Number of Liturgies

[ConstantineTG]

What happened to Ekonomia ?

What do you mean?

 

[Seamus_L]

Examples such as, How do 300 people attend liturgy in a church that only holds 200. What if a sizeable pct of your parishoners have difficulty understanding English, while the rest struggle with the language of the former.

 

[ConstantineTG]

Examples such as, How do 300 people attend liturgy in a church that only holds 200. What if a sizeable pct of your parishoners have difficulty understanding English, while the rest struggle with the language of the former.

As for the size, in the Philippines of course we are Roman Catholic, but its not uncommon to have people attending Mass from the parking lot because the parishes are overflowing. And these are parishes with an hourly Mass, on the hour, throughout the Sunday. Although I can’t imagine in Moscow in the middle of winter someone standing outside a church because there’s too many people inside already.

One way is to build side altars. Or to build more parishes.

As for the language thing, it may be a more recent problem. Because in their respective home territories, there’s only one language everyone speaks. The issue is here in the diaspora where the next generations do not speak the mother tongue anymore. And of course the odd person like myself who wanders into the parish, falls in love with the Liturgy and the spirituality, and stays. If they wish to expand their churches here in the diaspora, they need to adapt to the culture of the diaspora. Otherwise, there can only be so much immigrants from the homeland.

 

[dochawk]

Show me a Byzantine Catholic church in the US that really “needs” more then one Liturgy…

Over here.

If the entire vigil crowd came Sunday instead, we’d be overflowing once or twice a month.

As it is, we need our outdoor setup for Pascha; we wouldn’t fit inside (fortunately, we have a consecrated altar outside, for reasons that predate me).

As for the size, in the Philippines of course we are Roman Catholic, but its not uncommon to have people attending Mass from the parking lot because the parishes are overflowing. And these are parishes with an hourly Mass, on the hour, throughout the Sunday.

On my first visit her (Las Vegas), the (then) co-cathedral, which is on the strip, had Mass on the hour, while overlapping Masses were on the half-hour.

Now there’s a shrine at the other end To share the load.

(btw, the casinos paid for what is now the cathedral, and donated the land, to get a very early mMass for workers coming off-shift, in the day before VII).

hawk

 

[Diak]

I think the other issue is that most parishes can do only one Liturgy per Sunday but because many people prefer one language over another, the parish have to do two Liturgies just to satisfy the crowd who wants a Liturgy in the mother tongue.

St. Elias has already proclaimed that they are doing English-only. Although I have seen them schedule some Ukrainian-only services during Feast Days.

Most other parishes would still have the crowd that wants Ukrainian-only Liturgies. Some are even totally opposed to an English-only Liturgy even if they would be offered a Ukrainian-only Liturgy on another schedule.

A number of parishes in our Eparchy are now going to one bi-lingual liturgy rather than splitting a Ukrainian and English liturgy.