tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687886961771238263.post2337158838646402830..comments2023-12-28T14:51:34.281-05:00Comments on Notes on Arab Orthodoxy: an-Nahar on Announcing Sainthood in the Orthodox ChurchUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687886961771238263.post-4307233734835531302013-01-20T19:27:06.872-05:002013-01-20T19:27:06.872-05:00This story could very likely be a real one, yet a ...This story could very likely be a real one, yet a totally useless one. The criteria invoked by Archimandrite Fr. Touma are the same applied in the catholic communion, as there is the adage#: vox populi, vox Dei: The faith of the Church lived by her people looks at the life of an exemplary xpctian, to whom people might look, turn and ask for intercession. The 'digitus Dei', the finger of God showing forth in signs and miracles then readily are reasons for people to appeal to the local Bishop to look into the matter; if both, the examples and signs/miracles are present, then the local Boshop, resp. Bishops would appeal to the Roman See to further inquire. The Roman Pontiff would not proceed with a canonization, if a number of Bishops, and among them the so called 'Congregation of Cardinals and episcopal members for the causes of Sainthood' would refuse their consensus. Even among catholics, this process basically remains a process of listening to the 'Voice of God' expressed by the veneration of the People of God for an until now 'unknown Saint' that God thus wants to be known. ANything else than that would me blasphemous and arbitrary.<br />The sainted Orthodox Metropolitan Michael of Kiev, being the first Martyr of the Boshevist REvolution in Russia is reported to have pronounced: "Thanks be to God, the walls that we human beings erected, do NOT reach to heaven". THis certainly pertains to Sainthood too. Allah karimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687886961771238263.post-19258773557140815042010-10-29T05:17:02.154-04:002010-10-29T05:17:02.154-04:00"Leila got angry with Rose and war broke out ..."Leila got angry with Rose and war broke out between the two using all the water buckets and old pots available... The struggle almost turned into sectarian strife, even if it didn't reach the police office..."<br /><br />LOL... Is this a real story? :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com