Posted on 09/27/2005 10:05:14 AM PDT by NYer
" Glad to see that there wasn't a FReeper Unia entered into while I wasn't looking! :-)"
LOL!!! Nope, no Freeper Unia. In fact we've been doing pretty good here in the lists with the only real excitement being me accusing Tex of being a "dreaded convert". By the way, that loud cruching sound you've all been hearing is me eating crow!
I sure hope you have some extra to share.
"Doesn't surprise me that he hung out with JPII..."
What ?
Simply not true.
Amen.
Care to elaborate on that comment please?
They both disliked Russians.
Fr. Alexander Schmemann had as number of choice words about the ridiculousness of all the "Patriarchs of the Great City of Antioch and all the East", considering that the City of Antioch does not exist as anything other than a small pastoral village.
May 24, 1977: "Orthodoxy refuses to recognize the fact of the collapse and the breakup of the Orthodox world; it has decided to live in its illusion; it has turned the Church into that illusion (yesterday we heard again and again about the ‘Patriarch of the great city of Antioch and of all the East’); it made the Church into a nonexistent world. I feel more and more strongly that I must devote the rest of my life to trying to dispel this illusion."
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0101/public.html
No need to eat crow on my account. We may disagree from time to time but we are STILL Brothers in Christ, and believers in His One, Holy, Orthodox faith. :)
Well now, my Latin/Papist friend....that depends on your point of view. Their are plenty of Orthodox who agree with my viewpoint.
The seat of the Patriarch of Antioch is Damascus. So what's your point Hermann?.......The See still exists.
"No need to eat crow on my account. We may disagree from time to time but we are STILL Brothers in Christ, and believers in His One, Holy, Orthodox faith. :)"
That indeed we are brother. But you know, when you get to my age one has usually eaten plenty of crow, and of course we Greeks have a recipe for making just about anything palatable...ever taste Retsina? Mmmm, turpentine flavored wine!
"Fr. Alexander Schmemann"
Another loose cannon, IMHO.
I prefer UZO......developed a taste for it :)
I prefer Bishop Kallistos, aka, Timothy Ware :)
"I prefer UZO......developed a taste for it :)"
Ouzo? :) Be careful, it will make you go blind. As for me, its retsina or that veritable nectar or the gods, domaca schlivovitca (developed a taste for that down in those Balkan mountains Kosta and I lie in wait for the Xenoi in!)
"I prefer Bishop Kallistos, aka, Timothy Ware :)"
Yeah, right! (You ought to hear him pronounce Greek words in his oh so very Oxford accent!)
I love Retsina. On my 18th birthday my parents asked me where I wanted to go for a huge party, and I chose a Greek restaurant. We had Retsina.
In high school I had already a great love of Greek things, music, food..could be I was heading toward Orthodoxy even then..
"I love Retsina."
This is a good sign! Turks hate it. :)
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