tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20981956.post1375082806827915488..comments2024-03-27T11:26:55.051-04:00Comments on Vox Cantoris: Feast of St. Stephen and the death of his namesake, Father Stephen AuadUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20981956.post-33595822480621067662016-12-30T10:20:47.189-05:002016-12-30T10:20:47.189-05:00Veronica, I didn't see anything unkind about E...Veronica, I didn't see anything unkind about English Catholics. Telling the plain truth is not an insult. Dymphnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20981956.post-59609218267138201362016-12-27T08:03:45.534-05:002016-12-27T08:03:45.534-05:00Awesome post. This is one of 3 churches in my area...Awesome post. This is one of 3 churches in my area that I attend! Will share this with some of its parishioners!Johnnonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20981956.post-41213287478380653212016-12-27T07:57:41.490-05:002016-12-27T07:57:41.490-05:00Dear Veronica,
I apologise for offending you. I l...Dear Veronica,<br /><br />I apologise for offending you. I love England and most everything about Her. I love our Queen, though I'm not to fussy on the heir and his panderings to Islam or desiring to be his consort's, well, you remember...I never want my Canada to be a republic. I made a Christmas pudding and mincemeat tarts, I love English carols, particularly early music, there is no greater or more interesting national history. <br /><br />I thank Eccles and others who defended me during Rosicagate.<br /><br />Yet, the reality is, British politics along with American and our own at times, has destabilized the Middle East. Are you forgetting Sykes-Picot which lead to the artificial borders and mixing of tribes without strongmen like Saddam or, Assad to keep the peace? The fact remains, British PROTESTANT power stirred up the Moslems against the Christians then and has recently under Cameron with his sidekick, Obama. What has changed?<br /><br />No, the England which I love is the England in your heart's desire. Our Lady's Dowry, the monasteries, the seasons and feasts, the Sarum Rite, the great Cathedrals, all built by the greatest of Catholics. The Plantangant's of Richard III before the Crown was stolen by the wretched Tudors and changed world history forever. America would be Catholic if not for Henry VIII and the Middle East would have been different under a Catholic philosophy then the Protestants. Who rid England of the last Catholic King of the Stuart line? Are the Hanover's, the Windsor's really legitimate? Does Diana's Saxon blood now make the Second Heir a real English King again? <br /><br />England murdered and martyred her children. Until Elizabeth II or her successor comes to grips with what our England did to the likes of Thomas Saints Thomas More, John Fisher, Edmund Campion, Margaret Clitherow, Robert Southwell, and so many others and to your Irish ancestors, England cannot be great again.Vox Cantorishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16987049370515084083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20981956.post-17980082784760980692016-12-27T04:11:02.994-05:002016-12-27T04:11:02.994-05:00I enjoyed this touching, descriptive story of your...I enjoyed this touching, descriptive story of your people, Vox, and the holy priest constructor of your Church. Yet I think your tale is unfortunately tainted with some strange anti-British bias. I am an "English Catholic" (with some Irish ancestry), and I can assure you, having travelled much in my life, that English Catholics, an approximate 9% of the population of GB, are some of the most fervent, the most traditional, and the most generous in alms giving, of all Europeans. Among their ranks now are many who are converts from Anglicanism (not my case) and have often had to suffer scorn and incomprehension from their family and acquaintances in embracing the True Faith. You also (perhaps unawares) had "English Catholics" who stuck their necks out for you in your threatened lawsuit by Fr Thomas Rosica! We English Catholics are now undergoing a real type of moral persecution by the secular establishment of our nation. Please don't add to the stone-throwing.<br />In Christ, Veronica McCarthyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20981956.post-55168844095922666532016-12-26T15:24:32.111-05:002016-12-26T15:24:32.111-05:00Christ is Born!
Dear Vox,
In our Ukrainian Greek...Christ is Born!<br /><br />Dear Vox,<br /><br />In our Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, today (Dec. 26) is the Feast of the Synaxis of the Mother of God and tomorrow (12/27) is the Feast of St. Stephen Protomartyr. <br /><br />My friend Michael lost his mom 37 years ago today. Tomorrow will be 3 years since my friend Mary Ann died, and my uncle Daniel passed away on Dec. 29, 2014. So the week after Christmas is not very merry for us. <br /><br />I will burn a candle for +Fr. Stephen Auad tomorrow at the Ukrainian Catholic cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Philadelphia PA USA. Both of our Archbishop Stefan Soroka and retired Archbishop Stephen Sulyk celebrate their patronal Feast tomorrow.<br /><br />Eternal memory for +Fr. Stephen Auad, Daniel, and all the deceased.<br /><br />Yours in the Infant King,<br /><br />Margaret <br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20981956.post-33500970225547264992016-12-26T13:39:54.974-05:002016-12-26T13:39:54.974-05:00What a beautiful story and what wonderful history....What a beautiful story and what wonderful history. Thank you for sharing. Most of us know so little about our own history. I have always loved St. Stephen who looked after widows and orphans as a designated apostolate by the apostles. Today widows are not only left to fend for ourselves, most of the time we are not even seen. I often pray to St. Stephen as I slink through the crowd, unseen, with a smile painted on my face.Leahnoreply@blogger.com