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

[Peter_J]

I would like to, but don’t know how to behave.

Not that this comment is unusual, but after reading it an interesting thought popped into my head: Those people who are cradle EC (I’m not btw), before attending an LC mass for the first time, did you ever worry about not knowing how to behave?

 

[John_Q_Sinner]

I’ve attended the Divine Liturgy of St. Chrysostom with my uncle multiple times. I really enjoyed it. I think my uncle wanted plant the Eastern seed into my heart but the Western EF got their first. No offence to my Eastern brothers, I think they have a beautiful Rite.

 

[shawnbm]

I am privileged to live within walking distance of a Roman Rite parish (my parish) and a Maronite parish. I try and attend masses at the Maronite parish at least monthly and regularly converse with the Maronite pastor (who is referred to as “Chorbishop”), who happens to be bi-ritual and can preside over Roman Rite masses when needed. As part of my instruction to my Confirmation candidates in CCD, I have taken them over to the Maronite parish so they can experience the customs and liturgy of an Eastern Catholic Church. To a person, the students (and their parents) have been blown over by the Maronite Rite and, yet, have come to more deeply appreciate the beauty of the Roman Rite they hear and experience more often. It is a great blessing of the LORD to be able to, basically, attend a Roman or Maronite parish whenever I wish.

 

[Spudbynight]

Thank you!

Anyways, I must say that it’s very hard to find a Divine Liturgy here in English! They either use Ukrainian or Belarusian!

Is the Cathedral in Mayfair in Ukrainian? I have passed by a few times and been tempted to attend at some point.

 

[janeway529]

I live within the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and we have 10 Eastern Catholic Parishes. So far, I’ve only been to the Byzantine-Ruthenian (DL completely in English) and Maronite (In Syriac/Arabic/English at Our Lady of Mt. Lebanon-St. Peter Cathedral). I’m hoping to visit each parish one day.

Armenian
Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, Los Angeles
St. Gregory, Glendale

Assyrian Chaldean
Saint Paul, North Hollywood

Byzantine-Ruthenian
Cathedral of St. Mary, Sherman Oaks

Coptic
St. Mary, Los Angeles

Eritrean
St. Albert the Great, Rancho Dominguez

Maronite
Our Lady of Mount Lebanon-St. Peter Cathedral, Los Angeles
St. Jude Maronite Mission, San Dimas

Melkite Greek
Saint Anne, North Hollywood
Saint Paul, El Segundo

Russian Greek
Saint Andrew, El Segundo

Syriac
Jesus Sacred Heart Antiochan Syriac, North Hollywood

Ukrainian-Byzantine
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Los Angeles (Driving by, my Mom thought it was a Mosque at first. )

 

[Brendan]

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

If you have which one did you go to?

I’ve gone pretty regularly. Here in metro Detroit, there are several Ruthenian, Chaldean and Maronite parishes and a nearby Ukrainian Greek Catholic parish and I have been at all of them for Liturgy.

I try and bring the kids to one at least once every few months, mostly the Chaldean parishes.

 

[malphono]

I live within the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and we have 10 Eastern Catholic Parishes.

Merely as a point of clarification, with the sole exception of the Russian Greek Catholic parish, none are actually under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

 

[NorthTexan88]

I normally only attend Eastern Rite parishes. I live within close proximity of both a Maronite and Ruthenian parish. However, I mostly frequent the Maronite. When I go home I usually attend the Melkite parish in Birmingham.

 

[Zekariya]

I normally only attend Eastern Rite parishes. I live within close proximity of both a Maronite and Ruthenian parish. However, I mostly frequent the Maronite. When I go home I usually attend the Melkite parish in Birmingham.

St George? I’ve gone there. Fr Frank is a wonderful priest.

 

[CB_Catholic]

Romanian Byzantine.

 

[maximus]

There was a traveling exhibition of a Actual size high resolution photograph of the shroud of Turin at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in Philadelphia ukrcathedral.com/ we stayed for a Mass and enjoyed the experience. It truly is a beautiful church.

Another time, my home Parrish held a special joint service with a Ukrainian Catholic Parrish we actually built an iconostasis for the event. It was very cool.

I would like to attend a Maronite Mass at some point in time.

God Bless

 

[Catechesis]

I had the honor of attending a Knanaya Qurbana during the Holy Feast of Mother Mary at Sacred Heart Knanaya Church in Chicago. It was a life changing experience for a Latin Rite Catholic like myself because feast days are extraordinary at Knanaya Churches. The feast days or as they call “Perunals” are celebrated not just with prayer but customs where the whole congregation steps out of the Parish and they have processions around the church.

The procession includes the singing of holy songs, the banging of drums, the blowing of horns, carrying ceremonial umbrellas along with statues of numerous saints and crosses. If anyone would like to visit a Syro Malabar or Knanaya Church I highly recommend you go on feast day!

 

[babochka]

How short? The Ruthenian parish by me usually finishes DL in little under an hour. Don’t know how it is throughout the country though.

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.

 

[gferrer]

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

If you have which one did you go to?

I’ve been once to a Ruthenian Catholic Church, while traveling in Maryland. I loved it. Unfortunately, there are none to be found here in Arkansas.

 

[janeway529]

Merely as a point of clarification, with the sole exception of the Russian Greek Catholic parish, none are actually under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Perhaps I should have said that they are located within that geographical area. An interesting thing I learned when I attended the Byzantine-Ruthenian co-cathedral: the Romanians share the parish and hold their DL there because their community is too small to have its own parish.

Also, about the Our Lady of Mt. Lebanon-St. Peter Cathedral: It was originally St. Peter Church, a Latin-Rite parish and was later given over to the Maronite community. The Roman Catholic Mass is held there and the DL is held versus populum.

 

[Paul_theApostle]

I went to a Melkite church for Sunday night Liturgy which was mostly in English and attended by young adults.

It was the first time Ive been there and I loved it and plan on going again.

It was a little bit different to the Liturgies at Orthodoxy ive been to but I enjoyed it.

 

[Peter_J]

I am privileged to live within walking distance of a Roman Rite parish (my parish) and a Maronite parish. I try and attend masses at the Maronite parish at least monthly and regularly converse with the Maronite pastor (who is referred to as “Chorbishop”), who happens to be bi-ritual and can preside over Roman Rite masses when needed. As part of my instruction to my Confirmation candidates in CCD, I have taken them over to the Maronite parish so they can experience the customs and liturgy of an Eastern Catholic Church. To a person, the students (and their parents) have been blown over by the Maronite Rite and, yet, have come to more deeply appreciate the beauty of the Roman Rite they hear and experience more often. It is a great blessing of the LORD to be able to, basically, attend a Roman or Maronite parish whenever I wish.

I think that’s great. My own history (and that of many others) was more all-or-nothing. Specifically, I started attending a Melkite parish weekly in 2002, but prior to that I had only attended about a dozen EC liturgies. (In fact, I didn’t attended any as an undergrad at a Catholic university, or during my first couple years in grad school.)

 

[christofirst]

Here in Los Angeles, I’ve attended the Divine Liturgy at St. Andrew’s, the Russian Greek Catholic Church mentioned earlier. It was a beautiful service.

 

[Cider]

Sure, I’ve been to many.

 

[sw85]

I’ve been to two Byzantine Catholic liturgies, once on Pentecost of 2012 and another one later in the same year for a friend’s baby’s baptism. I liked it and its historicity. I felt like I was worshipping alongside generations and generations of others.