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Don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.                Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.                Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!                Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?                If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?                Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.                But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?                Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.                For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.                But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.               
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QUESTION:

I am curious about the western rite within Orthodoxy and the position of the OCA in regards to it. Are the western rite parishes in full "communion" with other Orthodox and are they able to concelebrate, etc?

Are there any OCA western rite parishes?

ANSWER:

If a Western Rite parish is within the jurisdiction of a canonically-appointed hierarch, it enjoys the same rights as parishes of the Byzantine Rite. "Full communion" is determined, not by rite, but by submission to the duly constituted hierarchal authority.

There are no Western Rite parishes in the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). To my knowledge, the only Western Rite parishes in North America are within the jurisdiction of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America headed by Metropolitan PHILIP -- and if I am not mistaken, there are very few of them.






Published in January 2011.








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