A lot of the things described are already happening in Eastern Catholic churches in Australia. It is fairly common for there to be a number of liturgies a day at the same altar. Many are concelebrated; I assume that at least some of the concelebrating priests have already celebrated, or will do so later, though as I only attend one liturgy I can't be sure. SOme churches have one priest officially resident but two liturgies on SUnday; the assumption would be that at least occasionally he celebrates twice. Also there is the case of biritual priests who celebrate one or two latin rite masses on SUnday (at different locations) and a DIvine Liturgy; biritualism in some way may account for some of these developments.

My questions from that are:

a) sorry for my ignorance; what is the Eastern tradition on concelebration? Is it permissible for a priest to concelebrate a number of times in a day in orthodoxy? (If that's been covered elsewhere and I've missed it I apologise).

b) What are people's opinion's on how biritual celebration by one priest fits into this framework?

In the case of Vespers, I often attend orthodox churches for vespers; I find that vespers is celebrated in a skeleton form with many ommissions, especially on big feasts with complesx services in most Byzantine Catholic churches in Australia; sometimes I have seen the Litiya celebrated alone.

Ned

The above post was taken off a thread in the Revised Divine Liturgy section. Since it had nothing to do with the thread it was posted on I felt that it would best serve as a thread on its own.

In IC XC,
Father Anthony+
Administrator