DominvsVobiscvm:
I’m sure if ByzCath and Irish Melkite were here they’d ell you you’re making a huge mistake joiningthe Byzantine Catholic Church in America just because you don’t enjoy the Missa Normativa of the Latin Church.
You are absolutely correct on this on.
Not likeing the Mass of the Latin Catholic Church is no reason to change.
You said that you are considering a change to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Have you been attending there long? Do you know Ukrainian? The majority of their parishes only do the sung/chanted Divine Liturgy in Ukrainian, the english Divine Liturgy is recited, very said. I will also add that over all the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is very nationalistic to the point of also ghettoizing themselves. Just something to watch especially if you move to a new area someday in the future.
I would say that if you are truely in love with the Byzantine Traditions and Spirituality then the Melkite Greek Catholic Church might be a better way to go but there is also my church, the Byzantine (Ruthenian) Catholic Church.
I’m afraid you will be sorely disappointed once the temporary emotional thrill of Eastern Catholicism’s seeming esotericism wears off on you. There’s an entire cultural and theological shift you’ll have to make that, quite frankly, I don’t think you’re preapred to do.
I would also agree with this.
This may be a case of you running from the Latin Church to a Byzantine Church rather than you actually having a fit in a Byzantine Church.
I have found that in the past, most people run from something rather than to something.
Another concern is that you might feel at home in a Byzantine parish but not realize that your comfort level is due to the latinizations that are still present in the parish. Do they kneel? Do they recite the filoque? Those are just two examples of latinizations. As our churches return to their traditions those things will go away and the parish may start to feel more foregin to you.
I don’t think that marriage automatically effects switich; it just makes the process go along easier for the wife. And even without formally switching, I think the wife is dispensed from her obligations as a Latin and may instead follow the disciplines of her husband’s Church.
Marriage can automatically effect a switch.
When a byzantine male marries the marriage should take place in his parish, when a byzantine female marries the marriage can take place in her parish (I believe this is due to a concession Rome made to try and make up for the past issue). Now when the marriage takes place there is a lot of paper work and one of those papers is an offical change of church which requires no approvals from the bishops as would a change such as this. If the non-byzantine in the marriage signs this paper they offically change churches but it is not required. At least this is what I have been told by many byzantine priests.
As for this change, a letter will needs to be written to your current Latin bishop requesting a change which he may not allow and a letter needs to be written to the recieveing Byzantine bishop and he may not accept you.
All depends on what you write, if you include anything about not liking the Mass you will be denied.
Oh, yes all of us here who are traditional: mgy100 says :" And you can’t compare the Tridentine Mass(which you have done nothing but horribly encourage, and which I attend most of the time and simply cannot stomach your reasoning about why to attend it)" DOES THIS MAKE ANY SENSE TO ANYONE HERE???