www.byzcath.org Forums Mysteries: The Life of Worship Vespers, Matins & the Divine Liturgy The Revised Divine Liturgy Munhall Cathedral Rumor...

A Simple Sinner has spoken!

As long as it's in addition to, rather than in place of eastern observances, I don't see how there could be a problem. In our parish, the problem was a family that wanted rosary before liturgy, where it would have the result of displacing Matins.

(and when I say "in place of," I'm including those rituals not currently used that could be)

hawk

You are coming around.

My wife and I left St. Thomas last October when the current pastor began canvassing for congregational interest in switching to vesperal liturgies on Saturday evenings. He didn't do it right away, but began during Lent.

(We had many reasons for leaving, not just that one. The RDL wasn't one of them, however. Recently I was asked by a Byzantine cantor friend about changes in liturgies within the Orthodox Church. :)) I smiled at the question, because in the past 100 years the only significant changes for many have been the adoption of the modified Julian calendar, and changing from a church language to the vernacular- both of which do not tamper with the liturgy itself really, unless you focus on things like "deliver us from evil" versus "from the evil one", or debts and debtors versus trespasses. No inclusive language, either. There are some churches that no longer have the Ektenia for the Catechumens, but that's about it, and there is no groundswell to make any other changes as far as I know.)