Thanks and Good Bye!

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With the forum now in palliative care until the end, I just wanted to say thanks and Good Bye to all here. It seems appropriate to post here as it was my favourite sub-forum, being a bona-fide “liturgy geek”.

Too many names to mention but I would like to single out our priests and deacons who participated and took the time to answer questions in spite of occasional hostility.

@Don_Ruggero
@edward_george1
@InThePew
@(name removed by moderator)

are the ones I can think of off the top of my head; many thanks for taking the time out of your busy ministries to answer questions and edify all of us. To those I missed or forgot, thanks as well!

Also my fellow oblate @SuscipeMeDomine who always embodied Benedictine stability and hospitality in his postings. And @1ke who really was “Catholic Answers” on many topics, especially the matrimonial subjects.

And to all the others who participated with good will, even when we disagreed, God Bless and many thanks. You’re all in my prayer intentions.

OraLabora
Benedictine Oblate.
 
Thank you, @OraLabora!

Every best wish to you.

I really enjoyed our interactions here. I wish they might have been even more…but the circumstances after the change of platform and personnel did not facilitate that, which was really unfortunate.
 
I wish to avail myself of @OraLabora and his thread to echo his message…“thanks and goodbye”.

There are too many people to try to name. I think those with whom I have had fond and cordial interactions will recognize themselves and know that these words are addressed – of good regards and best wishes – are meant for them.

It was an amazing life…to be a priest, a professor, to have held the assignments I have held and to have been sent to all the countries where I lived and worked in, across the span of a life time. To work for my bishop, to work in the curia, to be a pastor, to work in the academy. It’s a lot to look back upon – and with much gratitude.

I want to extend special greetings to Father @edward_george1 to whom I wish ad multos annos. May you and your priesthood be richly blessed, young Father.

Looking at my statistics a last time, I really should pay tribute to @Jerzy who liked my posts at a rate even double of people next on the list.

So many of those I had close and delightful exchanges are long gone from here…and that is a sadness I will not hide because this forum was rendered poorer for their absence.

I will close expressing the joy that I had in knowing and interacting with @Thomas_Casey, @Jean_Anthony and the other moderators of a previous era. It was a real joy and a real pleasure to actually have prolonged conversations with human beings who were engaged with their work as moderators and engaging in their interactions with us as individuals and involving themselves on the threads. They made this forum HUMAN and gave it human faces and brought to the each of the sub-forums their firmness and their governance by which would its Catholicity and charity would prevail…by such means necessary. I miss them still. God bless them wherever they are! In spite of the portrait that futurists paint, interacting with automatons has little appeal…at least to someone of my generation.

Recalling the charming American musical, I join in their chorus:

So long
Farewell
Aufwiedersehn
Adieu
Adieu Adieu
To yieu and yieu and yieu

 
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I would also like to say thank you. I’m also a liturgy & canon law nerd. Anyone else ever use the code of canon law for light reading? I started here when I was still the parish secretary and after I had taken just enough liturgy courses to be dangerous.😁

It was a place to ask questions and learn, but also a place where I could express my frustrations, when nobody in the parish cared about how liturgy was done, and get a sympathetic ear. Simply being heard is important when you’re helpless to do anything about what’s wrong - or what you perceive is wrong but in venting here find out is actually OK.
 
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Thanks to you @Don_Ruggero, for helping me in my journey back to the faith of my youth after decades of wandering in the desert. And to @OraLabora for inspiring me to take up the Liturgy of the Hours upon my return.
 
I sometimes see complaints about disrespectful comments and persons (and have seen such sometimes, although not often since I don’t read many posts) but I want to thank basically everyone for always taking my comments with all the seriousness due to them (which varies a lot from comment to comment). I never felt disrespected or insulted by anyone. I have appreciated the chance to talk about some canonical topics other than marriage nullity, even though that’s the area in which I have some level of expertise.

Dan
 
Good bye and best wishes to you, @acanonlawyer. I enjoyed our interactions here. Blessings upon your tribunal and your work for your Particular Church.
 
Farewell. I will miss CAF like I missed the old format. It felt like home.
 
acanonlawyer said:
I sometimes see complaints about disrespectful comments and persons (and have seen such sometimes, although not often since I don’t read many posts) but I want to thank basically everyone for always taking my comments with all the seriousness due to them (which varies a lot from comment to comment). I never felt disrespected or insulted by anyone. I have appreciated the chance to talk about some canonical topics other than marriage nullity, even though that’s the area in which I have some level of expertise.

Dan
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Thanks for always answering my questions.
 
I have truly enjoyed the years I’ve been here (since day 2 of the original forum though my old name didn’t carry over). And especially this year where along with so many who were affected in so many ways by COVID I found a lot of my old sureties and ideas (not to mention ideologies) getting chipped away. Not my faith, not that. . .not true tradition, not that. . .but a kind of arrogant and argumentative and defensive posturing. I’m hoping that will continue to fall away! Instead of reacting to what I had predetermined ideas about I’m trying to listen more and talk less and really try to understand people more. So I thank the many of you who have been patient with me. God bless you all.
 
Dear @Don_Ruggero

I am formerly known as

RoseEurekaCross. That Aussie girl.

You remain in my prayers as I continue a journey to vows in the family Don Barsotti began.
Thankyou.
His cause is open. I pray for God’s will in this matter.

@Trishie

I often think of you and pray for your family.

@Greenfields I have enjoyed reading your posts.
 
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@graciew
@ATraveller
@Lou2U

I will miss reading you guys . I hope our lounge grew and formed a great fellowship.
 
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I can’t believe it, Rose! :hugs:❤️
@Trishie mentioned you only just last week or so!
Here is a snack: 🍕🍔🥕🍒🥑 .
@ATraveller !See who is here .
Team complete before departure! Parachutes checked!
 
Aww ty. I have been a lurker mostly.
Everytime Argentina comes up, or those fine horses, I think of you graciew
 
Quickly…I have sent you a message by PM, @LateranBasilica . Make sure you have it as it has important contact info that I want you to have.
 
@LateranBasilica – Please reach out to @Tis_Bearself or @BartholomewB about something they have begun that you should become part of. We must act quickly. Time is precious with only hours before the off switch is hit and everything goes poof.

I am hoping the message I sent will get forwarded to your email so you will have the contact info I want you to have.
 
@BartholomewB: Can you help @LateranBasilica to reach the place where I am going before the forum’s auto-destruct sequence reaches its conclusion. She needs to be beamed out. I am not sure if @Tis_Bearself will get this message before it is too late.
 
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