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Adam_Cook
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I wanted to make a general statement about Eastern Catholics in “Western” Lay Orders, Religious Orders, etc. This is in response to a post I read from a member a while back.
The general concept was stated that EC members, when they join a religious order, or Third Order, are devoting themselves to a particular praxis such as Liturgy of the hours in the Roman tradition. This is not the case. As a third order, or Lay Dominican, I pray the Ukrainian Divine Office morning and evening daily and only pray the Roman office when in community because my lay community is Roman Catholic. A religious order may be founded on certain traditions of the Roman rite, but it is not bound to that particular form. St Paul says you must be all things to all people. As members of religious Orders we should follow the tradition of our eastern faith, but with in the framework of the charism of the order and her tenants. This would mean praying the Ukrainian Divine Office, praying the Rosary according to the Ukrainian tradition and going to Divine Liturgy regularly. Just my thoughts.
The general concept was stated that EC members, when they join a religious order, or Third Order, are devoting themselves to a particular praxis such as Liturgy of the hours in the Roman tradition. This is not the case. As a third order, or Lay Dominican, I pray the Ukrainian Divine Office morning and evening daily and only pray the Roman office when in community because my lay community is Roman Catholic. A religious order may be founded on certain traditions of the Roman rite, but it is not bound to that particular form. St Paul says you must be all things to all people. As members of religious Orders we should follow the tradition of our eastern faith, but with in the framework of the charism of the order and her tenants. This would mean praying the Ukrainian Divine Office, praying the Rosary according to the Ukrainian tradition and going to Divine Liturgy regularly. Just my thoughts.