St. Paul in the East

[on_the_hill]

It seems to me that most of our Second Readings in the R. Catholic Church are from Paul. Is this the case with the Eastern Churches?

 

[Zabdi_Premjit]

It seems to me that most of our Second Readings in the R. Catholic Church are from Paul. Is this the case with the Eastern Churches?

If you are talking about the readings for the Divine Liturgy, then on most days, we have a reading from the Gospels and a reading from the Epistles. One some feast days, there be additional readings from the Gospels and Epistles. Epistles here means the section of the NT from Acts to Jude.

I hope that helped!

 

[Zabdi_Premjit]

If you are talking about the readings for the Divine Liturgy, then on most days, we have a reading from the Gospels and a reading from the Epistles. One certain feast days, there will be additional readings from the Gospels and Epistles. “Epistles” here means the section of the NT from Acts to Jude.

I hope that helped!

 

[on_the_hill]

Hmm…maybe I’m asking about things I don’t fully understand. I think most of the Epistles we have in the RC Church are from Paul. At least, I’m fairly certain the RC Church is referred to as Pauline. Is this the case with the Eastern Churches? Would you consider yourselves Pauline? Or are your frameworks based on other Apostles?

 

[Phillip_Rolfes]

Hmm…maybe I’m asking about things I don’t fully understand. I think most of the Epistles we have in the RC Church are from Paul. At least, I’m fairly certain the RC Church is referred to as Pauline. Is this the case with the Eastern Churches? Would you consider yourselves Pauline? Or are your frameworks based on other Apostles?

The Epistles/Second Readings in the Roman tradition are taken from pretty much anywhere in the New Testament outside of the Gospels. While the bulk of the Epistles are read from the letters of Paul, the bulk of the New Testament, apart from the Gospels, are the letters of Paul. So it’s no wonder that you’d get the impression that the Roman tradition takes all of the Epistle readings from Paul.

The Eastern Churches, like the Roman Church, are not “Pauline,” but rather “Biblical.”

 

[AnthonyJ]

I know this isn’t directly related to the OP, but St Paul was probably the greatest missionary in the history of the Church. Many Churches throughout the East were planted by St Paul on his missionary journeys.

 

[twf]

I would say that both West and East are very Pauline in that, as has been noted in this thread, most of the epistles contained in the New Testament are Pauline. For this reason, both West and East draw heavily from his epistles in the liturgy.

 

[wynd]

The Epistles/Second Readings in the Roman tradition are taken from pretty much anywhere in the New Testament outside of the Gospels. While the bulk of the Epistles are read from the letters of Paul, the bulk of the New Testament, apart from the Gospels, are the letters of Paul. So it’s no wonder that you’d get the impression that the Roman tradition takes all of the Epistle readings from Paul.

The Eastern Churches, like the Roman Church, are not “Pauline,” but rather “Biblical.”

Now I’m curious. Doing some quick math, out of the 239 pages of the New Testament in my Bible (excluding Revelation, since we don’t read that in church services), St. Paul’s letters account for 64% of it. During Pascha/Pentecost we mainly read from Acts.

 

[MorEphrem]

The Syriac tradition distinguishes between general and Pauline epistles (if I’m not mistaken). Because of the Maronite adoption of Trent, we eliminated all our OT readings preceding the reading of the epistles and so now we only have an epistle and gospel (and not even so clearly delineated since now the liturgical commission just mixes in Revelation, the general epistles and Acts into the epistle readings). A deacon (as opposed to a mshamshono ewangeloyo, i.e. a gospel deacon) is ordained to read the Pauline epistles.

 

[twf]

The Syriac tradition distinguishes between general and Pauline epistles (if I’m not mistaken). Because of the Maronite adoption of Trent, we eliminated all our OT readings preceding the reading of the epistles and so now we only have an epistle and gospel (and not even so clearly delineated since now the liturgical commission just mixes in Revelation, the general epistles and Acts into the epistle readings). A deacon (as opposed to a mshamshono ewangeloyo, i.e. a gospel deacon) is ordained to read the Pauline epistles.

Interesting, as the Novus Ordo introduced an OT reading prior to the Epistle to the Roman Rite.