Does the Roman Church allow its members to Practice Hesychastic prayer?

[kitkatty]

Thanks for having the book The Face of God , along with links to order,brought up in this thread. That is a book that I have been meaning to get for so long and discussion of it brought it to mind again. I am definitly ordering it this time.

 

[Hesychios]

I know you didn’t intend it that way but this statement is incredibly condescending. I’m not trying to be confrontational or rude but attitudes like this are a large part of the reason so many Orthodox would never consider uniting with the Catholic Church.

In Christ,
Joe

Quite so!

If there was some acknowledgment that the Vatican does not have the right to interfere (such as the Pope once saying the church does not *have the right *to ordain women) then I think we could say things are properly ordered.

To say the Vatican allows is to say that it can do whatever it pleases in regard to the eastern churches, but either chooses the high road for the present or condescends to the eastern Christians attachments. Neither sense of the term is very flattering.