Eyes on the East: Keeping Christmas with the Ukrainian Catholic Church
The liturgical and spiritual patrimony of the historic Church of Kyiv, to which the Ukrainian and Russian Churches – both Catholic and Orthodox – are today’s heirs, embraces English speakers as well as the Ukrainian diaspora and others. And so for a decade I have lived richly as a priest with bi-ritual faculties, keeping two Holy Weeks, two Easters and two Christmases.
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. ...