Byzantine Prayer Books

[Madaglan]

Each autocephalous church in Orthodoxy maintains its own calendar, and own canon of saints. Some include a few catholic saints, for example, the ACROD just canonized a few Ruthenian bishops of the 20th C… while the Catholic Church has merely beatified them.

The Catholic Church maintains one canon of saints, but each sui iuris church maintains its own calendar.

For the major holydays, 3 distinct calendars are in use amongst the byzantines: Gregorian, Julian, Revised Julian. Mostly, this moves pascha and nativity about.

I was just making a jest about the claim of no Catholic saints on the Jordanville calendar.

On a more serious note, I’m not familiar with the recent ACROD canonizations of Ruthenian bishops. Do you have a link (perhaps to the news release on the ACROD website)? I’d be interested in learning more about this, since I’m now in ACROD (though now geographically separated from an ACROD church) and several years ago I went to a Ruthenian moleben service for the cause of canonization of three or four Ruthenian bishops who suffered under communism. I’m wondering if they are the same bishops.