Attending other Rite's Masses

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Can a Latin Rite Catholic receive Communion at other Rite’s Masses that are in Communion with Rome? If so, will the Sunday obligation be fulfilled? I have so many Rites around my neck of the woods, such as a wonderful Maronite parish, where I would love to attend their Mass after I enter the Church.
 
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Can a Latin Rite Catholic receive Communion at other Rite’s Masses that are in Communion with Rome? If so, will the Sunday obligation be fulfilled? I have so many Rites around my neck of the woods, such as a wonderful Maronite parish, where I would love to attend their Mass after I enter the Church.
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Yes and yes.

In fact in canon law (too lazy to search but I’m 100% sure its there) it says that the obligation for Sundays and holidays can be fulfilled by attending a “Mass” of any Catholic Rite. You can receive the Eucharist from any Catholic Rite. Also, you can have your confessions heard by any priest from any Rite as well. Moreover, if its a case of necessity, you can have your confessions heard by any validly ordained priest even if they are not in communion with Rome, so that includes Orthodox priests.
 
ConstantineTG said:
Moreover, if its a case of necessity, you can have your confessions heard by any validly ordained priest even if they are not in communion with Rome, so that includes Orthodox priests.
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Even if they’ve had their faculties suspended, like an SSPX priest? I didn’t think this was the case.
 
I attend a Maronite Rite church, but I do consider myself a Latin Rite girl. I just don’t have ANY Latin Masses around where I live like i did as a kid, and the Maronite Rite is pretty traditional.
 
ConstantineTG said:
Yes and yes.

In fact in canon law (too lazy to search but I’m 100% sure its there) it says that the obligation for Sundays and holidays can be fulfilled by attending a “Mass” of any Catholic Rite. You can receive the Eucharist from any Catholic Rite. Also, you can have your confessions heard by any priest from any Rite as well. Moreover, if its a case of necessity, you can have your confessions heard by any validly ordained priest even if they are not in communion with Rome, so that includes Orthodox priests.
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Can. 1248 §1. A person who assists at a Mass celebrated anywhere in a Catholic rite either on the feast day itself or in the evening of the preceding day satisfies the obligation of participating in the Mass.
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T_More said:
Can a Latin Rite Catholic receive Communion at other Rite’s Masses that are in Communion with Rome? If so, will the Sunday obligation be fulfilled? I have so many Rites around my neck of the woods, such as a wonderful Maronite parish, where I would love to attend their Mass after I enter the Church.
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Others have answered (yes!) but I wanted to note that when you mention “being in Communion with Rome” - think about that. Of course you can receive Holy Communion any place that is in Communion with Rome! That’s a huge part of the definition of being in Communion.
 
T_More said:
Can a Latin Rite Catholic receive Communion at other Rite’s Masses that are in Communion with Rome? If so, will the Sunday obligation be fulfilled?
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The answer to both is “yes” of course.

But the questions as listed, might give someone the mistaken idea that there is an Sunday obligation to receive communion. That is of course not true.

The obligation to receive communion is only once a year, not weekly.
 
T_More said:
Can a Latin Rite Catholic receive Communion at other Rite’s Masses that are in Communion with Rome? If so, will the Sunday obligation be fulfilled? I have so many Rites around my neck of the woods, such as a wonderful Maronite parish, where I would love to attend their Mass after I enter the Church.
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Yup, as long as the church is in communion with Rome, go for it. In theory, you could go to seven different rites on the seven days of the week. 😃
 
BVM_1221 said:
Yup, as long as the church is in communion with Rome, go for it. In theory, you could go to seven different rites on the seven days of the week. 😃
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How can that be when I count only 6 different rites (Latin, Byzantine, Alexandrian, Armenian, Chaldean, Antiochian)? 😉
 
ConstantineTG said:
How can that be when I count only 6 different rites (Latin, Byzantine, Alexandrian, Armenian, Chaldean, Antiochian)? 😉
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Because you didn’t count Carmelite, Carthusian, Dominican, Premonstratensian, Mozarbic, and Ambrosian. ;)🙂
 
If you have many rites in your neck of the woods then you are so very fortunate and I would love to be in your shoes. Please try to get around to attending all of them and experience just how Universal our Catholic Church is.🙂
 
kitkatty said:
If you have many rites in your neck of the woods then you are so very fortunate and I would love to be in your shoes. Please try to get around to attending all of them and experience just how Universal our Catholic Church is.🙂
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I am lucky that we have a couple, yet I want more 😉
 
ConstantineTG said:
They are subrites of the Latin rite 😉
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i though the Ambrosian Rite was one of its very own, just under the Latin Church. Not a seperate church, but a rite to it own(now like OF/EF/anglician use/the other forms mentioned)
 
Montalo said:
i though the Ambrosian Rite was one of its very own, just under the Latin Church. Not a seperate church, but a rite to it own(now like OF/EF/anglician use/the other forms mentioned)
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Its really tricky in a way to explain that one. There are different levels of “rites” as it is defined. If you think about it, parts of the Mass and even how Sacraments are celebrated are called “rites” as well. But the Abrosian Rite as well as the Rites of the Religious Orders fall under the Latin Rite. The OF and EF are the Roman Rite.
 
Montalo said:
i though the Ambrosian Rite was one of its very own, just under the Latin Church. Not a seperate church, but a rite to it own(now like OF/EF/anglician use/the other forms mentioned)
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Note that a rite is not the same as a sui juris church. Several of the Eastern Churches use the same rite.
 
Yes. In fact during the H1N1 over-reaction and the suspension of communion on the tongue, (to make a long story short) the bishop in the Diocese of Calgary suspended the FSSP’s TLM Masses when the priest would not give communion in the hand, and the bishop would not permit no one receiving. The congregation ended up attending the Eastern Rite Divine Liturgies until things got sorted out.
 
Joe_Kelley said:
Note that a rite is not the same as a sui juris church. Several of the Eastern Churches use the same rite.
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that was the point of my argument, that the Ambrosian Rite was a seperate Rite, but not a separate Sui Iuris Church.

@Alex, thank you for the clarification, i was in errror
 
Catholics should always know and defend their Rites . . .

Alex
 
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