B XVI prayer intention for Nov. "For the eastern Churches..."

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General Intention: That the Eastern Catholic Churches and their venerable traditions may be known and esteemed as a spiritual treasure for the whole Church.
 
Well, to use the vernacular: so Awesome!!!

God Bless,
Pakesh
 
I enjoy watching EWTN’s Religious Catalogue show.

This week’s products are many of icons found in the Eastern traditions. 🙂
 
So how do I appreciate and know their venerable tradition as a spiritual treasure? Does he mean more than a cursory knowledge and respect by westerners for their eastern brothers?
 
DadDave said:
So how do I appreciate and know their venerable tradition as a spiritual treasure? Does he mean more than a cursory knowledge and respect by westerners for their eastern brothers?
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Read Theology of the Body. It borrows heavily from Eastern theology.
 
I think God will call different people to different ways of accomplishing the same thing.

One might learn iconography. One might offer website help to a local Eastern Catholic parish. One might pick up a book or bring it up in the RCIA class he teaches. A priest might concelebrate or invite an Eastern Catholic to give a talk at his parish. I just saw a thread here where Franciscan religious ask a Russian Catholic parish to come sing Byzantine prayers for the dead on the western feast of All Souls Day. A Roman Catholic I know is praying the morning and evening prayers and the Byzantine Psalter all month. The pope’s prayer includes all of these and more, all of which reflect Pope John Paul II’s prayer.
Pope John Paul II's Orientale Lumen:
Since, in fact, we believe that the venerable and ancient tradition of the Eastern Churches is an integral part of the heritage of Christ’s Church, the first need for Catholics is to be familiar with that tradition, so as to be nourished by it and to encourage the process of unity in the best way possible for each.

Our Eastern Catholic brothers and sisters are very conscious of being the living bearers of this tradition, together with our Orthodox brothers and sisters. The members of the Catholic Church of the Latin tradition must also be fully acquainted with this treasure and thus feel, with the Pope, a passionate longing that the full manifestation of the Church’s catholicity be restored to the Church and to the world, expressed not by a single tradition, and still less by one community in opposition to the other; and that we too may be granted a full taste of the divinely revealed and undivided heritage of the universal Church which is preserved and grows in the life of the Churches of the East as in those of the West.
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Well, by Roman Catholics learning about the traditions of the East, maybe the Pope is telling Roman Catholics that they shouldn’t be telling practicing Ukrainian Catholics yet still canonically Roman Catholics that they couldn’t teach catechism because they have a different Sacramental life.
 
The prayer should be: for Western Catholics, that they may know and appreciate the venerable tradition of the East. A tragedy that many Latin Catholics do not know their Eastern brethren. Here in the Philippines, most people will just stare at you at the mention of “Eastern Catholics” and “Orthodox Christians”.
 
ConstantineTG said:
Well, by Roman Catholics learning about the traditions of the East, maybe the Pope is telling Roman Catholics that they shouldn’t be telling practicing Ukrainian Catholics yet still canonically Roman Catholics that they couldn’t teach catechism because they have a different Sacramental life.
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LOL. I just became a catechist for a confirmation class at the local latin rite parish. They are having my pastor come speak about the eastern rites sometime in January. I’m sure if you pressed the issue… ahem… like a letter to the bishop’s office… I’m sure they will reconsider your offer to teach. 😃
 
Little_Boy_Lost said:
LOL. I just became a catechist for a confirmation class at the local latin rite parish. They are having my pastor come speak about the eastern rites sometime in January. I’m sure if you pressed the issue… ahem… like a letter to the bishop’s office… I’m sure they will reconsider your offer to teach. 😃
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Well, given that it was someone high up the Archdiocese (not the bishop, but high up in the catechetical program) who told me I cannot teach, I don’t know what good that will do. That letter will probably forwarded to the same person and I will be subject to the same narrow point of view.
 
ConstantineTG said:
Well, given that it was someone high up the Archdiocese (not the bishop, but high up in the catechetical program) who told me I cannot teach, I don’t know what good that will do. That letter will probably forwarded to the same person and I will be subject to the same narrow point of view.
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Considering all you have faced already, I wouldn’t bother with them.

Perhaps you should kick the dust off your sandals, and put all your energies into the Kievan church.
 
Hesychios said:
Considering all you have faced already, I wouldn’t bother with them.

Perhaps you should kick the dust off your sandals, and put all your energies into the Kievan church.
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Inclined to agree with Hesychios except for one thing

Kievan Church ???

Some mistake surely - Kyivan Church 🙂
 
Hesychios said:
Considering all you have faced already, I wouldn’t bother with them.

Perhaps you should kick the dust off your sandals, and put all your energies into the Kievan church.
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That is the advice I got.

You know the funniest turn of events here is. That parish has their pastor taking a leave of absence for 5 weeks. The priest who will cover for him is not a Roman Catholic priest, but a Chaldean one with biritual faculties. I wonder how these people who think I’m different because I’m not Roman anymore would react if they found out their priest for 5 weeks is not Roman either.
 
I think that’s a great opportunity for him to educate the parish on the chaldean church. Perhaps he will stay sometime after the last mass and give a little presentation?
 
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