List of parables

I haven't looked at what's included in your file yet, but isn't this under copyright? The webpage certainly seems to indicate that.

Sleiman said:

Thanks! I have removed the link until I get permission to post.

Peace and Blessing to you, Sleiman!           *smile*

               While you're waiting for that permission, perhaps you'd like to take a peek at a resource that most Logos users have in their own libraries.  This resource (and there are a few others in my library that also include them) has a list of Jesus' Parables ...   Jesus' Miracles ...            and a whole host of other "stuff"!

http://www.logos.com/product/7295/harmony-of-the-gospels

Forgive me (if I need forgiveness!), please; however your Avatar name for some strange reason causes me to smile!         *smile*

It reminds me of a brewery at Guelph, Ontario which is about 30-40 miles East of Toronto!             Very famous brewery for the young people who are "hip," or "cool" or some other modern-day synonym

fgh said:

Coming to think of it, I read about Bir'im recently. It seems that Swedes -- probably Syrian Orthodox -- are helping Maronites from Bir'im and Iqrit, now in Jish, to revive their spoken Aramaic

Thank you, fgh, for sharing that info!                                                                             Peace!

Sleiman said:

Wow you're among the extremely few in the world who knows about it while not being from there.

Don't give me too much credit.[:)] The name alone probably wouldn't have triggered any memories, but, yes, I knew there are evacuated and demolished Christian villages up there, at least one of which has a church still standing. I know I've read at least one article about former villagers going up to their church once a year, plus I read that article in BAR recently. I might have read it anyway, but the Swedish connection naturally made it more interesting, so I also followed it up with a little googling: seems a group from Jish was here in July, together with a larger group of scouts from Jerusalem (video). And the Bar'am synagogue is on my [very long] list of things to see in Israel (the problem with that country is that the more I see, the longer that list becomes [:)]).

Didn't know Elias Chacour was from there, though, or about the München connection (where, btw, our queen was head hostess in charge of the VIP's, and therefore sat in on the internal police briefings and so on).

Sleiman said:

The video in the article as you might already know shows the kids chanting the Qadishat Aloho of the maronite liturgy in Syriac

No, I didn't. I still haven't been to any Eastern Liturgies, except for a Russian Orthodox one in London long ago.[:$] Not sure if I even looked at the video the first time I read the article; I know I didn't before I wrote the above. Was it that text that inspired your triple posting.[:P]

I hope you're still subscribed to this thread.

a) I found this video some days ago, which I think may interest you.

b) Did you know Jerome claims that St. Paul was from your part of Israel: Anyone ever heard of this before?

c) Have you seen that Logos has hired a new guy for the Orthodox market: http://community.logos.com/forums/p/60311/475613.aspx#475613?

d) Have you seen Please vote for my new Uservoice/CP and Uservoice/Prepub suggestions :-)?

As for

Sleiman said:

I very strongly recommend you put it on your calendar starting with the church nearest to you: Maronite, Melkite, Byzantine, Coptic...

you're living in another world than I do.[:)] I know of two Eastern rite Catholic churches in the entire country, and one of them doesn't have a priest. There may be one or two more by now that I don't know of, but generally Eastern rite Liturgies here take place in Latin rite churches (and would most often be Chaldean). Before the US started its little war and drowned us in refugees, we hardly had any at all. 

Syrian-Orthodox churches would be somewhat easier to find, as would Russian/Serbian/etc Orthodox, but, remember, these are all immigrant churches, with congregations only in major cities, and Liturgies in languages so foreign that I would hardly have a clue what was going on. I'm not sure there's even a handful of congregations that's moved over to Swedish.

Sleiman said:

This is also intriguing.

Perhaps you're related.[H][:D]

Sleiman said:

I gave 3 votes each for your suggestions

Impossible.[;)] (That would require 21 prepub votes, and you only have 10.)

Sleiman said:

I'm not sure but it should not take more than a generation before the parish starts mixing a new native language within the liturgy.

Like I said: most Eastern rite Catholics here have come in the last 10 years.

Also, immigrants to North America generally come voluntarily, to improve their lives, so they come wanting to become American. Immigrants to Sweden generally come because they've been forced to flee for their lives. For Middle Eastern Christians that means that their main reason for being here is their burning desire to preserve their religion, language and culture. They've survived 1400 years of Muslim rule; they're not about to give up now. Especially the Chaldeans seem very determined to pass it all on to the next generation. Coming to think of it, the Poles still insist on Polish Masses, and they've been here many decades longer, and don't exactly come from a culture that risks extinction.