>--- [log in to unmask] wrote:
>> To All:
>> Within the families of Eastern Christianity, despite many local
>> cultic variant practices, there is a common time__ Great and Holy
>> Thursday__ set aside for the liturgical preparation ( under the
>> leadership
>> of the regional Patriarch, Metropolitan, Exarch, or other such
>> plenipotentiary) of the Myrrh to be used and dispensed to the local
>> communities for next year. Is there a common litrugical time for this
>> preparation in the Latin West?
>
>To the best of my knowledge, there is no liturgical use of myrrh in the
>western Church. The Holy Chrism is prepared on Holy (= Maundy)
>Thursday, at the Chrism Mass, when the bishop blesses olive oil and
>mixes it with balsam.
>
>Oriens.
>
>
Oriens:
I used the term Myrrh ( Myron) as cognate for chrism, as it is in
Eastern Church. It is the establishment of that particular date in the West
that interests me.
J Gulka
Josef Gulka
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