Posted on 08/11/2012 4:07:48 PM PDT by NYer
Edited on 08/12/2012 7:56:31 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Thanks for this analysis. I am not a fan of track and field and I only happened to watch part of this race last night.
I know! My favorite Priest at our parish was from Nigeria.
His dad got sick and he had to go back home and I miss him horribly.
Maybe I’m mistaken but I would swear I saw the weightlifting coach from Iran make the Eastern Sign of the Cross before his man made a lift.
SO wonderful!
Saw this morning as I was getting ready to go to church, the American man who came in fourth for the men’s olympic marathon, whose whole family and with friends came to London to see him run. Saw him make the sign of the cross.
Thank you so much for posting this... I didn’t get a chance to thank you last night.
Meseret Defar is Ethiopian Orthodox. Christianity arrived in Ethiopia in the 1st Century. It long predates Western missionaries, or even Western Christianity.
I was inspired by this in a 5K race I ran today. I crossed myself at the start, and prayed to Jesus and Mary for strength in that difficult last half mile.
The picture the runner displayed is the traditional Ethiopian icon St. Mary of Zion, which is also the name of a very important Ethiopian church.
All the while she was displaying this picture the announcers were babbling about her cooperation with various UN population initiatives in Africa . . . about as stark a contrast as you could experience.
The ancient Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is one of the Oriental Orthodox (non-Chalcaedonian) churches, formerly under the Coptic Church of Egypt but since 1959 with its own patriarch.
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