I attended a Compline service at a Byzantine church tonight

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This year on the Eve of Theophany (1/5/19), we had Great Compline with Litiya, the Vigil Divine Liturgy and the Great Blessing of Water. It took about 3 hours but it was well worth it.
 
Thanks for posting them - they’re lovely! The first picture you posted of the side chapel with the Anastasis icon in the background was the picture I posted too but yours is much better.

I was there in 2015. My friend & I went to the daily Divine Liturgy w/ Fr. Bogda. Is he still there at the Cathedral?
 
Do the Eastern Catholic churches do the same readings as the Roman Catholics throughout the year? They follow our liturgical calendar I imagine.
 
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Do the Eastern Catholic churches do the same readings as the Roman Catholics throughout the year? They follow our liturgical calendar I imagine.
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We have our own 1-year cycle of readings and we have our own liturgical calendar.
 
Thanks for the info babochka. Do you celebrate Christmas and Easter with the
Roman Catholics - the same dates I mean, unlike the Orthodox churches like
thr Greek Orthodox or Russian Orthodox?
 
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Thanks for the info babochka. Do you celebrate Christmas and Easter with the
Roman Catholics - the same dates I mean, unlike the Orthodox churches like
thr Greek Orthodox or Russian Orthodox?
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It depends. We have two Ukrainian Catholic churches in our town. One of them is on the Gregorian calendar and one of them is on the Julian calendar. Our parish is Gregorian, like the Roman Catholics.

The Russian Orthodox and Greek Orthodox actually celebrate Christmas on different dates. The Russian Orthodox follows the Julian calendar and celebrates Christmas on January 7th. The Greek Orthodox follow the revised Julian calendar (new Calendar) and celebrates Christmas on December 25th. As far as I know, there are no Eastern Catholic churches that follow the revised Julian calendar. They either follow the Gregorian calendar or the Julian calendar. Both the Julian and the revised Julian calendars celebrate Pascha ( and the feasts that are based off of the date of Pascha) according to the same formula.

Calendar issues are complicated.:roll_eyes:
 
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We have an entire booklet for Great Compline with Litiya, Divine Liturgy with propers for Christmas, Synaxis of the Mother of God (Dec. 26), Sunday after Christmas, Circumcision of Our Lord + St. Basil (Jan. 1), Vigil of Theophany (Jan. 5) & Theophany (Jan. 6). I’ll see if I can post a good picture of it later.
 
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There are twenty-three eastern Catholic sui iuris churches since Georgia was not recognized as one. The Russian, Belarusian, Albanian, and Macedonian are the smallest.

Marca Union 1611 (Serbs of Slavonia, Croatia, and Hungary) and Union of Uzhorod 1646 (Kingdom of Hungary) led to five Byzantine Tradition ritual Churches:
  1. Križevci Greek Catholic Church
    – Marca renamed Gornji Tkalec (1777), renamed Eparchy of Križevci (1801)
    – Exarchy of Serbia and Montenegro (2003) from Križevci
  2. Macedonian Greek Catholic Church
    – Exarchy (1918, 2001)
  3. Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church
    – Mukacheve (1777)
    – Byzantine Metropolitan See of Pittsburgh (1969, renamed from Munhall est 1963), with the suffragan Eparchies of Passaic (1963), Parma (1969) and Van Nuys, renamed Holy Protection of Mary (Phoenix) (1981).
    – Exarchy of Czech Republic (1996) from Prešov
  4. Slovak Greek Catholic Church
    – Prešov (1818) from Mukacheve
    – Czech Republic (1996) from Prešov
    – Košice (1997) from Prešov
  5. Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
    – Hajdudorog (1912)
    – Exarchy of Miskolc (1924)
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As far as I know, there are no Eastern Catholic churches that follow the revised Julian calendar.
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Holy Resurrection Monastery, Romanian Greek Catholic, in St Nazianz, Wisconsin is on the revised Julian. That’s the only Greek Catholic Church I know of that follows that calendar.

ZP
 
I’m so very sorry to tell you this, but he fell asleep in the Lord in September of this year.
 
Oh WOW! Vichnaya jemu pamyat! May his memory be eternal! What day did he pass away?
 
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Thank you. I’ll make a note of that on my calendar. He was truly a holy priest.
 
They’re my favorites too plus the Great Blessing of Water…
 
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