As the Three Wise Men make their way home in the Latin Rite, many Eastern Christians will only just be ending the fast before the Nativity. On 6 January in the Gregorian Calendar it is only 24 December in the Julian Calendar, which is used by Ukrainian Catholics and several of the Orthodox Churches of Eastern Europe.
Ten years ago, as a Latin priest in the Society of St John Chrysostom (a historic association promoting the Eastern Catholic Churches and working for reconciliation between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches), I was asked by Bishop Hlib Lonchyna to establish regular Divine Liturgies in English at the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family, just near Bond Street in the heart of London.
