Ukrainian Stations Of The Cross

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I believe that both the Ukrainian Catholics and Ukrainian Orthodox have had the Stations Of The Cross as a popular devotion since the late 17th century. Does anyone know exactly how they’re said ? The most popular version in the RC Church seems to be the one instituted by St Alphonsus Liguori, or with certain modern variations. There’s also a St Francis of Assisi version, but I’m curious how they were done by both Eastern Rite Catholics and the Orthodox in Ukraine.
 
I do not know about Hreko Catolics honor Cross (or what exactly you mean statesions of cross) but Orthodox Church worships Cross on Cross-worshiping Sunday (and then Week) of Great Fast and during Feast of the Raising Up of the Holy Life Giving Honor Cross such feast of Sept 14 (Sept 27). This are most important feasts.

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Perhaps you also mean Cross procession which is procession around Church carrying large cross with icons and khorugvi (cloth ikons). This occurs for many important feasts.
 
I am unaware of such a devotion among the Orthodox, but it is popular among Ukrainian Catholics. It was a Latinization, so it is probably similar, if not the same, as the Roman Catholic one of that time period…

Prayers and petitions,
Alexius:cool:
 
The trouble with introducing Latin devotions, such as Stations and Benediction, is that they drove out the traditional Eastern services, such as Presanctified and Great Compline and the Akathist.
 
Volodymyr, the Stations of the Cross is a devotion from the Roman Catholic Church. In Jerusalem it is called Via Dolorosa (the way of sorrow) and people pilgrimage down the street and through the Church of the Holy Sepulcher on the path that Jesus walked in his last hours. The fourteen stations (Jesus is condemned, Jesus bears the cross, Jesus falls, etc) mark the path. Roman Catholics around the world take spiritual pilgrimages down the Via Dolorosa by walking the Stations at home or in their parishes. Depictions of the 14 stations are set up and people prayerfully make their way from one to the next, walking with Jesus during his last hours.

The Ukrainians made the Wiki on the Stations of the Cross!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stations_of_the_Cross
 
The Ukrainian Catholic parish near me is very difficult to differentiate from a Latin parish. Included are confessionals, pre-Liturgy Rosary resitation, no iconostasis, and of course, the Stations of the Cross.

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Alexius:cool:
 
Woodstock said:
Stations of the Cross is a devotion from the Roman Catholic Church the 14 stations are set up and people prayerfully make their way from one to the next, walking with Jesus during his last hours.

The Ukrainians made the Wikipedia on the Stations of the Cross!

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Thank you for such information. There are many Hreko Catolics who are more Polish than Ukrainian and would like to make such practices seem Ukrainian. However, from here in Left Ukraine, there are no such practices. But it sounds like a very interesting practice.

Also, friend, we have in Ukrainian Orthodox very beautiful reverences of Cross as I said.
 
While certainly copping a Latin service directly may be a Latinization, devotion to the Passion of our Lord is most certainly not a Latinization.

Elder Isidore of New Gethsemane Skete had a “Wounds of Christ” devotion he taught all of his spiritual children.

There is also an Akathist to the Divine Passion of Christ which is quite popular during Lent in some places.

A service attributed to St. Peter Mohyla, the Orthodox Metropilitan of Kyiv, is called the “Passia” which is along these lines as well. In especially the Ukrainian Orthodox Church this service can still be found in parishes. While it does not go station by station, it has much of the liturgical tone and style of the Stations; readings and liturgical hymns pertaining to the Passion and Good Friday are used during four consecutive weeks, starting with the second week of the Great Fast (Lent). Metropolitan Ilarion of blessed memory, former Ukrainian Orthodox Metropolitan in Canada, called on the Passia to be served everywhere during the Great Lent.

For Volodymyr - indeed the passia is certainly known more in Western Ukraine rather than Eastern Ukraine (Left-Bank).
 
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devotion to the Passion of our Lord is most certainly not a Latinization.
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It dates back at least to the first century if the Holy Martyr Paraskeva is any indication. 🙂
Living in Rome, the devout Christian couple, Politea and Agathon, prayed fervently for a child and God finally blessed them with a child. They gave great honour to Friday, the day of our Lord Jesus Christ’s suffering. When their daughter was born on that day, therefore, they named her Paraskeva, which translated from the Greek means “Friday.”
 
Alexius said:
The Ukrainian Catholic parish near me is very difficult to differentiate from a Latin parish. Included are confessionals, pre-Liturgy Rosary resitation, no iconostasis, and of course, the Stations of the Cross.

Prayers and petitions,
Alexius:cool:
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Alexius, be fair.

Even with all the listed latinizations, I have a hard time believing an Eastern Catholic would not know it to be a Greek Catholic parish. I doubt it would confuse any Romans who knew we existed. And I have seen the whole gamut.
Alexius said:
I am unaware of such a devotion among the Orthodox, but it is popular among Ukrainian Catholics. It was a Latinization, so it is probably similar, if not the same, as the Roman Catholic one of that time period…

Prayers and petitions,
Alexius:cool:
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In fact it is a westernization, but according to Alex (Orthodox Catholic) over at Byzantine Forum, it can be found in Orthodox communities as well. During the Ukrainian renaisance a great deal of western piety and influence was brought into Orthodoxy in Ukraine given their contact with the West. Commonly found in Orthodox homes at the time were Pieta statues, miraculous medals, Rosaries, and devotions to the Sacred Heart.

I can’t defend the forms as being Byzantine… I also can’t just call them “imposed Latinizations”… There has been a great deal of admixture, for better or worse, much of these things can be found in both Orthodox and Catholic Eastern churches in Ukraine.
 
Diak said:
A service attributed to St. Peter Mohyla, the Orthodox Metropilitan of Kyiv, is called the “Passia” which is along these lines as well. In especially the Ukrainian Orthodox Church this service can
For Volodymyr - indeed the passia is certainly known more in Western Ukraine rather than Eastern Ukraine (Left-Bank).
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No, I know Пассия **(**πάσχει) or Passia. This is not something I was believing to be about Cross but about suffering of Christ during all time including before Romans, Jews, in Gefsimanskij sad and on cross. During Passia we read 4 different gospel relatings of suffering of Christ and akafist to Sufferings of Lord - ****Акафист Страстям Господним. But you are probably correct that out of fear to imitate Catolicism or perhaps more to imitate such Passios of J S Bach it is often here done without the kind beautiful music you described in Canada Ukrainian churches. **
 
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Alexius, be fair.

Even with all the listed latinizations, I have a hard time believing an Eastern Catholic would not know it to be a Greek Catholic parish. I doubt it would confuse any Romans who knew we existed. And I have seen the whole gamut.

In fact it is a westernization, but according to Alex (Orthodox Catholic) over at Byzantine Forum, it can be found in Orthodox communities as well. During the Ukrainian renaisance a great deal of western piety and influence was brought into Orthodoxy in Ukraine given their contact with the West. Commonly found in Orthodox homes at the time were Pieta statues, miraculous medals, Rosaries, and devotions to the Sacred Heart.

I can’t defend the forms as being Byzantine… I also can’t just call them “imposed Latinizations”… There has been a great deal of admixture, for better or worse, much of these things can be found in both Orthodox and Catholic Eastern churches in Ukraine.
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You should visit the parish. It is very similar to a modern RC church. I am not trying to be mean. I am sure that is what they can financially afford, but it is what it is. Not all Ukrainian parishes are like that, but this one is very Western.

I am not saying that the practice is absent among Orthodox, but I am unaware of any churches that have the Stations in them. If they did, they were taken down.

Prayers and Petitions,
Alexius:cool:
 
Volodko - Duzhe djakuju. I have friends in Dniepropetrovsk oblast who are very pious Orthodox and when we discussed this they had never heard of Passia - I did not know if that was the case throughout Skhidno Ukraina. Their parish may also be more Russified. I think Passia is more common and popular amongst the Pravoslavny from Kyiv on to the west, especially in Volyn, L’viv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zarkapattia, etc. oblasti.

I have attended Passia at the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and it is indeed a beautiful service, as is the Akathist to the Passion (Akafist Strastim Khristovom), which we also have in my Hreko-Katolitska Tserkva.
 
Alexius said:
You should visit the parish. It is very similar to a modern RC church. I am not trying to be mean. I am sure that is what they can financially afford, but it is what it is. Not all Ukrainian parishes are like that, but this one is very Western.
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Alexius:cool:
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Alexius, I may very well have at some point.

I have yet to see - however latinized - a Greek Catholic parish that would not be recognized for being a Greek Catholic - albeit highly latinized one. And that includes a parish in Cleveland that had more statuary back in the the day than a cemetary.
 
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