Sunday 24 April 2022

Christ is risen!

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Christ is risen!


I just decided I shall attend the Greek Catholic Church from now on and celebrate Easter on the same day as almost everyone here. (It accepts Rome but resembles the Orthodox Church in everything except when it comes to dogma.) 

I should have done so more than twenty years ago. How wonderful not to have the priest facing the people. Or offertory prayers, or the dreaded sign of peace or all the other neo-Protestant newfanglia.


There is now a Greek Catholic cathedral in Bucharest. Apparently it's the smallest cathedral in the world.


Is it really smaller than St Asaph's? It's 80 sq m or 262 sq ft whereas St Asaph's is 182 sq ft in length, so much smaller (and much smaller than 
the delicious old cathedral at Athens). It was taken over by the Orthodox Church in Stalin's time, like all the Greek Catholic churches, and restored to the Greek Catholics after a very long political fight. The Greek Catholic churches were suppressed by the Bolsheviks because their loyalty was to the Pope.

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  1. He is risen indeed!

    "The Greek Catholic churches were suppressed by the Bolsheviks because their loyalty was to the Pope."

    It's too late now, but couldn't the Greek Catholics just have explained to the Bolshevics that their loyalty had been to the Lord Jesus Christ, rather than to the Pope as the Bolshevics had mistakenly believed?

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    1. Catholics think Jesus is head of the Church, under him St Peter and under him the Pope - Stalin, however, did not believe in the existence of the first two.

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