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pickguard1
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WOW! I’ll have to take the baby step approach. 
Up until about three or four years ago, I didn’t know about anything outside of Roman Catholicism. For me there was the Roman Church and the rest were either Protestants or churches that broke with the Great Schism. About ten years ago, I began attending what is now called the Extraordinary Form (First as a SSPX chapel without really knowing/understanding ANY of the issues regarding that order, then with the FSSP since.) On a trip down to San Diego, CA several (7) years ago, my wife and I were looking for a traditional Latin Mass, and found a small chapel with a dominican father. Were were two of three in attendance at the Mass. Prior to the mass, father asked us if we would prefer the Byzantine liturgy, since he had a dispensation to use it. At that time, I thought that ANY eastern liturgies belonged to churches that were in schism, so I was perplexed, and we requested the Latin, and left it at that. That led me to later start trying to figure out how this priest would be able to say a “Greek Orthodox” mass (which is what I thought he meant. Come to find out there’s a lot more to catholicism than Rome, Trent and Vatican II! However, I still didn’t really get any solid info until a few years ago, reading a book called “My Catholic Faith” from my church’s bookstore. (It’s a catechism designed for youth/teens but very helpful to me anyway 
) In it, it had a brief section on the Eastern Catholic rites. I’ve seen a couple interesting documentaries about an old Ethiopian Catholic Church (I think it’s St. George’s?) which is hewn out of solid rock and completley underground. The age of the church was listed at well before the schism, but they were still refering to it as Catholic. I guess I’ve attained bits and pieces here and there. Baby steps…baby steps…
Up until about three or four years ago, I didn’t know about anything outside of Roman Catholicism. For me there was the Roman Church and the rest were either Protestants or churches that broke with the Great Schism. About ten years ago, I began attending what is now called the Extraordinary Form (First as a SSPX chapel without really knowing/understanding ANY of the issues regarding that order, then with the FSSP since.) On a trip down to San Diego, CA several (7) years ago, my wife and I were looking for a traditional Latin Mass, and found a small chapel with a dominican father. Were were two of three in attendance at the Mass. Prior to the mass, father asked us if we would prefer the Byzantine liturgy, since he had a dispensation to use it. At that time, I thought that ANY eastern liturgies belonged to churches that were in schism, so I was perplexed, and we requested the Latin, and left it at that. That led me to later start trying to figure out how this priest would be able to say a “Greek Orthodox” mass (which is what I thought he meant. Come to find out there’s a lot more to catholicism than Rome, Trent and Vatican II! However, I still didn’t really get any solid info until a few years ago, reading a book called “My Catholic Faith” from my church’s bookstore. (It’s a catechism designed for youth/teens but very helpful to me anyway ) In it, it had a brief section on the Eastern Catholic rites. I’ve seen a couple interesting documentaries about an old Ethiopian Catholic Church (I think it’s St. George’s?) which is hewn out of solid rock and completley underground. The age of the church was listed at well before the schism, but they were still refering to it as Catholic. I guess I’ve attained bits and pieces here and there. Baby steps…baby steps…