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Dec 11, '08, 5:03 pm
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Appartitions in Eastern Catholicism
I was just wondering if there are any well-known apparitions that appeared to Byzantine Catholics? And also, if an apparition appeared to any Catholic and gave them something (like the way to pray the rosary, divine mercy chaplet, etc.) and the apparition was approved, could a Byzantine Catholic follow this message even though it is not part of his tradition? I know that Catholics don't have to believe in any of these apparitions and that the well known apparitions that I know of have appeared to Roman Catholics (at least that was what I have been lead to believe) but what do Byzantine Catholics think about them?
When I said in that first paragraph "and the apparition was approved", I don't exactly know what this means. I know certain apparitions have been declared false so does that mean that they have to be approved? If so, what does the approvement mean if it doesn't have to be believed by all Catholics?
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Dec 11, '08, 5:36 pm
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Re: Appartitions in Eastern Catholicism
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Dec 11, '08, 11:57 pm
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Re: Appartitions in Eastern Catholicism
"Approved" means the Church feels the apparition is a genuine miracle of God. It is not an infallible declaration, however. All public revelation ended with the Apostles so these are necessarily private revelations and thus not part of the deposit of faith. So any individual Catholic is free to not believe in them but by her approval the Church is "encouraging" a belief in them.
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Dec 13, '08, 9:28 pm
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Religion: Byzantine Rite Catholic
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Re: Appartitions in Eastern Catholicism
Between 1990 and 1995, Mary reportedly appeared to several children on a mountain above the Greek Catholic village of Litmanova, Eastern Slovakia.
The visions have not been "approved" and are still being investigated.
Metropolitan Jan Babjak just made Litmanova an official site of Pilgrimage in Slovakia.
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Dec 14, '08, 9:15 am
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Re: Appartitions in Eastern Catholicism
We have many wonderworking icons, especially of the Mother of God like Zarvanytsia, Zhitomyr, Pochaiv, etc. associated with miracles as well.
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Dec 14, '08, 4:46 pm
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Re: Appartitions in Eastern Catholicism
Here's one of my personal favorites:
http://www.soufanieh.com/menuenglish.htm
Peace and God bless!
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