Thanks. I misunderstood one sentence in your comment and based my reply on that. I don’t want to take this thread too far off course so I think I’ll leave this discussion behind. I do appreciate that the EO honor and venerate the BVM even though they consider the Catholic Church’s formulation of the IC as heresy. I know that disagreement does not arise out of EO disparging or slandering the Virgin Mary.
I do believe that the Catholic view of original sin may be too much influenced by Augustine but the Eastern teaching is gaining more and more understanding and acceptance as seen in that passage of the Catechism. It remains though that we do not believe man to have been totally depraved as a result of the fall.
May the Lord who gives all life ever watch over you and bless you.
Thank-you.
May Christ our true God who rose from the dead, as a good, loving, and merciful God, have mercy upon you, through the intercessions of His most pure and Holy Mother; the power of the precious and life-giving Cross; the protection of the honorable, bodiless powers of heaven; the supplications of the honorable, glorious, prophet, and forerunner John the Baptist; of the holy, glorious, and praiseworthy apostles; of the holy, glorious, and triumphant martyrs; of our saintly and God inspired Fathers; of the holy and righteous ancestors of God Joachim and Anna; of Saint Nicholas whose memory we commemorate today, and all the saints, and save you for He is gracious and loves mankind.