Question for Melkite Catholics

[ziapueblo]

Holy Transfiguration Melkite Greek Catholic Church in McLean, VA

I am friends with a few parishioners at Holy Transfiguration. I would move to VA just to become a memeber of that Church. They are pumping out many priests. Father Hezekias for example, pastor at Saint George in Sacramento and also founder of the Institute of Catholic Culture.

ZP

 

[Phillip_Rolfes]

Yes. I was a parishioner there myself some years back. I knew Fr. Hezekias before he was even a deacon (or subdeacon for that matter). It really is a great parish.

 

[ziapueblo]

A friend of mine is a parishioner at St. George and be says Father Hezekias is the best. I am a regular ICC watcher!

ZP

 

[dochawk]

so some practices that are uncommon among Byzantine Churches might come from its Syriac origin.

That might explain various things, but they switched from the Byzantine practice with the spoon to this intinction . . .

I’ve never been to a Romanian Catholic parish, but I knew their bishop, John Michael Botean… a very holy man. If unleavened bread was once used in the Romanian Catholic Church in the U.S., it probably isn’t any more. He’s been quietly de-latinizing his Church for the last couple of decades.

Romanians are an unusual case, as they are very attached to their Roman origins/history. I’m not sure that “latinization” is the correct word in their particular case when they do something as the Romans do, as they seem to have been doing this since long before Brest & Uzhrod (of the many spellings).

I’ve heard it stated, but cannot confirm, that Romanian is closer to Classical Latin than any of the Western European romance languages.