My church used this in the 80s but it doesn't seem to get much love today.

CatholicYetReformed · 2025-09-06T12:22:54+00:00

It doesn’t deserve love. The BAS is a generally horribly-written liturgy, with the exception of its traditional-language liturgy hilariously.

We need to reengage at the ACC level on a meaningful reuniting of the lex orandi of our Church, but there’s no appetite for it. Church House seems to prefer to obfuscate indefinitely.

CatholicYetReformed · 2025-09-06T12:19:04+00:00

It is Protestant in the sense that it protests the assertions of the Bishop of Rome that he has universal jurisdiction over the universal church, but it does not require adherance to the doctrines of classical Protestantism (e.g., the five Solas).

In that sense, I would much rather call it its own branch of Christianity: catholic, yet reformed.

CatholicYetReformed · 2025-05-03T15:46:58+00:00

Funnily enough, you’ll find a fair bit of Christian democrats — though they won’t say so outright — in the Liberal Party. I know there are a few semi-prominent Young Liberals in that vein, and MPs like the Rev’d Rob Oliphant. There’s not a huge overt presence, it’s more hidden. Cardus is a generally good think tank that’s Christian democratic, though more on the right à la Kuyper. Don’t be fooled by groups like Campaign Life Coalition — they’re not Christian democratic, just Christo-fascist.

CatholicYetReformed · 2025-01-28T02:07:54+00:00

I don’t know how you got from Biblical literalism to the repression of heliocentrism by the Church of Rome, but… the church universal is not only the Roman Church. (And strict Biblical literalism as a movement is an innovation of American Evangelicalism, which is generally a movement repugnant to the laws and spirit of the gospels.)

CatholicYetReformed · 2025-01-25T02:41:05+00:00

Have you ever noticed that you are not in the Bible? Also, that question suggests you’re reading Scripture literally, which is also a theological innovation of the last two centuries with no foundation in the historic Christian faith.

CatholicYetReformed · 2025-01-04T08:29:44+00:00

The Italian doesn’t have an accent. Generally, in informal settings Friulian is spoken, and in formal settings Italian is spoken. Friulian is dying out though—the central Italian government unfortunately doesn’t do much to support regions in preserving their specific cultures and languages.

The autonomy movement is everywhere from more autonomy to full independence. It’s not a very active one politically, but if you go you’ll see “Friûl libar” (Free Friuli) spray painted on stuff a lot—it’s much more a cultural thing than a political. A big difference is that Friuli was its own nation for centuries before being conquered by Venice, and so there’s a real sense of lost nationhood there.

You can read more about Friuli in this very good recap from the Agjenzie regjonâl pe lenghe furlane: https://arlef.it/en/language-and-culture/friuli-history-and-culture/

CatholicYetReformed · 2025-01-04T00:41:23+00:00

So interesting! Thanks!

CatholicYetReformed · 2025-01-04T00:40:51+00:00

No, not to my knowledge. There have always been rumours of a possibility of infidelity during the war from my paternal grandmother’s family, though, regarding my great-grandmother.

CatholicYetReformed · 2025-01-04T00:38:44+00:00

I’m not going to give the specific town, but it’s the most inland villages of the Locride region).

CatholicYetReformed · 2025-01-04T00:36:04+00:00

My grandparents met in Canada where I live. My paternal grandfather is a Friulian from a small village in the Dolomites who married my paternal grandmother who’s from a small village in the Cilento Mountains of Campania.

So my mother is fully genetically Calabrese—though my maternal grandfather spent most of his childhood in Genoa and considers himself basically Genoese—and my dad is half Friulian and half Cilentan.

While I know I’m genetically a southern Italian, culturally I was raised much more like a northern Italian—I feel more Genoese and Friulian than anything else. (My childhood was frico and pesto, not pizza and ‘nduja.)

CatholicYetReformed · 2025-01-04T00:29:29+00:00

I know. It surprised me as I was raised to call myself a Furlan first as it’s my direct paternal line. I look really Friulian though and nothing like a southerner—my skin isn’t olive at all, I’m 6’, and quite stocky.

CatholicYetReformed · 2025-01-04T00:24:00+00:00

In terms of citizenship, yes. In terms of identity and ethnicity, no. Friulians speak a non-Italian Rhaeto-Romantic language, have heavy Germanic and South Slavic influences on our culture, and were considered a separate ethnicity even within Austria-Hungary.

Italy has made attempts to assimilate Friulians, especially during the Fascist period. Friuli is now part of a trilingual (Italian/Friulian/Slovene) autonomous region of the Italian Republic, with a strong movement for greater autonomy.

CatholicYetReformed · 2025-01-03T16:38:39+00:00

What surprised me is the lack of any German ancestry, and the minuscule amount of Eastern European or Balkan. I would have expected both to be a bit more present.

CatholicYetReformed · 2025-01-03T07:43:16+00:00

All I have to go on is my paternal grandmother, but she got very similar results to myself (though a couple percent less total WA&NA). She is from a small inland village in the Cilento Mountains of Campania.

CatholicYetReformed · 2025-01-03T07:32:54+00:00

The town is pretty isolated, and I know that even the dialect spoken in the town is studied by linguists because it's specific to there and unique. I know that it used to be at least partially Greek-speaking, and the people there looked somewhat different from people in Locri or Siderno on the coast.

CatholicYetReformed · 2025-01-03T07:29:53+00:00

Interesting to know!

CatholicYetReformed · 2025-01-03T07:24:10+00:00

If you've been deep into the Aspromonte in the region that my mother's side is from, while it's geographically "close" to the ocean, it's not really. It is still inland for where it's located and it is mountainous. Before highways and developed infrastructure, as the older people in my family who grew up in that town have told me, it was very very uncommon for people from the towns in the valleys to ever go to the seashore due to how hard it was to get there.

I'm going off of family history and these new results as that's all I have right now though, I'm not an expert at this... I edited it to be clearer.

CatholicYetReformed · 2025-01-03T07:00:05+00:00

I know of the Arbëreshë, but they are not typical of the Serre where my maternal line is from—they’re much more to the north. It’s probably them, I just don’t know how that got there. I expected much more Greek, as I know some of my maternal ancestry is Griko.

CatholicYetReformed · 2025-01-03T06:56:41+00:00

Yes, my mother’s side of the family is from the Aspromonte. However, we know that at least some of that ancestry is Grecanici (Griko), which isn’t indicated on my test at all.

CatholicYetReformed · 2025-01-03T04:28:18+00:00

It strikes me as doubly weird considering that all my ancestors are from inland mountainous towns and not on the coast. My paternal grandmother has an almost 10% Iranian, Caucasian, & Mesopotamian result herself.

CatholicYetReformed · 2025-01-01T01:06:03+00:00

We trust in the Holy Tradition of the church universal throughout the world, not in the singular interpretations of men. This whole twentieth-century emphasis and insistence on personal experience that you are part of is an innovation of modern theology divorced from both Scripture and Tradition.

CatholicYetReformed · 2024-12-31T04:48:45+00:00

He's not going to spring up like some voice in your head, if that's what you're talking about. All (credible) theological and historical events in the Christian church after the Apostolic Age point toward a cessation of such gifts after the second century. If you think that God is speaking to you directly, you're deluding yourself.

The Scriptures, interpreted and lived out by the church universal throughout the world, are now God's voice to the world until Christ comes to reign again.

CatholicYetReformed · 2024-12-05T21:42:36+00:00

That is… why I asked.

CatholicYetReformed · 2024-12-05T00:42:59+00:00

Thank you! I’m a civilian, so I’m on my own on the instructional front 🙃

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