[NYer]

Ping!

[blam]

I thought ‘Oriental’ was now a racist word?

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Wow! Their costumes are even more ornate and beautiful than the Roman denomination. Stunning.

[JoeFromSidney]

On my first Sunday in Turkey I needed to go to Mass. My Department Chairman (a Muslim) had mistakenly directed me to the Greek Orthodox cathedral. When I got there I immediately realized that wasn't what I wanted. I looked around and found a place that looked "church-like" at the end of an alley. It had all the marks of a Catholic church (stations of the Cross, statues of the saint, etc.) but nothing to tell what it was. While I was standing there wondering what to do, a tour group came in. One of the tourists asked me something in English, which I was able to answer for him I then asked what this place was. He told me it was an Armenian Catholic church. I decided I might as well stick around and see if they had a Mass, which they did.

The next Sunday I found the church I should have been at, one run by an order of Italian monks.

[Viennacon]

Bless these men and women who currently live in perilous times in many parts of the world.

[Mike Darancette]

God bless our brothers in Christ.

[Kolokotronis]

As a matter of economia, the Oriental Orthodox can receive all of the sacraments of the Orthodox Churches as we can from them in the absence of one of their churches or one of ours as the case may be. This has been true for decades. In my parish, the Ethiopian contingent as well as the Armenians are very active members.

[piusv]

Pope Saint John Paul II signed accords with the Coptic Orthodox and the Syriac Orthodox (both miaphysite) recognizing that their Christology is currently sound and orthodox – fully in accord with Roman Catholic Christology. The Catholic Church recognizes that the debate was essentially linguistic and political and it’s worth nothing that ALL the miaphysite churches belong to the Eastern Provinces of Byzantium and were non-Greek speaking nations. Hence, there is little separating the Oriental Orthodox from joining into full communion with the Successor of Saint Peter in Rome.

And I should believe and trust a man who kissed the Koran, asked St John Baptist to protect Islam, and prayed with heretics and schimatics?

I'm more likely to buy that Brooklyn Bridge.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks. I had never before thought about Jesus Christ being "consubstantial," homoousios, -- one in being? --- with humanity.

All that is way beyond me. Athanasian Creed, Chalcedonian Christology ---I'm just way out of my depth.

[Dajjal]

bumpus ad summum