A Dominican Would Say This

The Jesuits were wrong on the Chinese Rites controversy, as the Holy See properly held when first examining the issue. https://t.co/LIkMLOtYlV

— Fr. Pius Pietrzyk OP (@PiusOP) May 28, 2021

China is Assyrian territory, and the Assyrians did attempt inculturation.

Controversy about Inculturation

An “apostolate through books” and the development of a local theology in China is one of the less–known aspects of the Church’s mission there, this article considers historical context and major theological issues @civcatt_cn @PiusOP @FatherTFhttps://t.co/JvsgrRJfrr

— Civiltà Cattolica EN (@civcatt_en) January 21, 2021

And a Dominican response:

I recall a problem in the past when a certain religious order tried to develop a local theology in China. If memory serves, that didn't work out so well. https://t.co/8Y2CchI9SS

— Fr. Pius Pietrzyk OP (@PiusOP) January 22, 2021

Lu Hong Nian paintings

They are from the collection of "Celestial Icons" at the website of the Ricci Institute of the University of San Francisco.https://t.co/8IDcUAVkEk

— Fr Timothy Finigan (@FatherTF) December 1, 2020

The Hope of Sweden?

Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and all Scandinavia ordained Deacon Μaxime Francois Lesage as presbyter#orthodox_times

https://t.co/lOFa0bCfer

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) November 23, 2020

Not much inculturation going on? Serving Orthodox immigrants and residents in Sweden only?

Louis Markos on Greek and Roman Mythology

Louis Markos joins the podcast to discuss his book “The Myth Made Fact: Reading Greek and Roman Mythology through Christian Eyes.”​https://t.co/fIRuFqznHH

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) November 12, 2020

Japanese Depictions of the Theotokos

Japanese depictions of the Blessed Virgin with the Infant Jesus, drawn by Carmelite nuns of Tokyo. pic.twitter.com/bK99VoHWc8

— laura elizabeta (@lrelizabeta) November 5, 2020

A Recommendation to the Ukrainian Catholic Churches in the Americas

A memorandum from several decades ago that sounds like it could have been written today https://t.co/qZiAtHKsn8

— Daniel Galadza (@CrunchMasterByz) October 22, 2020

Meanwhile...

Constantinple was ready to interfere in Ukrainian Church issue in 2008, newly-published document revealshttps://t.co/OcVmCtPBRE

Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople was ready to “settle the Ukrainian Church problem” back in 2008, and the schismatic “Kiev Patriarchate” (KP... pic.twitter.com/l7PoyrLspj

— Orthodox Christianity (@Orthodoxy2019) October 22, 2020

Appalachian "Christ is Risen"

Remote Russian Village Sings Appalachian Style "Christ is Risen" https://t.co/dgpxdVt89m pic.twitter.com/C0zptLhYUY

— Russian Faith (@Russian_Faith) May 29, 2020

True Light Podcast: Episode 08 More on Mission: A Visit to Richmond BC.

Richmond Eastern Catholic Church

Fr. John Bethancourt

Holy Trinity Church (Santa Fe)
A Son's Journey to the Priesthood

Orthodoxy in the South

Interview with Andrew Gould

American Byzantine

Fr. Thomas Hopko on the Greatest Challenge for Orthodoxy

(via Byz TX)

Pronouncing Saints' Names in English

Pope Francis in Japan

Is an organ really necessary for such public Masses? And has no one attempted to develop a Japanese form of sacred singing, one that is not Western in inspiration? What happened to inculturation? I see a lot of women in the choir for the Mass in Nagasaki (the heart of Catholic Japan) - how many Japanese male Catholics participate in Latin liturgical life in Japan? Even in Nagasaki, they had to feature multilingual readings...

Interview with Fr. Edward Henderson

OrthoChristian: On Holy Relics, Primacy in the Church, and the Pastoral Life in the Bay Area - An Interview with Fr. Edward Henderson by Jesse Dominick, Fr. Edward Henderson

See also “The Way We Serve is Our Means of Communicating With God” - On the Old Believer Church of the Nativity of Christ in Erie, PA by Tatiana Veselkina, Archpriest Pimen Simon

Amateur Hour at the Vatican

Vatican spin on the Amazon synod statue. Who represents life? Christ. We are alive only insofar as we live in him. The Theotokos is the "Mother of all the living," those who live in Christ. So why not an icon of our Lord or the Theotokos?

Does anyone there think like a Christian? Instead we get people who think like the world with respect to interior decorating for meetings.



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