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From today (5th) to Sunday (7th) a meeting of the faithful of Russian Catholic Church sui iuris (i.e. Exarchate of Moscow) take place somewhere near by St. Peterburg. The main goal of the meeting is common prayer and serving the holy mysteries to that catholics of Byzantine rite, which have no other possibility to receive them. They need our prayer support. andreios http://grkat.nfo.sk - mp3, icons, texts...
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Prayers for the long suffering Greek Catholic church in Russia.
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AMEN!
Is it a miracle in itself that they are able to do this?
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Andreios, yes, many prayers are needed for the success of the Russian Greek Catholic Church. There are so many obstacles. We discussed the letter of Fr. Sergei on the Forum at the conclusion of the Synod last August. The letter from Fr. Sergei to the Holy Father is also available on St. Michael's website http://stmichaelruscath.org/news/, "Экзархат Российской Церкви византийского обряда Его Святейшеству Папе Римскому Иоанну-Павлу II". The letter summarizing the proceedings of the Synod is also there in Word format, http://stmichaelruscath.org/library/, "Протокол № 1 Собора духовенства Российской Католической Церкви византийского обряда, 23�25 августа 2004 г. от Р. Хр." Several of the Russian Catholic faithful also made a pilgrimage to Ukraine in October which is also described on St. Michael's website and on RISU at http://stmichaelruscath.org/news/news-20041013.php. I wish I could be there, but I will certainly offer my prayers in mystical communion with my Russian Greek Catholic brethren and will have a commemoration mentioned this Sunday at the Divine Liturgy. We must not give up on our endeavors for the restoration of the Exarchates of our Russian Greek Catholic Church. Diak, sinful subdeacon in entreaty for this most noble cause
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Originally posted by Diak: The letter from Fr. Sergei to the Holy Father is also available on St. Michael's website http://stmichaelruscath.org/news/ , "Экзархат Российской Церкви византийского обряда Его Святейшеству Папе Римскому Иоанну-Павлу II".
The letter summarizing the proceedings of the Synod is also there in Word format, http://stmichaelruscath.org/library/ , "Протокол № 1 Собора духовенства Российской Католической Церкви византийского обряда, 23�25 августа 2004 г. от Р. Хр."
Several of the Russian Catholic faithful also made a pilgrimage to Ukraine in October which is also described on St. Michael's website and on RISU at http://stmichaelruscath.org/news/news-20041013.php . The above are corrected links. The periods, commas, etc. that followed the original links got included in the urls as Randy posted them, causing a "page not found" error when people clicked on them. Many years, Neil
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Originally posted by Diak:
Andreios, yes, many prayers are needed for the success of the Russian Greek Catholic Church. There are so many obstacles.
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We must not give up on our endeavors for the restoration of the Exarchates of our Russian Greek Catholic Church.
Dear Diak, you are right. And they need not only our prayer, but may be some more concrete support too. We could think a little bit about, how to help them. The first is, I think, not to stop speaking and writing about this church and its situation, about the injustice... Originally posted by Diak:
We discussed the letter of Fr. Sergei on the Forum at the conclusion of the Synod last August.
On this forum? Which topic? andreios http://grkat.nfo.sk - mp3, icons, texts...
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Originally posted by Diak:
We discussed the letter of Fr. Sergei on the Forum at the conclusion of the Synod last August.
Originally posted by andreios:
On this forum? Which topic? Andreios, See Russian Greek-Catholics Celebrate Their Synod and ROC Not Happy About GC Exarchate Many years, Neil
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Thanks, Irish Melkite! I red them, very interesting. One note: f. Sergey Golovanov was not elected, he is the administrator, independent on the "sobor" in Sargatskoe in August, due to can. 320 � 1. He is not exarch, only temporary administrator. Canon 320
� 1. When the exarchy is vacant or impeded, the government transfers to the protosyncellus or, when there is none, to the pastor senior by presbyteral ordination.
� 2. He who comes into the interim governance of the exarchy must as soon as possible inform the authority whose right it is to appoint the exarch so that he can fill the vacancy. Meanwhile he can use all the powers and faculties, whether ordinary or delegated which the exarch had, unless they were committed to the exarch for his personal qualifications. There are interesting diferences when the exarchy is vacant and when an eparchy is vacant (where the administrator, as far as I know, has not all the powers and faculties). andreios http://grkat.nfo.sk - mp3, icons, texts...
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Indeed, the exarchate will have to be formally reinstated by Rome. Let us all pray for that day, and let us all lift up Fr. Golovanov in prayer so he may lead his flock. But we can begin to think along those lines, as the Ukrainians indeed call Patriarch Lubomyr so even though Rome has not yet canonically erected the UGCC as a Patriarchal church.
It would make sense to move the Harbin exarchate to the US for all of the diaspora, as it was intended to be a diasporal exarchate, and keep the Moscow exarchate for the lands within the former USSR.
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RISU today had an article about a new book called (translated title) "Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and Greek Catholics in Russia" http://www.risu.org.ua/ukr/contacts/anons/article;3542/
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It would make sense to move the Harbin exarchate to the US for all of the diaspora, as it was intended to be a diasporal exarchate, and keep the Moscow exarchate for the lands within the former USSR. Good idea. But, are there some people who belong to Exarchate of Harbin? Do you know some of them? andreios http://grkat.nfo.sk - mp3, icons, texts...
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Andreios, as far as I know most of the Harbin refugees were dispersed and ended up in Australia, Canada and the USA. There is no longer any organized Russian Greek Catholic presence there (as far as I know) as the tolerance of the Chinese government for either Catholicism or Orthodoxy vanished in the late 1940s and 1950s and a wave of severe persecution befell the Russian community there, both Catholic and Orthodox. The Lyceum clergy, including Archimandrite Andrei Tsikoto, Frs Josyp Germanovich, Foma Podziava, Pavel Portniagin, and Pavel Chaleil, were arrested by the Chinese, given to the NKVD (predecessor to the KGB), and imprisoned in gulags. Archimandrite Fabian Abrantovic and Fr. Anton Leshchevich, who had left Harbin for mission work in in Belarus when World War II broke out, were also arrested. Fr. Antony was arrested and executed by the Nazis. Archimandrite Fabian was arrested by the NKVD, and eventually was shot in Lubianka prison in Moscow. Frs Germanovich, Podziava and Chaleil were eventually released. Frs. Germanovich and Podziava served the Belarussian Catholic mission in London for some years, and Fr Chaleil worked with the Russian Catholics in Paris. Archimandrite Andrei and Fr. Paul Portniagin died in the gulag. The Lyceum was a source of many Russian Greek Catholic martyrs, clergy and faithful, during this dark time. Fr. George Brianchaninov as far as I know is the last actual surviving clergyman descended from the Harbin lineage and he is semi-retired in Australia. He was the Russian Catholic pastor in Melbourne for many years. Exarch Andrei Katkoff of blessed memory was also a student in Harbin. There are more Russian Catholic parishes in the USA than anywhere else outside Russia, which makes it the logical choice for a diasporal exarchate with the titular lineage to Harbin, as there is no longer any presence in Harbin to warrant it to be located there, in addition to potential governmental problems. There is an interesting article about the Harbin Lyceum at http://rumkatkilise.org/lyceum.htm
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Memory eternal to the Blessed and Holy Martyrs of the Russian Greek Catholic Church
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The first information on the meeting I actually red: The meeting was very fine, there were 5 priests and about 30 people. The administrator of Exarchate f. Sergey however could not come. He has sent a letter. Originally posted by Diak:
Andreios, as far as I know most of the Harbin refugees were dispersed and ended up in Australia, Canada and the USA
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Fr. George Brianchaninov as far as I know is the last actual surviving clergyman descended from the Harbin lineage and he is semi-retired in Australia. He was the Russian Catholic pastor in Melbourne for many years. Exarch Andrei Katkoff of blessed memory was also a student in Harbin. It is important, that they are stile alive = there is a continuity. Transferring the seat to USA and resuscitation of the exarchate would be logic. Though I do not believe, that Rome will do it. Because of their politic against Russian Catholic Church sui iuris. Resuscitation of such a structure of this Church could help the Exarchate of Moscow too. And the current politic of Vaticane is not to create structures for Eastern Catholics in diaspora, but to leave them under the government of latin hierarchs.  andreios http://grkat.nfo.sk - mp3, icons, texts...
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