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To: AlbionGirl
And the reason the Orthodox are successful is because the Laity is high-claiber in that they willingly embrace and protect Tradition.

How will that ever be the case (at least in the forseeable future) for the RC Laity?

Oh, we've got a respectable percentage of (Traditional) active ingredients...

But what you say is interesting. Want to make us some practical suggestions?

5 posted on 05/14/2005 9:54:20 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (He's XVI... he's beautiful.... and he's mine.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Oh, we've got a respectable percentage of (Traditional) active ingredients...

Maybe you do, and God bless you for that. But here in the diocese of Rochester, the same can't even remotely be said.

But what you say is interesting. Want to make us some practical suggestions?

Don't have much. Think that a page should be taken from the Orthodox in how they've achieved that, initally at least from a structural point of view.

Perhaps the reason the Orthodox Laity is more inclined to embrace and protect Tradition, is that Tradition isn't as rigidly defined. It's tied into the process of becoming, day by day more perfect, like Our Father in Heaven, as our Lord commanded.

It's a mentality that I think is at variance with the RC mentality. I'm not saying it's an impossible obstacle, but that it is integral to the differences.

9 posted on 05/14/2005 10:07:42 AM PDT by AlbionGirl
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