[marshmallow]

Orthodoxy, like Catholicism, is deeply attentive to Church history and tradition.

This is a difficult concept to grasp for American congregationalists, utterly adrift as they are, on a sea of individualism and subjectivity.

[GOP Poet]

I am deeply moved by this action of the Russian people knowing how dangerous it once was to worship God or to give regard to spiritual aspirations. I know the spirit never left them as I have spoken to many who have told stories of hidden relics that were taken out only briefly to be prayed to or contemplated before being shuttered back into hiding.

As one who was raised Catholic, spent a period of time in my adulthood as a Presbyterian and then converted back to Catholicism, I am so grateful to have the deeply attentive to Church history and tradition (as you so wonderfully put it) back in my life. Honestly. It never left even when I took a break from the church. I came back understanding this deep regard for the Church history and tradition even more so. I am so grateful to God for blessing me with this understanding. Thank you for the post.

[lastchance]

They are more to be pitied than censured.

[Quix]

utterly adrift as they are, on a sea of individualism and subjectivity.

Soooooooooo, which of the tens of thousands of individualized factions within the Vatican Ashteroth-Mary cult (aka the RCC) do you belong to?