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GLORY TO JESUS CHRIST!
Just a short note to wish everyone a very happy and joyous Christmas and very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.
I'm taking a break from the Forum for a while. There are some things going on in my personal life that are taking time away from this Forum.
I've also read some things on the Forum that I have not agreed with and have tried not to respond to. I can't let this Forum raise my blood pressure and put my health at risk.
I want to say thanks to everyone here it's been a REAL learning experience to say the least....
I don't know when and if I will return, I leave that in the hands of someone far greater than I....
Once again, many thanks to you all for your prayers and thoughts and kind words...
Wishing you all the Blessings of the New-born Christchild...
the least servant of the Servants...
mark
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Dear Mark,
...and a most blessed Christmas to you too! Don't stay away too long!
In Christ,
Alice
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Mark,
A Blessed Nativity season to you and my prayers that your New Year will be healthy and prosporous.
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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I loved your post about St-Michael's UGCC in Baltimore - I got a good chuckle out of it. One thing I learned a long time ago is that there are always two (and sometimes more) sides to a story.
Good Luck and I hope you return !
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A Most Blessed Christmas to all!
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The most Blessed Nativity season to all my brothers and sisters.
Mr Administrator, thank you for all you do for us as another calender year ends! Many Years!
Michael
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To all posters, members, and readers of the Forum,
and especially to the Cambria county boys:
Vinchujem, vinchujem:
Na totu svaty veliju
Zheby vam Pan buh dal
shchesce, zdrave, i shicko dobre.
I wish you, I wish you:
At this Holy Velija
May the Lord give you
Happiness, health, and everything good.
djs
p.s.
Still hoping someone can help find the words in Rusyn.
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I would also like to wish everyone a Blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year
Peace,
Sam
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Djs, how about this Rusyn "Vinchovanja";
Vinchujeme vam, vinchujeme, Bo na pecu dashto chujeme. Shi by zme znaly vam lipshe vincuvaty,
Kiby ste nam daly z n'oho pokushtuvaty.
Christos Razhadjet'sja! Slavite Jeho!
We greet you , we greet you, We know you've got something on the stove. We'd give you an even better greeting, If you would give us a taste of it!
Christ is Born! Glorify Him!
Ung-Certez
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Merry Christmas, everyone!
And it actually is Christmas morning as I post these words.
Christ is born!
Glorify Him!
Not only in faith, but also in works, God has given man freedom of the will.
- St. Irenaeus
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Christ is born!
Merry christmas to all!
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Mark, you most certainly will be missed.
We all need to step away from this occasionally, come back when you feel you can and have a Happy New Year.
Merry Christmas
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Dear Mark: Vaya con Dios, my friend, and may you and your family have a merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year! We await your return!  And to ALL: From my family to yours, happy holidays and may you have a blessed Christmas! AmdG
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Dear Amado,
Merry Christmas! Christ is born! Glorify Him!
I love the wish of 'vaya con Dios'. This means, 'go with God', does it not?
Do contemporary young Spanish speaking peoples still use this phrase, or has it lost its popularity?
I think of English phrases such as 'God willing', or 'God speed', and lament how they are not used in common vernacular anymore.
I look forward to your answer.
In our new born King,
Alice
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Dear Alice: I am of Filipino descent and my grandfather and father used to say that a lot! My grandfather's generation was the last to speak and write in Spanish after the Americans "imposed" English on us when they "purchased" the Philippines from the Spaniards in 1898 (as a result of a short war between them). We were a colony of Spain, like all of Latin America, for almost 400 years. We have Spain's Catholicism and Hispanic names, and had her language until the Americans came. Now, the Philippines has only two official languages: Pilipino and English. Spanish was suppressed finally by a legislative act of our Congress in the 1960s. Surprisingly, the medium of instruction from high school upwards and the language of commerce is English, while the lingua franca is Pilipino, and other major regional languages, in the rural areas and English, with a smuttering of Spanish and Pilipino, in the urban areas. (BTW, of the Top 10 English-language daily newspapers in the world, in terms of paid circulation, 4 are published in Manila, 3 in the UK, and 1 each in the U.S., Canada, and France. Number 1 is "The Sun" of London, followed by "The New York Times." The top from the Philippines is "The Philippine Daily Inquirer" [displacing my favorite "The Manila Times"] at #5.) We lost Sapnish and gained (American) English and the American educational system. Judging from my association with Hispanics here in the Chicago area, I still hear some of them say "Vaya con Dios!" Let's hope "paromer (paul)" and/or "Memo Rodriquez," real Hispanics, could chime in. Hasta la vista!  AmdG
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