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Hello all,
I'm a long time lurker who finally decided to formally register. I was so impressed with the Christian witness at this site. Being Orthodox myself, I was looking for a place to spend a couple of minutes of leisure time where Catholics and Orthodox can be Christ to one another.
That can be called being too ecumenical or whatever. I got bored with wasted energy on affirming or condemning ideology fair quickly.
So...hello!
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Hello DoxRox and welcome to our forum! You are not alone in wanting a place where Catholics and Orthodox can be Christ like to one another...and this is the place.
In Christ our Lord,
Alice, Moderator
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That can be called being too ecumenical or whatever. Welcome. My own understanding of "ecumenism" is not a situation where one waters down the Faith, nor does one give up what one believes, nor does one work for some lowest common denominator. Ecumenism, rightly understood--as I've been taught--means that each one brings his understanding to others who do not share it and listens to his brethren who have a different understanding without judging negatively. Finally all pray together that the Holy Spirit will being us all together, showing us our complimentary approaches to the Mystery that is God becoming One of us in all things but sin and eneabling us to become like Him. And, perhaps most of all, understanding that no single theological explanation or approach can exhaust the Mystery or fully define it because all of us human beings are finite while God is infinite. That is not to say that there can be no orthodoxy or Orthodoxy, but that many of the things that we grab each other by the throat about are the result of different cultural, different linguistic, different historical circumstances, different theological approaches that are not necessarily mutually exclusive. In Christ, BOB
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Hey DoxRox and welcome! Yeah we are blessed with wonderful moderators on this forum that are both Catholic and Orthodox (well not individually, but combined - don't know if that makes sence  ) Anyway, they do a wonderful job of letting us fuss with each other and then bringing us into order. Somehow, it all works well! But, most of the time as you have observed, we have learned to share the love and God and his Church and that is what matters most.
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