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chaldobyzantine
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Hello everyone,
As a Chaldean, I am all too familiar with ethnic tensions between Chaldeans and Assyrians. Yet, there sometimes is a light with our churches cooperating and communicating to help heal these divisions. I’ve seen Patriarch Louis-Raphael’s efforts towards both the Church of the East and the Ancient Church of the East as progressive steps forwards. I don’t know how the relations are between the ACoE and its Old Calendar counterpart, but I hope that is positive as well. (I’d like some insight about that as well.)
This question is targeted towards those more familiar with each situation, but how does each church see each other? Too often, I see Chaldean clergy and laity trying to distance themselves from Assyrians as a separate ethnicity and label them as Nestorian (which they definitely are not). The opposite exists as well, with Assyrians labeling Chaldeans as Papists who have lost their traditions and renamed themselves.
Then there is the situation among the churches, the Assyrian ones that only differ by the old and new calendars, and the Catholic one. Has the situation with Mar Sarhad Jammo accepting Mar Bawai Soro and his laity negatively affected the Chaldean Church’s relations with the Assyrian Church? Does either church truly desire unity with one another while retaining (or returning to the original) customs of the Church of the East?
Please help with any recent knowledge you may have concerning this issue. Please do not cite the documents between the churches from the 1990s. Thank you.
Peace and Blessings.
As a Chaldean, I am all too familiar with ethnic tensions between Chaldeans and Assyrians. Yet, there sometimes is a light with our churches cooperating and communicating to help heal these divisions. I’ve seen Patriarch Louis-Raphael’s efforts towards both the Church of the East and the Ancient Church of the East as progressive steps forwards. I don’t know how the relations are between the ACoE and its Old Calendar counterpart, but I hope that is positive as well. (I’d like some insight about that as well.)
This question is targeted towards those more familiar with each situation, but how does each church see each other? Too often, I see Chaldean clergy and laity trying to distance themselves from Assyrians as a separate ethnicity and label them as Nestorian (which they definitely are not). The opposite exists as well, with Assyrians labeling Chaldeans as Papists who have lost their traditions and renamed themselves.
Then there is the situation among the churches, the Assyrian ones that only differ by the old and new calendars, and the Catholic one. Has the situation with Mar Sarhad Jammo accepting Mar Bawai Soro and his laity negatively affected the Chaldean Church’s relations with the Assyrian Church? Does either church truly desire unity with one another while retaining (or returning to the original) customs of the Church of the East?
Please help with any recent knowledge you may have concerning this issue. Please do not cite the documents between the churches from the 1990s. Thank you.
Peace and Blessings.
