Easter Sunday Obligation...?

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I read somewhere and now I can’t remember where or find the source…

I read somewhere that although a Latin Rite Catholic can attend the mass/Divine Liturgies of any other Catholic Rite to fulfill their Sunday obligation, they must attend the Easter liturgy in their own rite.

Any idea where I read this and is it true?
 
matthias said:
I read somewhere and now I can’t remember where or find the source…

I read somewhere that although a Latin Rite Catholic can attend the mass/Divine Liturgies of any other Catholic Rite to fulfill their Sunday obligation, they must attend the Easter liturgy in their own rite.

Any idea where I read this and is it true?
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Yes this is true.
 
matthias said:
I read somewhere and now I can’t remember where or find the source…

I read somewhere that although a Latin Rite Catholic can attend the mass/Divine Liturgies of any other Catholic Rite to fulfill their Sunday obligation, they must attend the Easter liturgy in their own rite.

Any idea where I read this and is it true?
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I have never heard that and cannot imagine it’s true. There is absolutely no difference in efficacy between the two rites.
 
Yes. A source would be helpful. I sadly can’t remember where I read it. Hence my original post.
 
Well maybe I should say that I’ve always heard it was true, and I’ve always assumed it was.
 
The CIC of 1983 says:
Can. 923 The Christian faithful can participate in the eucharistic sacrifice and receive holy communion in any Catholic rite, without prejudice to the prescript of ⇒ can. 844.
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and, more specifically
Can. 1248 §1. A person who assists at a Mass celebrated anywhere in a Catholic rite either on the feast day itself or in the evening of the preceding day satisfies the obligation of participating in the Mass.
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There is no exception for Easter, hence it IS permitted.
 
I cannnot see why that would be so because both rites or in union with Rome I could see that rule making sense if you attended an Orthodox Church because they are not in union with Rome
 
This is not true. You can go to any rite as long as it is in union with the pope. It does not matter if it is Easter or not. Your obligation is still fullfilled.
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I’m questioning where I read this and although I was fairly sure I did read it, I’m now starting to question that.

If this were in fact a requirement, I wouldn’t jump to conclusions, as some appear to do so, that it is a condemnation of one rite over another. I assumed it would just be establishing a minimum of participation in one’s own rite. In other words, if you haven’t formally switched rites it would, in my imagining, help to remind Catholics to which Ritual Church they belong. That is what I assumed it was for but now I’m questioning if I even read this…
 
matthias said:
I read somewhere and now I can’t remember where or find the source…

I read somewhere that although a Latin Rite Catholic can attend the mass/Divine Liturgies of any other Catholic Rite to fulfill their Sunday obligation, they must attend the Easter liturgy in their own rite.

Any idea where I read this and is it true?
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hope not, for several years I attended Easter celebrations in Eastern rite churches when it was possible. Furthermore even someone baptized in one rite may participate for his entire life in another rite.
 
matthias said:
I’m questioning where I read this and although I was fairly sure I did read it, I’m now starting to question that. …

That is what I assumed it was for but now I’m questioning if I even read this…
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You may well have read it, but if so, whoever wrote it clearly didn’t have a grasp of either canon law or common sense. There are a lot of things out there written in ignorance of both.
 
CCC - " 1203 The liturgical traditions or rites presently in use in the Church are the Latin (principally the Roman rite, but also the rites of certain local churches, such as the Ambrosian rite, or those of certain religious orders), and the Byzantine, Alexandrian or Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, Maronite and Chaldean rites.
In faithful obedience to tradition, the sacred Council declares that Holy Mother Church holds all lawfully recognized rites to be of equal right and dignity, and that she wishes to preserve them in the future and to foster them in every way. "

There is an entire section in the “CCC 2nd Ed” - called “Liturgical Diversity and the Unity of the Mystery”.

1200 through 1209.​

CCC - " 1208 The diverse liturgical traditions or rites, legitimately recognized, manifest the catholicity of the Church, because they signify and communicate the same mystery of Christ."

The “Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition” is our ‘go-to’ book for accurate info regarding Doctrine of the Faith (faith and morals).
 
I’d be a bit skeptical even about this rule applying to Orthodox churches. Pascha really isn’t any essentially different than any other feast. If attendance at an Orthodox church fills your Sunday obligation for a Roman Catholic (I’ve heard different answers from different priests about this, but I’m pretty sure it does), than this principle applies for all Sundays including Pascha. If you can’t fill your Sunday obligation at an Orthodox church, then Pascha is no different than any other Sunday anyway.
 
I am not aware of any requirement for you to attend a specific Easter Liturgy. I know that for those who follow the Julian Calendar, their Easter may not be the same exact week it is with those who follow the Gregorian Calendar. But there is no “Easter Obligation” that one must go to a Liturgy that specifically has the Resurrection or any of the Easter Gospel as the reading. Or course this year is an oddity that all the calendars align. But if you go to an Eastern Catholic parish with the Julian Calendar on the day of the Gregorian Calendar Easter, you will fulfill you Sunday Obligation, in the Roman Catholic sense of it.
 
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