Instructions for Applying the Liturgical Prescriptions of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches

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Everybody should take Section 13 to heart:
  1. The Eastern heritage is more than just liturgy
Certainly, the tendency to reduce the specific heritage of the Eastern Churches to just its liturgical dimension should not be encouraged. The attraction exerted by the sacredness of the rites, the intense emotion arising from the poetic dimension of the texts, has possibly led to an excessive emphasis of the exterior or emotional aspect, an easy place of refuge for those who deny the liturgy its necessary link with life. This is what has sometimes led the same Eastern Catholics to perceive only the liturgical patrimony as being specifically their own, conforming themselves instead, for the other aspects of spirituality, to the Western sensibility considered as common to the Universal Church. Rather, the value of Eastern theologies and spiritualities, understood as part of the undivided heritage of the Universal Church, is a fairly recent discovery, as is the emergence of the importance of particular disciplines.

The practice of the Eastern liturgy without its entire heritage flowing into it, as into its highest expression, would risk reducing it to pure superficiality.

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Of course, my answer isn’t quite what Rome wants: “The head of the synod of the sui juris sends the code back to Rome with a note, signed by himself and all of the other bishops of the synods stating, ‘Thanks but no thanks.’”

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While I agree with you, I do think that the passage quoted from the Eastern Code hits on a point that is often missed or overlooked by both Roman Catholics and many Eastern Catholics.
 
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Perhaps it’s too early in the morning for me… or maybe I need my second cup of coffee… Would you mind explaining this? I don’t follow…
 
@dochawk mentioned thinking in “stopped clock terms”. I don’t understand what he means by that and am just trying to figure it out.
 
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ziapueblo said:
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Everybody should take Section 13 to heart:
  1. The Eastern heritage is more than just liturgy
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Clearly defined in the CCEO:
Canon 27 - A group of Christian faithful united by a hierarchy according to the norm of law which the supreme authority of the Church expressly or tacitly recognizes as sui iuris is called in this Code a Church sui iuris.

Canon 28 - §1. A rite is the liturgical, theological, spiritual and disciplinary patrimony, culture and circumstances of history of a distinct people, by which its own manner of living the faith is manifested in each Church sui iuris.
§2. The rites treated in this code, unless otherwise stated, are those which arise from the Alexandrian, Antiochene, Armenian, Chaldean and Constantinopolitan traditions.
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The practice of the Eastern liturgy without its entire heritage flowing into it, as into its highest expression, would risk reducing it to pure superficiality.
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That was my initial impression - eg That a Rite is simply a personal esthetic preference, and not a profound expression of the depths and heights of the Faith… I have seen it written like this: “Oh, I went to an Eastern Rite Church last Sunday - I enjoyed it very much… I was getting kind of lax in my worship, and it is so refreshing to experience something different for a change…”

And you are right - That is VERY superficial…

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Phillip_Rolfes said:
Perhaps it’s too early in the morning for me… or maybe I need my second cup of coffee… Would you mind explaining this? I don’t follow…
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A stopped clock is right twice a day.

In a similar vein, the Eastern code needn’t always be the wrong way to do things, and might, at times, be helpful . . .
 
LOL! Now I’m with you. Thank you for clarifying, @dochawk.
 
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