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Aerickus17
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Say that a Ukrainian Catholic marries a Maronite Catholic, for example. Would they stay in their respective churches, or would one spouse have to transfer?
What happens when two Catholics from different Eastern-rite particular churches marry?
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ServusHumilis
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Why should anyone have to transfer? Is a Protestant who marries a Catholic expected to convert? Nope. I’d be more interested in knowing how they’d figure out which church to have it in. For example I wouldn’t settle for anything less than a Missa Cantata for my Nuptial Mass though my future fiance might have ideas of her own already.
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Vico
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It is completely normal to have inter-ecclesial Catholic families. The canonical norms anticipate it and have this to say (CCEO):
CCEO Canon 33
A wife is at liberty to transfer to the Church of the husband at the celebration of or during the marriage; when the marriage has ended, she can freely return to the original Church sui iuris.
CCEO Canon 883
- The Christian faithful who are outside the territorial boundaries of their own Church sui iuris can adopt fully for themselves the feast days and days of penance which are in force where they are staying.
- In families in which the parents are enrolled in different Churches sui iuris, it is permitted to observe the norms of one or the other Church, in regard to feast days and days of penance.
The obligation of assisting at Mass is satisfied wherever Mass is celebrated in a catholic rite either on a holyday itself or on the evening of the previous day.
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ServusHumilis
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Guess I’ll have my Missa Cantata afterall.
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janeway529
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So, in which rite will the children be raised?
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ByzCathCantor
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A parental decision, but I believe the children canonically belong to the Church (not rite) of the father.
As for the original question, one hopes they are blessed a fruitful marriage, long life together and continue to enjoy the richness and fullness of both traditions.
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rdorseyhsd
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It is my understanding that the marriage is to take place in the church of the husband. The wife gets to pick the parish they attend. Dispensation can be obtained from the oriental college.
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Vico
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Those baptized under age fourteen, are enrolled in the church sui iuris of one of the Catholic parents or guardian based on CCEO Canon 29. (Parallel canons exist in the Latin canon law CIC 111, 112 shown belos,) So it is possible that two children of the inter-ecclesial couple, baptized as infants, will be enrolled in two different sui iuris churches. If a third child is adopted, age fourteen or older, it is possible to then have a family with members enrolled in three different sui iuris churches.
CCEO Canon 29
- By virtue of baptism, a child who has not yet completed his fourteenth year of age is enrolled in the Church sui iuris of the Catholic father; or the Church sui iuris of the mother if only the mother is Catholic or if both parents by agreement freely request it, with due regard for particular law established by the Apostolic See.
- If the child who has not yet completed his fourteenth year is:INDENT born of an unwed mother, he is enrolled in the Church sui iuris to which the mother belongs;
(2) born of unknown parents, he is to be enrolled in the Church sui iuris of those in whose care he has been legitimately committed are enrolled; if it is a case of an adoptive father and mother, 1 should be applied;
(3) born of non-baptized parents, the child is to be a member of the Church sui iuris of the one who is responsible for his education in the Catholic faith.
§1 Through the reception of baptism a child becomes a member of the Latin Church if the parents belong to that Church or, should one of them not belong to it, if they have both by common consent chosen that the child be baptized in the Latin Church: if that common consent is lacking, the child becomes a member of the ritual Church to which the father belongs.
§2 Any candidate for baptism who has completed the fourteenth year of age may freely choose to be baptized either in the Latin Church or in another autonomous ritual Church; in which case the person belongs to the Church which he or she has chosen.
CIC Can. 112
§1 After the reception of baptism, the following become members of another autonomous ritual Church:1° those who have obtained permission from the Apostolic See;
2° a spouse who, on entering marriage or during its course, has declared that he or she is transferring to the autonomous ritual Church of the other spouse; on the dissolution of the marriage, however, that person may freely return to the latin Church;
3° the children of those mentioned in nn. 1 and 2 who have not completed their fourteenth year, and likewise in a mixed marriage the children of a catholic party who has lawfully transferred to another ritual Church; on completion of their fourteenth year, however, they may return to the latin Church.
§2 The practice, however long standing, of receiving the sacraments according to the rite of an autonomous ritual Church, does not bring with it membership of that Church.
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