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Liturgy and Heaven in the Eastern Rites Peter Galadza1 (bio) Peter Galadza Father Peter Galadza, a Ukrainian Greco-Catholic priest, is Kule Family Professor of Liturgy at the Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies, Faculty of Theology at Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada. He is also the founding director of the Institute of Liturgical Studies, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine. Footnotes 1. This article was first presented at the conference "The Lost Language of Vatican II: Cosmic and Heavenly Dimensions of the Sacred Liturgy," sponsored by the Liturgical Institute, University of Saint Mary of the Lake, Mundelein, Illinois, 21 April 2005. 2. The very title of Marva J. Dawn's superb book, A Royal "Waste of Time": The Splendor of Worshipping God and Being Church for the World (Grand Rapids MI: Eerdmans, 1999), encapsulates modernity's attitude towards worship's utility. 3. Indicative of how heaven is salvageable today only when it responds to "human needs" is the fact that Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang's comprehensive and authoritative Heaven: A History, 2nd ed. (New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1988, 2001) deals almost exclusively with heaven as a place of postmortem reward. 4. An indication of Eastern Catholicism's "relevance" is the fact that publications and events marking the anniversaries of the Second Vatican Council rarely include reflection on the Decree on Catholic Churches of the Eastern Rite Orientalium ecclesiarum (21 November 1964). On this question, see Peter Galadza, "What is Eastern Catholic Theology? Some Ecclesial and Programmatic Dimensions," Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 39 (1998) 63, note 8. At another level, Eastern Catholics may be partly responsible for their own marginalization. 5. For an excellent presentation of the Church's need to be counter-cultural in order to regain our culture, see Aidan Nichols, Christendom Awake: On Re-energising the Church in Culture (Grand Rapids MI: Eerdmans, 1999). 6. Aidan Kavanagh, "Eastern Lessons on Liturgical Music," Pastoral Music 12 (1988) 69. 7. See Ronald Roberson, The Eastern Christian Churches: A Brief Survey, available in regularly updated form on the website of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA), at . 8. The topic of heavenly liturgy is discussed from a more general Christian perspective in the following works: Edward J. Kilmartin, Christian Liturgy: Theology and Practice (Kansas City MO: Sheed and Ward, 1988) 347–50; Enrico Mazza, Mystagogy: A Theology of Liturgy in the Patristic Age, trans. Matthew J. O'Connell (New York: Pueblo, 1989) 72–82; and Cyprian Vagaggini, Theological Dimensions of the Liturgy: A General Treatise on the Theology of the Liturgy, trans. Leonard J. Doyle and W. A. Jurgens (Collegeville MN: Liturgical Press, 1976) 335–54. 9. In view of how markedly the Syro-Malabar Rite has evolved from its East-Syrian (Chaldean) roots, ideally this paper should have treated it separately, but that task must wait for another day. 10. Lawrence A. Hoffman, Beyond the Text: A Holistic Approach to Liturgy (Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 1987). 11. Cited in Pauly Maniyattu, Heaven on Earth: The Theology of Liturgical Spacetime in the East Syrian Qurbana, Mar Thoma Yogam Publications 10 (Rome: Mar Thoma Yogam, 1995) 218. Maniyattu's study is an astute discussion of heavenly liturgy in the Chaldean Rite. 12. Liturgies Eastern and Western, Being the Texts, Original or Translated, of the Principal Liturgies of the Church, ed. and trans. Frank E. Brightman and Charles E. Hammond, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1896, 1965) [henceforth LEW] 252. Passages in small capital letters reflect scriptural citations; they are so designated in LEW. 13. In LEW 256; the text continues on p. 257: "O ye that have been invited by the great purpose to the living marriagefeast of the banquet of the king of those in heaven and those in earth / Behold the fire of the gospel and cleanse away all worldly thoughts from your minds with the divine furnace." 14. Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy (Crestwood NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1973) 28, emphasis in the original. 15. Among these is a particularly poignant text, read at the beginning of the Chaldean Eucharist, in LEW 249: "two robbers were crucified with the...
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.022 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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