Jubilee of Eastern Churches, Divine Liturgy in Byzantine rituals

Svetlana Duchovic – Vatican City

Five Eastern traditions, 7 rituals and 24 churches independent They are in a full company with the Pope and the Church of Rome, although they have their liturgical, theological, spiritual and crusties traditions. This is the diverse panorama of the eastern churches that these days brought to Rome for the jubilee of the rich treasure of their rituals, which were held in the papal basilicas, in the presence of patriarchs and leaders. Among them, the Byzantine rituals were in the midst of the celebration on the afternoon of May 14, in Bazilica San Pedro, with the Divine Liturgy headed by the Patriarch of the Church of Greco-Cololeco Milkita, Jose Abbi, and hung with other church leaders, the patriarch, Midobolitan.

Embrace

One of the peculiarities of the Divine Liturgy in the Byzantine rituals is that it sings in its entirety. During the liturgy in the afternoon, the different parts of the liturgy were the size of different languages, including the Greek, Kuni, Ukrainian, Roman, Hungarian and English. The sermon was responsible for the leader of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, the head of bishops, Svatoslav Shivchuk, who recalled the audience this morning with Liu XIV in the semester Paul VI, on the occasion of the Jubilee in the Eastern Churches. “We feel that we are embracing by the Holy Father, comfort in our current suffering and anguish, and we appreciate it in our Christian traditions and the old animation in our missionary mission that we carry out in the contemporary world.”

New birth

Upon reaffirming the Pope’s words, the beating of the Pope’s Svaatoslavlav that believers of the Eastern Catholic Churches are almost “a painful and tragic experience of war.” “It seems to us – note – that we make our profession to live as Christians specifically at the doorstep between life and death. But we discover every day in ourselves, as a result of our birth and our spirit in the saints of the Church, which is a mysterious germ of immortal life. Eternal life that, as the head of the main bishop, pointed out, “is the subject of our hope”, and according to the tongue of Basilio, “it will develop in our hearts and only wait for his full awareness.” In the belief in God the Father, in the hope of his son and in the renewal love of the Holy Spirit, the leader of the Greek -Catholic Catholic Church said, “The secret of our mysterious ability to be born again after every great ordeal and persecution, and the ability to be Herld of the holiness of life in the current kingdom of power.” And as Liu recalled the fourteenth several times at the beginning of Pontifat, “We can announce from the highest chair in the world to all peoples:” No Baz with you! “.

In San Pedro the Divine Liturgy in Byzantine rituals

Patriarch Absi: Faith, Christian Treasure

At the end of the Mass, the Greek Patriarch-Malikita Jose Abbi thanked everyone, recalling the 1700th anniversary of the Ecumenical Council in Nikia, “The common doctrine and the unity of Easter history gave us concrete signs of our unity in faith.” The latter, “the most precious thing for Christians”, “it is not just a spiritual example” but the living and effective testimony of the Gospel in the world. “

Cardinal Mikola Picok in the Divine Liturgy in Byzantine rituals

Gugerotti: The Church because it is diverse, not because it is united

The Cardinal Claudio Ghoghotti, a dexte, has conveyed his greetings as well, remembering at the end of the ceremony that “the church is because it is diverse”, “It is not.