How an Eastern Catholic Practices there faith

[TruthisBeauty7]

Hello ,

God bless the Christians. I want to ask the Eastern Christian Rite, how they go about there faith. So how much do you go to Holy Mass, Read the Holy bible, fast, how traditions play a role.

God bless…

 

[SyroMalankara]

There are 23 different and distinct Eastern Catholic Churches, those 23 Churches practice various rites - which specific Church or Churches are you asking about?

 

[Aramis]

Hello ,

God bless the Christians. I want to ask the Eastern Christian Rite, how they go about there faith. So how much do you go to Holy Mass, Read the Holy bible, fast, how traditions play a role.

God bless…

All the 23 Churches sui iuris expect, as a bare minimum, Sunday and Holy Day Divine Worship Liturgy attendance, annual communion, at least two fasting seasons with abstention from meat at least one day a week, Friday penitential practices of some kind, and at least annual confession.

One is Roman. The Roman Divine Worship service is called the Mass. Other rites have other names. Divine Liturgy is used for both Alexandrian and Byzantine rites, Quorbono and Qurbana by the Syrian and Chaldean Rites, and several different terms are used by the Armenians. Mass is colloquially used by Chaldean, Syrain, and Armenian rite churches when speaking in english; the Armenians also use it in Latin.

The Byzantine praxis, as a generality, expects saturday vespers, sunday matins and then Divine Liturgy, 4 fasts, minimum 2 confessions per year, abstaining from meat on fridays, and during fasts, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, if not the whole of the fast. Individual Byzantine Rite Churches Sui Iuris (there are 14) regulate fasting differently.

It varies WIDELY…

 

[TruthisBeauty7]

if your an eastern catholic of any sort…how do you alone practice your faith. this is what i meant.

 

[bpbasilphx]

There is no one way that Eastern Catholics practice their faith.

The very fact there are over 20 sui juris Eastern Catholic Chuches should point this out.

A couple of people here have already given the main practices of the Byzantine traditions.

 

[horaces]

could some one please list the Eastern Catholic Rites, please, thank you

 

[Aramis]

could some one please list the Eastern Catholic Rites, please, thank you

The Rites? That’s Easy:
Western: Roman Rite
Eastern: Constantinopolitan aka Byzantine, Alexandrian (sometimes called Coptic), Armenian, Antiochean aka Syriac aka West Syriac, Chaldean aka East Syriac

Each of the 23 churches falls into one of these. (And there are some surprises!)

For the churches, I’d have to go digging for the chart.

The other issue to be aware of is that the various sub-rites of the Roman Rite are simply termed rites, forms, or uses, depending on when and how they came to be approved. Those include the Ordinary Form Roman, Extraordinary Form Roman, Dominican Rite , Carmelite Rite, Carthusian Rite, Mozarabic Rite, Bragan Rite, Ambrosian Rite, Dalmation Rite, and Anglican Use. Each has a specific missal providing the text and rubrics.

Another thing to be wary of: the term “Rite” was, before Vatican II used interchangably with Church, and used in the manner that Church Sui Iuris is now.

 

[bpbasilphx]

The other issue to be aware of is that the various sub-rites of the Roman Rite are simply termed rites, forms, or uses, depending on when and how they came to be approved. Those include the Ordinary Form Roman, Extraordinary Form Roman, Dominican Rite , Carmelite Rite, Carthusian Rite, Mozarabic Rite, Bragan Rite, Ambrosian Rite, Dalmation Rite, and Anglican Use. Each has a specific missal providing the text and rubrics.

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Actually, it should be called Roman Church (most of which is the Roman rite) or Latin Church.

Mozarabic, Bragan, and Ambrosian (howsoever heavily Romanized) are different from the Roman Rite.

By Dalmation Rite, are you referring to the Roman Rite in Slavonic celebrated for centuries before Vatican II in certain dioceses along the Adriatic?