Tag: Byzantine Church

Why the Byzantine Liturgy is great For kids…

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This past week, a friend of mine visited my Byzantine Catholic parish. Afterwards, she admitted that she had been rather apprehensive about how her small child was going to react to the whole experience. After all, she knew that the Byzantine Liturgy was typically ninety minutes long, rather than the forty-five minute Mass which her son had previously been used to experiencing.

Even though I have no children of my own, I offered the somewhat counter-intuitive claim that the Byzantine Liturgy is in some ways better suited to children than a Novus Ordo or Tridentine Mass. A bold claim, I know, but I stand by it! So, here are my top ten reasons why I think the Byzantine Liturgy is great if you have small children…

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Improving the church

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I recently came across this article from Daniel Dozier, a Deacon in the Byzantine Catholic Church, about his top ten ideas for Catholic Reform. I have to say, I’m kind of inclined to agree with him…

Step 1: Repent Publicly and Immediately and Announce a Plan of Reform.

Step 2: Investigate and Clean House.

Step 3: Create an Episcopal Accountability Board.

Step 4: Create Many More Bishops and Many More Dioceses.

Step 5: Build Fraternity Among the Remaining Clergy.

Step 6: Build an Organic Pipeline of Vocations for the Priesthood Through the Restored Use of Minor Orders, an Apprenticeship Model of Formation, an Extended Period in the Diaconate and with Required Professional Work Experience.

Step 7: Viri Probati.

Step 8: Begin a Preaching Campaign on Living an Evangelical Catholic Life.

Step 9: End the Liturgical Nonsense. End it. END IT.

Step 10: Restore the Election of Diocesan/Eparchial Bishops, Create a National Catholic Synod of Bishops with a Patriarch who Votes in the Election of the Pope of Rome.