Agreed.
I wasn’t offended in the least. I didn’t really think about those vestments being his “best”, but I thought perhaps in the Eastern tradition, gold is the colour of martyrdom to mark such a glorious event as a person’s entry into eternal glory.
He may very well have been thinking that gold was the appropriate color to mark the occasion, as well. But the byzantine rite does not have set liturgical colors for certains easons or feasts, as the Latin rite does.
I beg to differ.
Actually, I beg to differ, as well.
The Eparchy of Passaic is a Byznatine Catholic Eparchy. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if practices were more codified and set down by law in a byzanine Catholic Church. But i was speaking specifically of Eastern Orthodoxy, where the colors are a tradition, but not a law.
Then why did you post it here on the Eastern Catholic section when it belongs on the Non-Catholic Religions section?
Well if we’re now forbidden to speak of any Eastern Orthodox churches when we discuss their eastern Catholic counterparts we’re not going to be able to get very far with ANYTHING now are we?Then why did you post it here on the Eastern Catholic section when it belongs on the Non-Catholic Religions section?
Why did your OP SPECIFICALLY mention Eastern Catholic Bishops?
Enquiring minds would like to know
not really but this what you wrote: “But i was speaking specifically of Eastern Orthodoxy, where the colors are a tradition, but not a law.”
If you go back and read it over, you’ll realize that I called the readers attention to a different thread, which was started off of this thread, about the colors of Byzantine vestments. There i talk about Byzantine Vestments, pertaining to Orthodox and Catholic churches. You then posted similar information here, so i continued commenting on the usage of those colors from both the Orthodox and Catholic perspective, which would have been more clear if the other thread i had been read as i suggested.not really but this what you wrote: “But i was speaking specifically of Eastern Orthodoxy, where the colors are a tradition, but not a law.”
I’m just curious as you originally posted concerning Eastern Catholic Bishops and NOT Eastern Orthodox, seems like you’re changing horses in mid-stream…
Eastern Metropolitans already wear a “Pallium”. It is called a Omophorion. Every bishop of the Constantinopolitan Particular Church tradition wear them as part of their episcopal vestiture.
Yeah, he knows… He meant their LATIN palliums. The entire point of this thread was that Eastern Bishops already wear the omophorion, which is analogous with the pallium, so it seems redundant to have both.
And if you go back and read the ORIGINAL POST you will that the post was concerning the vestments of new Metropolitian of Presov, Slovakia, who is a Byzantine Ruthenian Catholic NOT Orthodox so your comments about the vestments of an Orthodox Bishop were out of place here!
I already explained: one CANNOT talk about Eastern Catholic Churches without discussing and considering Eastern Orthodox Churches. What kind of idiot would really want to abolish speaking of the Orthodox when we talk about their Catholic counterparts?
It’s written in the TYPICA! What part of the THAT don’t you understand? Or would rather have it written in Latin??
Agreed. Life is too short, time is too valuable, and Christian duties are too pressing to continue to allow something as basic as some disagreements or misunderstandings about such things as liturgical colors to be a source of such ill-sounding lack of charity.
They typica (at least the one I’ve seen for a Eparchy of Van Nuys Parish) lists light or dark, and then recommended colors, but the choice of white or red is always available for various reasons.It’s written in the TYPICA! What part of the THAT don’t you understand? Or would rather have it written in Latin??
