Bi-ritual and the Latin Church

[twf]

I knew a Melkite priest in Vancouver, BC (Fr. Maximos of eternal memory) who was bi-ritual. He was pastor of the local Melkite mission and served the Byzantine divine liturgy in Arabic every Sunday, but he also offered the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite every weekday at the local prison as chaplain for the Latin Archdiocese. His Melkite liturgies were served in a Latin parish church and as such he would commemorate the Latin archbishop of Vancouver, the Melkite eparch of Montreal (who has jurisdiction over all Canadian Melkites), the Melkite Patriarch, and the Pope of Rome.

 

[Peter_J]

By ancient Tradition, and in canon law (as far as I know), the Roman Church almost always refers to the Diocese of Rome, the local particular Church which “presides in charity” (to use the phrase of St. Ignatius), of which the Pope is local bishop.

That makes sense, although honestly I tend to just avoid saying “Roman Church” since people would think I meant the entire Roman Communion (which, as you know, is made up of 23 Churches).

 

[Shirtless]

The head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, for example, is His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sviatoslav_Shevchuk

 

[Celticnovice]

No, that is not correct ecclesiology. The Pope is not the head of all the rites because the head of the rites is the head of each sui iuris Church. The Pope does not head each individual Church. Each Church is in communion with the Pope, who has Petrine primacy amongst patriarchs. Perhaps nuanced in difference, but substantial.

That being said, the Pope is considered omniritual.

Anyway, the process Aramis described is correct. I would also hope, at least implicitly, that there is some pastoral need for the faculties being granted. I.e. not so that the priest can “mix things up” when he’s bored with the Latin liturgy. I presume that figures in to the prudence of the episcopal approval.

Right…The Pope receives the faculties to serve liturgy in any of the Catholic Rites.

 

[malphono]

MorEphrem;11633549:

That being said, the Pope is considered omniritual.

Right…The Pope receives the faculties to serve liturgy in any of the Catholic Rites.

As MorEphrem correctly said, he is considered omniritual, but I would not say that he “receives” any such faculties. From whom would he receive them? That he is omniritual is ex-officio.

I would also hope, at least implicitly, that there is some pastoral need for the faculties being granted. I.e. not so that the priest can “mix things up” when he’s bored with the Latin liturgy. I presume that figures in to the prudence of the episcopal approval.

I really hate to be the killjoy here, but I personally know of several cases where bi-ritual faculties have been granted more as “window dressing” than anything else.

 

[Aramis]

Actually neither. The name of the western Catholic Church is the Latin Church – which mainly uses the Roman Rite, but also several others like the Ambrosian Rite.

Rome uses both interchangably.