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ElisabethM
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Our family is moving to a city where there is an Eastern Rite (Byzantine) cathedral and are wondering what the process of changing from Latin Rite (which we are now) to Eastern Rite entails.
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Phillip_Rolfes
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Usually it requires that you attend an Eastern parish for at least a year or two. After that your parish priest should be able to help you through the process.
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Tradycja
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You don’t need to change. Just simply start attending there.
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Diak
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Once you are established as parishoners in the Eastern Catholic parish, you will write a letter to the bishop whose omophorion you are being received under. As has been previously stated, the clergy of your Eastern parish will assist you in this.
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beloved1
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How is it done if you are moving from eastern church to another eastern church?
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Aramis
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the same way, but the bishops may have both more questions, and it’s supposed to be reviewed by Rome before being finalized.
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Diak
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For laity it is pretty straightforward. Again you will write to the bishop whose omophorion you are being received under, and let them take care of the rest. Make sure your reasons are positive (i.e. don’t write because you don’t like something, etc.) and of course it helps if you are worshipping in a parish whose particular Church you are transferring to.
For clergy, it is a bit different - you have to be released from one bishop and accepted for service by the other whose omophorion you wish to be under.
In either case Rome is not involved (and does not want to be according to the former Pro Nuncio to the USA as well as a former Secretary of the Eastern Congregation).
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beloved1
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Would it be fair to say that it is more territoral rather than spiritual that all that paperwork is involve for a layperson.If you are comfortable worshipping in a Latin church or Ukranian or Ruthenian or Melkite and are growing spiritually why can’t you just worship, pray and give glory to God in all of them?Thank you for letting me raise my questions.
I guess I am wondering if the church is universal why is made so complicated. I don’t believe that God is that complicated only that we have made Him so in our inablity to try to explain someone we really can’t grasp.
I guess I am wondering if the church is universal why is made so complicated. I don’t believe that God is that complicated only that we have made Him so in our inablity to try to explain someone we really can’t grasp.
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bigsonny
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THE THREAD SAYS------- MOVING FROM LATIN TO EASTERN RITE. No where do I read between the lines, that this person(s) want to switch rites. It seems they want to know if they can, as Latin Catholics, go to an Eastern Rite parish. I seen one response, that says real simple------- you are Catholic, and Eastern Rite, must be Catholic, so why can’t they just go to that church. They can learn what to do to follow the traditions of that church, and if later, they decide to switch to that Eastern Rite, then they can talk to the Pastor, and he will lead them the right way. Now if some of the more advanced respondents, see something else, then we should go into another Thread.
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Aramis
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You can… you just can not be married, ordained, or enter religious communities without the needed change of enrollment, and, per the current rules, one must still meet the obligations in their current enrollment, tho those obligations can be met by participation in any rite’s liturgies and paraliturgies.
In order to preserve the smaller ritual praxis.
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Vico
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The Eastern Canons give some explaination, and as Aramis said there is some complexity of rules to preserve the traditions.
CCEO Canon 403
- With due regard for the right and obligation to preserve everywhere their own rite, lay persons have the right to participate actively in the liturgical celebrations of any Church sui iuris whatsoever, according to the norms of the liturgical books.
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beloved1
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Where can I have my children baptized? Are there any restrictions on that matter? Thank you for your replies
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5Loaves
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More specifically what are you asking? Would you like to start another thread?
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Aramis
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If it is not in your home parish, the pastor should be asked for permission before the local pastor of wherever does the baptism. If you want it done elsewhere, t helps to have your pastor’s written permission.
Any priest or deacon who baptizes is supposed to do so only with their pastor’s permission; a pastor has permission by virtue of being a pastor. An eastern Deacon normally baptizes only in emergencies or missions without a regular priest, since baptism is accompanied by Chrismation and first Eucharist.
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