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Is it possible to have a fruitful spiritual life if one is in communion with Rome?

Father Ambrose had evinced an interest in the Orthodox teaching that the Theotokos is the mediator of all graces and I thought I would start a thread on the topic.  The following is one of my favorite of the St. Gregory Palamas homilies. http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/dormition.html

Very happy to see this!!: +++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350078?eng=y There's a New Star in the Russian Sky. His Name Is Aleksandr He led the delegation from the ;patriarchate of Moscow in Assisi. Together with Metropolitan Hilarion, he is an...

Authority and Dissent in the Catholic Church | Dr. William E. May | IgnatiusInsight.com http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2006/wmay_authority_nov06.asp What is the role of the Church as moral teacher, and what is the obligation on the part of the faithful (including the pope, bishops...

http://tiny.cc/s3e1h Google English translation: Basilian publishing "missionary" has given this year in Ukraine Documents for beatification. St. Josaphat Kuntsevych that the Latin translated into Ukrainian our fellow brothers in the order, the late Fr. Jehoshaphat Romanyk OSBM. The...

Dear Readers of the Orthodox-Catholic section of the OCnet Forum: I have asked Schultz to place this thread up as a push-pin post.  It is my hope to start a data base of abreviated bits of writing from the saints, doctors, and theological writers of the papal Church.  This thread will not be...

As of this morning I am not getting email notification about new notes in topics where I have contributed. Also when I do post a response I get an error message each time, but the note I write is actually posted. M.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0881410403/ref=ox_ya_os_product Is anyone familiar with this two book set and do you know any parish in the U.S. that may be using these texts for catechizing inquirers or adult Orthodox believers?

Thirty years after AIDS discovery, appreciation growing for Catholic approach By David Kerr Rome, Italy, Jun 5, 2011 / 03:12 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican’s representative to the United Nations in Geneva says that 30 years after the discovery of AIDS, international relief agencies and...

More: http://orbiscatholicussecundus.blogspot.com/2011/05/pope-receives-tiara-from-catholics-and.html Edit to make naked link conform to board policy, nothing more

http://open.salon.com/blog/lost_in_berlin/2010/10/27/the_hitler_icon_how_mount_athos_honored_the_fhrer

http://www.pagesorthodoxes.net/foi-orthodoxe/temoignage-placide-deseille.htm I did an extremely stupid thing by confusing this French monk, Placide Deseille, with the story of a Spanish or Portuguese monk who converted from the Catholic Church to Orthodoxy.  I don't know how to fix it in the...

Anyone know the source of this pre-communion prayer? ++++++++++++++++++++ Almighty and ever-living God, I approach the sacrament of your only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. I come sick to the doctor of life, unclean to the fountain of mercy, blind to the radiance of eternal light...

An alliance of faith Published: 23 March, 2011, 01:36 Edited: 23 March, 2011, 07:58 http://rt.com/politics/press/rossijskaya-gazeta/orthodox-church-catholic-alliance/en/print/ Moscow Patriarchate calls for strategic alliance with Catholic Church Elena Yakovleva ...‘’We don’t need any...

Here is the Theotokion from the 9th ode or canticle from yesterday's matins: http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/prayers/triodion/lent1fri ~Rejoice, Theotokos, the Mercy-Seat of the world! We sinners, ever fleeing to you for refuge gain reconciliation with God.~ The eastern Catholic version of...

http://risu.org.ua/en/index/studios/materials_conferences/41159/ Whether or not we can get a worthy discussion going on this article, it is still something that we all need to read carefully...probably more than once.  I wish there were more priests like this one...everywhere!

Perhaps it will be possible to have a more sober discussion of heart theology, east and west.  Attention to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the west is older than Bernard of Clairvaux.  If this thread does not degenerate I will find the text that St. Bernard is said to have authored about the...

Very interesting article!!

This is for you Father Ambrose.  We can haul this out each time you get on your hobby horse about the bad Catholic woman who suggests that there's a problem in Orthodoxy.  Now you don't need me to suggest it.  Fact of the matter is however that this is an excellent and insightful piece of...

As a Catholic I subscribe to the following Orthodox understanding of the priesthood.  It is very Catholic in its description of Holy Orders.  Also it seems to me that what most Orthodox speak of as defrocking is what the Catholic Church speaks of as laicization.  However as the following...