Preservation of Tradition vs. Fidelity and Organic Progress: A Necessary Updating of Certain Elements of the Liturgy of a Greek-Catholic Church
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Preservation of Tradition vs. Organic Progress
2.1. Anti-Judaism, a Point of Contrast with Vatican II
2.2. Various Facets of the Conciliar Perspective on Tradition
2.3. Paths of Renewal for the Liturgies of Holy Week
3. Moving Forward
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Abbreviations
Antologhion | Antologhion. Slujbele săvârşite în colegiu pe perioada Triodului vol. II, Roma: Colegiul Pio romeno 2016 |
CCCO | Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. Available online: https://archive.org/details/codeofcanonsofea0000cath/mode/2up (accessed on 5 May 2025) |
Comunicate | Comunicate of the Synod of Bishops (spring 2022): https://bisericaromanaunita.ro/comunicat-sesiunea-ordinara-de-primavara-a-sinodului-episcopilor-bisericii-romane-unite-cu-roma-greco-catolice-3/ (accessed on 5 May 2025) |
DV | Vatican II, Dogmatic Constitution on divine Revelation Dei verbum. Available online: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651118_dei-verbum_en.html (accessed on 10 May 2025) |
GS | Vatican II, Pastoral constitution on the Church in the modern world Gaudium et spes. Available online: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651207_gaudium-et-spes_en.html (accessed on 7 May 2025) |
Holy Week | Eparhia Greco-Catolicǎ de Cluj-Gherla, liturgic, Triod 2023, Sǎptǎmâna mare 2023. Available online: https://www.eparhiaclujgherla.ro/liturgic/ (accessed 20 on May 2025) |
Instruction | Istruzione per l’applicazione delle prescrizioni liturgiche del CCCO, https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/orientchurch/Istruzione/pdf/istruzionecongchieseorientali.pdf (accessed on 5 May 2025) |
LG | Vatican II, Dogmatic constitution on the Church Lumen gentium. Available online: www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html (accessed on 3 May 2025) |
NA | Vatican II, Declaration on the relation of the Church to non-christian Religions Nostra aetate. Available online: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html (accessed on 7 May 2025) |
OE | Vatican II, Decree on the catholic churches of the eastern rite Orientalium ecclesiarum. Available online: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19641121_orientalium-ecclesiarum_en.html (accessed on 5 May 2025) |
OD | Leo XIII, Orientalium Dignitas. On the Churches of the East. Available online: https://www.papalencyclicals.net/leo13/l13orient.htm (accessed on 14 May 2025) |
OL | John Paul II, Apostolic letter Orientale lumen to mark the centenary of Orientalium dignitas of pope Leo XIII. Available online: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/1995/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_19950502_orientale-lumen.html (accessed on 3 May 2025) |
Pastoral Guide | The Jubilee Year 2025 and the Eastern Catholic Churches, chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.orientchurch.va/images/2025.02.26_DCO_GIUBILEO_ENGLISH__-_ESTRATTO.pdf (accessed on 3 May 2025) |
Rânduiala | Rânduiala sfintelor şi dumnezeieştilor slujbe din săptămâna mare, duminica învierii şi săptămâna luminată. Blaj: Buna vestire 2004 |
SC | Vatican II, Constitution on the sacred liturgy Sacrosanctum concilium. Available online: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19631204_sacrosanctum-concilium_en.html (accessed on 13 May 2025) |
SNC | Francisc, Spes non confundit. Bull of Indiction of the Ordinary Jubilee of the Year 2025. Available online: https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/bulls/documents/20240509_spes-non-confundit_bolla-giubileo2025.html (accessed on 12 May 2025) |
Strastnic | Strastnic care cuprinde Rânduiala sfintelor şi dumnezeieştilor slujbe din săptămâna patimilor, Blaj: Tipografia seminarului 1929 |
‘The gifts and the calling’ | ‘The gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable’ (Rom 11:29). Available online: https://www.christianunity.va/content/unitacristiani/it/commissione-per-i-rapporti-religiosi-con-l-ebraismo/commissione-per-i-rapporti-religiosi-con-l-ebraismo-crre/documenti-della-commissione/_perche-i-doni-e-la-chiamata-di-dio-sono-irrevocabili--rm-11–29-/en.html (accessed on 15 May 2025) |
TMA | John Paul II, Apostolic letter Tertio millennio adveniente. Available online: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/1994/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_19941110_tertio-millennio-adveniente.html (accessed on 7 May 2025) |
Triod | Triodul care cuprinde slujbele bisericeşti de la duminica vameşului şi a fariseului până la sfânta înviere, Bucureşti 2000 |
UR | Vatican II, Decree on ecumenism Unitatis redintegratio. Available online: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19641121_unitatis-redintegratio_en.html (accessed on 8 May 2025) |
1 | The present article is part of a larger research project on the necessity of the reception of the NA in the Romanian Greek-Catholic sphere that is in the process of publication, which it would be impossible to summarise here, but which presupposes the analysis of the anti-Jewish elements of our worship and their respective patristic roots, highlighting their contextual and subjective character and, therefore, their reformability. The liturgical material studied is the most recent version of the offices of Holy Week published so far in the Greek-Catholic sphere (Rânduiala), a collection less heavy on anti-Judaism than the earlier Greek-Catholic edition (Strastnic) or the Romanian Orthodox editions of the Triodion (similarly used in our communities), due to the fact that the number of texts has been reduced in an effort to shorten the offices. Even if such intervention in the pre-Easter offices did not have the direct aim of moving away from anti-Jewish passages, it does show that the modification of our liturgies is possible. And I hope that my commitment as a scholar of the Council (and that of other researchers with other competences) may impel a revisiting of our liturgies also from the point of view of my subject of study, offering the decision-makers reasons and criteria for renewal. My study is at the level of the theological investigation, which should precede any potential revision of the liturgy as referred to by the Council and subsequent documents (SC 23; Instruction 19). The reform proper would be the responsibility of the competent ecclesiastical authority (SC 22; Instruction 22–24); it should be the fruit of the work of a team (SC 44) and should preferably be carried out in cooperation with the other Churches of the same rite, including the Orthodox rite (see below). It is to be welcomed that recently the idea of reforming liturgical texts with an anti-Jewish character is beginning to be considered in our Church (Communicate), something that was unimaginable in 2012, when I began my research on the subject of the (non)reception of the Council in our ecclesial sphere, when the problem of anti-Semitism was relativised, ignored, or automatically considered outdated after Vatican II. |
2 | By ‘reception’, I mean not merely the theoretical knowledge of NA §4 (or of the Council more generally), but also the translation of this knowledge into new terminology, mindsets, attitudes, theological approaches, openness to dialogue, and also into a reappraisal of the various expressions of our faith, including the liturgy (however traditional, co-natural, and immutable they might seem to us). In this regard, I follow the approach of (Routhier 2007, pp. 44–49, 62–65 and Noceti 2007, p. 104). On the subject of reception, see also (Congar 1972, pp. 369–403; Capretti 2010, pp. 21–26 or Theobald 2011, pp. 390–404); in the wake of Alois Grillmeier, Farrugia (2005, p. 22) in turn distinguishes between the reception of the vocabulary of a Council and that of its contents. |
3 | For a more complete analysis, see the research mentioned above and another of my contributions: The Jews, our ‘lawless’… ‘elder brothers’. Perspectives on the reception of the Second Vatican Council among an Oriental Catholic Church, in Orthodox Liturgy and Anti-Judaism, Edition Israelogie, (Zetea 2024, pp. 289–310). I also draw attention to the complementary studies of: Eliane Poirot, Alexandru Ioniţǎ, and Basilius Groen. |
4 | A dictionary published in the first half of the last century illustrates that Romanians were already aware of the preference of Jews to be called ‘evrei’ [‘Jews/Hebrews’] and ‘israeliţi’ [‘Israelites’] rather than ‘iudei’ and ‘jidovi’/’jidani’ (Scriban 1939, p. 714). Some twenty years earlier, the Greek-Catholic press objected to the choice of the editors of an Orthodox translation of the Bible to replace the term ‘jidov’ with ‘evreu’ (Macaveiu 1921, p. 7). |
5 | According to Isaac, this is the central argument of Christian anti-Semitism and the most harmful and enduring thesis of the so-called ‘teaching of contempt’, the most effective weapon against Judaism and the permanent source of Christian anti-Semitism (Isaac 1948, pp. 349–414; 2014, pp. 186, 382). |
6 | Holy Monday remains consecrated to the memory of the patriarch Joseph and of the barren fig tree (Rânduiala 25), in which the Christian world has traditionally seen a symbol of the unfruitful ‘synagogue of the Jews’, cursed by Christ. This is explicitly attested to in a verse from the Triodion (547), fortunately suppressed in the Rânduiala, along with other passages on the same theme, during the course of abbreviating the offices as mentioned above, but reappearing in an online version of liturgical texts, the editor of which seems intent on offering worshippers the most comprehensive form possible of the offices (Liturgic). By contrast, other passages on the barren fig tree preserved in the Rânduiala could serve as a model for the reformulation of current anti-Jewish passages, given their more spiritual approach to the theme (see below). |
7 | Despite the fact that in its final form Nostra aetate speaks only of anti-Semitism, the original intent of taking up the subject of Jews and Judaism was precisely to heal the traditional anti-Jewish hostility manifested within the church (Hussar 2022, pp. 98–99; Stefani 2014, pp. 329–30; O’Malley 2013, pp. 222–25, 281–82).Its insights are carried forward by other official documents, by various speeches and gestures of recent popes and by rich theological reflection (Neudecker 2012, pp. 31–144; Stefani 1998, pp. 179, 192–224; 2004, pp. 230, 235–46, 251–77; 2014, pp. 331–43; Remaud 2008, pp. 114–26; 2015, pp. 98–103; Capretti 2010, pp. 46–53, 172–73, 180–81, 202; Imperatori 2019, pp. 77–97, 157–58). |
8 | It could be said, of course, that NA §4 also mentions Jewish responsibility for the death of Jesus. However, the history of the document shows us that the intention here is not to reiterate accusations, but precisely to circumscribe responsibility by countering the classical collective accusations, as well that of deicide (Bea 1966, pp. 61–103, 147–50, 159–62; O’Malley 2013, pp. 225–26, 256–57; Gronchi and Paolo 2018, p. 492, 553–58; Paolo 2016, pp. 195–96; Remaud 2008, pp. 119–25). However, the real novelty of the document (which is not so new, since it is an affirmation already present in the Tridentine Catechism: Stefani 2004, p. 245; Ratzinger 1999, pp. 36–37; Garrigues 2013, p. 141) which needs to be incorporated into our liturgies seems to me to be the idea of universal responsibility (= our responsibility) in the death of Jesus, till now practically forgotten in the offices of Holy Week. In the current formulation, the idea of the death of Jesus ‘for us’, although present, risks being understood in the sense of a reward rather than a responsibility, while all the blame for what happened in that Passover is laid on the ‘Jews’, at least according to the most accessible and immediate interpretation. |
9 | The idea of a living tradition is not foreign to Eastern theology either (Taft 1999b, pp. 12, 30, 115, 318 ss.; Farrugia 2000b, p. 769; Andrew Louth cited in Ioniţǎ 2024, p. 11; Alfeyev 2009, pp. 277–80; Getcha 2010, pp. 80–81). |
10 | A careful analysis of the current form of the liturgical offices of Holy Week could illustrate how the biblical text is far from being used in its pure form. Even when it is used in that form, it is subject to various selections (with a preference—as far as the Gospels are concerned—for texts with the strongest anti-Jewish potential and—as far as the Old Testament readings are concerned—for passages that can be interpreted in a prophetic or prefigurative key). In the hymnographic context, various biblical texts are subjected to a variety of combinations, interpretations and sometimes corrections, as we have already seen and as I will detail in the study above. And while it is certainly inconceivable that the offices of Holy Week could ignore the Passion narratives (in themselves an interpretation of what happened in that Passover, not without a certain anti-Jewish animosity, something now sufficiently demonstrated by the specialist literature), their repetition could be less insistent and arbitrary, while the hymnography, in turn, could serve not to increase the anti-Jewish potential of the basic biblical texts, but possibly to diminish, explain, and contextualise it. Hymnody—a very specific and probably irreplaceable component of the Byzantine tradition—could be better utilised, with all its potential for beauty and creativity, in the offices of Holy Week. Placing it at the service of good or of evil, of hatred or of the healing of wounds, is a matter of choice. The use of certain passages from the Old Testament could, in turn, be less instrumental; in its current form, the reference to the Hebrew scriptures seems strictly subservient to the Christian message, without much respect for their intrinsic and/or universal value. As possible avenues of reform, I would tentatively suggest the following: (1) the reading of the Hebrew Easter texts not so much in a prefigurative, appropriative, substitutive key, but rather in that of gratitude for God’s gift to his people (= Israel); (2) the substitution of those Old Testament passages that currently reinforce various elements of the Passion in a prophetic-prefigurative logic (not infrequently with accusatory and vindictive overtones) with those that speak of God’s love and his forgiveness beyond human infidelities (which, moreover, are not only Jewish, but also ours); (3) the re-interpretation of passages such as the songs of the suffering servant or certain psalms traditionally read in an exclusively Christological key (as well as certain figures such as Jonah or Job) in a more universal key. The idea would be to show not so much that everything has been prefigured and fulfilled in Christ, but rather, how he takes on the human condition to the point of suffering and death. |
11 | In the same vein, see also (Girardi 2014, pp. 85, 105, 148–50, 247–48; Faggioli 2013, pp. 72–73; Mojzes 2022, pp. 419–20; John Paul II 1994, p. 4; Gugerotti 2005, pp. 73–74, 81–82, 89, 91). |
12 | These are the options endorsed in their proposal for the rewriting of the Byzantine liturgical texts by Mother (Poirot and Canéri 2008). I discuss this initiative in greater detail elsewhere. |
13 | This is the fundamental approach for the second part of Lent (see, for example, Antologhion II, 460; Rânduiala 27–28, 71; Triod 543; 555, but also the explanations given by the experts: Makarios Simonopetritul 2008, pp. 371, 373; Schmemann 2013, pp. 129–34, 143–44; Andronikof 1986, pp. 205–6). |
14 | And it is not as though the patristic tradition has not already travelled this path of identifying with certain characters of the Easter events; see, in this regard, Gregory of Nazianzus, Oratio 45, 23–24 (PG 36, 654–655), a reading moreover proposed by the Roman Catholic rite during the Easter season (for example, 1 April 2023): ‘If you are a Simon of Cyrene, take up your cross and follow Christ. If you are crucified beside him like one of the thieves, now, like the good thief, acknowledge your God. For your sake, and because of your sin, Christ himself was regarded as a sinner; for his sake, therefore, you must cease to sin. Worship him who was hung on the cross because of you, even if you are hanging there yourself. Derive some benefit from the very shame… If you are a Joseph of Arimathea, go to the one who ordered his crucifixion, and ask for Christ’s body. Make your own the expiation for the sins of the whole world. If you are a Nicodemus, like the man who worshiped God by night, bring spices and prepare Christ’s body for burial. If you are one of the Marys, or Salome, or Joanna, weep in the early morning’. Perhaps all that is required is to take this insight further: ‘Since you are among those who have betrayed him, accused him, condemned him, tortured him, crucified him, pierced him, ask forgiveness for yourself and for others, and look to his infinite love for all. Learn forgiveness and self-giving from him, and live and die like him, giving yourself up to your last breath’. Identification with Christ should not be taken for granted, but proposed as a path to follow. Or again, ‘Like Peter I betrayed you… Like him I did not understand you… Like the other apostles I fled… Like Barabbas I received deliverance and life… Give me tears of repentance and the grace to return to you… So many things about me oppose your teachings… Help me to accept them in the concreteness of my existence! Some part of me sometimes rejects you, to the point of crying out “he deserves to die on the cross”!… Teach me to welcome you, to know you and to love you wherever you present yourself to me, starting with my brothers!’ |
15 | The prayer can be found on the website https://www.oca.org/orthodoxy/prayers/lenten-prayer-of-st.-ephrem (accessed on 5 May 2025); on the same theme, see also Makarios Simonopetritul 2008, pp. 129–40; Schmemann 1987, pp. 62–70. Other words by the same author (whose works are not without anti-Jewish elements) that could serve to revisit the pre-Easter offices were quoted in Pope Leo XIV’s address at the audience organised for the pilgrims at the Jubilee of the Eastern Churches on 14 May 2025 (Leo XIV 2025). This shows that the current anti-Jewish approach evident in our liturgies is not due to patristic inspiration per se, but rather to a given selection of texts and emphases; as already mentioned, it is the very same patristic tradition that can offer us alternative perspectives, something I will return to at length elsewhere. |
16 | Two comments made by Cyril of Alexandria on the events surrounding Joseph, interpreting his figure Christologically and correlating that of Jacob to the Father (whom he says is saddened by the folly and the homicidal, unpardonable act of the Jews), may reveal something more about the meaning of these passages: Glaphyra Genesis, VI, Joseph 4–5. The continuation of the Cyrillian commentary is also interesting, where Jacob’s joy at finding his son and grandchildren is interpreted as the Father’s joy at welcoming the Son’s people: VI, Joseph and his sons 3. |
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Zetea, S.S. Preservation of Tradition vs. Fidelity and Organic Progress: A Necessary Updating of Certain Elements of the Liturgy of a Greek-Catholic Church. Religions 2025, 16, 989. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16080989
Zetea SS. Preservation of Tradition vs. Fidelity and Organic Progress: A Necessary Updating of Certain Elements of the Liturgy of a Greek-Catholic Church. Religions. 2025; 16(8):989. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16080989
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