A reader writes:
I was glad to note that someone wrote in to clarify the Getty information concerning the Orthodox Patriarchate and the Feast of Epiphany. BUT (you knew that word was coming, didn't you?) your writer failed to correct a minor error made by many people in Western Christendom. The Orthodox church does not ever celebrate a 'mass'. It is a liturgy. The word 'mass' derives from the Latin uttered by Western (i.e. Roman Catholic) priests at the end of a service, Ita, missa est, meaning "Go, it is completed". Since Eastern liturgies are always celebrated in the language of the area or in Greek, the term 'mass' never applies and should not be used as it conflates the Eastern and Western churches. Please use the term liturgy.
As a religious studies major, I was compelled to correct this for you.
The Dish 