 PM The Akathistos Hymn to Our Lady Most Holy Mother of God
- Tuesday March 25, 2003, The feast of The Annunciation of Our Lady; at 7:00 PM Holly Rosary followed by The Divine Liturgy

For further details please contact Pastor's office at 416-686-0300 or visit www.romanianbyzantine.org

Everybody is welcomed!

You may want to have them correct the spelling of "Holly" to "Holy."

OrthodoxEast

Dear Orthodox East,

With all the snow we have, perhaps it's just that they're still in "Christmas Mode?"

Alex

Dear Alex,

That's REALLY OLD Calendar! Have a Holly Lent!

OrthodoxEast

Nothing wrong with holly for Lent.

It is a vegetable!

Have a Holly Lent !!!!

Thank you very much for your invitation. I hope and pray that everyone who can make it has a blessed and uplifting feast.

May God grant you all Many Happy Years!


Stefan-Ivan

Blessings to all our Romanian brethren in Canada who will celebrate with the bishop.

Now, what the heck do we have to do to get our friends their OWN church?!!?!

(The closest 'eastern' church to me is across the street, a Romanian Orthodox -OCA- community that purchased the former St. Anthony RC church building. Tiny, but, it's THEIRS. And their pastor is a saintly man who suffered in prisons in Romania. And they host a small Ethiopian Orthodox community. So, these Romanians are pretty high in my book!! Bless 'em all!!

Blessings!

Dear Romanian,

I hope that you will not take any offence if I ask you about the way baptism is celebrated at Annunciation Romanian Catholic Mission (see pictures at www.romanianbyzantine.org). Why is not baptism by immersion celebrated in this parish? Is that the common practice among Rumanian Byzantine Catholics? Taking into account that baptism by immersion is nowadays allowed at the Latin Catholic Church and that at almost every Roman Catholic Church there is at least one baptismal font is not this “jar and dish baptism” an example of "more Latin than Latins" mentality? Obviously I speak always from the liturgically point of view (everybody knows that Romanians are very proud of their Roman and Latin linguistic, historical and cultural heritage). Thank you very much. Have a Holy Lent and Great Week.

Your in Christ,
F