Roman Catholic devotions

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Do any of you here practice Roman Catholic devotions, though you are Eastern Catholic? For example, - wearing the brown scapular, or receiving indulgences, or the Divine Mercy devotion? I’m Eastern but Latin rite in a lot of my spirituality …Anyone else like me? 😉

From Eastern devotions, which are your favourite? (I have to admit I only know the ‘Jesus prayer’, but nothing else :o )
 
Hi Monica, I do like to say the rosary. When I was coming up Byzantine Catholic kids were taught a devotion to the traditional rosary and I still have this devotion. But it`s really the only Latin devotion I use in my personal prayer life.
 
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Do any of you here practice Roman Catholic devotions, though you are Eastern Catholic? For example, - wearing the brown scapular, or receiving indulgences, or the Divine Mercy devotion? I’m Eastern but Latin rite in a lot of my spirituality …Anyone else like me? 😉

From Eastern devotions, which are your favourite? (I have to admit I only know the ‘Jesus prayer’, but nothing else :o )
I do, including the Redemptorist Scapular (5-Fold) and the (Servite) Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows of Mary, etc… The supplications made for member of the societies (quick and the faithfully departed) enrolled in are the key action with the five-fold (Trinitarian, Servite, Carmelite, Marian, Vincentian).

Indulgences are available to eastern Catholics, and some specifically are for eastern practices, but some may not claim them, because they were not given in their tradition, before re-union.

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From Eastern devotions, which are your favourite? (I have to admit I only know the ‘Jesus prayer’, but nothing else :o )
Yeah I’m Latin Rite Catholic and so far the Jesus Prayer’s the only one I know too LOL
 
Indulgences are available to eastern Catholics, and some specifically are for eastern practices, but some may not claim them, because they were not given in their tradition, before re-union.
Could you give you some examples, please?
 
Do any of you here practice Roman Catholic devotions, though you are Eastern Catholic? For example, - wearing the brown scapular, or receiving indulgences, or the Divine Mercy devotion? I’m Eastern but Latin rite in a lot of my spirituality …Anyone else like me? 😉

From Eastern devotions, which are your favourite? (I have to admit I only know the ‘Jesus prayer’, but nothing else :o )
Hi Monica –

I pray the Rosary in my car on the way to work in the morning. 🙂

But to be honest, I really love exploring and learning about the traditions of the East. the more I discover the less I feel the need to incorporate the other Western traditions you mentioned. Certainly not because there’s anything “wrong” with them but because the Eastern devotions are so lovely that in some cases they seem to replace, or at least correspond to, the Western devotions I also love.

For example, if you love the beautiful Litany to the Blessed Virgin, you will really enjoy discovering the Akathist to the Theotokos! It is a longer service but has much of the same type of imagery - here’s just a little piece of it:

Rejoice, Thou through whom joy will shine forth:
Rejoice, Thou through whom the curse will cease!
Rejoice, recall of fallen Adam:
Rejoice, redemption of the tears of Eve!
Rejoice, height inaccessible to human thoughts:
Rejoice, depth undiscernible even for the eyes of angels!
Rejoice, for Thou art the throne of the King:
Rejoice, for Thou bearest Him Who beareth all!
Rejoice, star that causest the Sun to appear:
Rejoice, womb of the Divine Incarnation!
Rejoice, Thou through whom creation is renewed:
Rejoice, Thou through whom we worship the Creator!
Rejoice, O Bride Unwedded!


See what I mean? Not all that much different in “feel” from “House of gold; Tower of Ivory”, etc.

Also, I did (and still do, occasionally) pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy - and was fascinated to discover that the prayers at the end - “Holy God, Holy and Mighty, Holy and Immortal, have mercy on us” - are actually a part of the Divine Liturgy! Which makes me wonder if St. Faustina ever attended a D.L. in Poland? I’m not aware that that prayer is used in any Western liturgies, though I could be wrong.

Anyway, to make a long post even longer (:eek:), yes, I occasionally still pray, and love, some of the Western devotions that I grew up with, but I am happy to be discovering what, for me, are “new” devotions from the ancient Eastern tradition. 👍
 
Could you give you some examples, please?
Firstly, there are the four general norms for all Catholics:

I. A partial indulgence is granted to the Christian faithful who, while carrying out their duties and enduring the hardships of life, raise their minds in humble trust to God and make, at least mentally, some pious invocation.

II. A partial indulgence is granted to the faithful who, led by the spirit of faith, give compassionately of themselves or of their goods to serve their brothers in need.

III. A partial indulgence is granted to the Christian faithful who, in a spirit of penance
voluntarily abstain from somethien is licit for and pleasing to them.

IV. A partial indulgence is granted to the Christian faithful who, in the particular circumstances of daily life, voluntarily give explicit witness to their faith before others.

Secondly there are all the other secific indulgences, including plenary, available to all Catholics, among which some are particularly related to the eastern Catholic churches. These prayers are actually indulgenced, for the faithful of any Church *sui iuris. *Note (for the Byzantine Tradition) that Evening Prayer is part of Vespers and Prayer for the Faithful Departed is part of Panachida. See below from the Handbook of Indulgences Enchiridion indulgentiarum, No. 4 (1999):

23 - The prayers of the Eastern Churches

By nature of the catholicity of the Church “the particular gifts the particular parts bring to the rest of the whole Church, such that the whole and each part increase” (LG 13) in all the spiritual gifts of Divine generosity – Hence it came about that the prayers from various traditions of the East, even among the faithful of the Latin rites,especially in these recent years, are employed, with considerable spiritual benefit in private or public piety.

§ 1.41 a plenary indulgence is granted to the faithful who devoutly recite the Office of the Paraclisis or the Akathistos hymn in the church or oratory, or in a family, a religious community, and in general when several of the association of Christ’s faithful in the end agree to honorably and devoutly recite. In other circumstances, however, the indulgence will be partial.

But in regard to acquiring a plenary indulgence, it is not required for the recitation of a complete Akathistos hymn, but it is enough for an adequate continuous recitation of any part of legitimate according to custom.

In the Christian faithful of the Eastern Churches, where the practice of these devotions does not exist, other similar exercises in honor of the blessed Virgin Mary, of the statues established by the patriarchs, enjoy the same indulgences.

§ 2. A partial indulgence is granted to the faithful who, for the time and on occasion of some devoutly recite the prayer from the following:
  • The Prayer of Thanksgiving (from the Tradition of the Armenians);
  • Evening Prayer, Prayer for the Faithful Departed (from the Byzantine Tradition);
  • The Prayer of the Shrine, the Prayer "Lakhu Mara’, known as the “To thee, O Lord” (from the tradition of the Chaldeans);
  • A Prayer for the Offering of Incense, Prayer to Glorify Mary the Mother of God (from the Coptic tradition);
  • Prayer for the Remission of Sins, Prayer for Following in the Footsteps of Christ (from the Ethiopian Tradition);
  • Prayer for the Church, Prayer After the Celebration of the Liturgy (from the Maronite Tradition); and the
  • Intercessions for the Faithfully Departed from the Liturgy of St. James (from the Syrian-Antiochene Tradition).
 
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Preces Orientalium Ecclesiarum
Catholicitatis vi, Ecclesiae « singulae partes propria dona ceteris partibus et toti Ecclesiae afferunt, ita ut totum et singulae partes augeantur » (LG 13) quoad universa spiritalia Divinae largitatis munera: inde factum est ut preces ex variis traditionibus orientalibus, etiam apud fideles latini ritus, ultimis praesertim his annis, sparsae sint, et haud modico cum religiosae pietatis emolumento sive privatim sive publice usurpatae.
§ 1.41 Plenaria indulgentia conceditur christifideli qui hymnum Akathistos vel officium Paraclisis in ecclesia aut oratorio, vel in familia, in religiosa Communitate, in christifidelium consociatione et generatim cum plures ad aliquem honestum finem conveniunt pie recitaverit. In aliis rerum adiunctis vero indulgentia erit partialis.
Quod attinet vero ad hymnum Akathistos pro indulgentia plenaria acquirenda non requiritur recitatio integra, sed sufficit recitatio continua congruae alicuius partis iuxta legitimam consuetudinem.
Apud christifideles orientales, ubi harum devotionum praxis non habeatur, alia similia exercitia in honorem beatae Mariae V., a Patriarchis statuta, iisdem indulgentiis gaudent.
§ 2. Partialis indulgentia conceditur christifideli qui, pro tempore ac pro re, aliquam precem ex sequentibus devote recitaverit: Oratio pro gratiarum actione (ex Traditione Armenorum); Oratio vespertina, Oratio pro defunctis (ex Traditione Byzantina); Oratio Sanctuarii, Oratio « Lakhu Mara » seu « Ad te Domine » (ex Traditione Chaldaeorum); Oratio ad thurificationem, Oratio ad glorificandam Dei Matrem Mariam (ex Traditione Coptica); Oratio pro remissione peccatorum, Oratio pro adipiscenda sequela Christi (ex Traditione Aethiopica); Oratio pro Ecclesia, Oratio post expletam Liturgiam (ex Traditione Maronitarum); Intercessiones pro defunctis ex Liturgia S. Iacobi (ex Traditione Syro-Antiochena).

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