tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21822203.post2084801089211088839..comments2023-09-13T04:31:43.283-07:00Comments on The Abandoned Mind: The Sunday After the Elevation of the Holy CrossFr. Michael Reaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02265035749268657422noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21822203.post-48030647636296658602007-10-15T22:46:00.000-07:002007-10-15T22:46:00.000-07:00Well said "I can be anonymous too!"....I am consid...Well said "I can be anonymous too!"....I am considering just putting your whole comment on a t-shirt:-)!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21822203.post-9236478184295671662007-10-03T08:45:00.000-07:002007-10-03T08:45:00.000-07:00Dear anonymous (if you even read this!),The viewpo...Dear anonymous (if you even read this!),<BR/><BR/>The viewpoint you express is one that has its own "tradition" (and "rites" and "lies")! The difference is you don't seem to see the "grid" through which you interpret Orthodox Tradition (which inc. the Holy Scriptures). <BR/><BR/>Read "The Christian Conspiracy" and you will (perhaps) identify the men whose work and writings have influenced you in the very ways you express (and they are not, as the book points out, Christ). <BR/><BR/>Before you condemn Orthodoxy, be at least intellectually honest. Have you ever even read a patristic book? Have you ever (even) read Orthodox theology? Most people who read this blog have struggled long and hard, and are well aware of the "usual [theological] suspects" Evangelicals regurgitate from their 100-year-old-or-so"tradition" of understanding. <BR/><BR/>This so-called "tradition" by the way has as its theological "foundation" the very doctrines which were "handed down" to it (and to you) by the pre-Reformation Church (Orthodox and Catholic)! These include the Holy Scriptures themselves!<BR/><BR/>You may want to think you live in some sort of Christian "vacuum" but you do not. If you are "Christian" [whatever that word means today] most of what you believe theologically and the very Scriptures you use to condemn that which came before, were given to you by the "one, holy, catholic and apostolic church". <BR/><BR/>So have some intellectual respect (at least)!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21822203.post-31395727003704040642007-09-26T09:15:00.000-07:002007-09-26T09:15:00.000-07:00Anonymous, Help me out here. I'm not very smart. ...Anonymous, Help me out here. I'm not very smart. Could you be more specific with what you are saying?<BR/><BR/>Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21822203.post-55824087526777547802007-09-25T19:34:00.000-07:002007-09-25T19:34:00.000-07:00What a shame dogma[s], tradition[s], rite[s] and l...What a shame dogma[s], tradition[s], rite[s] and lies, adorned as beautiful by those who elevate their importance as being a means to heaven, when there is ONE mediator between our Maker and us, and ONLY ONE, continue both in tangible ways, but also on the internet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21822203.post-61855293583077454122007-09-17T09:41:00.000-07:002007-09-17T09:41:00.000-07:00No compliments here Fr. Michael. These are words ...No compliments here Fr. Michael. These are words that I prefer not to hear.<BR/><BR/>BTW, I've linked your homily to my blog! :o)<BR/><BR/>Kissing your right hand.Athanasiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13107488973500025470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21822203.post-30314384804664810492007-09-17T08:52:00.000-07:002007-09-17T08:52:00.000-07:00Thank God for the internet Father! I am out of to...Thank God for the internet Father! I am out of town, and what a wonderful way for me to start my day. This homily strikes something very basic and deep in myself. I just absolutely hate looking at myself. I will do anything to avoid doing it. God keeps giving me opportunities to do it, but I ignore it or reject it. If this is not changed in me, I will end up a bitter old man, and not Christ like. Thank you for this wonderfully true homily!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com