Am I correct in assuming then that you are considering leaving the Catholic Church? It is my understanding that dogmas must be believed by all faithful Catholics. If I am wrong on this point, please correct me.
Our Byzantine parish does not celebrate The Maternity of the Holy Anna with a Divine Liturgy since the parishioners must come long distances, but also it is not obligatory. Yet is it an important solemnity to me, being a Byzantine Catholic member the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception.
Sigh, why can’t Roman Catholics just let the Eastern Catholics keep their own traditions?Since Eastern Catholics believe in the Papacy, and the Pope defined the IC as dogma, then it follows that we should give assent to this dogma… I am Eastern Catholic, though more Roman in practice, I believe this dogma. I think in the East, they use different expressions as has already been said… it’s also believed that she’s sinless.
The Eastern church absolutely commemorates the Conception of the Theotokos, though I do not know whether the feast is obligatory. Please remember that what binds us is not what separates us.
Since you are still canonically Latin and remain active parishoners in the Latin Church I think there is little question that the Feast of the Immaculate Conception Dec. 8 on the Latin calendar is a Holy Day of Obligation for you if you live in the US or one of the other countries where it is a Holy Day of Obligation. It is certainly not universally a Holy Day of Obligation in the Latin Church.
I’m happy to share in the Holy Mass at my local Latin parish today even though there is no obligation on me as a Russian Greek Catholic to assist in a Liturgy for this feast.
Perhaps on the Feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul next year some of them will come share in our joyous feast. If you are CAtholic you believe in this doctrine. If you are changing rites, then do so, but there is no benefit or truth in thinking this involves attacking the theology of one or the other. If your are RC it is still a holy day of obligation regardless of your personal feelings. The difference you seem to perceive in the theology is subtle and not as easily dismissed as you seem to think. If you are thinking of changing rites don’t do so without learning that theology and its development as you seem to be under the impression we can believe entirely different things about essential doctrines, which is simply not true.
Just to say, it is not universally a Holy Day of Obligation in the Latin Church, although it is one in the US, and OP is in the US.
I was.
Ten universal in the Latin canons, an five in the eastern canons, but with supressions and transfers.Just to say, it is not universally a Holy Day of Obligation in the Latin Church, although it is one in the US, and OP is in the US.
CIC 1246 §2. With the prior approval of the Apostolic See, however, the conference of bishops can suppress some of the holy days of obligation or transfer them to a Sunday.
I’m not sure of the source, but I did read that the minimum number (Latin) of Catholic holy days to be celebrated (in addition to Sundays) is two: one Marian and the Nativity. That is what the Canadian bishops have made the minimum for the Latin Church. In that respect, it seems that eastern Catholics, in practice, have more, with one Marian (Dormition), and the Nativity, plus Theophany, Ascension (on Thursday), and Sts. Peter and Paul. (I think the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church adds the Annunciation, some places.)
I hadn’t heard of that. Hawai’i also has only two Holy Days of Obligation, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and Christmas, which matches that “formula”.
I hadn’t heard of that. Hawai’i also has only two Holy Days of Obligation, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and Christmas, which matches that “formula”.
When looking only at the minimum in the CCEO. I honestly was shocked to see that when I quoted the CCEO because I have understood that all of our Twelve Great Feasts are celebrated as if what in the West are “obligations”. It’s part of the difference in mentality I guess, and one that sadly we see the lacking CCEO does in this lack… but which of course various Churches sui iuris, such as my own, seem to have made up for by treating the Twelve Great Feasts as central to our sacramental liturgical year, and thus to be fully celebrated by all.