Serving in Multiple Eastern Churches

[shlomo3amrooh]

Hi,

I am an Ordained reader or Quroyo in the Syriac Catholic Church and I wish to learn to serve and chant the Maronite Mass soon.

I’m just wondering if I must wear my Syriac vestments or Maronite vestments when serving the maronite mass?

 

[englishredrose]

If you ask the priest of that church, he will decide if you should where that or other vestments appropriate for Serving Mass in. Ask him which he prefers you to do

 

[Vico]

Hi,

I am an Ordained reader or Quroyo in the Syriac Catholic Church and I wish to learn to serve and chant the Maronite Mass soon.

I’m just wondering if I must wear my Syriac vestments or Maronite vestments when serving the maronite mass?

When there is concelebration at our Byzantine Catholic parish, or at special events, the priest always wears his own vestments.

CCEO

Canon 701
A concelebration between bishops and presbyters of different Churches sui iuris for a just cause, especially that of fostering charity, and for the sake of manifesting unity between the Churches, can be done with the permission of the eparchial bishop, while observing all the prescriptions of the liturgical books of the principal celebrant, having removed any liturgical syncretism and wearing the appropriate vestments and insignia of his own Church sui iuris.

Canon 707

1. The preparation of the Eucharistic bread, the prayers performed by the priests before the Divine Liturgy, the observance of the Eucharistic fast, liturgical vestments, the time and place of the celebration and other like matters must be precisely established by the norms of each Church sui iuris.
2. For a just cause and having removed any astonishment on the part of the Christian faithful, it is permissible to use the liturgical vestments and bread of another Church sui iuris.

 

[SyroMalankara]

It’s my understanding that both Churches have similar, if not the same vestment for M’shamshono and below.
If so, just wear your regular vestment.

 

[shlomo3amrooh]

It’s my understanding that both Churches have similar, if not the same vestment for M’shamshono and below.
If so, just wear your regular vestment.

The Mshamshono and Afudaqno have the same vestments. The Quroyo have different vestments

 

[malphono]

The Mshamshono and Afudaqno have the same vestments. The Quroyo have different vestments

I don’t think so. A Syriac deacon (mshamshono) wears his stole over the left shoulder, while the subdeacon (afudiakono) wears his stole wrapped under the right arm, similar to the way Byzantine deacons do.

The Maronite version (well at least the REAL one is – most deacons in the patriarchal Territories wear the stole in the exact way a Latin deacon does) is the same, although a deacon also wears the cuffs (zendé) and the girdle (zonouro) (which are also used by Syriac Archdeacons (rishmshamshoné).
Also, the Maronite subdeacon’s stole is longer than the SOC/SCC style, but it is wrapped the same way.

Now, for the reader (qouroyo), it’s different. The traditional Maronite style is to wear a long stole over the right shoulder, rather than wrapped and crossed over the chest.

The vesting for the cantor (mzamrono) is the same as in the SOC/SCC: simply an alb (kotino).

Anyway, to answer the question in the OP, a cleric serving in a Tradition other than his own should always vest according to the prescriptions of his own Church. BTW, that holds true for concelebrating priests as well, unless they possess formal bi-ritual faculties.