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I found an old quote from the GOA on the question of females being allowed to serve at the altar. A poster on this board had put it up sometime back. Needless to say, they put the kibosh on this practice since it was not in keeping with tradition.
I have two questions related to this matter:
1) How far away is the widespread use of altar girls in the Ruthenian Church? Is it already here and thriving?
2) What part does ethnic identity and solidarity play in keeping out unfortunate Latin practices, ones totally at odds with the Eastern sense of liturgy and spirituality?
It strikes me that solidly ethnic Orthodox parishes would be much less likely to tolerate modern Latinizations such as altar girls -- don't ask me to explain this though since it is a notion and nothing more. I'm a huge fan of true ethnic diversity, but I wonder how long the BCC will be able to keep certain liturgically inauthentic practices from finding a home in the typical parish in a multi-ethnic society such as our own. My own experience of the BCC liturgy is limited to one Ruthenian parish where I go each Sunday (I still go to the RC cathedral for holy days specific to the Roman rite). I wonder whether the loss of ethnic identity among Byzantine Catholics in this country will serve as a breach through which liturgical "innovations" like altar girls might be introduced.
Does this mesh with the experience of Byzantine Catholics here?
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Slight correction - the use of "altar girls" is not a Latinization, it is a Protestantization.
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Originally posted by incognitus:
Slight correction - the use of "altar girls" is not a Latinization, it is a Protestantization.
Incognitus And what is turning around the altar and having everyone and his mother passing out Communion?
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Slight correction - the use of "altar girls" is not a Latinization, it is a Protestantization. I guess it depends on how you approach it. Bp. Kallistos Ware points in his book that Protestantism is the flip side to Roman Catholicism and I think there's some truth in this. Consider that many of the sources informing early Protestantism came from unresolved questions in Augustine's theology, a theology which has heavily influenced the theological schools of the West.
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I also support the Zoghby Initiative
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I assumed that those unresolved questions were what made Augustine not be the only church father that the west pays attention to.
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Originally posted by PaulNik:
[QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by incognitus:
[qb] Slight correction - the use of "altar girls" is not a Latinization, it is a Protestantization. Well, roman catholics have altar girls - lutherans in many countries female priests. Couln�t eastern catholics have female ponomaries?!?
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