Dear Amado,
Actually, my friend the Orthodox priest wears his cassock to school along with his long silver chain and Orthodox Cross!
My EC priest friend who has a parish half of whose members are traditional Latins asked me what I thought he should tell them about crossing themselves from left to right.
"Do they donate generously to the parish?" I asked him.
"Yes, they do!" he told me.
"Then don't do anything!" I said. I told him to let them know that Copts cross themselves like that too so it is Eastern as well
This reminds me of a local RC synod held a few centuries ago in Eastern Europe.
That synod, according to Fr. Irenaeus Nazarko OSBM, condemned the practice of allowing Eastern Catholic seminarians to attend school with Latin seminarians.
They said that the "Uniates" are much worse than the Orthodox since the Uniates "infect" our people with their foreign practices . . .
The Latin seminarians apparently began to imitate their Eastern "Brothers" by wearing long-sleeved black cassocks and beards . . . This drove the bishops bananas!
Definitely a reason to hold a synod!
And most of my friends' RC teachers attended his ordination here in Toronto. They are very supportive of him and I even heard them saying during the ordination service, "It's what he always wanted, thank God for that!"
Alex
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