Baptised Roman Catholic, Confirmed Byzantine - Can I recieve RC Sacraments?

[PMV]

Although I was baptised *Roman *Catholic, I was confirmed *Byzantine *Catholic as an infant. If I had the choice, I’d have been confirmed Roman instead. Can I recieve all the RC sacraments including confession and communion even though I was confirmed Byzantine?

 

[Friar_David_O.Carm]

PMV:

Although I was baptised *Roman *Catholic, I was confirmed *Byzantine *Catholic as an infant. If I had the choice, I’d have been confirmed Roman instead. Can I recieve all the RC sacraments including confession and communion even though I was confirmed Byzantine?

The main word here is Catholic.

You are a Catholic. You can recieve the Sacraments in any Catholic Church.

 

[Deacon_Ed]

PMV:

Although I was baptised *Roman *Catholic, I was confirmed *Byzantine *Catholic as an infant. If I had the choice, I’d have been confirmed Roman instead. Can I recieve all the RC sacraments including confession and communion even though I was confirmed Byzantine?

First, yes, you may receive the sacraments/mysteries at *any *Catholic church. Second, which tradition you are is a function of what your father is/was. If your father was Roman Catholic then you are Roman, if he was Byzantine then you are Byzantine (unless, of course, you made a formal petition for a change of Ritual Church).

Deacon Ed

 

[TOME]

PMV, just to buid on what the others have said, the Byzantine Rite is an Eastern Rite (Greek speaking) however unlike the Orthodox Christians, the Byzantine Rite Churchs are in full communion with Rome therefore you can and may participate in the liturgies and receive the Eucharist.

 

[PMV]

Fr. Vincent Serpa said that I might have some problems with Holy Orders because I was confirmed in the Byzantine Catholic Church. What are Holy Orders, and why would I have a problem with them?

 

[banjo]

PMV:

Fr. Vincent Serpa said that I might have some problems with Holy Orders because I was confirmed in the Byzantine Catholic Church. What are Holy Orders, and why would I have a problem with them?

“Holy Orders is the sacrament through which the mission entrusted by Christ to his apostles continues to be exercised in the Church until the end of time: thus it is the sacrament of apostolic ministry. It includes three degrees: espiscopate, presbyterate, and diaconate.” CCC 1536ff

PMV - in short, becoming a priest or a permanent deacon.

 

[Nan_S]

PMV:

Although I was baptised *Roman *Catholic, I was confirmed *Byzantine *Catholic as an infant. If I had the choice, I’d have been confirmed Roman instead. Can I recieve all the RC sacraments including confession and communion even though I was confirmed Byzantine?

Have you discussed this with your RC priest? I think a key element is that you were confirmed (chrismated?) as an infant, and now you want to make an adult choice which rite to be part of. Your priest will know (or know where to find out) how to formally take care of the change-of-rite problem.

 

[Friar_David_O.Carm]

PMV:

Fr. Vincent Serpa said that I might have some problems with Holy Orders because I was confirmed in the Byzantine Catholic Church. What are Holy Orders, and why would I have a problem with them?

First, I would suggest you ask Fr Serpa what he means by this.

If you are a Roman Catholic and you seek Holy Orders in a Roman Catholic Diocese then all you will have to prove is that you are a Roman Catholic.

I am a Byzantine Catholic but I was baptized as an infant in a Roman Catholic Church (long story PM me if you want to hear about it and my whole journey). I was chrismated (confirmed) in the Roman Catholic Church also but I am a Byzantine Catholic because that is what my father is.

Now I am seeking to enter into religious life. I am in the applications process with a Roman Catholic religious order (the Carmelites). Now becuase this is a religious order I do not have to change Churches but if I wanted to be a priest in a Roman Catholic Diocese, I would have to change Churches.