First visit to a Byzantine Liturgy

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I made my first visit to a Byzantine Liturgy today and was very impressed. The intoning or chanting (all English) was beautiful and to my surprise was mostly congregationally driven. The readings were intoned as was the Consecration. Communion was received standing, on the tongue via intinction with a spoon. I had read about all of these things for years, and it was wonderful to experience them firsthand. There was a deacon and three altar boys; the deacon in this liturgy works harder than anyone! The Pope is mentioned throughout the Liturgy–it felt very Catholic! I especially liked the recessional; the whole congregation processed up the sides, received an annointing with scented oil, and processed down the main aisle and out the door. My car was filled with this fragrance as I drove away. A wonderful experience which I think I will repeat soon.
 
It was Eastern Catholic Liturgy, alot different from the West, glad you experienced the East, maybe more need to.

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Fortiterinre:
I made my first visit to a Byzantine Liturgy today and was very impressed. The intoning or chanting (all English) was beautiful and to my surprise was mostly congregationally driven. The readings were intoned as was the Consecration. Communion was received standing, on the tongue via intinction with a spoon. I had read about all of these things for years, and it was wonderful to experience them firsthand. There was a deacon and three altar boys; the deacon in this liturgy works harder than anyone! The Pope is mentioned throughout the Liturgy–it felt very Catholic! I especially liked the recessional; the whole congregation processed up the sides, received an annointing with scented oil, and processed down the main aisle and out the door. My car was filled with this fragrance as I drove away. A wonderful experience which I think I will repeat soon.
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Ooooooh yeah. I love all of the Eastern liturgies and I really love the Ruthenian traditional in particular. My girlfriend and I went to our first Divine Liturgy on Meatfare Sunday, the last day to eat meat before Lent (the traditional Eastern fast is pretty darned strict by our standards and I tried to adopt it but probably should have consulted a nutritionist first. Ended up getting weak and sick throughout Lent)… and we were met with a beautiful Liturgy and TONS OF FOOD afterwards. What really got me was the beautiful closing prayer. It was the most elegant and sincere prayer that I had ever heard… My girlfriend and I both sat there weeping, more fully aware of what had just taken place during the Divine Liturgy. We don’t have a Byzantine parish where I live during the summer, but I’m thinking about making a pilgrimage to Spokane (2 hours away. Woohoo) next weekend just to go to Liturgy again. The webforum for all things Eastern Catholic is www.byzcath.org The link to the forum is on the bottom on the page. Great community and they’ll answer each and every question you have about the East.
 
I am soooo glad you enjoyed the Liturgy! :dancing:

God Bless!
 
I am glad to hear that you enjoyed your first experience at a Byzantine Ligurgy. Yes, it is very CATHOLIC! I hope you are able to visit several times for the various feasts, and if not, read them at home. CD’s are also available.
 
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aByzantineCatho:
I am soooo glad you enjoyed the Liturgy! :dancing:

God Bless!
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aByzantine, do you know of any Byzantine parishes in The New York City area, Manhattan?
Sometimes I feel like changing to the Catholic Byzantine right.
Thank you so much.🙂
 
Oh, the greek-catholics. I fees so sorry for them because here in Romania, the comunist govern and the Schismatic Orthodox Church took the greek-catholic churches, now the comunist is not anymore, but the schismatic Orthodox Church persecutes the greek-catholics who don’t have church buildings and they have to celebrate in houses, in cemeteries. The Orthodox Church destroyed the manny church buildings which had the greek-catholics and even now they don’t eant to give back the churches which exist and weren’t demolished.In the comunism the greek-catholics were forced to became orthodox schismatics and those woh didn’t want to convert were killed (priests, monks, sisters, simple chirstians etc were killed by the comunists).

Cardinal Hosu Emil is a martyr and in the jail he wrote a book, his memories, and in that time the Patrarch Justinian of Romanian Orthodox Church came to him with his vicar Teoctist (the actual Patrarch) and told to the Holy Cardinal: “we don’t have mercy of you, and we will not be calt until all people will be orthodoxes, even we will have to kill for this” - these are the words of an orthodox Patriarch and his vicar who is the actual Patrarh, a false man who talk like that “is good to be unified the catholics with the orthodoxes, the catholics are christians like us, but they don’t have the true, we have the true because we respect the Sacred Tradition and the catholics don’t do this”.
In my city is a orthodox priest professor of Canonic Law and he studdyed in a catholic univerity for his doctorate, when he came in Romania lied the people that the catholics “don’t have cross, liturgy and saints. They are like the jehova’s wittneses…”

God have mercy for them!
 
theodorro,

Slava Isusu Christu!
Slava Na Viki!

Keep the faith in Romania!

May God grant you many years!
 
In romanian: “Laudat sa fie Isus” or “Slavit sa fie Isus”.

Yes, we, all romanian catholics, will keep the faith and I’m very glad that manny young men want to serve God, this year were ordinated more than roman-catholic 60 priests and 20 or more greek-catholics, our clerics are young and zealous.
 
20 new Greek-Catholic priest :clapping:

AWESOME! :dancing:

The world needs more Greek-Catholic priest!
 
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theodorro:
In romanian: “Laudat sa fie Isus” or “Slavit sa fie Isus”.

Yes, we, all romanian catholics, will keep the faith and I’m very glad that manny young men want to serve God, this year were ordinated more than roman-catholic 60 priests and 20 or more greek-catholics, our clerics are young and zealous.
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Laudat sa fie Isus!

Awesome! :yup: :yup: :yup: :yup: :yup: :yup: :yup: 👋

God Bless You Theodorro

I will pray for you and the Romanian Catholic church

In Christ Always,
Michael
 
Yes, try to get up there for the San Gennaro festival (mid-Sept.). They have an icon of St. Januarius there in the church. The festival is awesome!
 
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