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Eastern Catholics, do you ever say to yourself “I’m tired of correcting people who say Blank. Maybe I should just stop trying.”? And, if so, what is Blank? (Note: Latin Catholics are also welcome to respond, as long as it’s something relevant to ECism.)

For example:
  1. “22 Eastern Catholic Rites” (which should be “22 Eastern Catholic Churches”). That’s definitely #1 for me.
  2. “Eastern-Rite Catholic” (actually, I’m not sure if that one is technically incorrect, but most of us prefer to be called “Eastern-]-Rite/-] Catholics”)
 
I rarely correct them, but I’m tired of hearing “No matter where you go in the world, in every Catholic Church they will be having the same readings in Mass on Sunday”. Neither ECs nor Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite are having those readings,
 
Since Eastern Catholicism is a minority within the Universal, Catholic Church, I find that people aren’t aware of its existence, which is a shame.

Just a while ago, someone in a chat room told me the only Eastern Catholic rite was the Byzantine rite. :eek: 🤷
 
“I’m tired of correcting people who say ‘Mass’ instead of ‘Liturgy’. Maybe I should just stop trying.”

But I won’t! 😃
 
I once had a Deacon tell me and a few others that Deacons were the only Catholics who got to receive all seven Sacraments.
 
theistgal said:
“I’m tired of correcting people who say ‘Mass’ instead of ‘Liturgy’. Maybe I should just stop trying.”

But I won’t! 😃
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Not that I’m an EC, but I had a RC friend that would come to Liturgy with me sometimes. He always called it Mass, and I mentioned the name difference a couple times before giving up on it. Probably wasn’t a habit he’d ever drop. 😛
 
neokarny said:
Not that I’m an EC, but I had a RC friend that would come to Liturgy with me sometimes. He always called it Mass, and I mentioned the name difference a couple times before giving up on it. Probably wasn’t a habit he’d ever drop. 😛
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That’s the thing (regardless of what Blank is): people who find out that what they’re saying is wrong, but decide to keep saying it regardless. I had that experience, a few years ago on this website, with someone who learned the referring to EC churches as “rites” was wrong and offensive, but unabashedly stated that he/she was going to keep doing it anyhow.
 
I don’t really make a habit of correcting people. I just try to use correct terminology myself, and hope that others will pick up on it. I might (in person) occasionally let someone know the correct terminology and the explanation for it), but if a person doesn’t want to change it, why keep hammering away at it? Some people are creatures of habit. Even my priest still uses the outdated terminology “change of rite”, but that is how it was formerly referred to by the Church. I realize that correction is usually done in an honest attempt to educate those who might not know the terminology, but it is often done in this forum (and others) with a decided lack of patience and charity.
 
5Loaves said:
I rarely correct them, but I’m tired of hearing “No matter where you go in the world, in every Catholic Church they will be having the same readings in Mass on Sunday”. Neither ECs nor Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite are having those readings,
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Often, not even the same feasts!
 
How about those who insist that because there is the Western Catholic Church and the Eastern Catholic Church that Catholicism is somehow divided and not a unified front as we would have the world belief. >.<

My mother is on that kick right now. Most annoying.

The difference between Eastern and Western Catholicism is NOT comparable to the difference between Protestant denominations.
 
We cant blame people for ignorance on topics they weren’t taught.
 
Thomas48 said:
We cant blame people for ignorance on topics they weren’t taught.
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True enough… but at the same time we can get tired of having to endlessly explain the same thing over and over and over again.

The ignorance that is out there is truly overwhelming.
 
Thomas48 said:
We cant blame people for ignorance on topics they weren’t taught.
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Well sure. We don’t want to assume, every time we hear someone saying the wrong thing, that he/she is to blame. That isn’t the point.
 
theistgal said:
“I’m tired of correcting people who say ‘Mass’ instead of ‘Liturgy’. Maybe I should just stop trying.”

But I won’t! 😃
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I once had someone correct me (on another forum) when I said “Liturgy” in reference to Christian services in general. Insisting that they must be called “Mass”. I think I just said “No.” and moved on.
 
Yeah why are you guys so offended by this? It’s not an insult. Someone corrected me in this way for the first time and very brusquely and I am wondering why this particular mistake is considered such an insult.
 
Nine_Two said:
I once had someone correct me (on another forum) when I said “Liturgy” in reference to Christian services in general. Insisting that they must be called “Mass”. I think I just said “No.” and moved on.
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I have a tendency to correct other Maronites who insist we call our Qurbono Qadisho Divine Liturgy instead of mass. I find them to be both equally not our terms and therefore they’re equally alien so insisting on Divine Liturgy because it’s more “Eastern” is silly in my opinion (it makes sense in the Byzantine context though since it is the proper term).

Anyway, there are certain things that I get tired of hearing like when people ask if we’re “under the Pope” or if it’s like “being in an order.” It does irk me a bit when people try to be comical in their questions but if an analogous question was posed in the same disrespectful manner by a protestant about Latin praxis they’d be offended (like when my friends kept asking why my bishop wears a “do-rag”). I don’t think I’d ever stop amicably correcting these things though; they’re a result of weak catechesis (i.e. not a fault of the person themselves) and people are generally receptive so all the better to explain these things.
 
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