Good reasons to permanently attend an Eastern Catholic Church:
You are an Eastern Catholic
You have family / spousal ties with Eastern Catholicism
Not-so-good reasons to permanently attend an Eastern Catholic Church (or exclusively an EF)
The congregation is more reverent
You think one Rite is better than another (this is protestant-esque thinking)
If you’re a staple American guy that was introduced to the Catholic Church through the Latin rite, in my opinion, it is probably prudent to remain just an everyday, ordinary, staple American guy that goes to an everyday, ordinary, staple Latin church. Eastern Catholic churches are often more sheltered from secularism and libertine influences, and this can be appealing for a devout Catholic that considers their own parishes to be left wanting (although you will note that Eastern churches have their own demons to struggle with, particularly ethnic issues) A person might switch to an Eastern church, but what they are essentially doing in this situation is fleeing. The devout crowd filters into selective churches, leaving the ordinary parishes more starved of good men and women than ever before. I can’t personally see how this can be a good thing.
Postscript: I think what my disjointed train of thought signifies is that I’ve been jarred from my comfortable conception of the Faith as a philosophy or an aesthetic, which I could have easily enjoyed outside of the Church (i.e., visiting imposing cathedrals, reading Chesterton, appreciating some of Scorsese’s films ;P). So that’s why I was looking around for a possibility to realign within said Church.
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