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Our parish follows the Revised Julian Calendar, old calendar for the Paschalion, new calendar the rest of the year. Many Orthodox here, including the OCA and the Greek Orthodox, are on this same Revised Julian Calendar.

Ahh, yeah. I noticed a few Greek Orthodox parishes celebrating Nativity as the same as the New Calendar, but celebrating Pascha on the Old Calendar. Should have realized how that worked, thanks for the heads up.

also i am new to the byzantine catholic church are byzantine catholics honor bound to accepting the doctrines of purgatory. indllegences the adoration of the host in the montross saying the rosary and other non byzantine practices and beliefs that are clearly latin that creeped into the byzantine church i know the doctrine of the immaculate conception of mary and the supremacy and infalibility of the pope are dogmactic doctrines and not up for discussion also i thought 10 or more years ago i attended a the ruthenian church for a while and the divine liturgy looked more like how the orthodox church did thiers with just a few changes it seems it looks less similar has thier been a revision made to the service in the byzantine catholic church since then

Joseph,

Since V-II renewed the call for Eastern Catholics to re-discover their ancient heritage, many of the non-byzantine practices and beliefs that are clearly latin that had crept into the byzantine church have been re-evaluated, and in many cases quietly set aside.

I know of one UGCC parish where a priest was assigned in 1997 and discovered that the temple contained several statues. After discreetly inquiring about each one over a period of about 18 months, he was able to ascertain that only 2 of them had to be kept, since their donors were still very involved in the parish. These were moved to the narthex, while the others were simply removed.

Another UGCC parish I know of still has the Way of the Cross on Fridays during Lent. The priest there told me that the people want it, and he would get less than half the number of people attending if he were to do an Akathist of the Holy Cross.

In other words, a number of things have changed, while a number of other things still haven't. I think it's probably good to go slowly in these matters.


Actually, there has been quite a bit of discussion here on just these topics, and the consensus has been that their dogmatic status is not so sure as one from an RC background would think.


Now, *that* is a topic that has been discussed at length on this forum--in fact, there's a whole sub-forum dedicated to "The Revised Divine Liturgy."


Peace,
Deacon Richard