Did any Eastern Catholic churches cancel Divine Liturgies

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Anyways I’ve been waiting for a excuse to go to the divine liturgy now I have one hopefully they don’t cancel it
 
Margaret_Ann said:
You mean blessing with the trikirion and dikirion? That’s always special. (See the Divine Liturgy here: https://ugccmusic.com/)
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isn’t that only in the Heirarchical Divine Liturgy, not in routine celebration by the bishop?

Or do some Eastern bishops routinely use the hierarchical? (for Pittsburgh metropolis, I think we still have to use pamphlets predating the RDL . . .)
 
The Archeparchy of Pittsburgh released a statement regarding precautions, but there are no cancellations.
 
Same here in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
 
The Maronite Churches in the U.S. have NOT cancelled divine liturgies!
 
Slovak Greek Catholic Church cancelled all Liturgies. Apparently there was discussion of allowing communion in the hand during Byzantine Divine Liturgies and not distribute Precious Blood, but Bishops decided to stop them in the end.

Czech Greek Catholic Bishop of Brno has done the same and I am under impression every Eastern Catholic Bishop in Czech Republic as well
 
That sucks but hopefully with the help of God the one’s in America will stay open until Easter it would be recasting if there were no Holy week masses and liturgies anywhere.
 
Yeah it kinda does. Only Liturgies (Masses included) available are online ones here. It will remain this way for one more week at least.

I hope you, brothers Americans, will get to enjoy Liturgies at least a bit more.
 
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OrbisNonSufficit said:
Apparently there was discussion of allowing communion in the hand during Byzantine Divine Liturgies and not distribute Precious Blood, but Bishops decided to stop them in the end.
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That would take additional gymnastics and liturgical change for non-Ruthenian byzantines: only the 33 commemorative particles are consecrated, with the rest picking up Divine Nature when added to the Blood . . . (Ruthenian practice consecrates everything).

Yes, changing the priest’s intent to consecrate everything could be a solution, but this is a change from the consistent practice of about two millennia . . . (I couldn’t tell you by how long it predates the third century . . .)

Also, there is the issue of the bread used: some has significant amounts of crumbs, which would be an issue receiving in the hand. In my Pittsburgh nee Ruthenian parish, we hold cloth under the chin to catch whole particles that fall; Melkites hold a cloth similarly but lower for the crumbs that invariably fall off (they use intinction of strips, not the particles used by other byzantines).

These aren’t insurmountable–but they’re not trivial, either, and need to be considered.
 
dochawk said:
(Ruthenian practice consecrates everything)
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I think Slovak Greek Catholic Church is based on Ruthenian one, so they might do this by default. I am by no means an expert though.
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Yes, changing the priest’s intent to consecrate everything could be a solution, but this is a change from the consistent practice of about two millennia . . .
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So is communion in the hand for Slovak Church, Latin or Byzantine. I think it would be done because of necessity… not necessarily permanently either.
dochawk said:
Also, there is the issue of the bread used: some has significant amounts of crumbs, which would be an issue receiving in the hand. In my Pittsburgh nee Ruthenian parish, we hold cloth under the chin to catch whole particles that fall; Melkites hold a cloth similarly but lower for the crumbs that invariably fall off (they use intinction of strips, not the particles used by other byzantines).
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Yeah. I once saw one of Bishops celebrating Liturgy of St. James and I do recall people receiving Body and Blood separately, so I guess they would use same bread they use for this Liturgy and hence minimize crumbs. At the same time, they would probably start holding cloth or paten… Bishops basically said they were ready for introducing communion in the hand but as Prime Minister asked them to reconsider and banned public gatherings, Conference of Bishops (Latin + Greek) reconsidered and stopped public Liturgies.
 
the issue I see is not so much the separate reception, but rather the crumbly bread in the hand. I suppose each person would, as a practical matter, need to wipe their palms and fingers on the cloth afterwards with the bread I’m thinking about . . . which raises more issues.

Many of the byzantine churches no longer use the Liturgy of St. James in practice (Pittsburgh doesn’t, for example), while in some of the churches where it is still authorized, few priests are trained for it and it rarely happens. I do want to attend it some day . . .
 
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the crumbly bread in the hand
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It’s NOT bread any more but the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ under the appearance of Bread. (OK, I gave a Latin definition 😆.) The Particles are treated with the same reverence as the Ahnets.
 
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