Eastern Catechisms

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Chorbishop Seeley’s Introduction to Eastern Christian Spirituality: the Syriac Tradition can be found at more reasonable prices by some judicious searching.

Try Alibris, which currently shows listings for about 6 copies, used and new, ranging from $14 to $72.

AbeBooks shows another 5 or so editions available (as well as others available in the UK and elsewhere in Europe); again, a mix of new and used copies. Prices range from about $9 to $30.

Amazon has 5 or 6 copies listed, ranging from $10 to $25.

All three have copies available of Father Salim’s book - but all are priced around $25.

My past experience dealing through both Alibris and AbeBooks has been excellent.

Many years,

Neil
 
Amazon.com has the introduction to eastern spirituality for $10. They have 3 new ones in stock and more on the way it says.
 
The CCC cannot be assumed to automatically apply to the Eastern Churches for many reasons, practical and canonical.

By practical I will give one example - first of all, the Creed used in Section Two of the CCC is the Apostles Creed. Every past catechism in the Constantinopolitan tradition (Mohyla, etc.) has been premised on the Creed actually used liturgically in the Eastern Churches, which is the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed. So there is already something of a conceptual disconnect with the usual approach of lex orandi, lex credendi which is a hallmark feature of Eastern mystagogical catechesis.

The mutually agreed covenant of our (UGCC) communion with the Catholic Church, the Union of Brest, states plainly: “…we ask that we should not be compelled to any other creed but that we should remain with that which was handed down to us in the Holy Scriptures, in the Gospel, and in the writings of the holy Greek Doctors”. This should most certainly be reflected in catechesis as well.

That being said there are many things about the CCC I like and I have used that both at home and in ministry. But as a Ukrainain Greek Catholic I am not bound in any way to use it solely as a catechetical reference, nor do I do so in teaching catechism. Kucharek, Mohila and other texts (Holowaychuk, old translations of St. Josaphat and other bishops, etc,) are still in use quite a bit amongst Ukrainians, probably moreso than the CCC.

The Catechetical Directory of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was completed in 2000 in advance of the Catechism. To my knowledge when the Catechism is published in 2008 it will become the first particular Catechism of an Eastern Church, which was recommended to be developed implicitly in Orientalium Dignitas by Leo XIII and explicitly in Orientale Lumen and Orientalium Ecclesiarum .

As His Grace Bishop +Peter, the head of the Patriarchal Catechetical Commission stated in the official UGCC press release: “It is time to take the bold steps necessary to place into the hands of Ukrainian Catholics a depository of faith, on what it means to be a Ukrainian Catholic”
FDRLB
 
Diak said:
The Catechetical Directory of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was completed in 2000 in advance of the Catechism. To my knowledge when the Catechism is published in 2008 it will become the first particular Catechism of an Eastern Church, which was recommended to be developed implicitly in Orientalium Dignitas by Leo XIII and explicitly in Orientale Lumen and Orientalium Ecclesiarum .
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Father Deacon,

If it was finished in 2000, why has it taken 8 years to publish it? Do you know who will be doing the publishing and where it can be purchased?
 
The *Directory *was finished in 2000, not the Catechism itself. *The Directory *is sort of the road map to the preparation of the Catechism. Unfortunately, these things take time. One can see how long it was for the CCC to finally get published - many years.

The Catechetical Directory of the Ukrainian Catholic Church is available at stjosaphateparchy.org/Store.html
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