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Again I'm not speaking of Church relations... my point is something else. I do believe eventually Russia would be in union with Rome...

The Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart isn't referring to Russians having this devotion except as a possible eventual result, someday. The Consecration means simply that the Pope would say a prayer entrusting Russia to Our Blessed Mother. That is what the word consecration means in...

I didn't mean this in terms of Church relations.. just that the Orthodox have way more in common with Catholics than any other faith or especially atheism My family is Russian... they grew up without any faith at all. There were Russians who kept their faith but they were few..

I'm not speaking of Church relations. There's something I read in a book that the more points a faith has in common with the Catholic Church, the better because God can use those true points to lead the person to the Church. I understand this presupposes that the Catholic Church is true and you...

I understand it's a difference in theology

I thought you meant about Moses.. I was looking for it and couldn't remember where it could be found. I know there are some Church Fathers who spoke of these instances (Tabor, maybe Moses on Mt Sinai) in connection to uncreated light, - but it's unclear how this was meant.. in Catholic theology...

I wouldn't say it's erroneous... it only sounds erroneous from the Catholic perspective if you think that the whole point was to bring Russia back to Orthodoxy and then forever keep the Schism. But maybe it's part of a process, ultimately resulting in the end of the Schism and meanwhile...

In Catholic theology we truly do have God living in us.. I think these are slightly different points. We do encounter Him but as creatures, this is one way to explain it.. Here's a link explaining some difference in terminology that I just came across...

St John the Apostle? could you let me know in which book, the Gospel or one of the letters?

The idea of created grace doesn't mean that at one point it wasn't existing (as in your example of the Son), it means that there was a time when we weren't receiving it. Created grace seems to refer to the instance - to the event of its reception. I don't know if this example is good enough...

I haven't really looked into this, but - whenever there is miraculous light, we see it as miraculous but there's also the fact that we can see it with our eyes... how do we see spiritual things with our eyes? I guess I can't really answer the question though lack of knowledge, maybe there's...

Here is a quite informative post that I came across that brings up some good points :) the point I think could be elaborated more on is the idea that the Catholic Church disagreed with the East on the distinction of Essence and Energies (if the East means it as a formal distinction, not a...

Am I correct the Orthodox teach a marriage gets automatically (or at all) dissolved by adultery etc? That is what I read from an Orthodox source

Intent to baptize etc is part of the form in Catholic teaching.. for instance if a priest says the words of Consecration with the intent to teach seminarians, that's different than Mass

I read an Orthodox article and before asked on another forum about this... from my research it seems the Orthodox view is that the marriage gets automatically dissolved with certain actions. I would be open to correction though.. the Catholic view is that it doesn't dissolve.. we interpret Our...

In many cases the couple were not aware or didn't care at the time... Some people say that annulments might be given too easily sometimes in the modern age but the concept of annulment is based on something serious at the time of the wedding. I think it's different from donatism because intent...

This isn't about sanctity to us though but proper matter and form If the couple is in a state of sin it's still valid

The people know what they meant though. For example if they didn't intend to have kids ever.. or lied on a huge topic

That is quite different... annulment means there never was a valid marriage. The Orthodox as far as I understand (any Orthodox posters please correct me if I'm wrong) believe that with certain actions like adultery, a valid marriage becomes dissolved and the couple can then remarry. Divorce is...

well my point is that they don't commit personal sins not because of a special grace, but simply through lacking a use of reason which is necessary to fully use the will. If Our Lady didn't commit a venial sin later in life, that is from grace, since she of course had use of reason