Agni Partene

[ZDHayden]

I discovered today this beautiful Orthodox hymn to our Blessed Mother written by the Greek Orthodox Saint Nectarios of Aegina.

I do have a slightly related question: Does the Catholic Church recognize / are Catholics able to recognize Orthodox canonizations? I ask not because I desire a devotion to the poet behind the hymn, but out of curiosity.

 

[Rawb]

I’ve been told, by Roman and Byzantine Catholics, that they would have no problem venerating any Orthodox Saint, including those who were martyred for refusing Roman Catholicism, those who actively preached against Roman Catholicism, and even those who were Roman Catholic schismatics (that is, actively renounced their former RC faith to become Orthodox).

 

[5Loaves]

I discovered today this beautiful Orthodox hymn to our Blessed Mother written by the Greek Orthodox Saint Nectarios of Aegina.

I do have a slightly related question: Does the Catholic Church recognize / are Catholics able to recognize Orthodox canonizations? I ask not because I desire a devotion to the poet behind the hymn, but out of curiosity.

Agni Partene, AKA Rejoice, O unwedded Bride!, is a favorite of mine also. Here’s a version for us Russians And by an OCF group in English, as I’ve sung it in a parish,

Good timing-- we just started the Dormition fast last night.

In my parish we do venerate Orthodox Saints. We’re basically on the OCA calendar.

P.S. I spent a number of wonderful years long ago near you in Richmond for college and grad school.

 

[I_Thirst]

Lovely hymn. Thanks for posting!

 

[ZDHayden]

Agni Partene, AKA Rejoice, O unwedded Bride!, is a favorite of mine also. Here’s a version for us Russians And by an OCF group in English, as I’ve sung it in a parish,

Good timing-- we just started the Dormition fast last night.

In my parish we do venerate Orthodox Saints. We’re basically on the OCA calendar.

P.S. I spent a number of wonderful years long ago near you in Richmond for college and grad school.

Thank you! I was wondering as for the veneration of Orthodox Saints in the Catholic Church because, even though I am grateful of my Roman-ness (even proud at times), I also have a great deal of respect for the Greeks - a respect that has slowly grown (which is one of the reasons I was dismayed when I learned that some Orthodox dislike my patron saint, St. Augustine - of course, others have only the highest respect for him.) I have noticed myself becoming more ecumenical, while still treasuring my own religious culture, dogma, philosophies and traditions - especially ecumenical with the Orthodox, though I come from a Southern Baptist upbringing.

I long for the day when the two great lungs of Christendom are once again united. If I could combine the Greek and Roman without sacrificing either in my own devotion -without me losing my Roman-ness nor the added aspects loosing their Greek-ness, I would. Both speak to me, but in differing ways. I’ve seen a lot of changes in my spirituality this summer . . . I am almost tempted to adopt a Greek patron - someone who was as Greek as Augustine was Latin, despite what I said in the OP.