[k omalley]

I read on Touchstones website some time back about there being talk about reforming the Orthodox liturgy. I just looked back on their website and can't find it but I remember that the article stated that converts to Orthodoxy were distressed with this idea, having seen the shambles of liturgical reform in other churches, Catholicism in particular. You know, "been there, done that." It seems like major liturgical reform opens Pandora's box, especially as has been the case with ECUSA and Catholicism. Do you know anything about a movement to reform Orthodox liturgy?

[Kolokotronis]

I found the article you refer to, I think. Here's a link: http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=12-04-110-r

It appears that the provocateur in the article is a Byzantine Rite Catholic priest. The article talks about "inclusive" language and notes that the Byzantine and Eastern Rite Catholics seem to have bought into it, but the Orthodox have not. The Greek Orthodox representative at the conference said that such talk was seen as "revisionist" in the GOA. Beyond this article, I have neither seen nor heard of any writing or talk of "liturgical reform" in the Orthodox Churches; that is unless you mean using English in the Liturgy, which really isn't quite the change that moving to English from Latin was in the Roman Church.

I sincerely doubt we will see any liturgical "reform" of the Divine Liturgy at any time. There simply is no actual or perceived need among the Orthodox faithful for such a reform.