Daily sung, chanted Byzantine liturgy

[angelic06]

Do very many of you live in a an area where the Byzantine Catholic Divine Liturgy is offered during the weekdays and still chanted?

I am close to making a decision on whether to formally transfer into the Ruthenian Byzantine metropolitan church, but I realize that if I put more priority on being in full communion with the Holy Father and the Holy Catholic Church as a whole rather than the Byzantine rite per se, I may still be marrying a Latin Catholic. Additionally, it is my personal desire that my children be exposed to the vast richness of the Catholic Church, including the Ordinariates, TLM, Latin OF, etc. Consequently, I am making a basic spiritual “blueprint”, if you will, for what a dual jurisdiction Catholic family prayer life may look like.

And finally, this is not all an academic exercise. There are several women from the newly transferred Ordinariate parish I attend that I consider potential matches. I have strong feelings for one. (Indeed, I reject nothing from the Latin Church, and I have waited until the last possible minute, until it really matters, to decide on a transfer to the Byzantine church. For several years, I sung at this parish - in its choir and its congregation - for its major feasts, namely the Paschal season, then followed it with Divine Liturgy at the Byzantine community. However, the parish transferred into the Ordinariate from the archdiocese last week, and with the parish transfer came the option for individual members to transfer into the Ordinariate as well, which I will not be doing. However, as I do not regularly worship in archdiocesan parishes anymore, it really does not make any sense for me to be under the local archbishop’s jurisdiction.)

 

[babochka]

Do very many of you live in a an area where the Byzantine Catholic Divine Liturgy is offered during the weekdays, and still chanted?

I am close to making a decision on whether to formally transfer into the Ruthenian Byzantine metropolitan church, but I realize that if I put more priority on being in full communion with the Holy Father and the Holy Catholic Church as a whole rather than the Byzantine rite per se, I may still be marrying a Latin Catholic. Additionally, it is my personal desire that my children be exposed to the vast richness of the Catholic Church, including the Ordinariates, TLM, Latin OF, etc. Consequently, I am making a basic spiritual “blueprint”, if you will, for what a dual jurisdiction Catholic family prayer life may look like.

And finally, this is not all an academic exercise. There are several women from the newly transferred Ordinariate parish I attend that I consider potential matches. I have strong feelings for one. (Indeed, I reject nothing from the Latin Church, and I have waited until the last possible minute, until it really matters, to decide on a transfer to the Byzantine church. For several years, I sung at this parish for its major feasts, then followed it with Divine Liturgy at the Byzantine community. However, the parish transferred into the Ordinariate from the archdiocese last week, and with the parish transfer came the option for individual members to transfer into the Ordinariate as well. As I do not regularly worship in archdiocesan parishes anymore, it really does not make any sense for me to be under the local archbishop’s jurisdiction.)

While it is not really the tradition to have daily Divine Liturgy outside of a monastic setting, many of our parishes do offer one. I have never been to a Divine Liturgy that was not sung, but I have heard of them. I have been to a Divine Liturgy where I am the only member of the congregation and it is sung, though a bit painfully. In my parish, it would never occur to anyone to not sing.

 

[angelic06]

Update: I am now with the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter (intended for converts from Anglicanism but with some exceptions for cradle Latin Catholics such as myself). Nevertheless, I still do intend on introducing my children to Eastern Catholicism, especially the Byzantine rite.

 

[billy15]

At the Ruthenian Cathic parish I frequent, they also don’t say daily Divine Liturgy. But they do say Divine Liturgy every Thirsday night, and semi often on Saturday mornings. They also usually have Divine Liturgy said for major feast days, such as St. Elijah coming up later this month. During these weekdays, the DL is always chanted.

 

[peter26]

Although the Ordinariate may be quite different from the Byzantine style in the details, both enjoy reverent, traditional liturgies that go back hundreds of years.