{"id":1578,"date":"2025-12-13T16:42:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T21:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2025-12-13T17:06:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T22:06:55","slug":"the-2025-byzantine-assembly-what-you-should-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/the-2025-byzantine-assembly-what-you-should-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2025 Byzantine Assembly: What you should watch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This past July, I was honored to take part in the 2025 assembly of clergy and laity of the Byzantine Catholic  Metropolia of Pittsburgh, held at Saint Mary&#8217;s  Byzantine Catholic Church in Whiting, Indiana.  (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zKMHqmsCsNw&amp;t=4s\">Here&#8217;s a video review.<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myself, I&#8217;m still processing the event and doing follow-ups, but if you&#8217;re a cantor, I would especially encourage you to check out these three presentations, and leave your comments below!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Living Byzantine Liturgy in America Today | Fr. Dcn. 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Myself, I&#8217;m still processing the event and doing follow-ups, but if you&#8217;re a cantor, I would especially &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/the-2025-byzantine-assembly-what-you-should-watch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The 2025 Byzantine Assembly: What you should watch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}