St. Nicholas Dinner

[Elizium23]

I have a friend who goes ballroom dancing with me every week, and for a while we have been talking about making a trip across town to the Byzantine Catholic Cathedral and soak in the culture. Last week he suggested that we go to the annual St. Nicholas Dinner held there, and I was all for it. He even offered to pay for my meal. Sweet deal! Then the other day I spoke to him and he said it starts at noon. Well, my parish has a huge annual fiesta for Our Lady of Guadalupe and both of these events fall on the same day this year. So I had a difficult choice to make; miss one or the other, there was no double-dipping. So I made up my mind that I would like a change this year and I would go to the dinner. But if the dinner starts at 12, that means it commences directly after Divine Liturgy at 10, so I queried my friend to see if we could just go two hours early and enjoy the awesome liturgy, because I do so love the Byzantines and I haven’t been to one in about ten years. Well, he said no chance

So I am going to the dinner anyway, but I’m going to miss out on liturgy. Well, maybe some other time. The real problem is that Eastern Catholic churches are so far away from my place and I’m a bus rider. Especially on Sundays there is limited bus service so I do not like to get around town at that time. And I am so involved and active in my Latin parish that I really have little time for anything else at all, let alone worship in another Rite. So I remain a very frustrated lover of the East. Please pray for me and I will pray for you all. Thanks.

 

[ClearWater]

Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God,
Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.
:angel1:

 

[Kipling]

Did you enjoy the dinner?

 

[peresieh]

Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God,
Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.
:angel1:

What does this prayer have to do with the St. Nicholas dinner?
The prayer that Eastern Catholics use predates the Western Hail Mary by 1000 years and goes like this (depending on translation): Rejoice, O Virgin Theotokos, Mary full of Grace, the Lord is with you, blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, for you have born Christ, the Savior and deliverer of our souls. (See New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia).

 

[Elizium23]

Yes, I enjoyed the dinner immensely, there was good food and our table guests were four lovely women who made great conversation. Afterwards there was a little presentation by the children and a visit from St. Nicholas himself. My friend did not win the annuity raffle he was hoping for, but his friend did win a couple neat things from the grab-bag table.

My friend has invited me back for next year, and I’d love to go, but I fear that it will consistently conflict with my own parish’s fiesta for Our Lady of Guadalupe, which is not something I want to keep on missing because it had become quite a tradition for me.

 

[josie_L]

What does this prayer have to do with the St. Nicholas dinner?
The prayer that Eastern Catholics use predates the Western Hail Mary by 1000 years and goes like this (depending on translation): Rejoice, O Virgin Theotokos, Mary full of Grace, the Lord is with you, blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, for you have born Christ, the Savior and deliverer of our souls. (See New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia).

Well, my dad’s bigger than your dad!!

 

[peresieh]

josie L.

No offense intended. This is an Eastern Catholic forum discussing the St. Nicholas dinner.

 

[josie_L]

Your point being that someone can’t say the “Hail Mary” because it’s an Eastern Catholic forum.

 

[josie_L]

I have a friend who goes ballroom dancing with me every week, and for a while we have been talking about making a trip across town to the Byzantine Catholic Cathedral and soak in the culture. Last week he suggested that we go to the annual St. Nicholas Dinner held there, and I was all for it. He even offered to pay for my meal. Sweet deal! Then the other day I spoke to him and he said it starts at noon. Well, my parish has a huge annual fiesta for Our Lady of Guadalupe and both of these events fall on the same day this year. So I had a difficult choice to make; miss one or the other, there was no double-dipping. So I made up my mind that I would like a change this year and I would go to the dinner. But if the dinner starts at 12, that means it commences directly after Divine Liturgy at 10, so I queried my friend to see if we could just go two hours early and enjoy the awesome liturgy, because I do so love the Byzantines and I haven’t been to one in about ten years. Well, he said no chance

So I am going to the dinner anyway, but I’m going to miss out on liturgy. Well, maybe some other time. The real problem is that Eastern Catholic churches are so far away from my place and I’m a bus rider. Especially on Sundays there is limited bus service so I do not like to get around town at that time. And I am so involved and active in my Latin parish that I really have little time for anything else at all, let alone worship in another Rite. So I remain a very frustrated lover of the East. Please pray for me and I will pray for you all. Thanks.

Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God, Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
:angel1:

What does this prayer have to do with the St. Nicholas dinner?

Please pray for me and I will pray for you all. Thanks.

Didn’t mention which prayers he wanted, so I presume all prayers are accepted!

The prayer that Eastern Catholics use predates the Western Hail Mary by 1000 years and goes like this (depending on translation): Rejoice, O Virgin Theotokos, Mary full of Grace, the Lord is with you, blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, for you have born Christ, the Savior and deliverer of our souls. (See New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia).

What does praying for someone have to do with how old the prayer is, i.e., is it more efficacious (spiritually) if I use an older prayer?

 

[Catherine_Grant]

The focus of this forum is to provide a community for Eastern Catholics and to help Latin Catholics better appreciate the Church’s Eastern heritage.

Members are not allowed to be disrespectful of anyone’s faith or religion, whether it is Catholicism or not.

Members are free to discuss, dialogue, question, disagree with, and debate the liturgy, theology, spirituality, discipline, culture, and history of Eastern, Oriental, and Western Catholicism. While these topics may legitimately be discussed in charity, calling into question the catholicity, orthodoxy, or personal faith of another is outside the purpose of this forum and will not be tolerated. Please review our forum guidelines on charity before posting.

I apologize on behalf of the Eastern Catholicism forum that this thread tried to exclude the prayers of Catholics that were in line with the poster’s request. Posts were removed. Please return to the thread topic.

So I remain a very frustrated lover of the East. Please pray for me and I will pray for you all. Thanks.

 

[SuperLuigi]

I have a friend who goes ballroom dancing with me every week, and for a while we have been talking about making a trip across town to the Byzantine Catholic Cathedral and soak in the culture. Last week he suggested that we go to the annual St. Nicholas Dinner held there, and I was all for it. He even offered to pay for my meal. Sweet deal! Then the other day I spoke to him and he said it starts at noon. Well, my parish has a huge annual fiesta for Our Lady of Guadalupe and both of these events fall on the same day this year. So I had a difficult choice to make; miss one or the other, there was no double-dipping. So I made up my mind that I would like a change this year and I would go to the dinner. But if the dinner starts at 12, that means it commences directly after Divine Liturgy at 10, so I queried my friend to see if we could just go two hours early and enjoy the awesome liturgy, because I do so love the Byzantines and I haven’t been to one in about ten years. Well, he said no chance

So I am going to the dinner anyway, but I’m going to miss out on liturgy. Well, maybe some other time. The real problem is that Eastern Catholic churches are so far away from my place and I’m a bus rider. Especially on Sundays there is limited bus service so I do not like to get around town at that time. And I am so involved and active in my Latin parish that I really have little time for anything else at all, let alone worship in another Rite. So I remain a very frustrated lover of the East. Please pray for me and I will pray for you all. Thanks.

It would also be good to post all prayer requests in the Prayer Intentions Forum.