On joining the FSSP and celebrating the Byzantine Divine Liturgy

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Hello, as I posted before, I’m thinking about becoming a priest, and I’m interested in joining the FSSP, as I love the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, and I prefer it over the Ordinary Form, but I have some questions.

I.- Can I learn and celebrate the Byzantine Rite Divine Liturgy? I really like the Byzantine Rite.
II.- I will also learn the Ordinary Form and I will celebrate the Mass that way sometimes? (I think I have to, I’m not complaining though)

Thanks to all, and I’m sorry for wasting your time again, God bless you all
 
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There are no FSSP priests where I’m living, they are not even known here, this is why I asked here in the first place 😦 thank you for your prayers
 
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I like the reverence of it, also I think it is important to promote the different traditions of the Church.
 
Yes, with an Orthodox church which belongs the Antiochian Patriarchate
 
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Sadly not 😦 this is why I went to see the Orthodox in the first place
 
Where do you live? Then I can post what Eparchy you should contact. (I’m in the Archeparchy of Philadelphia.)
 
Thank you so much! the problem is that I’m not living in the U.S right now, I’m in the southernmost part of America, in southern Chile, there is an Eparchy for this region?

(Or for England?, moving there soon, at least for a time)
 
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Oh yeah, I remember hearing about that, thank you so much, I will pray for you
 
FSSP priests use the 1962 edition of the Latin Missal. They do not celebrate the Byzantine Divine Liturgy.

There are a number of Byzantine Rites in communion with the Catholic Church. First you would need to transfer from the Latin Rite to a Byzantine Rite as a layman and then study for the priesthood.

If you speak Italian, there is another route. There is a a Byzantine Rite in Palermo and surrounding area inaccurately known as the Albanian Church. Many priests in the Palermo diocese are licensed to say OF Mass in Italian or Latin (according to the 1970 Missal) as well as the Byzantine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom.
 
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I know FSSP priests use the 1962 Roman Missal, but my point is that there are also some Latin Priests who have faculties to celebrate other rites without joining an Eastern Catholic Church, it’s called biritualism; this is why I asked in the first place, to know if as an FSSP Priest I’m allowed to learn the Byzantine Divine Liturgy or I’m only going to be attached to the Extraordinary Form of the Mass as part of the FSSP charism.

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Pope Saint John Paul II celebrating the Byzantine Rite Divine Liturgy, he was a Latin Rite Priest

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Pope Saint John Paul II again, but now during a West Syriac Rite Divine Liturgy of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church

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Latin Rite Bishop Venerable Fulton J. Sheen celebrating the Byzantine Rite Divine Liturgy
 
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The FSSP is in communion with the Holy See so they would be a good choice to join if one had a calling to the priesthood. They are actually one of the fastest growing religious orders in the Catholic Church.
 
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That is a question which can only be answered by the FSSP.

A couple of things to keep in mind: if you are ordained within the FSSP, you will be assigned where they need you. Even assuming that you were allowed by them to be biritual, there is no particular reason to assume that where you might be assigned would have any community of Eastern Catholics sufficient to sustain the liturgy; and any such community might already have either a priest of their liturgical Church or one or more biritual priests serving them.
 
In reply to point II: you will not be expected to or at all encouraged to say the “ordinary form” by the FSSP - and as to what you said in brackets, you will not “have to” as you mentioned, but an FSSP priest can outwardly refuse to celebrate the new rite according to their constitutions if for example asked to by the Bishop.

On the other hand, if in the ICKSP with is another traditional group, the bishop asked a priest to celebrate the new rite, the priest could not refuse. I learned this from an FSSP priest I know who was thereby encouraging me to go in the FSSP instead of the ICKSP if anything. The FSSP doesn’t even concelebrate at the Chrism mass unlike the ICKSP, although they attend.

The FSSP would most likely have no principle objection to you celebrating occasionally an eastern rite mass, because the eastern rites are ancient rites very similar to the traditional Latin mass in their organic development etc of what Christ gave to the apostles
 
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It is possible to be approved to say mass in more than one Rite as a priest, but it is only allowed with approval from the bishop. We have a local priest that is bi ritual. He is an eastern priest but he also can say mass in the Latin Rite.

Since you are talking about the FSSP, I’d imagine that there would be an additional hurdle. You’d need their approval plus the approval of the bishop.

Mind you, there are no guarantees that such permissions would be granted. It would depend on the needs of the order and the diocese (both Latin and Eastern).
 
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