tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21841592.post5838774850853230141..comments2022-04-27T23:07:59.833-04:00Comments on Conversi ad Dominum: Reasons that are lackingFr John W Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01283787316830250866noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21841592.post-37740592650106970552008-01-02T23:21:00.000-05:002008-01-02T23:21:00.000-05:00Lucian,While I thought your blog on this matter wa...Lucian,<BR/><BR/>While I thought your blog on this matter was rather funny, I took it for what it was: having a bit of a go at the Orthodox for "their funny little ways". <BR/><BR/>Fr Fenton, you should not have fallen for the bait. <BR/><BR/>This is a game often played by non-Catholics against Catholics as well.<BR/><BR/>It really isn't fair. <BR/><BR/>However, it is okay to play the game on ourselves. I, as a Catholic, am perfectly entitled to have a go at Catholics for their funny little ways.<BR/><BR/>And Lucian, who is himself Orthodox, is allowed to have his little joke too at the expense of the Orthodox.Schützhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05026181010471282505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21841592.post-52912162074398533072007-12-23T22:39:00.000-05:002007-12-23T22:39:00.000-05:00I just think that people should be rightly informe...I just think that people should be rightly informed, don't You agree, Father? <BR/><BR/>(And thanks for posting my comment, though not agreeing with it -- I really appreciate that). <BR/><BR/>Indulgence or an economy of canons as regards certain loosenings related to consuming certain *FOODS*, YES ... for *OBVIOUS* reasons: people with certain health-problems, hard-workers, stressed students, young infants, elderly people, beginners in the spiritual life, or even proud people (better to be with a fuller stomach, than to be full of yourself, right?) --> <B>BUT AS regards intimate relations ???</B> (I'll have to admit: that one was news to me ...)<BR/><BR/>As for Saturday being a Fast-day of in the West (as opposed to the same being perceived as a Feast-day in the East) : TRUE ... but fasting requires abstinence, does it not? <BR/><BR/>As for myself, I'm a Romanian Orthodox Christian, and a member of the Romanian Orthodox Church, and can't think of being anything else ... and I don't hate God, nor His Body the Church, nor His faith once and for all delivered to the saints (well, actually I do: I'm a lousy little sinner, and that wouldn't be the case were I to *truly love* God, His Church, and the Faith -- but that's another story altogether). <BR/><BR/>As for Martin Luther, I deeply admire that great man and Father of the Reformation: ever-since the fifth grade, when I saw a cartoon-episode about his life (it was from a cartoon-series depicting the history of Europe). I also wrote my Sprachdiplom-thesis on him, when I was in the eleventh grade, after "serving" for eight years as a student of the German High-school situated in the German city-quarter of the town where I live. -- I hope that that's OK with You, Father ...The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com