Why Tradition? (Part I of II)

This is Life!: Revolutions Around the Cruciform Axis ^ | 1/28/2005 | Clifton

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

The reaction becomes...you taught us this...when we had THAT sitting unused in the closet!!??

That was my reaction when I walked into the Indult Tridentine Mass for the first time several years ago.

[Kolokotronis]

"I think I have ancestors who were Greek Orthodox, lol ;-)"

I don't doubt that one bit, CofD, and you can always come home to the Faith of your ancestors! :)

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

;-)

[Claud]

My understanding is that the Byzantine colonies in Italy remained in communion with Rome after the schism, so technically they'd have been Greek Catholic.

[Kolokotronis]

I can't say for sure on this, but I do know that there were many, many communities in the Christian world which simply ignored the schism and stayed in communion with both Churches. I know this happened in a number of places throughout the Balkans and the Aegean. Gradually the boundaries hardened though and communities "chose sides".