Romanians don't kiss the Cross at the end of every liturgy, but they get anointed more often, whereas the Russians would kiss the Cross. it's also another occasion of collecting some cash.
Same is true in the Rusyn tradition regarding the annointing. It seems to me that there are more that a few customs which survived along the spine of the Carpathian mountains that are shared by Romanians, Serbs, Rusyns, Lemkos, Gallicians and some Ukrainians to the present day. Some will counter that they are a result of Latin influence and geopolitics but others will argue that they predate the fall of Constantinople. Probably a little of both if we are honest with ourselves. Anyway, four or five hundred years of practice probably gives the 'little t's' of tradition some legitimacy regardless of your background as I also suspect that if we could time travel we would be surprised at what we discovered was the practice at any particular point in time......Not that things would be radically foreign but just ----different that what we experience today.....
