A stumbling block to my returning to Rome

[dochawk]

I am encouraged that both sides seem to want to agree on a common date for Easter, but that does not resolve the division.

Not to open that can of worms on this thread, but my solution is to dump both sets of calendar tables, and actually make the astronomical calculations the they purport to replicate (today, the old tables usually miss the date, while the newer tables occasionally, though rarely, miss it).

Are there any Byzantine Catholic Churches in your area? Ukrainian or Melkite?

Who are you asking?

My area (Las Vegas) has a a Ruthenian/Pittsburgh parish, a Greco-Italo parish, and a monthly Melkite mission, along with OCA and Greek Orthodox parishes, an Armenian Apostolic parish, and a Chaldean parish. I believe there is also a Syrian Orthodox, but it may still be under construction.

hawk

 

[AlNg]

I am encouraged that both sides seem to want to agree on a common date for Easter,

They do? Two thousand years is long time to try to come to an agreement on a date for Easter. If they were serious about it, it would not take more than one year.

 

[twf]

The mysticism you seek is found in the Eastern Catholic Churches which practice the same spirituality as the Orthodox Churches. So yes, we Catholics have what the Orthodox have. Yet you say you’re not interested in remaining “Eastern”…so why not explore Latin mysticism? Carmelite spirituality was mentioned by a previous poster. That seems a good starting point.
And where the heck did you get the idea that Theosis isn’t part of the Catholic tradition? From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

460 The Word became flesh to make us “partakers of the divine nature”:“For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God.” “For the Son of God became man so that we might become God.” “The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods.”

 

[Kei]

If you think we lack mysticism, you just aren’t looking in the right places!

We have a deep and rich history of mysticism.

Instead of an elder, we call them “spiritual directors” and it can also be your “confessor”. Pretty much you can do all the other things you want.

Also, think about the Passover meal, was the bread unleavened?

 

[ziapueblo]

I was asking NJC89.

Sorry if there was confusion.

ZP

 

[ziapueblo]

Are there any Byzantine Catholic Churches in your area?

ZP

 

[Constantin]

A lot of people suggesting finding an Eastern Catholic parish here. I think the dilemma is very different. It is not about being in communion with the bishop of Rome. It’s about ethnophyletism vs. universality resp. spiritual depth and guidance vs. Roman legalisms and spiritual dryness. I think I have a grasp of what the OP is referring to, having Orthodox in the family.
Honestly, I am afraid that what you are searching for does not exist - how much I wished it did! In the end, it’s either East or West. You cannot have both, there is no spiritual bridge across the Bosporus on which you could stand.