Community:Liturgy and Radicalindividualism

June 6, 2021 Schedule of services for the week of June 7 - June 13 Saturday, June 12 – Our Venerable Father Onuphrius the Great; Our Venerable Father Peter the Athonite; Krystynopil' Icon of the Mother of God 9:00 AM – Typika Service 5:00 PM – Great Vespers Sunday, June 13 – Third Sunday after Pentecost; The Holy Martyr Aquilina of Byblos in Syria; Our Holy Father Triphyllius, bishop of Leucosia in Cyprus 8:40 AM – Third Hour 9:00 AM – Divine Liturgy “Immediately they left their nets and June Birthdays followed him.” Hearing the call, Peter, Maria Amaro, Al Aparicio, Kim Andrew, James and John left one calling to Camplisson, Luke Chambers, Nelson Chase become fishers of men. The life of prayer and Many blessed years! devotion in monasticism and holy orders is a special way to live this calling. Did I miss a birthday? Please let me know. Is Christ calling you to follow him? Contact the Vocations Office at 206-329-9219 Mark your calendars – Sunday, July 4 or email: [email protected] Holy Angels traditional Moleben, barbecue OPhysicianofSoulsandBodies,weprayfor: and fireworks viewing. Angie Bitsko, Mary Beko, Loretta Brodke, Kathleen Burns, Time to be Fr. Andriy Chirovsky, Maria Lavasanipour, Chris Morales, announced. Jamie, Margaret Raya, Elnora Rusnak, Ladislav Sandor , Karen Simonich, Andrea Triolo, Brenda Washicko, The Book and Icon shop Gianna, Ly, Subdeacon Eddie and his wife will re-open on June 20th. Ethnic Foods sales hours during the Fr. James will be away… week are Monday, Tuesday, Friday & Fr. James will be out of town from Sunday Saturday from 10 to 2. afternoon through Saturday mid-day for the annual Clergy Conference. In case of an emergency please Please email the names of any 2020 contact Fr. Shaun Brown of St. Jacob Melkite and 2021 graduate from your family to [email protected] Community at (609) 425-7038.

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Community:Liturgy and Tanks to Rod Dreher and his book Te Benedict Radical Individualism Option, there is a lot of discussion about the need by Jessica Archuleta, catholicexchange.com for Christians to live more community-centered – June 8, 2017 lives. I don’t belong to an intentional community, though we certainly live with intention as Lingering incense from liturgy the night before Christians. I live in a small, Midwestern village mixed with the smell of fresh fowers that decorate where I regularly worship at a humble monastery the empty tomb; bright lights flling the small chapel; from the Romanian Eastern-Catholic diocese the sanctuary veil swept aside, the holy doors fung having its seat in Canton, Ohio. Te East is where wide open. Tese are the frst things I experience the birth of Christian monasticism happened and when arriving for Agape Vespers on Pascha evening. where Saint Benedict, the founder of monasticism Everyone in the chapel is that tired-to-your-bones in the West, drew his inspiration. It’s the cenobitic exhausted afer midnight services and all-night monasteries people are looking to for direction as feasting, the kind of tired that reminds us: you are they discuss community life; a hot topic even alive and life is full of joy outside of the Church as because Christ is risen! people are feeling the Te highlight of this effects of losing the Vespers service is the “front porch” connection. Gospel reading which is Te breaking down of the the story of Jesus’ frst family has lefno one appearance to the unharmed. As Christians, disciples afer His we have ancient wisdom resurrection. It is read in as on our side to these many languages that can modern dilemmas. be spoken by the people present. Te readers can be non-ordained laity (the only time this is allowed), Te Answer to Radical Individualism and they read from different areas of the church to emphasize the Good News of the Resurrection being My American-grown, individualistic take on the spread throughout the world. world was turned upside down when I became a Afer hearing the Gospel in Greek, Latin, Gaelic, wife, mother, and practicing Catholic; even more so Spanish, Ukrainian, and English, the symbolic when I started regularly atending liturgy at Holy meaning of this hit me once we sat down for dinner. Resurrection Monastery. Before this, my Tere with my husband, the monks, and a few Christianity was only about “me and Jesus.” I did visitors, I looked around the room and I was struck not understand what it meant that I was a part of the by just what a motley crew we were. “Body of Christ.” I did not know the depth of our Te small community of believers I belong to interconnectedness. truly is a microcosm of the Church. It isn’t We were not meant to travel through this world uncommon to have people of all the vocations alone, and we are not even capable of doing so. We (including a large number of children!) praying and need community; we need communion; we need enjoying a meal together. People of different one another whether we like it or not–we cannot traditions: East and West, Catholic, Orthodox, survive this world alone. sometimes Protestant, all come to visit. Te regular Community defnes us because the Holy members are from various countries around the Trinity is a community–a communion of three world and different states of the U.S. which means persons making one God. We are made in the image we also have quite a mix of personalities in a room and likeness of God. We are called to live in even when we are a small crowd. community (or communion) with one another. We Because of my experience among such are one and united by stronger bonds than our Christians, I want to share with you the insight I sinfulness or desire for individual “freedom” could have gained over the past twenty years of striving to ever break: It is Christ who unites us. live a Christ-centered and community-centered life. Adam, Eve, and their children were the frst When we are baptized, we do not come to the community. Te effects of sin within the frst door alone asking for entrance. We have sponsors. If relationships were felt early on, and we have we are a baby, it is the faith of our parents and repeated the same sinful cycle. Te struggle to live godparents that allow us to pass through the waters. in communion with one another is the struggle In Confession, the priest represents Christ and the humans have had since the Garden of Eden! So this rest of the members of the Church. Why? Because conversation isn’t new it is just resurfacing as we are when we sin we are most defnitely not harming facing persecution across the world, a radical only ourselves but the entire body. If you break your change in morality, and the breaking down of the foot, your entire body will feel pain and be affected family in modern times. by the break. So it is with our “individual” sins. We Te fact that we have struggled with communion do nothing alone in this world. since Adam and Eve should not make us despair. It is Holy Communion is the family meal, it is not true that broken families, friendships, communities, received alone and is the same Eucharist that has and broken hearts are proof of how ofen we fail at been received and will be received by anyone who communion with each other. Tis understandably will ever partake of the Eucharist! Perfect leads us to think ‘Why bother trying?’ So instead, we communion is the relationship of the Father, Son, build walls to keep people out, we fulfll our and Holy Spirit. Te eternal dance of agape. We obligationsandgohome,wekeeppeopleatasafe distance, and all the while we feel lonely, must remember we are made in the image and depressed, suffer from anxiety and can’t likeness of the Holy Trinity. understand why. Our hope, however, lies in Christ If you visit the beautiful litle chapel where I go alone and the union we already have with each other. for Liturgy, you will see the motley crew I In my struggles of understanding these things, I mentioned. If you hang out long enough, you will am ofen surprised at how all this communion and understand things are not perfect around there grace works. Most of the graces come quietly, slowly because we are all sinful people. I know if you can overtheyears,andwhereleastexpected.Manyofthe see past our faults, you will also see a deep love and graces come from years of growth together which commitment to one another. Te foundation of this means years of annoyances and confict at times. love is the liturgical life of the monastery, the life of Afer all, in a community we work out our prayer and asceticism. salvation,soyoubeterbelieveitisnotalwaysprety. Trough the liturgical life of the Church, we learn When you are among a group of Christians who how to love as God has called us. We learn we must are striving afer holiness, the evil one and his demons forgive before we receive the Eucharist. We get will be there trying to wreak havoc in any way possible. glimpses of how our Father sees each one of us so that Of course, it is our sin that will cause the most trouble we can see our brother in the same light. We see the because living in community is a lot like family life: It is work of the Holy Spirit moving among us. If anyone amirror.Interactingwiththesamepeopleyearafer wantstoseriouslyundertakethecallingtobuildclose year in normal life will show you your sins. You will community, they must begin with the liturgy. know your brokenness, and you will not be able to run Te perfect antidote to radical individualism fromitorgetcomfortablewhereyouare.Community is worshipping together at Divine Liturgy where is the mirror we all need to shater our egos and the we pray as the one body of Christ and receive Him false image of ourselves we’ve created. Te good in communion. From our prayers and actions, we news is, a healthy community is also a refuge;a can learn what it means that we are one. It is from place to be loved and accepted while wrestling with Divine Liturgy that we learn how to live as your own demons. It is the path to true freedom if we Christians in the world. We are sent out to the commit to doing the hard work. world, not to hide our light, but sent forth to live the Te actions of the Church over and over again truths we just participated in. All of life fnds emphasize that we are not primarily individuals. We are connected to each other–past, present, and meaning in the worship of God during Divine future in the sacramental life of the Church. We Liturgy. Or as a friend Marco da Vinha wrote, need to understand these truths in our souls (not “…part of our current crisis of faith is the inability only our intellects), so we can arrange our lives to look at things liturgically. We do not see our lives according to the reality we are already living. as liturgy.” Instruction for Applying the Liturgical Prescriptions of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches Continued from last week CHAPTER I The Meaning and Nature of the Instruction 3. The Second Vatican Council and the liturgy “Every scribe who has been instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like the head of a household who brings from his storeroom both the new and the old” (Mt. 13:52). This expression summarizes the disposition of the Fathers assembled in the Second Vatican Council. The Constitutions and Decrees approved by the Council itself, as well as the interpretive and applicative documents for the implementation of the decisions made during the Council, aspire to this gospel verse. It is not by chance that the first document published by Vatican Council II was that of the holy liturgy. The same Council emphasized the importance of such a choice, noting that to revive and restore the liturgy must be considered “a sign of the providential dispositions of God in our time, and as a movement of the Holy Spirit in his Church,”7 because the liturgy daily builds up those who are in the Church, making of them a holy temple of the Lord, a dwelling place for God in the Spirit (cf. Eph 2:21-22), to the mature measure of the fullness of Christ (cf. Eph 4:13). At the same time it marvelously increases their power to preach Christ.8 Prepared by decades of reflection elaborated in particular by the then-called liturgical movement, the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy was followed by intense collegiate activity which sought to clarify and gradually introduce it in the life of the Western Church, spreading its spirit, codifying some of the rules and inserting them in the liturgical books. 4. Conciliar and post-conciliar principles and norms for the Eastern Churches All the Christian Churches are founded on the one message of Christ and necessarily share a common heritage. Therefore, quite a number of principles of the conciliar Constitution on the sacred liturgy universally provide valid elements for the liturgies of all the Churches and should be applied even in the celebrations of Churches that do not follow the Roman rite.9 The practical norms of the Constitution and those of the Code of Canon Law promulgated in 1983 must be understood as affecting only the Latin Church.10 The principles and norms of liturgical nature which directly concern the Eastern Churches are found instead in various conciliar documents, such as in Lumen Gentium (n. 23), Unitatis Redintegratio (nn. 14-17) and even more importantly in Orientalium Ecclesiarum. These exalt the inalienable value of the specific, and thus diversified, traditions of the Eastern Churches. After the Second Vatican Council, the most important collection of norms for the Eastern Churches is constituted by the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. The quoted documents disclose general principles and practical norms regarding several aspects of ecclesial life. Some legislate in liturgical matters, indicating obligatory norms for all Catholic Eastern Churches. Obviously, these do not pretend to exhaust the totality of the indications regulating the liturgical celebrations for every single Church sui iuris. Such prescriptions belong, in fact, to the particular laws of each Church. 5. The present Instruction for the application of the liturgical prescriptions of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches The liturgical laws valid for all the Eastern Churches are important because they provide the general orientation. However, being distributed among various texts, they risk remaining ignored, poorly coordinated and poorly interpreted. It seemed opportune, therefore, to gather them in a systematic whole, completing them with further clarification: thus, the intent of the Instruction, presented to the Eastern Churches which are in full communion with the Apostolic See, is to help them fully realize their own identity. The authoritative general directive of this Instruction, formulated to be implemented in Eastern celebrations and liturgical life, articulates itself in propositions of a juridical-pastoral nature, constantly taking initiative from a theological perspective. The Instruction poses the following objectives: • to lead to a more profound understanding of the immense richness of the authentic Eastern traditions, which are to be scrupulously maintained and communicated to all the faithful; • to arrange the liturgical norms valid for all the Catholic Eastern Churches in an organic summary and to introduce recovery, where necessary of the Eastern liturgical authenticity, according to the Tradition which each Eastern Church has inherited from the Apostles through the Fathers; • to exhort a permanent liturgical formation to be organized on a solid basis, for both the clergy - beginning with seminarians and formation institutes -, and the people of God through schools of mystagogical catechesis; • to list the principles in common for the elaboration of Liturgical Directories for the individual Churches sui iuris. The frequent comparison with the Roman liturgy is intended to highlight the Eastern uniqueness, which risks being compromised or even eliminated in the contact with the Latin Church, her institutions, her doctrinal elaboration, her liturgical practices, and her internal organization which is often more developed also because of more favorable historical vicissitudes. 6. Elaboration of the local Liturgical Directories The present Instruction, compiled on the basis of the indications of the Holy See and of the Eastern liturgical traditions, limits itself to the formulation of principles and rules valid for all the Catholic Eastern Churches. The authorities of the individual Churches sui iuris, according to the indications of the Apostolic Constitution Sacri Canones,11 are invited to receive them with full open-mindedness and insert them into the prescriptions of their own liturgical laws. For communities of Churches sui iuris belonging to the same liturgical family, such as the Churches of Constantinopolitan or of Syro-Chaldean traditions, the Holy See will provide for the formulation of more detailed indications in collaboration with the Churches concerned. Every single Church sui iuris belonging to such families will provide, according to methods that will be specified, for the elaboration of a corpus of norms which adapt the present document and the one that will be elaborated for her entire liturgical family to her own specific situation. The Churches sui iuris, rather, which do not belong to a broader liturgical family should elaborate as soon as possible their own particular norms based on the present Instruction. The Holy See is available to provide experts to collaborate with the individual Churches sui iuris for the elaboration of such particular norms, if the Churches believe they have the need and request it. At the end of the process, the Liturgical Directory of each individual Church sui iuris will be presented to the Holy See.

7 Vatican Council II, Const. on the Sacred Liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium, 43. 8 Cf. ibid., 2. 9 Cf. ibid., 3. 10 Cf. ibid., 3 and Code of Canon Law (promulgated by John Paul II, 25 January 1983) [CIC], can. 1. 11 Cf. AAS 82 (1990) 1037- 1038. Holy Angels Byzantine Catholic Church 2235 Galahad Road San Diego, CA 92123-3931 Fr. James Bankston, Administrator Fr. Deacon Jonathan A. Deane Rectory/Office: 858-277-2511 Social Hall/Ethnic Foods: 858-268-3458 Email: [email protected] Website: www.HolyAngelsSanDiego.com Calendly: www.Calendly.com/HolyAngelsBCC Facebook: Holy Angels Byzantine Catholic Church

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