Need advice: At what point is someone late for Divine Liturgy?

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If the priest is locking the doors and closing the gates to the parking lot, you’re late. :cool:
 
Firstly, if someone wants to try to follow Christ (or if is at least really seriously interested in) and wants to be in a liturgy, then comes on times unless there is a serious reason out of his/her real reach. If she really wants to spend time with you, she is not so late for meeting that you must leave before she comes etc. So the question is if it is just “traditional obligation” she is used to or her own and real faith?

Many peole wrote that the East does not have or like such rules but certainly there is one of the ten commandements saying us not to relax these things too much.
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I think the problem I am having is understanding “cradle” UGCC and Ukrainian Orthodox culture. Over the years my experience of the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Church has mainly been through contact with people who are either 1) clerics, monastics or cantors 2) attend services outside of the “required” ones 3) “Converts” from the Roman Church
3) Members of Orthodox jurisdictions that are more of a “traditional” bend (the ROCOR for example)
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My experience says people “believe” what their parents “believed” and do not think or believe. If they were born in atheist families, then atheists, if in Hinduistic families, then Hinduists, if in Calvin families, then Calvins, if in FSSPX families, then so etc. You have been meeting with untipical believers not with those who just repeat and may be are attending church because they are expeccted.
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I think our (UGCC) Patriarch is the most awesome Bishop in the Catholic Church.
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I think you have addopted Ukrainian tendention to call him “Patriarch”.😉
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…I’d like to find myself a good Greek Catholic woman who is strong in her Faith. … The benefit is, being from Greek Catholic cultures they are not feminists.
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I strongly dislike idea of finding life partner according to creed or tradition. Sorry, but for me it is foolish.

To be feminist may mean very different things including very odd things but I am afraid if you do not expect woman to be ruled by man and not indipendent and equal being who is strong enough to be equal partner to you.
 
We had a visiting priest from Africa who came for the summer months of July and August. He said several weekday morning Masses and Sunday Masses. He had stated that parishioners should hear the Epistle readings and the reading of the Gospel.
 
I would just like to add what I believe to be true. For Latin Catholics, we are told that we must be present from the start of the Gospel in order to receive Communion. For Eastern Catholics, I’m not sure. When I go to a Divine Liturgy at my local Eastern Catholic Church, I go by the rule that my local Orthodox Church in America (OCA) priest lays out which is…

“Only those Orthodox Christians that have properly prepared themselves through prayer, fasting, and a recent confession of sins and have attended the service from at LEAST
the reading of the Holy Gospel, and are at peace with one another may approach the Chalice”

So, my answer would be that you need to be there from the beginning of the Gospel. That, of course, is assuming that being able to receive the Eucharist (from a time perspective) is the same rule for having the DL “count for the obligation.”
 
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