Eastern Priest Teaching Church History at a Latin Parish?

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What do you think of this idea? I think it would be really cool. I wish priests of the different Churches would work together more in these ways with their parishes. Not so much that the flavors of the Churches become muddied–I think there’s already too much of that–but enough so that people of the various Churches have a genuine respect and affection for one another, and to learn about good subjects from different perspectives.

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Father David Anderson, pastor of St Peter Eastern Catholic Church, Ukiah, CA, is currently teaching a series on Church Fathers of the 5th & 6th century Thursday nights at Marin Catholic. Nearly all the students, adults, are from the Latin Church. He’s been teaching Early Church history for years there, origionally for the Archdiocese of SF.

Bishop Michael Barber of Oakland has asked Fr David to teach in their Saint Francis de Sales School for Pastoral Ministry. Previously Fr Anthony Hernandez, pastor of St Basil the Great Byzantine Catholic Church in Los Gatos taught classes in the Sacraments/Holy Mysteries, in the same School for Pastoral Ministry.
 
5Loaves said:
Father David Anderson, pastor of St Peter Eastern Catholic Church, Ukiah, CA, is currently teaching a series on Church Fathers of the 5th & 6th century Thursday nights at Marin Catholic. Nearly all the students, adults, are from the Latin Church. He’s been teaching Early Church history for years there, origionally for the Archdiocese of SF.

Bishop Michael Barber of Oakland has asked Fr David to teach in their Saint Francis de Sales School for Pastoral Ministry. Previously Fr Anthony Hernandez, pastor of St Basil the Great Byzantine Catholic Church in Los Gatos taught classes in the Sacraments/Holy Mysteries, in the same School for Pastoral Ministry.
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Fr. David is amazing and the Latin Church is fortunate to have his expertise. As our cantor once said, he is a “walking encyclopedia, with footnotes”. Father Anthony as well is a wonderful teacher and I’m glad that the Diocese of Oakland has been able to make use of him in the past.
 
babochka said:
Fr. David is amazing and the Latin Church is fortunate to have his expertise. As our cantor once said, he is a “walking encyclopedia, with footnotes”. Father Anthony as well is a wonderful teacher and I’m glad that the Diocese of Oakland has been able to make use of him in the past.
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We heard the exact same comment from someone, Orthodox, at PSALM Singing Seminar a couple of years ago. 🙂

I audited Fr Anthony’s class, having already earned my certificate from the School before he started teaching there. It was my first experience with him, tho far from my last. 🙂
 
This would be a great idea! From my understanding a good portion of Latin Catholics don’t even know of the existence of the Eastern Churches. I think we should take it a step further and not just teach each other of Church History but even invite each other to experience new liturgies. Swap Churches for a Sunday!
 
Recently I attended a retreat at St. Andrew’s Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Valyermo, CA (where our CAF friend MonkMoses and his fellow Byzantine monks lived till they relocated to their new grounds in Wisconsin), and was quite pleased to find the Western monks seem to still be very interested in Eastern theology. For example, the book they read from every night in the refectory, while I was there, was all about the the Divine Liturgy. 👍
 
Thomas48 said:
This would be a great idea! From my understanding a good portion of Latin Catholics don’t even know of the existence of the Eastern Churches. I think we should take it a step further and not just teach each other of Church History but even invite each other to experience new liturgies. Swap Churches for a Sunday!
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Seconded. I mean, I see you guys here all the time but I’ve yet to meet a living, breathing, Eastern Catholic in person. That’d be a nice experience I think. 😃
 
patrick457 said:
Seconded. I mean, I see you guys here all the time but I’ve yet to meet a living, breathing, Eastern Catholic in person. That’d be a nice experience I think. 😃
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Come visit one of our churches in person for Divine Liturgy, and you will surely meet one of us!
 
babochka said:
Come visit one of our churches in person for Divine Liturgy, and you will surely meet one of us!
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Hope I could fly to America then. 😃 All my life I’ve lived in the Philippines where the only Christians you could see for miles are either Latin Catholics or Protestants, and in Japan, where you have to travel for miles to meet another Christian. 😃
 
I would like it very much. The priest could give us a Byzantine interpretation of things. Not many Catholics know about the Eastern Churches. 🙂
 
bben15 said:
Not many Catholics know about the Eastern Churches. 🙂
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INCLUDING RC PRIESTS
There are no Byz cath churches nearby so I have to go to RC church. And I want to help so I volunteer at this parish. I had to jump through hoops to volunteer as a Eucharistic minister because the parish priest thought all easterners were orthodox. My baptismal certificate wasn’t enough, had to produce 1st communion certif (at my age, over 60, these were not so easy to find) then I had to explain to him why I didn’t have a separate confirmation certificate!

It would be so nice for the left lung to breathe together with the right lung.
 
It would be very cool. Many Latin rite Catholics don’t know much about our Eastern rites.
 
I think it’s a wonderful idea! 😃 I can’t imagine anyone objecting to it. Those who mentioned many RC Priests don’t know too much about EC’s hit the nail right on the head. If an Eastern Priest did teach Church History at a Latin Rite parish, I think it would be wonderful if both the parishioners and the Priest participated. I think it would be a good experience.
 
5Loaves said:
Father David Anderson, pastor of St Peter Eastern Catholic Church, Ukiah, CA, is currently teaching a series on Church Fathers of the 5th & 6th century Thursday nights at Marin Catholic. Nearly all the students, adults, are from the Latin Church. He’s been teaching Early Church history for years there, origionally for the Archdiocese of SF.

Bishop Michael Barber of Oakland has asked Fr David to teach in their Saint Francis de Sales School for Pastoral Ministry. Previously Fr Anthony Hernandez, pastor of St Basil the Great Byzantine Catholic Church in Los Gatos taught classes in the Sacraments/Holy Mysteries, in the same School for Pastoral Ministry.
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I know of Fr. Anthony Hernandez but never met him…he’ll give talks after Benediction at a Latin Rite Parish…he’ll also teach about Eastern Catholicism at the Latin Rite Parish…do you know Fr. Michael Pintacura? He celebrates both the Western and Eastern Catholic liturgies. I think Fr. Pintacura celebrates Divine Liturgy at St. Basil’s also.
 
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