Perth Amboy Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Church, July 2006

[ninjaboj]

Nice singing. ONe of my best friends is the grandmater of the ROC in Britain you know. I'm gonna try and get him to ordain me!! I'm not joking!! HIs name is father Daniel Joseph, you might of heard of him, and if you haven't you should have!!!!!

[hayyu2008]

What is the point of these 'Eastern Catholic' churches being in union with Rome! They are Orthodox in almost everything!

[Szpondt]

hayyu2008: I'm Roman Catholic, but I've done a lot of study on the Eastern Catholics, so I feel competent to answer this question.

Eastern Catholics are not "Orthodox" in almost everything. True, many Eastern Catholics share a common liturgical tradition with Orthodox churches (e.g. the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Ukrainian Catholic Church are both Byzantine), but they choose not to be Orthodox because they agree fully with the Catholic Church on doctrine and dogma, e.g. papal infallibility.

[MarkCox73]

Szpondt, not true, Eastern Catholic churches don't acknowledgethe roman understanding of purgatory. Also, do you understand what infalibilty is? Because Orthodox churches have the same exact thing with Constantinople. It means that the pope is the final word on doctrine the same as the patriarch is for the orthodox churches. Historically the Orthodox church STILL hold Rome as the true seat of the church damaged by schism. Moscow as the third Rome is only held by radical Russian Orthodoxy

[Szpondt]

MarkCox73, if individual Eastern Catholics dismiss the Western understanding of purgatory, that's one thing. But the Eastern churches couldn't remain in communion with the other Catholic Churches if they were to publicly disavowal any portion of the deposit of faith (including purgatory) -- I'd be interested in seeing evidence of any Eastern Catholic Church officially professing something to the contrary

[mctav2010]

@MarkCox73

Eastern Catholics do and must acknowledge and believe in Purgatory..they are CATHOLICS. The sad thing is, the Roman Church has re-written history and claim Uniates came into being because they believed in Roman Catholicism. History, however, tells how they were sold to the Pope in certain countries or be executed. And Moscow as 3rd Rome is not a a radical thought, and has been held by Orthodox Christians since the 1500s, when Russia received a Patriarch. Read a book.

[quodlibet1685]

@MarkCox73

Your understanding of the way the Orthodox view the Constantinople patriarchate is flat out wrong. Think of the Pope as a king; the various patriarchs as "presidents" of their national Churches. The Constantinople patriarch holds a symbolic primacy, but is no more an authority than, say, the Moscow patriarch or the Antiochene patriarch.

[NJShoreguy1105]

This Chruch from what I understand is an exact replica of a chruch in Slovakia. My Grandmother was baptized here in 1915 when it was a Catholic Church.

[barrekzavac]

Who is the priest at this church??

[amplidyne]

Very Rev Protopresbyter (Father) Michael Rosco

Mr. George Hanas is the Choir Director

[ZKOSS1]

The choir sounds excellent.

[vaio720]

...find your spiritual home in the grace and beauty of the orthodox christian church....

[pravoslavn]

Thank you for this marvellous post ! The church and iconostasis are exquisite. Could you post a clip of your Choir and Priest chanting some of the Liturgy in Church Slavonic?

[amplidyne]

Thank you for comment! Would that this were my church...I shot this video while visiting friends and relatives in Perth Amboy. (I live about 2600 miles west of NJ, in California) When I go back I will be sure to shoot more video at the various parishes.