Letter From Archbishop of Davao Diocese to the SSPX

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JReducation said:
I don’t know that the canons for the Oriental Churches say, but this is the law for the Latin Church.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF 🙂
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From the CCEO.
**Canon 881

1.** The Christian faithful are bound by the obligation to participate on Sundays and feast days in the Divine Liturgy, or according to the prescriptions or legitimate customs of their own Church sui iuris, in the celebration of the divine praises.
2. In order for the Christian faithful to fulfill this obligation more easily, the available time runs from the evening of the vigil until the end of the Sunday or feast day.
3. The Christian faithful are strongly recommended to receive the Divine Eucharist on these days and indeed more frequently, even daily.
4. The Christian faithful should abstain from those labors or business matters which impede the worship to be rendered to God, the joy which is proper to the Lord’s day, or to the proper relaxation of mind and body.

Can you provide the Canon in the Latin Code that requires one to go to a different sui iuris Church when there is no Latin parish available.
 
ByzCath said:
From the CCEO.
**Canon 881

1.** The Christian faithful are bound by the obligation to participate on Sundays and feast days in the Divine Liturgy, or according to the prescriptions or legitimate customs of their own Church sui iuris, in the celebration of the divine praises.
2. In order for the Christian faithful to fulfill this obligation more easily, the available time runs from the evening of the vigil until the end of the Sunday or feast day.
3. The Christian faithful are strongly recommended to receive the Divine Eucharist on these days and indeed more frequently, even daily.
4. The Christian faithful should abstain from those labors or business matters which impede the worship to be rendered to God, the joy which is proper to the Lord’s day, or to the proper relaxation of mind and body.

Can you provide the Canon in the Latin Code that requires one to go to a different sui iuris Church when there is no Latin parish available.
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There isn’t. I said the other way around. You are excused.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF 🙂
 
thistle said:
I thought a person may go to an SSPX Mass only if there were no other EF or NO Masses available. The Sunday obligation is not just fulfilled by attending an EF Mass.
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The Sunday obligation may be fulfilled at a DL as well.
 
ConstantineTG said:
So can I go to a laicized priest who’s still Catholic and have him say Mass for me?
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giuseppeTO said:
Laicized is not the same as suspended.
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A laicized priest can validly celebrate mass, but it’s highly illegal. He is still a priest. He’s not a layman. Once you’re ordained, there is no turning back the clock.

The laicized priest has either been dismissed or has asked for and been granted a dispensation. The former is like a dishonorable discharge and the latter is honorable.

The laicized priest and the suspended priest have the same priestly powers. The difference is that the suspended priest is obviously in trouble. The laicized priest may or may not be in trouble, depending on how he came to be laicized.

In any case, if you urgently need a priest for confession, because someone is dying, any of these can validly and licitly grant absolution.

Remember what I said before. The term laicized means that the priest in question can live as if he were a layman, not that he is a layman. He is released from his promise of obedience and his promise of celibacy. Current law does not allow laicized priests to be lectors, EMHC, catechists, professors of theology at any level, retreat masters, spiritual directors, or serve in any liturgical function.

There was a recent statement from the Vatican encouraging bishops to make use of some of these laicized priests, but there was no more said about it. No one really knows how much use they meant. However, it was clear that they were referring to those who had been honarably dispensed, not those dismissed.

It is equally important to recall that is the priest is also a religious, he cannot be laicized unless he is either dispensed from his vows or dismissed from his religious community. You have to follow the same sequence going out as your followed going in.

If you want to be both, a religious and a priest, you must first complete your religious formation and make either perpetual vows or solemn vows. Then your superior can grant permission to be ordained. On the way out, if you’re being dismissed, you must be dismissed from vows and Holy Orders. A priest can be secularized, without being laicized. That’s a whole other $20.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF 🙂
 
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