Could Protestant denominations have their own Rites, if they become Catholic?

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Much like the Anglicans who retained their liturgical practices when they entered into union with Rome.

Could other groups come into the Church with their own Rites? Or does this not make sense?

The question suggests that entire churches and denominations would enter into Catholic communion.

What extent could a group retain its traditions, and yet still be absorbed into an already-existing Rite (like Roman Rite)? For example, the musical traditions of African American churches are already present in some Roman Catholic churches.
 
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You mean Anglican priests, not mere Anglicans. Ok. How did they ‘retain liturgical practices’? Anglican rites are both invalid and illicit.
 
I’m not an expert in it. I just know of the general pattern (of allowing the Anglican churches to retain spiritual and liturgical practices).

But now I’m wondering about other Protestant groups in general.

Rites are not static things. All Rites were new at some point in time, even if very early.
 
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I’m not an expert in it. I just know of the general pattern (of allowing the Anglican churches to retain spiritual and liturgical practices)
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Understood. Please forgive me for misunderstanding your initial question. I guess I am somewhat curious as to the logistics of these practices and what they look like.
 
Me too.

I think denominationalism is just awful, and many people don’t realize that they DON’T have to be Protestant to admire their certain Christian culture. In fact, probably these days, it seems very few Protestants remain Protestant due to the rallying cries of the Reformation (like sola fide). That is, there are other reasons. Sometimes just because of how they are raised.

But I also think that this notion of Catholic fullness and unity might be expressed if the Church continues the pattern as it did with the Anglicans, but for other groups as well.
 
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it seems very few Protestants remain Protestant due to the rallying cries of the Reformation (like sola fide).
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Indeed! God calling man to Himself should involve more than what we’ve been raised and taught to believe in; not that you cannot be raised and taught in Truth, but that you should test the spirits, open your mind, and clench it down on something solid.
 
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Some background info for those who may not be very familiar with “Rite,” in this context:
A Rite represents an ecclesiastical, or church, tradition about how the sacraments are to be celebrated. Each of the sacraments has at its core an essential nature which must be satisfied for the sacrament to be confected or realized…

When the apostles brought the Gospel to the major cultural centers of their day the essential elements of religious practice were inculturated into those cultures. This means that the essential elements were clothed in the symbols and trappings of the particular people, so that the rituals conveyed the desired spiritual meaning to that culture. In this way the Church becomes all things to all men that some might be saved (1 Cor. 9:22).

There are three major groupings of Rites based on this initial transmission of the faith, the Roman, the Antiochian (Syria) and the Alexandrian (Egypt). Later on the Byzantine derived as a major Rite from the Antiochian, under the influence of St. Basil and St. John Chrysostom. From these four derive the over 20 liturgical Rites present in the Church today.
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With this definition, it may not seem adequate to use the word “Rite.” But the gist of my question would be allowing Protestant traditions to retain aspects of their culture and liturgical practices, insofar as they don’t obstruct with doctrine or the essential aspects of liturgy.

But who knows. Considering Protestantism is a distinct phenomenon that wasn’t known in the earliest centuries, when the main Rites were formed, then maybe indeed conversion of Protestant denominations and churches would introduce new Rites, in the technical sense as described above.

AGAIN, maybe they’d just be elaborations of the Roman Rite, since most Protestant liturgical traditions at least have Rome as their mama. [Protestantism was most directly a break from Rome, not Antioch, for example. It sprung from the West]
 
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Could other groups come into the Church with their own Rites? Or does this not make sense?
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Outside of the Anglicans, about the only really unique and uniform liturgies would be found in Lutheranism (and they aren’t about to swim the Tiber).

But for the sake of the hypothetical, let’s say they did swim en mass. I doubt any room would be afforded for the importation of Lutheran rites. Not out of any prideful spite from Rome’s end (though I’m sure the internet would buzz with plenty of it), but out of simple lack of necessity: the Lutheran Divine Service is essentially just the pre-Tridentine Mass. Most Lutherans in the pews wouldn’t notice much of a difference, except there’d suddenly be less singing and folks wouldn’t have to stay for the last hymn anymore. 😜

If they were American, they might opt for an Anglican Use rite, where some of the music settings are nearly identical. Anglicans borrowed heavily from Lutheran liturgies, and when American Lutherans switched to worshiping in English, they simply borrowed back their liturgies from the English.
 
I do wonder what a Pentecostal rite would look like.
 
I’m also reminded of a few little quasi-Lutheran churches that sought reunion with Rome. Led by a guy named Gladfelter (sp?). I think the church ended up joining the Anglican Ordinariate.

@GKC do you know what happened to them?
 
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These are good points.

I think I need to be more flexible with the use of “liturgy,” then. All Christians who come into the Catholic Church MUST center around the liturgy, in some way. It’s not as if Baptists in a group can convert to Catholicism and then have Sunday services without the Eucharist (for example).

So when I say liturgical practices I really mean incorporating aspects of culture and spirituality from Protestant groups that convert, including liturgical practices where those apply (like for Anglicans and Lutherans). But for others, like Baptists, well who knows: Maybe that means certain artistic or musical styles.

I just like this question because it sparks the imagination.
 
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In the basic components of the liturgy, which even use the old Latin names in most Lutheran orders of worship.

The Wikis aren’t actually too bad here:
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“[Lutheran Divine Service] has its roots in the pre-Tridentine Mass” is quite differing from: “[T]he Lutheran Divine Service is essentially just the pre-Tridentine Mass”.

Without the Sacrifice of the Mass, you are left with a ‘Divine Service’ of hymns, scripture readings, and some borrowed liturgical elements.

Click on your link and notice the bold section: Communion of the Faithful Sacrifice-Mass
 
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