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Rereading Fr George Calciu's account of celebrating the Holy Liturgy from memory whilst in solitary confinement set me wondering whether the Eastern Catholic churches ever consider a Byzantine equivalent of the 'missa solitaria' to be appropriate/acceptable.
Spasi Khristos.
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Well, not if they are faithful to the Byzantine tradition. The tradition does not permit celebrations of the Divine Liturgy by a priest alone.
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Spasi Khristos!
Fr. Mark, according to the accounts I have read of our New Hieromartyrs such as Blessed +Vasyl (Velychkovsky) and companions, all seem to indicate that while they would (out of necessity) celebrate the Divine Liturgy from memory it was in the presence of other inmates of the gulag.
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Have heard that Bishop John of San Francisco served Divine Liturgy by himself when on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St Martin of Tours or was it Gregory of Lyons. Sounds typical.
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Economia would prevail, I should hope. May we never find ourselves in such a position to have to make such a choice!
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