Posted on 08/16/2006 5:31:28 PM PDT by Coleus
Why can't they just start their own churches instead of taking over others'??
Sounds to me as if they were the ones desecrating the service.
Haven't we been told that this stuff never happens?
I don't care what people believe or who/what they worship just as long as it does not include killing me.
They're getting a little slow. It took them 16 minutes.
"They" can read just fine.
Desecrating a desecration?
Inculturation bumpus ad summum
St. Thomas was already busy Christianizing India while Joseph of Arimathea was Christianizing Wales in the FIRST CENTURY ~ so they had at least a thousand years to work this out before Rome sought supremacy over all the more ancient Christian congregations in the far East and far West.
I would guess the rationale here is that the Roman Catholics in Tranta see an opportunity to pick off the Christians from St. Thomas mission as they get off the Boeing.
That's what you meant, right?
Pagan rites at a Catholic church? I'm shocked....shocked I say.
Must be why the Catholics, even in nearby Russia, never really figured out how to move Santa out!
I really only have one question about this whole thing...
Is Father Thomas D'Sa (Director of the National Biblical Catechetical Liturgical Centre [NBCLC] of the Indian Bishops' Conference in Bangalore, India), the unnamed "pastor" of St Ann's, and the unnamed nuns mentioned at the end of the article (still) in full Communion with Rome following this Mass?
Great! This will be plastered all over anti-Catholic websites within a matter of hours.
Besides, didn't David "dance before the Lord"?
I'm not sure I can use the word Christian in association with them, isn't that the whole conflict?
Did David dance before the Lord in the Temple? No, no record of that that I am aware of.. besides read the article. This has nothing whatsoever to do with dance.
You and I had crossed swords on an earlier Christian/Hindu thread, and I'd trust you to give a fair assessment on whether this was actually Hinduism being presented, or whether the parishoners were overreacting.
My understanding is that both Orthodox and Roman Catholic "groups" have thought it necessary to absorb Thomas' church, and this causes a lot of distress to the RC's in Goa which was formerly a Portuguese colony/trading port.
There are a lot of sites on the net that give you all sides of this "Shivaesque debate".
Still, in this particular event I fail to see the Hindu element. No one did burnt sacrifice, and there was no sharing and shaking of the wheat chaf screen for example.
No one rolled out a linga and poured milk on it either.
What we have is some small group of people who are of the impression that "dancing" in a Christian service is either hareem (forbidden), or so unusual as to quite possibly not be Christian at all!!
Oh, yeah, and the Indian ladies wore silk saris.
Oh, my Heavens~!!
Of course in numerous socities around the world it is common to wear your best clothes to church ~ that old "First Fruits" doctrine at work ~ kind of Jewish, but Christians can do that stuff too.
Presider: Fr. Thomas D’Sa
Director of the National Biblical Catechetical Liturgical Centre (CBCI) Bangalore, India.
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