Question for Eastern Catholics

[Kitsune633]

I am wondering something about Eastern Catholicism. How do you Easterners called God in your liturgical languages? Do you call him Yahweh or by any other name?

Thank you for your time.

 

[Aramis]

I am wondering something about Eastern Catholicism. How do you Easterners called God in your liturgical languages? Do you call him Yahweh or by any other name?

Thank you for your time.

Just looking through the Slavonic in the old pewbook, and not de-declining…

Otče Naš (Our Father) Оч͠е нашь / Отче нашь
Hospod (Lord) Господ
Bože (Our God) Боже
Bog/Boh (God) Бог
Isus Christos (Jesus Christ) Исус Христос
Otcu (Father) Отцу
Synu (Son) Сыну
Svjatomu Duchu (Holy Spirit) Святому Духу
Duchu Svjataho (Spirit Holy) Духа Святаго

English and Latinski from the Ruthenian DL pewbook dated 1978.
Cyrilic taken from that and checked against various online versions of the Creed and Our Father.

 

[5Loaves]

I am wondering something about Eastern Catholicism. How do you Easterners called God in your liturgical languages? Do you call him Yahweh or by any other name?
Thank you for your time.

Back several years ago the Church gave a "directive to Catholics to cease using the Tetragrammaton of the name of God. In any case I’ve never heard it myself in an Eastern Church. I think it has only been in contemporary hymns of the Latin Church. I’ve certainly heard Allah used in ECCs.

 

[Kitsune633]

@5Loaves

Thank you very much for the information, but I am still not satisfied, I have them in Slavic, which is a start, but I am wondering how the the rest of the Eastern Churches, Catholic and Orthodox call God in their languages they use, do they refer to him as Eloi? Allah? Its what I want to know.

 

[Ahimsa]

Allah, amongst the Syrians.

 

[malphono]

Allah, amongst the Syrians.

That’s the Arabic word. In Aramaic (aka Syriac) it’s aloho or alaha, depending on the specific dialect. All of which, of course, come from the very same Semitic root as does the Hebrew el or elohim.

 

[malphono]

That’s a “yes, but …” thing. Despite what those of the other religion may contend, allah is the generic word in the Arabic language for God. It was really only after the Arab invasions and conquests that the Arabic language was forced on the non-Arab peoples in the Middle East. Admittedly, though, there were some ethnic Arab Christians before the the other religion even came to be.

 

[malphono]

Exactly the point: the Malaysia affair is a classic example, where the word has apparently passed from Arabic into the local tongue. Those of the other religion often co-opt the word and declare its use as a proper name for their unique purposes. I suppose that means that those who adhere to Christianity (or any other religion for that matter) are expected to conjure up a word that does not “offend” the majority religion.

 

[5Loaves]

I have them in Slavic, which is a start, but I am wondering how the the rest of the Eastern Churches, Catholic and Orthodox call God in their languages they use, do they refer to him as Eloi? Allah? Its what I want to know.

Just looking through the** Slavonic** in the old pewbook, and not de-declining…

Our liturgical language is normally called Slavonic, as Aramis refers to it, or Church Slavonic, or Old Church Slavonic.

The Trisagion in Greek is “Agios O Theos…” – “Holy God…” (also Theotokos-- God-bearer)