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Any word if the Eparchy of Mukachevo will also go to the Revised Julian Calendar/Gregorian Calendar as well?

Thank you so very much Alex for your comforting words.
From the bottom of my heart, truly, thank you.🙏
Alice

My heart is breaking for my Turkish and Syrian brothers and sisters. I am praying and praying. How can their souls endure this pain and devastation? Only with God, so I continue to pray. 🙏
Lord have mercy! 🙏🙏🙏

Dear Giovanni1,

Most saints in both East and West tend to be local in terms of their veneration. Rome even allows for the veneration of Beati or Blessed persons whose cultus is NOT approved by Rome or who are not in the Roman calendar of saints.

St Constantine the emperor is a case in point. He truly is venerated in some areas of Italy and Spain but not in the universal Latin Church. In the Byzantine church, one would scarcely be able to find a parish where the icon of Sts Constantine and Helen does not figure prominently.

So it really isn't a matter of who is or is not in heaven. It is a matter of which saints are most relevant to particular Churches and religious communities which accounts for their specific cultus in them.

The rule is that only local or Particular church authority may approve the liturgical veneration of saints and which are to be listed in their respective calendars.

Universally though, as Father Sergius Keleher reiterated to me on many an occasion (+memory eternal!) , "We don't question each other's canonizations."

When the Kyivan-Ruthenian Church came into communion with Rome in 1596, the only saints the members of this Church could honour from their Orthodox patrimony was Sts Boris and Hlib. Only later were others brought in.

The Roman Calendar today lists them in its calendar by their baptismal names "Sts Roman and David." Also Sts Volodymyr and Olha are listed as "Sts Basil and Helen." And of course Sts Anthony and Theodosius of the Kyiv Caves Lavra.

When St John Paul II beatified Bl John Duns Scotus OFM, this particular saint had already enjoyed a local cultus in Italy for a few hundred years, having been beatified by the local Italian bishop . . .

Lord, have mercy.

Members of the UOC-MP have been found complicit in military and political chicanery during this genocidal war by Russia on Ukraine.

Those members should and must be arrested and taken out of commission - returned to Russia perhaps.

It is also time for Byzantine and Roman Catholic Americans to wake up to the political realities being perpetrated by the Moscow Patriarchate, before and now.

It is a major problem for worldwide Orthodoxy which will only be resolved by the Russian Orthodox church at some future time when it will be able to cleanse itself of the FSB tinge.

What I also find deeply offensive is how some talk about the Russian invasion in terms of a conflict of Russia vs the West - as if the Ukrainian people aren't present in the whole ugly situation.

They ARE present and they are fighting for their existence right now. Happily the West is helping them overcome the evil that has befallen them.

There can be no peace without truth and justice - and reparation by Russia to Ukraine for some time to come.

Certainly, when the Pochaiv Lavra is returned to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Orthodox Church in Ukkraine), it is a certainty that the UGCC will be able to serve Liturgies in a designated part of the monastic complex.

The Pochaiv Lavra belongs to both the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic traditions. It is popular among Latin and Armenian Catholics as well.

These are all spiritual children of the Most Holy Mother of God! Let them all come to their Mother!

Alex

I've been using this Psalter since Christmas. The modern English takes a little getting used to (I'd been using the HTM Psalter for some time previously), but it flows very well. I really like and appreciate the prayers at the end of each Kathisma, something the HTM lacks. Those prayers are simply...wonderful! The font size is better, imo, than that of the HTM which I found quite small for my old eyes. This Psalter also has a number of other "extras", like an "Introduction To The Psalms" by St. John Chrysostom, the 9 Odes + Odes 10-14, the Eclogarion, Prayers for Special Vigils, etc.

I'm certainly no expert and am rather new to a systematic reading/praying of the Psalter, but I'd highly recommend this one!

Christ is in our midst!!

OEFNavyVet,

The poster you refer to continues to post without thinking. The poster also continues to pretend to teach others in other parts of the forum and has been admonished by more Moderators than me. I mentioned above that this person had posted a huge video of the same topic as the previous thread, taking up a lot of bandwidth. That is the reason I made the comment that I did.

Thank you!

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According to Josephus Antiquities 3.250/3.10.5 the sheaf was waved on the 16th of Nisan:


In modern Rabbinic Judaism the counting of the Omer begins after sunset on the first day of Unleavened Bread, i.e. at the beginning of the 16th of Nisan. I am informed by a footnote in the Loeb Classical Library edition (from which the translation has been taken) that the Karaites begin counting the Omer on the Sunday of Unleavened Bread, but I have not confirmed this.

Lord have mercy!

To whoever it may concern, an Orthodox ministry that translates Orthodox theological and prayer books in English.
https://www.oceanitissa.com.au/books

Yes, that's correct.

I am not in the Eparchy of Parma, but at least from the online view, Bishop Lach appeared to be an active and holy man. So, it appears Parma lost a good one (though anyone who actually lives in the Eparchy can correct me if I am wrong). But it makes sense that Bishop Lach would want to return home.

Unfortunately, there really aren't any native priests to spare to be consecrated to the Episcopate. Thinking outside the box, perhaps it would be best for the Archeparchy of Pittsburgh and the Eparchy of Parma to merge. Or perhaps more drastic, have the Archeparchy of Pittsburgh merge with Passaic and then have the eparchies of Parma and Phoenix merge. Certainly not ideal, but the Eparchy's are so large now as they are, Bishops really don't get to travel and visit and parishes that often anyway. And the total population of the all the eparchies combined is just shy of 100,000 which is less than many Roman Catholic diocese with just one Bishop and no auxiliary.

Again, ideally, we would have plenty of priests with some to spare to be consecrated as bishops, but this is not the case.

Very interesting. In a sense, could you perhaps (my personal theologoumenon here) that hell begins here on earth because we are A.) separated from God B.) not really human in the fullest sense that God intends for us, and C.) suffering many and various torments because of A and B.

Just a thought.

Holy New Martyr Isaac, intercede for us!

If you study the saints' life, their life was filled with bad/evil past. I strongly believe that people who suffer the most, have big ministry and God wants to use them abundantly.

Once again than you Edward H Irish Ruthenian. Our Christian faith is SO rich, and filled with so much....that sometimes I feel we fail to appreciate the treasure we have AND thanks to you Edward, I learned something NEW today.....PURGATION!

I do pray you get the oportunity!

I hope this is not too late, chooch factor,

Byzantine rite is more about images or icons rather than statues. The "Jesus Prayer" is the staple food of orthodoxy, a very simple, small, repetitive, yet profound prayer that is prayed with a rope.

You need to invest in the following which can be mostly found on amazon:

1. a number of icons, candles, with specific quiet corner for them to pray. Icons can be pricey, so shop around
2. prayer book of ☦ and the Rope for Jesus prayer
3. familiarize yourself with saints and early fathers of the early church or buy a book about saints of that era
4. google is your best friend when looking for something, really filled with tutorials to your heart's content

Depending on what service you attend, if it's fully Byzantine, expect lengthy service starting as early as 8:15 am starting with Ortho, followed by Divine Liturgy for an hour or so. Expect to be standing most of the time. No kneelers. When kneeling, you simply have to kneel on the floor.

If you attend Byzantine Catholic, then the Liturgy will last only one hour more or less. The church usually combines aspect of Both the Catholic and the Orthodox church with both statues and icons, kneelers, Rosary prayers, novena. Really beautiful combination marriage between Orthodoxy and Catholicism at its best.

Blessings on your spiritual quest!

They are celebrating a latinized form of the East Syriac liturgy, which has been restored over decades - however some clergy choose to include more Latinizations than others. The division isn't just latinizers vs Easterners, there are also Indianizers and modernizers in the mix. This last group wants a modernized liturgy - which to them usually mimics the Novus Ordo style. Additionally, there's a smaller group that wants an "indigenous Indian" liturgy - whatever that is. And Lastly among all of the non-Eastern minded, there are some who incorporate a charismatic mode - which is antithetical to anything Eastern at its core.

Praying that God will grant health to George and enlightenment to his physicians.
I know how utterly difficult a time this can be. Thank God for the blessing of your daughter.
Through the intercessions of his patron saint, the awesome Saint George, and our blessed Mother of God, may God hear our prayers for your husband.
Lord have mercy. 🙏

The services of the Horologion

1. Whatever he is assigned
2. Canonically? no
3. That would depend on the bishop

The dogma of purgatory is that there is a state of transition after death, and prayer is efficacious for souls during this transition. Anything beyond that is speculation. I wish Rome would drop the medieval notion that God torments souls with fire to purge them from the stains of their sins, sins already absolved from in confession. It's patently absurd.