Do Eastern Catholics believe different stuff from Roman Catholics?

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Do Eastern Catholics have different doctrines than Roman/Latin Rite/Western Catholics?
 
We believe the same things that you Latins (;)) do, but we express them differently and we worship differently, emphasizing different things. But we fulfill each other just as the different parts and functions of a human body do.

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Speaking as a Latin, I believe our Eastern brothers have a much better-developed theology of mystery and of the Holy Spirit than the West does. One of the West’s heritages from Rome is our need to parse, measure, legislate, and define everything to the nth degree, whereas my understanding that in the East, some things are just understood and left as “mystery.”
 
Some say the Divine Liturgy and Vespers bring one Closer to Heaven. I agree they are as Profound Holy Spirit as Tridentine Mass. My favorite at Orthodox Divine Liturgy is the Chanted Lord’s Prayer, responded to in Each Language present at one Russian Orthodox small new Church.
Is Reponse in Native Languages present a choice by Pastor? Is there similar in Eastern/Byzentine? :byzsoc::signofcross:
 
Tarpeian_Rock said:
Speaking as a Latin, I believe our Eastern brothers have a much better-developed theology of mystery and of the Holy Spirit than the West does. One of the West’s heritages from Rome is our need to parse, measure, legislate, and define everything to the nth degree, whereas my understanding that in the East, some things are just understood and left as “mystery.”
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You are a remarkable soul, Friend.

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Alexander_Roman said:
We believe the same things that you Latins (;)) do, but we express them differently and we worship differently, emphasizing different things. But we fulfill each other just as the different parts and functions of a human body do.

Alex
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Hi Alex,
In the Catholic Latin church, the mass is seen in three parts, the word, the sacrifice,
the communion. This is an over simplification but a start. I’ve been to a couple of
Eastern Catholic liturgies, but it was a long time ago, and I don’t remember much,
except is was nice and received both Body and Blood. I would say that the old
High Mass we used to have came about as close to that as anything we had.

My question is, tho the mentality of the east and west is different, does the east
see it’s liturgy in more or less the same three part structure?
 
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