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Unfortunately, later
Eastern Christian immigrants did not always maintain this evangelical impulse
to present the faith in terms comprehensible to other cultures. A difference of
intention motivated subsequent immigrant communities of Eastern Christians.
They came not to evangelize but primarily to escape economic hardships. Their
priests also came with no particular intention to evangelize, but rather to
serve their own people while they temporarily sojourned in a foreign land,
already peopled with others of Western European descent. The Eastern Churches
in America, perhaps also unjustly suffering from feelings of cultural inferiority,
began to isolate themselves ethnically.
1 comment:
This article is correct but something else added to this problem.From 1970 or so until present day,the west has emphasized pluralism,individuality,freedom to conduct your life and actions in any way that suits the moment/needs,greed,self satisfaction,consumption of everything to maximum levels,and finally leaving behind ancestral traditions.(which religion was logically left behind with ancestry to pursue earthly wordly desires that suited each unique moment) In other words,previous generations became bloated 'consumers' and said goodbye,to a way of life which took 1,900 years to establish.The empty vain nothingness of our non existent culture,which holds nothing sacred except commerce and sports,has ironically led me to traditional Latin rite catholicism.
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