"If you come back, we can utilize your skills and knowledge” - Chaldean Patriarch

[shlomo3amrooh]

While the statement in the title is true. I must mention that we Eastern Catholics in the diaspora must play a very important part in the evangelisation of the greater world. God has put us here in the West. We have integrated, been educated, learnt the languages and understood the cultures. We now are now ‘in the world’ of the West.

to read more click below:

qadishat.com/2013/10/if-you-come-back-we-can-utilize-your.html

 

[Trebor135]

It seems way too early for the patriarch to be encouraging his people to return to the Middle East. Syria and Iraq in particular are awful places for Christians to be.

While the statement in the title is true. I must mention that we Eastern Catholics in the diaspora must play a very important part in the evangelisation of the greater world. God has put us here in the West. We have integrated, been educated, learnt the languages and understood the cultures. We now are now ‘in the world’ of the West.

to read more click below:

qadishat.com/2013/10/if-you-come-back-we-can-utilize-your.html

This part jumped out at me: “The Eastern Churches (especially those belonging to the Syriac traditions) have in and of themselves charisms that the early Church had. This, I believe will be important in the conversion of the Protestants.”

The big issue for Catholics in the West, apart from some places in the U.S., is generally nominalism and outright secularism…

 

[Peter_J]

I’ll be honest, when I read the quote in the thread title, I thought this thread was about the Chaldean Patriarch encouraging the ACoE to “come back” to Catholicism.

As Cinderella said, Oh! That does make a difference.

 

[Aramis]

I’ll be honest, when I read the quote in the thread title, I thought this thread was about the Chaldean Patriarch encouraging the ACoE to “come back” to Catholicism.

As Cinderella said, Oh! That does make a difference.

Same here.

Traditional faiths are looking to be falling to secularism and to “prosperity gospel megachurches”…

 

[malphono]

While the statement in the title is true. I must mention that we Eastern Catholics in the diaspora must play a very important part in the evangelisation of the greater world. God has put us here in the West. We have integrated, been educated, learnt the languages and understood the cultures. We now are now ‘in the world’ of the West.

to read more click below:

qadishat.com/2013/10/if-you-come-back-we-can-utilize-your.html

I happen to agree with Mar Louis-Raphael in his position. The same idea has been around in Maronite circles (at one time in the late 1980s, the current Patriarch was a champion of it), but obviously hasn’t met with much success.

Sure, many of us are in the diaspora, some of born here, but our roots will always and ever be in the Middle East. The problem is the constant exodus of our people from our homelands, which lessens our presence and gives the conquering invaders what they were unable to achieve for 1500 years: the elimination of the Christians. and that is something that we really cannot let happen. I’ve said this many times, but we weathered the Byzantines (and farther east, the Persians); we weathered the Arabs; we weathered the Ottomans, and then the Brits (the French were, at least, friendly and non-confrontational, so I won’t include France here), but in the past 40-some years we’ve had US interference and I don’t know if we can weather that. As of result of that latest interference, our numbers are now substantially shrunken. To restore both stability and an effective Christian presence, whether it be in Iraq, or Lebanon, or Syria, our people have to begin to regain their abandoned homelands. It won’t be easy. But Mar Louis-Raphael is right: our people have to try.

 

[SyroMalankara]

Of course, it would help immensely if our own Patriarch/Catholicoi/Bishops had jurisdiction outside the tiny territories they seem to think they are limited to. Why not try to expand all on their own and leave the complaining to the complainers.