Latin rite Catholics How many of you have attended a Eastern Catholic service?

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I am a Catholic of the latin rite…born and raised. I have attended Divine Liturgy at Annunciation Byzantine Catholic Church in Anaheim on several occasions now and I am blown away every time. annunciationbyzantine.org/ It is a truly beautiful, and prayer-inspiring liturgy.

Once, many years ago…I also got to attend a Divine Liturgy at St. Andrew’s in El Segundo. standrewelsegundo.org/
 
babochka said:
Wow. Ours usually lasts at least 75 minutes, usually a bit longer, and the Ruthenians have abbreviated quite a bit. Even on a weekday morning, with fairly fast chanting and little or no homily, it lasts a full hour.
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It used to be about 75 minutes when I first started attending around 2000. For the last few years it has been a little under an hour.
 
AnthonyJ said:
It used to be about 75 minutes when I first started attending around 2000. For the last few years it has been a little under an hour.
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Since Fr. Michailo arrived, we’ve run 75-90 min for sunday liturgies. Not counting Mirovania, which has been frequent.
 
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adawgj said:
Latin rite Catholics
How many of you have been to a Eastern Catholic service?

If you have which one did you go to?
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I got to a ,local Maronite Church for Sunday and Daily Mass, it is turning into our home parish now. Eastern Catholics have wonderful liturgies, so reverent!👍
 
I’ve attended a Byzantine (I think Ruthenian) DL in English several time recently. They have a patronage (?) that meets on Sunday at 5:30 at St. Francis de Sales church near Bel Air, Md. Sometimes my schedule makes it impossible to get to any local Mass. I felt very awkward walking in the first time but now I know how to follow along in the book. I suppose I prefer the Latin rite but I also like the DL. A big difference is that almost everything is chanted and we stand most of the time. I really like the prayers we say before Communion. It’s interesting seeing the babies and little children receiving. I like that the Church is really universal even though different Catholics do things differently.
 
I am Latin canonically - I was received into the Latin Church at the hands of a priest with bi-ritual faculties through the Melkite Eparchy of Newton - I think he is a Melkite Archimandrite.

For the last three years, I’ve been upping my attendance at the local Ruthenian Church - I’m now full time. I haven’t served much lately, but I served at the altar for over a year, with my bishop multiple times and even at a priestly ordination. I also have served in the Maronite Rite - we used to have a Maronite mission that met at my parish. I am proud to say that I’ve served an entire liturgy in Arabic and I had sort of an idea of what was going on. 😛 I’ve been to a Chaldean Catholic service as well - we had one at our parish a couple summers ago.

So I suppose the answer is yes, I am a Latin Catholic with extensive experience in the Eastern churches.

I view myself more as an Ruthenian Catholic in praxis, ascetic, and theology than as a Latin Catholic, despite my canonical status. I don’t have any intention of switching unless I feel called to a vocation. If I am called to a vocation, I can’t imagine that I would be a Latin cleric.
 
I have not yet had the chance, but will some day as there are 2 Byzantine rite churches within 30 to 40 miles from me. I will check them out someday for sure.
 
Ethiopian Orthodox (if it counts), Melkite, Syro-Malabar…

A priest at our parish was bi-ritual and said Holy Qurbana at our Latin Rite parish for the 25th anniversary of his ordination.

I’m planning on visiting Greek Orthodox soon and would like to go to Byzantine.

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I try and take the kids to a Divine Liturgy a few times a year. We are pretty fortunate in my area to have a Ruthenian and several Chaldean parishes nearby.
 
We formerly had a chapter of Catholics United for the Faith active in our area. The chapter would each year attend Mass at a Maronite parish, and also attend either Mass, or a special devotion at a Byzantine Catholic parish. So I attended several times at Eastern Catholic Churches.

The Byzantine Rite service was especially interesting, just the way the altar/sanctuary was designed - very clearly set aside in a sacred way. It made you realize what is actually happening - that we are getting a glimpse into the ongoing heavenly liturgy, and “Heaven” is in some sense joining us. This is also true at every valid Mass, but the Byzantine Rite made it more obvious. I felt privileged.
 
I’ve recently attended St George Byzantine Catholic in Bay City, Michigan. A small church but nice & people were welcoming to me.
 
We live in an area with a large Chaldean Catholic population, with two Chaledean parishes near my house.

I take the kids there a few times a year so they can experience the liturgy in Aramaic.
 
I am a Byzantine Catholic, but I’ve attended Chladean, Maronite, and Syro-Malabar liturgies. And Latin, of course. 🙂
 
I sometimes go to a Byzantine Rite Catholic Church about 30 to 45 minutes drive from where I live.
 
WetCatechumen said:
I view myself more as an Ruthenian Catholic in praxis, ascetic, and theology than as a Latin Catholic, despite my canonical status. I don’t have any intention of switching unless I feel called to a vocation. If I am called to a vocation, I can’t imagine that I would be a Latin cleric.
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I was actually going to write something similar before I saw your post. I do not currently discern a call to sacred ordination, but if I do, I will transfer into the Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic church.

I enjoy the singing of the Divine Liturgy and believe that if I am called to the ministry, I have a strong enough voice to sing the relevant parts of the Divine Liturgy: the Anaphora, words of institution, and intercessions after the words (for a priest) or other intercessions (for a deacon). I also like how the Byzantines have maintained a strong cycle prayer outside the liturgy, including Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts during Great and Holy Lent, as well as Vespers, and healthy emphasis on the family as the domestic Church, as well as a strong tradition of fasting outside of Great and Holy Lent.
 
babochka said:
I am a Byzantine Catholic, but I’ve attended Chladean, Maronite, and Syro-Malabar liturgies. And Latin, of course. 🙂
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I haven’t been to a Syro-Malabar church, but now that you mentioned it, there is one here in San Antonio. I have been saying to myself at least since January that I will visit it, but have not done so as of yet. Too many choices in this city 😉 (we have Maronite, as well as a Ruthenian Byzantine community—also, we have Traditional Latin Mass as well as Anglican Use of the Roman rite).
 
MissRose73 said:
I’ve recently attended St George Byzantine Catholic in Bay City, Michigan. A small church but nice & people were welcoming to me.
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Frankly, I’d be surprised if your experience had been otherwise. Conflicts between GCs/OCs and Latins tends to be more of an “Internet phenomenon”. :cool:
 
Bishop Libasci, Diocese of Manchester, NH has encouraged us to do just that.
Breathing With Both Lungs
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In this issue of Parable we are very happy to introduce you to some of our immediate family: four of our sister Eastern Catholic Churches represented right here in the Diocese of Manchester. These Eastern Catholic Churches are Catholic and in full union with the pope. Attending Mass at one of their beautiful liturgies indeed fulfills your Sunday obligation!
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The Melkite, Maronite, and Ukrainian bishops in the United States are members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and each has a parish here in New Hampshire. There is a fourth Eastern Catholic Church represented by me – I have been granted the bi-ritual faculty, which means I am deputed to preside at liturgies for both the Roman and Ruthenian Church. I even have both of them represented in my coat of arms (to the right).
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I invite you to bring the “stethoscope” of your Faith and listen carefully to the sounds of the Holy Breath of the Holy Spirit. I invite you to approach the Divine Liturgy (what we Romans call the Mass) in person and breathe in the cultural sights, sounds, movements, and fragrances of our other lung. As Pope Saint John Paul II said: one lung thrives on the mystical, the other thrives on reasoned practicality. When you breathe through one lung there is life; but the vigor of both, together, enriches the blood of the believer and the health of the Body of Christ – the Church!
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After I converted to Catholicism, I only attended the Traditional Latin Mass. I attended a few Ukrainian and Byzantine Divine Liturgy’s. I enjoyed them.
 
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