Thanks for this. I will post my brief comment without having had the benefit of reading it
yet.
In my limited experience as a lay person the difference I was most aware of in the Russian Catholic, my parish, and Russian Orthodox churches where I have worshiped on various occasions, and the Greek Church where I also have occasionally worshiped is that the Russians in my experience close the royal doors at times when the Greeks do not. I recently had a Melkite Catholic priest for a teacher in a class on the Holy Mysteries and in the course of some description he gave (to a class that was all Latin Catholics except myself) made me think he was saying the Royal Doors were open when they’d normally be closed in the Russian-- maybe when the clergy are communing. When I asked him he indicated this was actually a difference in the Greek and Russian practice. I imagine others here will be able to more authoritatively comment on that and/or have a more scholarly understanding of what I’m talking about.
I think Russian sacred &choral music sounds more ‘Western’ ? I am also interested in Western Rite Orthodoxy …Thank you
Again as just a lay person I would agree with you, although not Western as in the kind of music one finds in a contemporary Roman Rite in the Catholic Church.
From another forum last year was this information: The Antiochian Church in Australia, New Zealand, and North America have both Byzantine and Western Rite expressions. The “Western Rite” used by the Antiochenes in the Philippines is the Novus Ordo celebrated ad populum.
Here’s an article re the Western Rite, I can’t vouch for the accuracy of it.
(There is also some use by some ROCOR folks and perhaps others of the
Sarum Use which is a Western liturgy.)
Can you say more about what your interest is in the Western Rite in Orthodoxy?
You might get more Orthodox responders in the “Non-Catholic Religions” section, or some more may turn up here .
And, welcome to the CAF, and the Eastern Catholicism section.
