We are a parish of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in the Acworth, Georgia area. We are blessed to serve both the Eastern & Western Rite Liturgies. We are under the direct Omophorion of His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion.
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Pentecost: The Gifts of the Spirit (Episode 1: The Gift of Tongues)
You say your parish is a Western Rite parish of the Russian Orthodox Church. From my experience everything I see in this video is Byzantine and in another video you are wearing vestments of the Russian style. It appears that ROCOR is doing what we all have suspected for some time, forced Byzantinization. To those of us viewing the recent ROCOR changes, this appears to be a "bate and switch" tactic.
Father Darren,
ReplyDeleteYou say your parish is a Western Rite parish of the Russian Orthodox Church. From my experience everything I see in this video is Byzantine and in another video you are wearing vestments of the Russian style. It appears that ROCOR is doing what we all have suspected for some time, forced Byzantinization. To those of us viewing the recent ROCOR changes, this appears to be a "bate and switch" tactic.