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My Brothers and Sisters, We don't have a formal welcome function here at the Forum, but I notice that our "newest member" is Filipe, a young RC from Portugal who has a deep interest in things Eastern. Anhelyna, Tammy, and I have known Filipe for several months on another board and our Scottish lass and I have been urging him to come and join us here (extolling the wisdom, charity, and fraternal love of our little community - all who were feeling cranky today, please take note  ). Since herself is off at Lourdes (God willing that the mechanical monster made it  ), praying for all of us, I ask you to join me in extending Filipe the warm welcome that I know she would give him were she here. Welcome Filipe and may God grant you many years, Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Welcome, Filipe! Vitaj mizh nami! We don't bite (but we certainly do bark at times). May the Holy Spirit guide you and protect you.
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Welcome Felipe!
I looked in my PM mailbox on that other forum and didn't find a message from you. If you PM me your address on THIS forum it will email it to me at work so I'll be sure to get it! Then I can send you that Chotki Liturgy.
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Hello! I only just happened to see this thread, sorry I didn't aknowledge your welcome earlier! Thank you very much Neil et al for your warm welcome. As Neil said, I am a 24 year old Roman Catholic from Portugal. There is very little knowledge of Eastern Catholicism in my country, as you can imagine, and that is something that I am trying to change, at least within my small circle of influence. Partly through Neil's help I recently wrote a series of 5 articles called "The true richness of the Church" in which I explained all about what Churches Sui Iuris were, and a little about some of them etc. Two of these articles have already been published in the portuguese weekly magazine/newsletter of the international movement I am involved in and currently International Coordinator of, the Youth Teams of Our Lady. (The international website is www.endj.org [ endj.org] but the English section isn't up yet, so if you want more info I suggest http://groups.msn.com/YouthTeamsofOurLady/ytol.msnw for the teams in Canada) I will speak more about the YTOL another time. Anyway, I will be pestering you all with my odd questions and doubts that Neil seems to enjoy so much. I hope you all do to! Thank you once again! Dominus Tecum Filipe
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Actually there are a significant number of Eastern Catholics - mostly refugees from Eastern Europe - in Portugal these days. Best place to start looking is the Byzantine chapel at Fatima (the chapel is quite lovely). But there are services held in several locations around Portugal (and in Spain too).
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Glory to Jesus Christ!! Welcome to the Forum, Filipe. I'm certain you'll enjoy the sharing, caring and yes, even debating, that goes on here!!  Sam
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Glory to Jesus Christ!! Welcome to the Forum, Filipe. I'm certain you'll enjoy the sharing, caring and yes, even debating, that goes on here!! Sam
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Originally posted by incognitus:
Actually there are a significant number of Eastern Catholics - mostly refugees from Eastern Europe - in Portugal these days. Best place to start looking is the Byzantine chapel at Fatima (the chapel is quite lovely). But there are services held in several locations around Portugal (and in Spain too).
Incognitus I am aware that with the arrival of several thousand eastern europeans in the last few years (specially, but not only, ukranians.) there is now a Ukranian Greek Catholic Community here. As far as I know there are two ukranian priests who have been sent over to care for this community. I am hoping to contact them soon, and hopefully arrange an "outing" with some of my friends and members of YTOL to go and participate in the celebration of the Divine Liturgy. The problem is that I am sure that although most of us would find it interesting at least, for people who are only used to the current RC mass, orthodox/eastern catholic divine liturgies are completely incomprehensible. Being in a foreign language doesn't help. Every year, for new members, YTOL organizes an "explained mass" in which the priest, during the celebration, explains in some detail everything he is doing. I wonder if this would be possible in a Divine Liturgy? I suppose it might also depend on the priest. I'll have to get moving on this and find out. Although I go to Fatima quite regularly, I was not aware that there was a Byzantine chapel there! I'll have to find out where it is and visit. Is it ecumenical? Orthodox? Or Catholic? Thanks for the info! Filipe
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