Encyclical Question

[Monica4316]

Item 10 from Applying The Liturgical Prescriptions of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches from theCongregation for the Eastern Churches:**10. The duty to protect the Eastern heritage
** Desiring that these treasures flourish and contribute ever more efficiently to the evangelization of the world, Orientalium Ecclesiarum affirms, as do successive documents, that the members of Eastern Churches have the right and the duty to preserve them, to know them, and to live them.[14] Such affirmation contains a clear condemnation of any attempt to distance the Eastern faithful from their Churches, whether in an explicit and irreversible manner, with its juridical consequences, inducing them to pass from one Church sui iuris to another,[15] or whether in a less explicit manner, favoring the acquisition of forms of thought, spirituality, and devotions that are not coherent with their own ecclesial heritage, and thus contrary to the indications so often emphasized by Roman Pontiffs and expressed, with particular force, already in the Apostolic Letter Orientalium Dignitas of Leo XIII.
The danger of losing the Eastern identity manifests itself particularly in a time like the present, characterized by great migrations from the East toward lands believed to be more hospitable, which are prevalently of Latin tradition. These host countries are enriched by the heritage of the Eastern faithful who establish themselves there, and the preservation of such heritage is to be sustained and encouraged not only by the Eastern pastors but also by the Latin ones of the immigration territories, because it wonderfully expresses the multicolored richness of the Church of Christ.

[14] Cf. Vatican Council II, Decr. on the Catholic Eastern Churches Orientalium Ecclesiarum, 6.
[15] Cf. CCEO can. 31 and 1465.

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Reference:CCEO Canon 1465:
A person who, ascribed to any Church sui iuris, including the Latin Church, and exercising an office, a ministry or another function in the Church, has presumed to induce any member of the Christian faithful whatsoever to transfer to another Church sui iuris contrary to can. 31, is to be punished with an appropriate penalty.

Regarding the less explicit way… Its important to understand that correctly… Because if taken too literally, a person would be in trouble just for sharing a devotion with a friend from their parish who happens to be Eastern… Or is that prohibited in actuality? …what does it mean? Isn’t it significant if the person has already chosen to practice in a Latin parish, without any such influence? Or are they not allowed to? Etc… This raises more questions?

 

[Vico]

Regarding the less explicit way… Its important to understand that correctly… Because if taken too literally, a person would be in trouble just for sharing a devotion with a friend from their parish who happens to be Eastern… Or is that prohibited in actuality? …what does it mean? Isn’t it significant if the person has already chosen to practice in a Latin parish, without any such influence? Or are they not allowed to? Etc… This raises more questions?

It seem that there is little chance of taking the canon too literally when we are given very specific directions. With regard to the “idea of a history, of a culture, of conceptions and uses specific to each Church” the Eastern Catholic has the right and the duty to preserve them, to know them, and to live them. (APPLYING THE LITURGICAL PRESCRIPTIONS OF THE CODE OF CANONS OF THE EASTERN CHURCHES)

It would be a violation of canon 31 for anyone holding an office in the Church to attempt to distance the Eastern faithful from their Churches.

Don’t forget CCEO Canon 17:The Christian faithful have the right to worship God according to the prescriptions of their own Church sui iuris, and to follow their own form of spiritual life consonant with the teaching of the Church.
And in fact there are indulgenced acts that are eastern Catholics prayers that any Catholics of any* sui iuris* Church may obtain. There is not prohibition from participation in other Catholic liturgical traditions.