Eucharistic Adoration

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Even though it is a Latinization, why discourage it? The beauties of the Faith should be open to everyone in the Church. I am canonically a Latin, yet I go to the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom whenever I can, and pray the Jesus Prayer (a Byzantine-ization?) before/during the Tridentine Mass when I go there.

Does a devotion need to be a reaction against a heresy? I am glad that the Orthodox have never denied the Real Presence (and, from my own readings of Orthodox literature, I have never seen it denied - the occasional polemic against the word “transubstantiation” seems to me just an anti-Latin polemic; the doctrine is the same) - but Adoration is a beautiful devotion, and with no equivalent Byzantine practice to do instead, why not add this practice?

Regarding the Rosary, versions of it began as a “substitute” for the Liturgy of the Hours in the West as well as in the East, as a concession to human laxity. Yet it was sanctified by the vision of Our Lady to St. Dominic. Priests and monks today (at least before Vatican II) say the Liturgy of Hours AS WELL AS the Rosary, and this should be the proper state of affairs. For the laity, the Rosary is the primary devotion in the Latin rite, since we are not in a position to chant the Psalms every three hours, but it is pleasing to God for us to say - as many of us do - at least a somewhat laxer version of the Hours (such as Morning Prayer and then Evening Prayer). I see no reason to make it an issue between “East” and “West”; the situation is the same for both of us.
Iam really sorry to say this but you have the opposite idea about the Liturgy of the Hours, the rosary, and Vatican II. I was a Franciscan Novice 3rd Order Regular. And the situation did change after the council but in the opposite way that you are implying.

Before the council all they said was the Rosary or the Little Office of Our Lady,…AFTER Vatican II when I was in the order we sang the full liturgy of the Hours, and we said the Rosary in Latin before we went to lunch as an extra.
 
Iam really sorry to say this but you have the opposite idea about the Liturgy of the Hours, the rosary, and Vatican II. I was a Franciscan Novice 3rd Order Regular. And the situation did change after the council but in the opposite way that you are implying.

Before the council all they said was the Rosary or the Little Office of Our Lady,…AFTER Vatican II when I was in the order we sang the full liturgy of the Hours, and we said the Rosary in Latin before we went to lunch as an extra.
Maybe for the Franciscans, but not for the Benedictines.
 
The byzantine use of the chotki was a means of replacement for the hours… for the illiterate. The Dominican Rosary seems to arise from similar sources.

But, in the Byzantine tradition, the chotki as replacement for the hours was not for vespers nor matins. Only for the lesser hours.
 
Because our Bishops and the Holy See wants us to return to our own beautiful received liturgical traditions. I would not be so bold as to ask a priest offering the Extraordinary Rite to sing a Moleben at the conclusion of Low Mass. Private devotions are one thing, but every particular Church must be able to be free to offer the fullness of the liturgical traditions contained therein.

I would disagree with much of this. Read Sacrosanctum Concilium and other Magisterial documents regarding the Liturgy of the Hours since Vatican II. To the contrary, Rome is trying hard to restore this most ancient form of Christian prayer to every house, not just every rectory. There are plenty of good versions of the Hours out there that are indeed very adaptable to the exigencies of daily life.
I agree with this person completely.
 
Personally, I don’t think that either rite should take on what the other rite does. Although I do think that if one of a particular rite wishes to partake in another rite’s … uhm… “activity,” I think it’s great. For the churches that are in communion show just how varied Catholicism is. (Even the orthodox churches.)
 
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