{"id":42200,"date":"2014-08-21T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=42200"},"modified":"2015-03-19T22:17:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T05:17:28","slug":"an-interview-with-fr-maximos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/21\/an-interview-with-fr-maximos\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Catholics? An interview with Fr. Maximos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/sT0m9N_Kkmg\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Yesterday\u00a0I gave a\u00a0brief presentation on Eastern Christianity with my friend Kate, who is Eastern Orthodox (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_Orthodox_Church_Outside_Russia\" target=\"_blank\">ROCOR<\/a>). It was so much fun &#8211; I had a blast talking about my love for the East \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Catholicism is a bit of a mystery to a lot of people. Honestly, Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians often look at Eastern Catholics and scratch their heads. Are they Catholic? Are they Orthodox? I&#8217;m sure similar questions are going to be raised tomorrow so I thought I&#8217;d post the following YouTube interview of Fr. Maximos from Holy Resurrection Monastery since it deals with many of these questions surrounding Eastern Catholic identity:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sT0m9N_Kkmg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y6x0iy-7Dd4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">If you&#8217;d like to learn more, I&#8217;d invite you to check out these other posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/21\/the-eastern-catholic-church-an-introduction\/\">The Eastern Catholic Church (Introduction)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Know your Rites\" href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/06\/know-your-rites\/\">My first visit to (what is now) my parish<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Eastern Catholic interview on Ancient Faith Radio\" href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/28\/eastern-catholic-interview\/\">Eastern Catholic Interview (Ancient Faith Radio)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/an-eastern-orthodox-christian-looks-west\/\">An Eastern Orthodox Christian looks west<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/11\/v2-eastern-churches\/\">Vatican 2 and the Eastern Churches<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Roman Catholics Say The Darndest Things: Part 1\" href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/06\/15\/liturgically-perturbed-1\/\">Roman Catholic guide to the Eastern liturgy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday\u00a0I gave a\u00a0brief presentation on Eastern Christianity with my friend Kate, who is Eastern Orthodox (ROCOR). It was so much fun &#8211; I had a blast talking about my love for the East \ud83d\ude42 Eastern Catholicism is a bit of a mystery to a lot of people. Honestly, Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians often look at Eastern Catholics and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,17],"tags":[1825,52],"class_list":["post-42200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-faith","tag-eastern-orthodoxy","tag-eastern-rite"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42200"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56796,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42200\/revisions\/56796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}