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Dear KL,

Not a bad idea, unless, of course, you are a real GREEK!

Personally, if I weren't Ukrainian (and to be honest, if I had had any say in the matter, the Ukies wouldn't necessarily be my first choice for an ethnic community:)), I'd love the chance to experience a culture other than the sophisticated "football, hot dogs and beer" NA cosmopolitan one that surrounds us.

Do you think David will issue his apology to me soon? I want to go on coffee break!

Alex

Was that a George Maloney book?

Michael

Dear Michael:

You are exactly right. Thank you. "Skleroza" is setting in, I guess.


Dear Alex:

No doubt it's hard to be Ukie, and sometimes we might want to free ourselves from the emotional cross that we bear. But then we think of the wonderful "tyiahlist'" that we experience day in and day out and shed a tear in spite of ourselves.

As for the other stuff, well....

Yours,

kl

Ah ha Alex!

You came back before I apologized! :p

I was going to say that I was testing you but to tell the truth, every now and then I do actually have some work to do.

But for the sake of peace I will apologize for any slight, intended or unintended, that you may have felt coming from me Alex, afterall, isn't that the Eastern way of things?


David

Dear Alex:

Aahh, that feels good!

Now that he has apologized, what were you telling us while DavidB was temporarily gone?

AmdG

Dear Alex:



I know, I know: you would rather be either Polish or Ruthenian!

(Paging the Administrator!)

AmdG

Polish? really?!?

Dear David,

Apology accepted!

I'd hug you if you weren't so far out in cyberspace!

God bless you!

Alex

Dear Amado,

I'm already half-Polish and I have Carpatho-Rusyns on my Father's side . . .

My entire lineage is: Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, German, French, Scottish, Italian, Hungarian and Belgian.

You can readily see the Belgian in me when I start to waffle . . .

Alex

A veritable European Union!

Dear Coalesco,

Except with prayer beads . . .

Alex

Dear Alex

The whole EU could use those prayer beads!!

Michael

Dear Coalesco,

To bead or not to bead - that is surely the question!

This reminds me of an episode in the life of St Dominic when he was preaching the Rosary.

A man possessed by demons came up to his pulpit uttering obscenities to everyone's horror.

Dominic threw his long rosary over the man's neck and held him there - the fellow could not move with the beads around him.

Then everyone knelt down and recited the Rosary.

At each "Hail Mary," demons were seen to be leaving the man's mouth in the form of fiery sparks . . .

At the end, the man was freed from possession.

And in former times in Europe, people would walk reciting the Rosary that they kept in special "Rosary bags" slung over their shoulders.

They would actually measure distances between cities and villages in terms of the number of Rosaries that could be said while walking between them!

When asked, people would say "this town is 5 Rosaries away" etc.

A radio announcer was doing a commercial up here the other day and was promoting a store.

He said, "The store is just two Hail Mary's away from anywhere you are in Toronto."

I contacted him and asked him where he got that.

He said his grandmother taught him that . . .

And also, did you know that the coat of arms of the City of Los Angeles is surrounded by a Franciscan Seven Decade Rosary? Yup, it truly is - to honour the Franciscan heritage of that city!

Alex

Talking about the Rosary and beads, I read that there is an Orthodox prayer "The Jesus Prayer" that is recite with beads about 100 of them. Could anyone tell me about that?
Luly

Why so many Orthodox denominations? By their names, seems to be something more regional. What are the main differences in terms of religion?
Luly