Category: Eastern Liturgy
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Orthodox Church of Ukraine will allow the celebration of Christmas on December 25
“A discussion that has been going on for many years…”
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Orthodoxy’s Kryptonite: Scandalous Silence
Orthodoxy’s pathetic response to the war reveals a crisis.
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Brief Book Review: The Euchalogion Unveiled
“The volume…expands our understanding of the ‘mysteries’ of the Church by using older lists of what was considered a ‘sacrament.'”
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50,000 Syro-Malabar Christians Protest in Favor of Versus Populum
Yesterday’s Times of India reports that 50.000 Syro-Malabar Christians of the Ernakulam Angamaly archdiocese of the Syro Malabar Church took to the streets to protest in favor of celebrating the Eucharist in the versus populum orientation and in protest of the removal of their archbishop, Mar Antony Kariyil CMI. This is undoubtedly a very convoluted…
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Brief Book Review: Invitation to Syriac Liturgy
“Reading a few selections each day from this book impresses the reader with the diversity and commonality of faith expressed by the body of Christ.”
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Thinking Through Tradition with the Myrrhbearers and St John
Tradition is not just information about God, or correct words and ritual forms. It is rather a living encounter with God.
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Holy Week, Pascha, and War: A Year of Reckoning
God is offering to rebuild our dry bones into the body of Christ that loves, serves, saves, and bears witness.
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Versus Populum in the Syro-Malabar Church
It feels a little strange to write my fourth post on this matter (see here, here and here ). But problems with the orientation of the priest as he presides the Eucharist continues to be a issue in the Syro-Malabar Church. Last Thursday some disgruntled members of the faithful of the Major Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly…
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If we give scandal by our liturgical disputes … we play the game of the master of division
Last week the Congregation for Eastern Churches hosted a Liturgical Congress to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Instruction for the Application of the Liturgical Prescriptions within the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches In his opening remarks, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, encouraged participants “to avoid solitary escapes…