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florasita
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Posted: June 15 2007 at 9:04am \| IP Logged

well I had a whole little note typed out on this and who knows where it went ?

knowing me I posted it in another message or on a different forum

I've been looking up links for missions etc. to add to our blog ( hopefully will get them up today )
I'd had some concerns over a prayer a friend recently sent me regarding protection .
As some of you know my mission work is intercession /protection .
So when I read this prayer I was really concerned as it really was based on ignornace .
It was lumping the roma ( gypsy peoples ) in with those who cast spells , fairy worhsip etc.
As we know much fear is ignornace based .
I really am seeing the need for us as catholics to help educate each other . When peoples begin to judge each other and fight over things we are not educated in well a persecuted people can turn and do really really harmful things to thier own . Mother Teresa and Oscar Romero are a few who would let us know what horros humanity can place on itself . I see it with the palestinians and here in our own community a desperate people can be capable of doing very desperate things .
Anyway the roma peoples many are very devote catholics . I found this on catholic missions helping the gypsie peopleGypsie People
Many nomadic peoples are or were catholic . My ancestors were some of them .

so re-educating each other so we can not be fearful is a must I think .
If anyone is interested in the roma people and music the movie latcho drom is a beautfiul movie .Not much talking just music and dance really .
Some of us just have the nomadic gene its a part of our identity . Many are called missionaries

Much Love , Roxie

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Posted: June 15 2007 at 10:13pm \| IP Logged

YOu have the most interesting posts

You are truly fun to read, I wish we lived closer, I think I would love to sit and talk with you. Thanks for giving us more food for thought

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Posted: June 15 2007 at 10:37pm \| IP Logged

chicken lady I am actually a thinker / writer and in real life I am not a talker but a listener

which is maybe why I have many friends

truely I think to be a good story teller we also need to know the art of listening

beleive me some days I wish my brain would turn off

I love tea and chickens are fun too

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Posted: June 15 2007 at 11:17pm \| IP Logged

Hi Rox!
Some of my paternal ancestors were Roma, mainly from what was then Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Many were faithful Catholics though others watered down the faith with superstition. I do think that some of the stereotypes are not completely without merit but are heavily exaggerated in the same way as other ethnic stereotypes.

I will have to check out your movie recommendation. Thank you! I am grateful for your kind heart and love for the Roma/"Gypsy" people.

God Bless,

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Posted: June 16 2007 at 5:29pm \| IP Logged

I know what you mean Rebecca we sometimes say why'd that first indian take a drink

it labeled the rest of us for life .
we also have wondered about the first asian who ate a dog or perhaps the catholic who buries the st. joseph statue

I'm really liking the term don't put me in a box lately

pms dosen't help

off to the oblate send off party .
oh you will love the mkvie I'm sure there is a great section on Romanian roma . I liked the Indian and middle eastern myself just in my genes too

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