Question for Latin Catholics.... (yes this belongs in this section)

[Brendan]

I have a question for Latin Catholics…

Has your priest ever explained the Eastern Traditions of the Catholic Church from the pulpit? Ever encouraged people to explore the East? Have you ever had a mention in your Church bulletin about the existence of the East?.

Most of our parish is well aware of the East already. I live in an area where both Eastern Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches are common.

We have a Chaldean Sub Deacon at our parish (who vests for Mass). He joined our parish decades ago when there was no Chaldean parish nearby. Since then, two have been build, but his family is attached to our Latin parish. So, with the permission of both bishops, he continues his ministry in our Latin parish.

Also, there is a Rutherian parish within a few miles as well.

Our pastor did take our altar boys on an ‘outing’ to a Macendonian Orthodoxy church, and they were granted a tour of the parish by the parish pastor. The day concluded with a dinner with the Orthodox altarboys

 

[Ridgerunner]

I definitely have, and more than once. Kind of hard, though, for priests to recommend that we attend Eastern liturgies on anything like a regular basis, since the nearest one is 250 miles away.

On the other hand, I suggested to our then parish priest once that perhaps we ought to be saying the “Kyrie” in Greek as a symbol of our solidarity with the Eastern Church. He wasn’t too keen on that. Maybe he thought people would think it was Latin; the use of which was forbidden by our then-bishop. Maybe Greek was forbidden, too.

 

[5Loaves]

Our pastor did take **our altar boys on an ‘outing’ **to a Macendonian Orthodoxy church, and they were granted a tour of the parish by the parish pastor. The day concluded with a dinner with the Orthodox altarboys

Glory to God in all things!
Yippee!

 

[crm114]

… I STILL cannot convince her that it is a Catholic Church.

The East – both those Churches in full communion and those not – is well understood and often discussed in our parish.

As for the O.P.'s aunt, there is a simple test: are the Patriarch and Bishops in communion with the Holy Father (the Western Patriarch, as they will say if they are not!)