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[Filioque]

Having a great love for the East, I’ll put my two cents in. You may want to contact your closest Eastern Parish and make an appointment to see the priest. Explain your spirituality to him and discuss the process of translating to an Eastern Church. If after a period of time the priest feels you and your family are ready you can do so. You can use and teach your children the customs and rituals of the East at home.

But I’m fairly sure even if you translate, you will have to assist at Mass in the Latin Rite for the time being, and accept that wherever the Mass/Divine Liturgy is celebrated in Communion with the Holy See and the Universal Church, the Liturgy is of equal spiritual value regardless of the external rite, or the worthiness of the priest(s) offering it as the Sacraments are the actions and work of Christ and His Church. I sometimes have to by default assist at a Teen Life or other Liturgy that is not at all to my taste or spiritual comfort. I have to remind myself that the whole Christ is there in the Eucharist, and I am there to worship him, not to please my esthetics. (No implication that that’s you, just me).

 

[normbetland]

If you are canonically a member of an eastern Catholic church sui iuris, then you may receive some help with this, but a Catholic ascribed to the Latin sui iuris church does not have a right to the eastern liturgy.

CCEO17 The Christian faithful have the right to worship God according to the prescriptions of their own Church sui iuris, and to follow their own form of spiritual life consonant with the teaching of the Church.

Perhaps someone has already responded, but from what I read, it states that you have a right to worship in your own Church sui iuris. This is not the same as NOT having the right to worship in another Church sui iuris. This is would be similar to saying I have a right to eat my favorite fruit, but do not a have to right to eat a fruit that is not my favorite.

 

[normbetland]

I have been investigating Orthodoxy for nearly 3 yrs now. My husband and I were on the verge of fully converting, but pulled back as we cannot deny Catholicism as heretical. But I can’t go back to being a Latin, as I don’t believe that way anymore. I want to raise my boys Eastern, with the theology and praxis of the Eastern Church. The problem is, there are no Eastern Catholic churches within hundreds of miles of me. I’m so sad and I feel so lost now. Be patient with me, brothers and sisters.

I was wondering if you could elaborate, as I’m not familiar with the differences between Eastern Catholics and Latin Catholics. It was my understanding that those Eastern Churches which are in communion with the Catholic Church, have the exact same theology as the Latin Church (i.e. they don’t see the filioque clause as heresy, they believe in papal primacy, original sin, etc.), that they have essentially repudiated the theological problems that separate the Orthodox from the Catholic Church.

 

[Augustine]

… have the exact same theology as the Latin Church (i.e. they don’t see the filioque clause as heresy, they believe in papal primacy, original sin, etc.), that they have essentially repudiated the theological problems that separate the Orthodox from the Catholic Church.

Those are indeed common beliefs, but the theology developed to understand them went through different paths and can sometimes be quite different between the Western and the Eastern Catholic Churches. As a matter of fact, pretty much the whole of the theology of most Eastern Catholic Churches agrees more with the Orthodox Churches than with the Latin Church, with a few notable exceptions (eg, papal primacy, etc).

From the little that I have learned so far, the Eastern Catholic theology is very interesting, even complementary to the Latin Church’s, be it because of emphasis on different aspects of the same reality or even a quite different understanding of the same reality.

Pax Christi

 

[Vico]

Perhaps someone has already responded, but from what I read, it states that you have a right to worship in your own Church sui iuris. This is not the same as NOT having the right to worship in another Church sui iuris. This is would be similar to saying I have a right to eat my favorite fruit, but do not a have to right to eat a fruit that is not my favorite.

A Catholic has certain rights and obligations. Some of the obligations may be fulfilled in another Catholic sui iuris church. A Catholic follows the sacramental discipline of their own sui iuris Catholic Church. A Catholic has an obligation to the universal Church and to their canonically enrolled sui iuris Catholic church.

 

[zaida]

Im learning more about the east - and Id be interested to hear from the original poster - what exactly is it about the East that attracts you - why do you prefer not to raise the children Roman Catholic? Thanks!!!

 

[ByzCathCantor]

The fact is, the Orthodox churches do not let Catholics receive Holy Communion (although we allow Orthodox to receive in Catholic Churches…), and we must respect the decision of the See in question.

Bear in mind that we do extend Eucharistic hospitality to Orthodox Christians, but for the most part they are not permitted to receive the Eucharist in the Catholic Church due to the requirements of their own Church to which they are bound.