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Hello everyone! I am new to the forum and I just thought I would take a moment and introduce myself. My name is Aaron and I am a 24 y/o male and I live in the suburbs of Chicago. I've been lurking around the forum for a while and I thought it was time for me to finally register and start posting.  I am looking forward to participating on the forum and getting to know everyone here a little bit better.  May God bless you! In Christ, Aaron
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Welcome Aaron,
I hope you will find our discussions informative and constructive in your spiritual path.
I've been around the Forum about five years now and find something new almost every day.
John
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Welcome Aaron!
Glad to have you with us, we all gain when interested new people participate.
Have you attended an eastern church? There are several around Chicagoland you might like to visit.
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Welcome Aaron!
We were all new comers at one time.
Hope you find this a comfortable home, kick off your shoes and stay a while. We will learn from one another.
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Dear Aaron:
From the Western side of the Windy City, I welcome you to this Forum.
Amado
(Go CUBS!)
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Welcome brother Aaron and may you be comfortable within this very charitable forum.
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Welcome Aaron!
God bless you.
Christ is our peace.
Paul
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Originally posted by Amadeus:
Dear Aaron:
From the Western side of the Windy City, I welcome you to this Forum.
Amado
(Go CUBS!) Dear Amado, I finally take a (baseball) stand: Dodgers!, Dodgers!, Dodgers! I am a cradle L.A. Dodgers fan. I can smell the grass at Chavez Ravine.  Cubs are cool.  I'm a National League guy. Paul
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Paul,
I can ship you some Dodger turf,one of my last work sites was near Fletcher & Riverside Dr, though it will be boxed aka Property of The World Champion 2004 Boston Red Sox.
LT where are you............wearing Cardinal red yet?
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Thank you all for the welcome, it was very nice of you. I have been going through the many posts on the rest of the forum and it's because of that that I haven't posted outside of this thread yet - I don't know where to begin! So, I will start by replying to some of your questions. Have you attended an eastern church? There are several around Chicagoland you might like to visit. By eastern are you referring to Eastern Catholic or Eastern Orthodox? I suppose it doesn't matter because the answer to both would be yes! I have worshipped in many of the local Orthodox churches - basically from all the jurisdictions that have a church within a 30-40 minunte drive from home. Those would include the GOA, UOC, OCA, AOC, ROCOR, and the GOC. I have been wanting to learn more about the Oriental Orthodox Churches, so I've also recently visited a Coptic Orthodox Church as well. I hadn't been to any Eastern Catholic Churches at all until Lent of this year when I visited a Ruthenian/Byzantine church several times during Holy Week. I did enjoy my visit there and found both the priest as well as many of the parishioners I met there to be very kind. I've not yet been to any other Eastern Catholic Churches, but I would like to eventually visit a Maronite parish as well as a Ukrainian Greek Catholic church. I am interested in learning more about their traditions and hope to attend some liturgies when I can. I have already learned a lot just from going through posts on this forum! Thank you again everybody and may God bless and keep you! In Christ, Aaron Go Cubs GO!!
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Crystal Gayle sang about "Made up places with counterfeit names". To paraphrase one of our Popes, "Outside of Brooklyn, there are no Dodgers!" :p All else is Hollywood hype! :p Originally posted by paromer:
I finally take a (baseball) stand:
Dodgers!, Dodgers!, Dodgers!
I am a cradle L.A. Dodgers fan.
I can smell the grass at Chavez Ravine.
Cubs are cool. I'm a National League guy.
Paul I do agree that the Cubs are cool! But since they got lights at Wrigley Field, less so.  I've been a National League fan since those Texas rascals stole our beloved Senators a while back.  As for the grass at Chavez Ravine, "the brown rolling hills of California are the nearest thing to desert I have seen!" :p John Pilgrim and Odd Duck
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Aaron,
Welcome to the Forum, hope you enjoy it here.
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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John, I'll I know is the L.A. Dodgers. At least I was born when they were in Brooklyn. I appreciate your affection for the Brooklyn Dodgers. The California desert at Chavez Ravine? You need to come and see New Mexico's desert! Oh yeah, Go Albuquerque Isotopes! The Isotopes have a new stadium and it is Christ is our peace. Paul
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If I get a chance, The great places between San Antonio and California are places I'd love to visit. As the Dodger faithful used to say in Brooklyn: "Wait 'til next year!" "Isotopes?" An imaginative name, indeed.
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Welcome to the Forum, Aaron. I'm going to play the role of an old Yiddish grandmother and say that "yoo hehf a nice joo-ish nehm." Logos Teen
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John,
Do you know the Springfield Isotopes on the "Simpsons?" Homer was upset because his Isotopes were moved to Albuquerque.
Yep, that's where the name came from.
Paul
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Welcome Aaron, Here is hoping that you enjoy this lively and interesting forum. from a Mariners' fan who lives way out West...geographically speaking...And whose heart is facing East(Byzantine Catholic) non-geographically speaking. Porter
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