[bornacatholic]

Don't worry. I didn't take it the wrong way. Maybe I'll see one of you there next year. I think it'd be fun to go there and soak-up some of the atmosphere and, hopefully, get to see and hear your great Patriarch. I'm not that far away.

I gotta say I LOVE his public personna, words, bearing,vestments ect. Such contra mundum clothing, bearing, actions, speech and behavior reminds all that some are chosen by God and ordained to serve Him and in serving Him, serving us. It is really a wonderful thing to behold such dignified dress, bearing, and demeanor- especially in egalitarian American.

Our Tradition teaches Vestments were created to remind all of the world that the Priest/Patriarch/Pope (especially during service at the Altar), "in a sense leaves the earth and enters another world, the shimmer of which is mirrored in his vesture"

When I was young, a LONG time ago, I was used to seeing Clerics in the Roman Collar and Bishops wonderously attired appearing in public.

I pray the great example of your Patriarch will remind our Prelates that such vestments serve as a witness to Christ amongst the World and if there is one thing we Latins must recapture, it is a sense of dignity, decorum, bearing, humility and honor, all of which are virtues personified by your Patriarch.

[kosta50]

Thanks bornacatholic. +Benedict XVI is reviving the patristic beauty of the Church in the West, externally and internally. Just as his predecessor, +JPII started, the Latin Church is making a bold move for a historic moment. +Benedict XVI says the Church is moving "irreversably towards a reunion." We may not live here long enough to see it, but we can all see it in a different way.

In my lifetime, our particular Churches went from complete separation to withdrawls of excommunications, to inter-Church dialogue, etc. all the way to +Bartholomew I, not so long ago, sending greetings to "Our beloved Roman Catholic Church" while responding to a papal legate who paid him a visit in Instanbul.

So, while it may not be ours to see, we should continue to pray, but remember that the clergy and laity must step forward and initiate these changes.

[kosta50]

Thanks bornacatholic. +Benedict XVI is reviving the patristic beauty of the Church in the West, externally and internally. Just as his predecessor, +JPII started, the Latin Church is making a bold move for a historic moment. +Benedict XVI says the Church is moving "irreversably towards a reunion." We may not live here long enough to see it, but we can all see it in a different way.

In my lifetime, our particular Churches went from complete separation to withdrawls of excommunications, to inter-Church dialogue, etc. all the way to +Bartholomew I, not so long ago, sending greetings to "Our beloved Roman Catholic Church" while responding to a papal legate who paid him a visit in Instanbul.

So, while it may not be ours to see, we should continue to pray, but remember that the clergy and laity must step forward and initiate these changes.

[kosta50]

Thanks bornacatholic. +Benedict XVI is reviving the patristic beauty of the Church in the West, externally and internally. Just as his predecessor, +JPII started, the Latin Church is making a bold move for a historic moment. +Benedict XVI says the Church is moving "irreversably towards a reunion." We may not live here long enough to see it, but we can all see it in a different way.

In my lifetime, our particular Churches went from complete separation to withdrawls of excommunications, to inter-Church dialogue, etc. all the way to +Bartholomew I, not so long ago, sending greetings to "Our beloved Roman Catholic Church" while responding to a papal legate who paid him a visit in Instanbul.

So, while it may not be ours to see, we should continue to pray, but remember that the clergy and laity must step forward and initiate these changes.