Comments for Pietati http://englishministryromania.org/blog The Blog of the English Ministry of the Lutheran Church in Romania Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:59:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on “U” Sunt Noi! by Kimi Cremar http://englishministryromania.org/blog/?p=146&cpage=1#comment-47 Kimi Cremar Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:59:22 +0000 http://englishministryromania.org/blog/?p=146#comment-47 Came across your webblog via yahoo the other day and absolutely think its great. Keep up the great work. Came across your webblog via yahoo the other day and absolutely think its great. Keep up the great work.

]]> Comment on And Speaking of the Centru … by Annemarie Noto http://englishministryromania.org/blog/?p=104&cpage=1#comment-20 Annemarie Noto Tue, 18 May 2010 17:32:35 +0000 http://englishministryromania.org/blog/?p=104#comment-20 Hi Michael and Terri Christ is risen! Alleluia! Thanks for really great pictures and comments. We were not able to see this at the Synod Assembly, but it's avaiable to all now via e-mail. As has always been the case, our worship at SA was beautifully done by Rick Erickson and the Worship Team. Great preaching by Bp Rimbo and the ELCA rep, Pr. Rafael Malpica Padilla. Although our churches are struggling financially and attendance figures are low in so many places, I find there are still strong expressions and demonstrations of faith and hope throughout the synod. And there's lots of new stuff, innovative stuff, going on. People are using u-tube, facebook, and twitter to reach out to the unchurched. (I wish I were a little more skilled at using these myself). Paul Block worked with Bill Baum to create a great video about the Diakonia! Hope you get to see it. Pr. Andy Fetters and wife, Becky, will have a "tailgate" welcome, called Project Connect, for unchurched 18 - 30 year-olds. We elected youth to represent us at Churchwide. I still get a thrill when a room of close to 200, or more, people, lay and rostered, join in singing the hymns. The message of the cross is being proclaimed, loud and clear. By the way, I supplied at Trinity recently. It was nice to see familiar faces. They are anxious to start with Pr. Paul. Blessings on your ministry ---- love, Annemarie Hi Michael and Terri
Christ is risen! Alleluia!
Thanks for really great pictures and comments. We were not able to see this at the Synod Assembly, but it’s avaiable to all now via e-mail. As has always been the case, our worship at SA was beautifully done by Rick Erickson and the Worship Team. Great preaching by Bp Rimbo and the ELCA rep, Pr. Rafael Malpica Padilla. Although our churches are struggling financially and attendance figures are low in so many places, I find there are still strong expressions and demonstrations of faith and hope throughout the synod. And there’s lots of new stuff, innovative stuff, going on. People are using u-tube, facebook, and twitter to reach out to the unchurched. (I wish I were a little more skilled at using these myself). Paul Block worked with Bill Baum to create a great video about the Diakonia! Hope you get to see it. Pr. Andy Fetters and wife, Becky, will have a “tailgate” welcome, called Project Connect, for unchurched 18 – 30 year-olds. We elected youth to represent us at Churchwide. I still get a thrill when a room of close to 200, or more, people, lay and rostered, join in singing the hymns. The message of the cross is being proclaimed, loud and clear. By the way, I supplied at Trinity recently. It was nice to see familiar faces. They are anxious to start with Pr. Paul.
Blessings on your ministry —-
love, Annemarie

]]> Comment on Centru Rocks! by Gina http://englishministryromania.org/blog/?p=102&cpage=1#comment-7 Gina Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:36:45 +0000 http://englishministryromania.org/blog/?p=102#comment-7 martisoare :) martisoare :)

]]> Comment on Centru Rocks! by Gina http://englishministryromania.org/blog/?p=102&cpage=1#comment-6 Gina Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:35:50 +0000 http://englishministryromania.org/blog/?p=102#comment-6 True. I feel blessed every day by simply having to walk through St. Michael's square and then on those little streets with the antique book shops. They are always so lively and coloured up by the young people. You'll soon be amazed how pretty the "Centru" will become starting 1st of March until the 8th of March ;). It will be full of flowers and "m?r?i?oare" - a traditional Romanian custom. I think it's one of my favourite times of the year in Cluj. True. I feel blessed every day by simply having to walk through St. Michael’s square and then on those little streets with the antique book shops. They are always so lively and coloured up by the young people.
You’ll soon be amazed how pretty the “Centru” will become starting 1st of March until the 8th of March ;) . It will be full of flowers and “m?r?i?oare” – a traditional Romanian custom. I think it’s one of my favourite times of the year in Cluj.

]]> Comment on Our Ecclesiastical Neighborhood by PastorM http://englishministryromania.org/blog/?p=71&cpage=1#comment-5 PastorM Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:13:26 +0000 http://englishministryromania.org/blog/?p=71#comment-5 <em>Sigh.</em> And <em>that</em>, of course, is a reminder of why ministry here is so challenging: all the centuries of anger directed from one Christian community to another. Of course, we in the West have our own versions of this -- the 17th century was pretty ugly, and things are still bad in northern Ireland. But it does seem to me that in most cases, we have learned to live together and even to enjoy living together, as Christians, in a way that still seems a little too much for the wounded communities of southeastern Europe. Or am I wrong? Sigh. And that, of course, is a reminder of why ministry here is so challenging: all the centuries of anger directed from one Christian community to another.

Of course, we in the West have our own versions of this — the 17th century was pretty ugly, and things are still bad in northern Ireland. But it does seem to me that in most cases, we have learned to live together and even to enjoy living together, as Christians, in a way that still seems a little too much for the wounded communities of southeastern Europe. Or am I wrong?

]]> Comment on Our Ecclesiastical Neighborhood by CNI http://englishministryromania.org/blog/?p=71&cpage=1#comment-4 CNI Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:51:20 +0000 http://englishministryromania.org/blog/?p=71#comment-4 This is reminder that, although Orthodoxy is the predominant form of Christianity in modern Romania, it is the Latin traditions — Roman Catholicism and Protestantism — that long held sway in Transylvania. ***************************** You should also mention the means through which "the Latin traditions" held sway in Transylvania: 1. reducing the Orthodox majority to serfdom. 2. pressuring their nobility to convert and assimilate into the Hungarian one. 3. Confiscating their stone churches, forbidding them to build new stone churches. 4. only allowing them to build wooden churches. 5. abolishing the Orthodox hierarchy in Transylvania-for centuries the needs of the Orthodox of Transylvania, Banat, Partium etc were supplied by almost 'vagantes" bishops consecrated in Moldova, Wallachia, at times in Serbia, at times in Russia, at times in the Holy Mountain. 6. forcing Roman Catholicism on them-worked for some of the nobility, then Protestaniism-didn't work at all, then Uniatism-had much more success . This is why the Orthodox didn't have a cathedral in Cluj earlier. But go to many-now Hungarian Catholic or Protestant- churche-and scratch their whitewashed walls, and you'll often find icons and Slavonic inscriptions. I hail from that resilient Transylvanian peasantry that clung to the Orthodox faith, even when there was no worldly advantage of doing so. This is reminder that, although Orthodoxy is the predominant form of Christianity in modern Romania, it is the Latin traditions — Roman Catholicism and Protestantism — that long held sway in Transylvania.
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You should also mention the means through which “the Latin traditions” held sway in Transylvania:
1. reducing the Orthodox majority to serfdom.
2. pressuring their nobility to convert and assimilate into the Hungarian one.
3. Confiscating their stone churches, forbidding them to build new stone churches.
4. only allowing them to build wooden churches.
5. abolishing the Orthodox hierarchy in Transylvania-for centuries the needs of the Orthodox of Transylvania, Banat, Partium etc were supplied by almost ‘vagantes” bishops consecrated in Moldova, Wallachia, at times in Serbia, at times in Russia, at times in the Holy Mountain.
6. forcing Roman Catholicism on them-worked for some of the nobility, then Protestaniism-didn’t work at all, then Uniatism-had much more success .
This is why the Orthodox didn’t have a cathedral in Cluj earlier.
But go to many-now Hungarian Catholic or Protestant- churche-and scratch their whitewashed walls, and you’ll often find icons and Slavonic inscriptions.
I hail from that resilient Transylvanian peasantry that clung to the Orthodox faith, even when there was no worldly advantage of doing so.

]]> Comment on We’re Here! by PastorM http://englishministryromania.org/blog/?p=8&cpage=1#comment-3 PastorM Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:38:00 +0000 http://englishministryromania.org/blog/?p=8#comment-3 I don't, but I can ask around. In city with such a vigorous cultural life, there must be one or two. I don’t, but I can ask around. In city with such a vigorous cultural life, there must be one or two.

]]> Comment on We’re Here! by Vasile Tomoiaga http://englishministryromania.org/blog/?p=8&cpage=1#comment-2 Vasile Tomoiaga Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:09:46 +0000 http://englishministryromania.org/blog/?p=8#comment-2 Hello Church family, Are you aware af any photo group in any of the chrurches in Cluj-Napoca? Hello Church family,

Are you aware af any photo group in any of the chrurches in Cluj-Napoca?

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