Differences between Latin Rite Catholic and Eastern Catholic?

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I know people from both groups are in full communion with the Pope, but what I want to know is how the Eastern Churches conduct their mass. I know there are 22 of them, but I want a general explanation.
 
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I know people from both groups are in full communion with the Pope, but what I want to know is how the Eastern Churches conduct their mass. I know there are 22 of them, but I want a general explanation.
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For one, they call it “Divine Liturgy” instead of “Mass”, and I think more often lasts about 2 hours instead of one. How they celebrate also depends on which rite they belong to. People from the different rites can give a better explanation of how theirs specifically differs.
 
The Eastern rites have a slightly more greek-based approach to theology than the Latin rite ones. This comes I believe through influence of say a Greek philosophical language used to convey the Gospel than say the more legal use language of Latin. For example, I believe (though correct me if I am wrong) they use language more of theosis in describing the salvation process.

Eastern Catholics are sometimes more permitted to attend at an Orthodox service if there are really no Eastern rites available for a while. I am trying to find that CCEC reference again.

The Armenian service that I went to was almost two hours and had a liturgy more similar to the Armenian Apostolic. In India, Catholic Malankara liturgy is nearly identify to Malankara Orthodox: although in the Middle East where they are fewer, they worship with Latins and Syro Malabars which will look like Latinized.

Eastern rite architecture is way cooler (though not as cool as Orthodox).

I don’t know if Roman rites sing the liturgy (they did not at the on-campus Masses that I went to), but the Armenian right and the Byzantine rite that I once visited sing all the prayers.

When discussing purgatory, Eastern rites will use toll houses and the Latin rites use the traditional purgatory view.
 
There are provisions for the Roman Rite (in all 3 forms: OF, EF, and Anglican Use) to be sung in entirety in chant. It’s seldom done.

The Byzantine Rubrics require the singing of the people’s parts and most of the priest’s parts in most Byzantine Rite Churches. (The Ukrainians and Ruthenians provided for spoken DL’s for many years. The Ruthenian Church now, again, requires chant… or at least the attempt at it.)
 
bzkoss236 said:
For one, they call it “Divine Liturgy” instead of “Mass”, and I think more often lasts about 2 hours instead of one. How they celebrate also depends on which rite they belong to. People from the different rites can give a better explanation of how theirs specifically differs.
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The Syriac Churches (Maronite, Chaldean, Syrian, Syro-Malabar, Syro-Malankar) often use the term Mass in place of the Syriac terms Qorbono/Qurbana when speaking in English. It’s a latinization, but one that has more to do with English rather than actual emulation.

The Byzantines (14 or so) and Aleaxandrians (Coptics, Ethiopians, Eritreans) generally do not use the term Mass, even in English.

The collective term used in Canon Law seems to be Divine Worship Service.
 
Aramis said:
The Syriac Churches (Maronite, Chaldean, Syrian, Syro-Malabar, Syro-Malankar) often use the term Mass in place of the Syriac terms Qorbono/Qurbana when speaking in English. It’s a latinization, but one that has more to do with English rather than actual emulation.

The Byzantines (14 or so) and Aleaxandrians (Coptics, Ethiopians, Eritreans) generally do not use the term Mass, even in English.

The collective term used in Canon Law seems to be Divine Worship Service.
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I am from Syro Malabar church which is present mainly in a south Indian state called Kerala.
We very much use trem Qurbana when speaking in Malayalam(which is the language in Kerala).But generally we do tend to use Mass when speaking in English.
I have heard from my parents that before Mass was introduced in Malayalam it was celebrated in Syriac(I think when mass was celebrated in Latin)
 
youtube.com/watch?v=r6pyE_OEZQc

A syro malabar mass.In the begining it shows attendees enter the church when the mass is about to start.Thats not correct

Note :Syro Malabar Rite is the present mainly in Kerala(a south Indian state).Hence the mass is in Malayalam.No English version of Syro Malabar mass as far as I know
 
Interesting.Never seen an English version of Syro Malabar mass in India
 
go here on Sunday at 10:00 am and be prepared to stay until about noon or 12:15 and you can see and hear a Ruthenian Byzantine third hour (prepatory to the Divine Liturgy) and then the actual Divine Liturgy starts at 10:30, and is sung entirely by the whole parish.

dropcam.com/p/Y0xan7
 
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