The Great Friday liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church uses the expression "impious and law-breaking people", but the strongest expressions are in the Great Thursday liturgy, which includes the same chant, after the eleventh Gospel reading, but also speaks of "the swarm of deicides, the lawless people of the Jews", and, referring to "the gathering of the Jews", prays: "But give them, Lord, their requital, because they plotted against you in vain.
Maybe the reason the Jews aren't howling for the liturgy of the East to be changed is there is no one to write outraged editorials and press releases about.
Anyone thought to send Patriarch Alexi's email address to Abe Foxman? I'd certainly love to hear the old man's reply. How do you say "get stuffed you deicide" in Old Slavonic?
Interesting little aside, that is perhaps not so aside. Foxman's Wiki bio says he was taken in by a Catholic Polish woman and baptised and raised Catholic until he was re-united with his parents after the war.
No more vicious anti-Catholic than an ex-Catholic, in my experience.
I dunno, the idea that the Eastern Orthodox are anti-Semitic crimethinkers was implanted in my head so early I can't remember when or how.
ReplyDeleteI'm told they have combined ordinary Slavic antisemitism with being a pack of commies too.
ReplyDeleteWas John XXIII really so naive when he asked Kruschev "please pretty please could we have some of your Orthodox leaders come to the Council? we promise not to say anything nasty about communism if you say yes."
The leader of the Slave Kingdom must have thought he'd woken up in Commie heaven. "Suuuuuuure, Holy Father, we'd love to send some of our spies to watch your Council."
Interesting to note it was the Ruskies that "intervened" at the Council against retaining the Latin liturgy...
big surprise, I know.