Dear friends:
Just a reminder from friendly forum moderator. We've seen a number of post related to Latin catholic praxis of late, and given the recent events of the last month, this is understandable. I'd like to remind our posters, that this is a forum dedicated to the discussion of the Eastern Churches, though admittedly we do focus more attention to those Churches and practices of the Constantinopalitan rite. The following is taken from the
User Agreement :
Welcome to The Byzantine Forum!
The Byzantine Forum welcomes all newcomers to our on-line community. This forum is mainly a community of Byzantine and other Eastern Christians who share a common historical and theological heritage. As such, it is an Eastern Christian forum and not specifically a Catholic forum. Roman Catholic and other Western Christians who have come here to learn about how we express our faith in Christ are warmly invited to participate, but we make clear that the primary purpose of this forum is to exchange information and ideas and not to engage in heavy apologetics. If you have come to overload us with apologetic quotes to test how "Catholic" we really are, please don't bother to register - that is simply not how we live out our lives of faith.
To truly understand who Eastern Christians are you must "come and see" for yourself by joining us in worship. The warmth and fellowship of our faith experienced in person cannot be described in any book. We extend a warm invitation to everyone to visit one of our parishes and join us in prayer.
Questions regarding Latin Catholic praxis, the restoration of the previous Latin rite, etc, really do not belong on this forum, and are best suited for Roman Catholic forums.
This is the end of the community service announcement. Now back to regular scheduled discussion.
Thank you!
