Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross

Blessed feast of the Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross! “Your most precious cross spanned the jaws of death like a bridge…” https://t.co/We4fmr3yWO

— Fr. Michael O'Loughlin (@PadreMichaelO) September 13, 2021

Fr. Andrew Summerson to Teach at the University of St. Michael

New Professor of Greek Patristics hired by @USMCTheology https://t.co/vGzlq22ylu

— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) August 3, 2021

Father Andrew Summerson has joined @USMCTheology as Assistant Professor of Greek Patristics. https://t.co/pOHAAqgcI6 pic.twitter.com/twaywnwQig

— University of St. Michael's College (@uStMikes) August 5, 2021

"Tasting the Lotus"

This online conference is hosted by the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Ss. Cyril and Methodius (https://t.co/woGNqq1DOL), in conjunction with the Thomas de Aquino Byzantinus Project (https://t.co/RZn4xTXwEi), and will take pace from July 31-August 1.

— Thomistic Institute (@ThomisticInst) July 19, 2021

Fr. Thomoas Loya is a Fan of JP2

and a proponent of theology of the body. But even if this is understandable, I still consider it a Latinization.

Fr. Michael Lee on an Encounter with the Risen Christ

Holy Friday Burial Vespers

Service of the Twelve Passion Gospels

Great and Holy Friday - Passion Matins

COVID-19 Adjustments Elsewhere

CNA/CWR: Catholic and Orthodox Churches in Ukraine consider how to distribute Communion

A Patriarchate for Capartho-Rusyns?

Sandro Magister: The Unreal Dream of a “Church of the Ruthenians.” A Clarifying Letter

Matt Fradd: Byzantine Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, & The Schism | Pints With Aquinas Ep.194

Changes in Personnel for the Congregation for the Oriental Churches

Magister: From the East Not Light But Darkness. Strange Shufflings in the Roman Curia

And in fact, rather than a promotion, the new role given to Vasil is a downgrade. His ambition was to return home as the major archbishop of an unprecedented and transnational Church of the Ruthenians, with its metropolitan see in Presov, which would bring together Slovaks, Croats and Hungarians of the Greek-Catholic rite, plus the  the annexation of a Ukrainian diocese, that of Mukachevo, also populated by Ruthenians, for a total of about 200 thousand faithful.

Of course, this project was hardly pleasing to the Greek Catholic Church of Ukraine. It was counting instead on the promotion to Rome, as the new secretary of the congregation, of one of its bishops, Teodor Martynyuk, auxiliary of the Greek Catholic diocese of Ternopil.

But neither aim has hit the mark. Instead of the Ukrainian Martynyuk - or at least another easterner - a Latinizing Italian has been made secretary. While Vasil is for now only temporary administrator of a diocese subordinate to Presov, that of Kosice, whose bishop, Milan Chautur, is still in office, albeit under investigation by the congregation for the doctrine of the faith for allegations of sexual harassment against a minor.

Bishop Milan's Letter to the Eparchy of Parma

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CNA/CWR: ‘If we are spiritually sterile, we will have no future,’ bishop tells Ruthenian eparchy

Not Well-Known

"Byzantine Compline"

Bishop John Kudrick

Metropolitan Borys

The 40 Thousand Mile Man

An Encouragement from Rome

But one that is unnecessary and should be undesired.

More on the 50th Anniversary of the Eparchy of Parma

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