Interesting, it seems more Latin Catholcs are attracted to the Eastern Churches
When a Latin Catholic parish slips into mediocrity, uses Protestant hymnography, abandons good catechsis and homiletics, where reverence becomes sloppy or questionable, abandons certain cherished
Catholic traditions, where putting butts on pews is more important than teaching and living the Catholic faith…well…Some of those things are important to some people, so they begin to look elsewhere. One of those places is the Eastern Church.
My wife and I are Byzantine Catholic and would dearly love to belong to a Byzantine Catholic parish but there are certain logistical issues which prevent that. So, unless and until those change, we make our “home” at our local Latin Catholic parish. Not ideal for us, but also not as bad as what I described above. We’re at home there, and it works for us.
There is as much in Western Catholic spirituality that we relate to and love as there is in Eastern Catholic spirituality. However, we
do prefer the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom slightly more than the N.O. Mass.
Someone once said that “the whole of the spiritual life is in how you play the hand you’re dealt.”
In Christ,
Jeff
