A Prodigal returns

Started by Roland Deschain, August 18, 2013, 01:26:16 PM

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zork

#15
August 18, 2013, 08:40:39 PM
Quote from: Roland Deschain on August 18, 2013, 06:49:17 PM
Quote from: james03 on August 18, 2013, 04:41:55 PM
Are you / can you attend an Eastern Rite parish?

I'll be returning to the Roman Rite via the SSPX.

Most excellent. That's probably the best avenue to go.
Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.

Archer

#16
August 18, 2013, 08:52:44 PM
Welcome home.
"All the good works in the world are not equal to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass because they are the works of men; but the Mass is the work of God. Martyrdom is nothing in comparison for it is but the sacrifice of man to God; but the Mass is the sacrifice of God for man." - St. John Vianney

Cesar_Augustus

#17
August 18, 2013, 09:12:22 PM
Deo Gratias!

Welcome back!

VeraeFidei

#18
August 18, 2013, 09:22:17 PM
Gloria in excelsis Deo!

Let me know if you want those books back!

Bonaventure

#19
August 18, 2013, 11:00:49 PM
I'm at a loss for words. Welcome back home, brother.
Put not your trust in princes, in sons of men in whom there is no salvation. When his breath departs he returns to his earth; on that very day his plans perish.

Scotus

#20
August 19, 2013, 03:22:10 AM
Welcome home!

Quote...even abortion in some circumstances

Seriously?

Roland Deschain

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August 19, 2013, 04:13:17 AM Last Edit: August 19, 2013, 04:17:54 AM by Roland Deschain
Quote from: Scotus on August 19, 2013, 03:22:10 AM
Welcome home!

Quote...even abortion in some circumstances

Seriously?

http://www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/articles/ethics/john_thermon_abortion.htm

"The Orthodox Church does not condone abortion for she holds human life as sacred. Only in the case of therapeutic abortion when the life of the mother is endangered can the possibility of abortion be considered, and then too only in consultation with the priest, physician, mother and the father."

Basically abortion is murder but it can be approved in certain cases.

http://www.goarch.org/ourfaith/controversialissues

"The only time the Orthodox Church will reluctantly acquiesce to abortion is when the preponderance of medical opinion determines that unless the embryo or fetus is aborted, the mother will die."

From the Patriarch of Georgia's Easter epistle:

"Today, when there is so grave demographic situation, we think that the state must adopt relevant laws to ban abortion (of course exceptions should also be taken into consideration)"

I couldn't help but notice that the main reason for banning abortion was because of the demographic crisis.
'Since Moses was alone, by having been stripped as it were of the people's fear, he boldly approached the very darkness itself and entered the invisible things where he was no longer seen by those watching. After he entered the inner sanctuary of the divine mystical doctrine, there, while not being seen, he was in company with the Invisible. He teaches, I think, by the things he did that the one who is going to associate intimately with God must go beyond all that is visible and—lifting up his own mind, as to a mountaintop, to the invisible and incomprehensible—believe that the divine is there where the understanding does not reach.'

—St Gregory of Nyssa

Roland Deschain

#22
August 19, 2013, 04:19:56 AM
Quote from: VeraeFidei on August 18, 2013, 09:22:17 PM
Gloria in excelsis Deo!

Let me know if you want those books back!

;D

Nah....I'll consider it part of my penance to re-purchase.
'Since Moses was alone, by having been stripped as it were of the people's fear, he boldly approached the very darkness itself and entered the invisible things where he was no longer seen by those watching. After he entered the inner sanctuary of the divine mystical doctrine, there, while not being seen, he was in company with the Invisible. He teaches, I think, by the things he did that the one who is going to associate intimately with God must go beyond all that is visible and—lifting up his own mind, as to a mountaintop, to the invisible and incomprehensible—believe that the divine is there where the understanding does not reach.'

—St Gregory of Nyssa

Othmar

#23
August 19, 2013, 04:55:16 AM
I do hope your journey into Orthodoxy has borne some fruit. The East, be it catholic or orthodox, is sadly neglected so often.

ImperialGuardsman

#24
August 19, 2013, 06:26:37 PM
I don't think that we have ever talked much within a thread, but it is good to have you back!  I'll offer some prayers for you this evening.
"One would be straying from the straight path were he to wish the altar restored to its primitive tableform; were he to want black excluded as a color for the liturgical vestments; were he to forbid the use of sacred images and statues in Churches...and lastly were he to disdain and reject polyphonic music or singing in parts, even where it conforms to regulations issued by the Holy See." - Ven. Pope Pius XII

"You've thought about eternity for twenty-five minutes and think you've come to some interesting conclusions."--  (Stolen from EcceQuamBonum's signature)

America, that great bastion of the Enlightenment, is the destroyer of all religions.--LouisIX
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