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Eirenikon 
Sorry to see you go, but I do understand about the time issue. Blogs are a sponge for time. Best wishes in your future.
In ICXC
John
I, too, am disappointed. This was a welcome place and the conversation was great while it lasted.
Why do blogs that genuinely cultivate real discussion, if not dialogue, tend to disappear while the highly biased, not to say prejudiced, continue onwards?
There is a real need on the Web for sites like this.
And there is a real need for a “place” where those truly interested in ecumenical dialogue could share insights.
The less sites like this exist, the more the extremes become powerful.
Soon, if this keeps up, we’ll be isolated atomic selves sure of “our” faith and denigrating the faith of others.
Eirenikon, we are sorry to see you abandon blogging, but we understand completely. May you have a most blessed Nativity season!
Oh rats. I just discovered this website three days ago! It is exactly what I have been looking for!
Well, I have a richness to plumb. Thanks for bringing all this good material together.
Your ongoing contributions to Orthodox-Catholic mutual understanding will be sorely missed. Even in your recent long absence I have checked almost every day in the hope that you would soon return. Your finis is our loss.
May the blog continue to be an inspiration to others to continue the dialogue. Thank you for all you have done!
Thanks for providing the space for so many sane discussions. I owe you much.
Thanks, all, for your kind words, and for your participation!
I would like to ad my voice to those who thank you first of all for the service you have rendered those of us who are interested in genuine dialogue. Allthough I fully understand your reasons, and allthough this comes as no surprise, I must say that I too am disapointed. I too am allarmed at the way confessional propaganda thrives on the net to the disadvantage of honest and irenic discussion. Is there nobody out there wiling to take up the baton, maybe as a team effort involving both Catholics and Orthodox?
Fr Paul –
I would be willing to hand the reins over to interested parties. I could see Eirenikon becoming a group blog, with Orthodox and Catholic (Eastern and Latin) participants.
I am an interested party in helping to keep your blog going. I am a Melkite Greek- Catholic, arriving there from Orthodoxy.
Are there others willing to serve on a team to continue this effort?
Dear Gregory,
Thanks for your offer! Let me ponder for a while this idea of relaunching the blog as a group effort. It should probably have an equal number of Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Catholic, and Roman Catholic participants (and maybe even a traditional Anglican to round things out!).
Dear Eirenikon,
I am very saddened that you cannot continue with the blog.
I will miss your irreplaceable contribution to the conversation between East and West.
Thank you again for your kind and balanced approach to Catholicism. Your voice has been very important to me and many on the net.
May God bless all your endeavors.
Fr. J.
Gregory–do you have a blog? Could you tell usn something about your journey? :)
I too, have been reading for a while, and deriving much nourishment here. Thank you deeply for the time you’ve spent with us, and for the continued presence of the archivesю I’m a former Anglican, now Roman Catholic, who seeks a deeper union with God. I have found a spiritual home in the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church, and believe strongly in the words of our late Pope John Paul II, of blessed memory, that we must breathe with both lungs of the Church, East and West. I would be glad to participate in any effort to continue a much needed, and loving, irenic dialogue.
“Achieve peace, and those around you shall be saved.” St. Seraphim of Sarov
I am certainly prepared to devote time and effort as part of a team to keep the discussion going. Since I am a Latin rite Catholic, we need some Orthodox collaborators to be credble!