Can a Roman Catholic Attend a Byzantine Catholic Liturgy?

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Would fulfill your Sunday Obligation if attend a Byzantine Catholic Liturgy? Can you make a habit of it?
 
Yes.

What do you mean make a habit of it? If it’s all the time. then I would look into doing a canonical transfer.
 
MCH1 said:
Would fulfill your Sunday Obligation if attend a Byzantine Catholic Liturgy? Can you make a habit of it?
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Sure, that’s not a problem at all.

They will be glad to see you, I’m sure. If you are up here in the Rust Belt, a lot of Greek Catholic churches are in need of active participants to keep them going. So many of the members have picked up and moved far away or married Latin Rite spouses.
 
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Byzantine Catholic Liturgy?
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A Byzantine Catholic Divine Liturgy IS a Roman Catholic liturgy, exactly as much as a Latin Rite mass is and the liturgies of the other rites. Any Catholic, regardless of their own rite, can attend the liturgies of the other rites as they please and receive communion and fulfill their Sunday obligation.
 
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AndrewAxland said:
Any Catholic, regardless of their own rite, can attend the liturgies of the other rites as they please and receive communion and fulfill their Sunday obligation.
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And that’s why the Greek Catholics are at risk of disappearing a lot of places in the western world. Insufficient numbers in different locations to actually establish eastern rite parishes as Americans spread out. They can, and many do, just receive sacraments in the Latin rite
 
Augustinian said:
They can, and many do, just receive sacraments in the Latin rite
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Not quite, as my brother found out when he was about to marry. His wife was baptized in the Byzantine rite as a child, but grew up practicing in the Latin rite. When they went to her pastor to arrange the marriage, he informed her that she was not actually a member of the parish, although she had been attending for many years, because she was still officially Byzantine Rite, and he could not marry her to my brother without the permission of the local Latin rite Bishop AND the local Byzantine rite Bishop. It took them a while to get it all sorted out before she was allowed to official transfer to the Latin rite, officially join her parish, and marry my brother.

Apparently, there is a bureaucratic structure in place to discourage “poaching” by one right from the other, and it’s taken quite seriously.
 
JRS_831 said:
It’s sad that threads like this even have to be started.
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I’m not sure what’s so “sad” about it… Not everyone is totally informed, and in most of the world, the different sui juris churches aren’t in close proximity so it isn’t that relevant to their every day lives.
 
It’s easier when following the various liturgical traditions…otherwise you’ve got Latin Catholics attending byzantine parishes yet still having to to their own hold days etc…the liturgical calendars don’t match up, etc.
 
She was told that she could not be a member of the parish without switching rites. Are you saying that the pastor was mistaken?

Could you refer me to anything that says he was?
 
Augustinian said:
I’m not sure what’s so “sad” about it… Not everyone is totally informed, and in most of the world, the different sui juris churches aren’t in close proximity so it isn’t that relevant to their every day lives.
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It’s sad that the Latin rite poorly educates regarding the Eastern Rite Churches. Is that clear enough?
Relevant huh, whatever, let’s just brush of the Eastern Catholic Churches.
I have no patience for this.
 
marhaba said:
example you gave of marrying someone from another rite
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The permission to get married was not the issue, though. It was the permission to officially join the parish so that the pastor could allow her to get married there.
 
I agree. And even when I’ve tried to educate the Latin folks, I’m met with a “meh” attitude…and the best is of course the attitude that we’re Latins with a pretty “Mass”…whatever indeed!
 
marhaba said:
The local Bishop gives permission.
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Without consulting the local Bishop of the other Rite? From what I understood, they were told that the Latin rite local Bishop could not do so without the agreement of the local Byzantine rite Bishop.
 
Byzantines are a lot more sensitive about this, because when they came to the US, they were treated horribly by the Latin rite Bishops, who had to be set straight by the Pope. Before that was sorted out, hundreds of thousands had left to join the Orthodox Church.
 
marhaba said:
A canonical transfer of rite is more than permission to marry.
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Yes, they were two different matters: permission to marry, and permission to join the parish. The transfer of rites was not needed for the former, but it was for the latter. Sorry for being unclear.
 
JRS_831 said:
It’s sad that threads like this even have to be started.
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Not really. I just wanted to know if attending would fulfill my obligation. It is not the fault of parish, as it is quite far away from the nearest Eastern church.
 
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