A Question To Latin Catholics

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Draper said:
I have never heard that one. Not ever.
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To be honest, I think that a lot of anti-Eastern sentiments that can be easily seen on the Internet are somewhat harder to find in real life (which is not to say that they don’t exist there as well).
 
Hello,

not sure if it matters much since I am from Portugal but we never discussed Eastern Catholicism during Catechism classes.
I learned about it through personal searches on the History of Catholicism.

Not to say much but I guess that in most cases it’s sad that over 90% of the group who went to classes with me is no longer practicing.

God bless,
D.
 
Draper said:
I have never heard that one. Not ever.

It has absolutely nothing to do with that in this case. I asked the director of youth catechetics at my very large Latin Rite parish if they would like to attend a Divine Liturgy at my small Byzantine Rite parish. “Absolutely” was the response.

When I asked the pastor of the EC parish if this was something he wanted to do he said “no!” I asked again later and the answer was the same. He wouldn’t provide an explanation.
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I regret that was your experience, but I can assure you that there are certain parishes that have been counseled against it.
 
ByzCathCantor said:
I regret that was your experience, but I can assure you that there are certain parishes that have been counseled against it.
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I didn’t want to butt in, but to be honest I didn’t, and still don’t, see the relevance of this. (Granted I’m just assuming that there isn’t a reason to believe that the parish he’s talking about is one of those parishes, so please correct me if I’m wrong.) :confused:
 
Peter_J said:
I didn’t want to butt in, but to be honest I didn’t, and still don’t, see the relevance of this. (Granted I’m just assuming that there isn’t a reason to believe that the parish he’s talking about is one of those parishes, so please correct me if I’m wrong.) :confused:
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No worries, and it was info offered for whatever it’s worth …
 
Peter_J said:
To be honest, I think that a lot of anti-Eastern sentiments that can be easily seen on the Internet are somewhat harder to find in real life (which is not to say that they don’t exist there as well).
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I live in a town of about 60K in California. There’s no “anti-Eastern sentiments” here. Most people have no idea what a Byzantine Catholic is and the local Ruthenian Catholic parish used to joke that it was “the best kept secret in town” – until the joke became too painful.
 
ByzCathCantor said:
I regret that was your experience, but I can assure you that there are certain parishes that have been counseled against it.
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That just doesn’t compute here. My Latin Rite parish has about 2.5K attendees each week with many, many more on the rolls. The local EC parish has about 60 attendees each week.

I see it pretty much as another excuse or another attack is all.
 
Draper said:
That just doesn’t compute here. My Latin Rite parish has about 2.5K attendees each week with many, many more on the rolls. The local EC parish has about 60 attendees each week.

I see it pretty much as another excuse or another attack is all.
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Excuse or attack? No idea what you’re driving at …
 
ByzCathCantor said:
BTW - that may not be for lack of desire. There are some local churches that have been warned about attracting too many Latin Catholics to their parish.
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I heard this in person and also on line, related to the idea that we don’t “need” disgruntled Catholics. What we need are people coming to us, not fleeing the OF Mass that they reject. My parish was made up entirely of Latin Catholics, a very few who had made the formal change of Church, and a couple of baptized Christians who became Catholic in the parish by Chrismation, but canonically are Latin since they were baptized in a Western Christian church. There was an elderly Ukrainian Latin Catholic widow who was married to an Orthodox man and whose children, now middle aged, were baptized Orthodox. The mom and one daughter were part of the parish. From time to time an Eastern Catholic or Orthodox would be with us for a year or so and then move out of the area. Were it not for Latin Catholics there would only be about 3 people there now.
 
5Loaves said:
I heard this in person and also on line, related to the idea that we don’t “need” disgruntled Catholics. What we need are people coming to us, not fleeing the OF Mass that they reject.
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Exactly.

I recall a couple of tradlats (or whatever you want to call them) a few years ago that visited (but didn’t receive). They seemed completely incapable of understanding the concept that we had people, who had come to the east, rather than fled the west. Speaking to them was an odd experience; they seemed to think that we would wander off to their parish in schism over a latin liturgy . . .

Anyway, my parents graduated high school in the late '50s, they were taken, once, to an eastern liturgy–and don’t remember much other than that it was a couple of hours long.

Graduating in the early '80s, I was aware that there were these things called eastern catholic, but didn’t know much more than that they had more colorful vestments, married priests, and were kind of like orthodox (whatever those were!).

When I did my year in a fifth grade, the kids got a reasonable dose of the east . . .

hawk
 
JackQ said:
I teach catechism, and I do.
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In the 1950’s I attended Catholic grammar school and never heard a word about Eastern Catholic Churches. It was my good fortune that one one the parish priests brought a small group of us to the ordination of a Maronite priest to the episcopacy. It was an amazing experience, but the only time in my education (grammar school, high school and Catholic college) that I had any exposure or mention of the Eastern Christian experience. I have since “swum the Bosphorus”.
 
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