Recent content by Deacon Lance

St Ambrose I don’t know, but certainly Ss Basil, John Chrysostom, and Gregory the Theologian as they use liturgies and anaphoras bearing their name.

You are confusing several issues. After the Union of Brest, which was primarily Belarusian eparchies, there continued to be Orthodox bishops in Western Ukraine that answered to Constaninople (whicy was not in union aside from a couple unionist patriarchs who were quickly replaced). In fact it...

I did not say it was. But you are forgetting that when the Metropolitan left Kyiv the Ecumenical Patriarch created the Metropolitan of Halych. By the time of Patriarch Nikon the Metropolitans of Halych had added Kyiv and were part of the Polish kingdom so they were preserved from Nikonian...

The Eparchy of Mukachevo never answered to Kyiv or Moscow until modern times. The traditions of the Rusyn and Ukrainian Churches predate the Unias. My observation is the Rusyns were poor farmers and shepherds, our village churches were small and there was simply no room for several...

They were never under Moscow (or Kyiv) to be influenced by them. They answered to Constantinople via Moldavian and Transylvanian metropolitans.

That is called a tetrapod and is always present in Greek Catholic churches and usually in Orthodox churches descended from them. Russian Orthodox churches not from Greek Catholic descent tend to use several analogions in front of the icon screen rather a single tetrapod in the center.

https://www.thenationalherald.com/community/arthro/his_eminence_maximos_former_metropolitan_of_pittsburgh_falls_asleep_in_the_lord-1131896/ Eternal memory!

What you describe were/are the normal abbreviations of the Antiphons common in the Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church in the US. The 3rd Antiphon is no longer suppressed in the books in use since 2006. The Melkites and Ukrainians had their own abbreviations of the Antiphons. The term Synodal...

Yeah, no. That analogy doesn’t work.

Adults have the right (not privilege) to live with whom they choose and leave their possessions to whom they want. All in the Family tackled this in 70s.

Acknowledging their civil rights is not embracing sin. We believe divorce is sinful but don’t argue against the civil rights of divorced couples.

You have confused my intent with that of Wandile. The Pope most certainly was speaking of civil unions and I agree with him. People have the right to make contracts in secular democratic countries. That is what a civil union, gay or straight, is as far as the government is concerned. The...

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October 21, 2020 The Holy Father’s apparent support for the recognition of civil unions for same-sex couples needs to be clarified. The Pope’s statement clearly contradicts what has been the long-standing teaching of the Church about same-sex unions. The Church cannot support the acceptance of...

Wow, a CDF document.